As the elderly horse population grows, the horse community is trying to adopt conscientious methods to help make them more comfortable, and farriers are not exempt.
She was sitting in the driver's seat of a blue Subaru, the seat belt strapped across her body, "like she was still driving to go work." That's how rescuers found the body of Summer Raffo, 36, when they finally dug her car out of the mud on Wednesday afternoon, ending a desperate search by her large family.
Rae Smith found solace Wednesday. She knew her daughter's friends never stopped looking for her after her car was swallowed by Saturday's deadly Oso mudslide.
On Saturday, 36-year-old Summer Raffo was driving on Highway 530 from Darrington, Wash., to a horseshoeing appointment in Ryan Falls east of Arlington at the time when a hillside broke free, inundating everything in its path. Raffo's family hasn't heard from her since.
Travis Burns, chief of farriers services/lecturer at Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterniary Medicine, provides advice for farriers who could be shoeing in an affluent area with everything accessible or those who are out in the field with limited resources.
Today marks the first day I've felt better since being infected with norovirus earlier this week. This wasn't a pleasant way to spend time off from work, but thankfully this illness wasn't long-lasting. Others are not so lucky when it comes to being sick.
Few corners of the United States have been able to escape the recent frigid temperatures, snow and ice. How do you protect yourself and continue working during periods like this?
In this episode, Mark Ellis, a Wisconsin farrier who learned the ropes with Renchin, recalls Red’s relationships with area veterinarians, his legacy and the second career as American Farriers Journal’s technical editor.
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