Celebrating 20 years of farrier education at Heartland Horseshoeing School in Lamar, Mo., Chris Gregory and his family are hosting a clinic, forging contest and a Farrier's International Testing System(FITS) exam.
Former farrier Thomas F. Horrall, 67, of Cassopolis, Mich., died peacefully Monday afternoon, May 25, 2015, in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center in Mishawaka.
Horse owners recently identified insulin resistance as a diet-related disorder that they find difficult to explain and manage. Day-to-day management of insulin resistance depends on two key points: Ensuring that specific minerals are balanced in your horse’s diet will help build antioxidant defenses and combat inflammation.
If you threw Billy Huffman into a time machine and sent him 200 years into the past he’d be just fine. That’s because Huffman has spent a lifetime mastering a trade whose technology and tools haven’t changed much in the last 2,000 years.
Rodger Howell is making the most of his life. Doctors told the 64-year-old certified farrier that he had about 5 weeks to live. Howell set out with his horse-drawn buggy to see his grandchildren one last time. He saw his family and continues on his journey 2 years after that dire prognosis.
It is a time-honored but false assumption that gals just can’t out-muscle unruly horses or take the back-bending work like guys can. But Eli Pettitt uses “leverage and my brain” rather than brawn when dealing with problem farrier customers.
The fattening associated with grazing horses on cultivated high-yielding pasture induced only moderate changes in glucose, insulin and fatty acids as measured in a glucose tolerance test, a Finnish study has shown.
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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