Although many factors associated with catastrophic injury, including horseshoe characteristics, have been explored in the past, it remains unclear if these links are really causal and how they may be inter-related.

Ever wonder what your shoeing day looks like through the eyes of your children?

Data from the recently released Statistical Abstract of the U.S. indicates that 2 percent of American families own a horse.

I have been involved in farrier education for the past 40 years in America and throughout the world.

Newly revealed documents show that a plan for establishing standards for farrier education, testing and registration was largely developed by members of the Executive Committee of the American Farriers Association by late April 2004.

Even after obtaining the minutes of Excutive Committee meetings from the American Farrier’s Association, farrier Donald Jones of Pleasant Garden, N.C., learned little more about how the organization’s leadership prepared a proposal for standardized farrier training and registration or licensing.

Chapter also wants the AFA to challenge any veterinary practice laws that infringe on farriery, monitor the states for such laws in the future