At last week's International Hoof-Care Summit, we sat down with Welsh farrier Haydn Price. It is hard to pinpoint a single segment from this conversation that stands out as important information or keen insight. Rather, when you speak with someone like Price who possesses this depth of knowledge, the entire time spent in conversation is more like a personal classroom.
As we noted here, long-time AFJ Managing Editor Pat Tearney retired at the end of 2013. While cleaning out his office, I came across dozens of bins and folders of farrier images, all of them predating the very comfortable and convenient age of digital images.
To many outsiders, Texas seems like a whole other country. And residents of the Lone Star state are proud of this - the notion even appears on state specialty license plates.
A few years ago, Robbie Shuler was perfectly happy with his shoeing trailer. But beginning in 2013, the farrier from Wellington, Fla., did a complete remodeling of what originally was an Adam horse trailer.
The trim is the foundation to what every farrier wants to accomplish with a sound horse — keep the horse that way. Get the trim wrong, and everything else done afterward in the shoeing process becomes compromised.
Doyle Blagg will tell you that shoeing cutting horses isn't rocket science. That's easy for the Collinsville, Texas, farrier to say - he's been on and worked under them for almost 60 years.
Each issue of Practical Horseman features a questions posed to readers about a variety of equine topics. In the January 2014 issue, the editors ask the readers for feedback on the most important trait looked for in a vet and/or farrier.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a conversation I had with farrier educator Steve Kraus. During this chat he explained how the "worker mentality" of some farriers can hurt the industry as a whole. After writing posts like this, agreements and disagreements are expected.
At the 2013 International Equine Conference on Laminitis and Diseases of the Foot, veterinarians, researchers and farriers delivered talks that covered a wide range of topics covering biomechanics, pathologies and treatments.
Greg Martin, CJF, of Boerne, Texas, takes the unique approach of marketing his hoof-care practice with a Christmas parade float in Boerne and Comfort, Texas. The award-winning float boasts a variety of surprising features.
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Kawell develops and produces copper alloy horseshoes and inserts, giving horses the care that they need to fight issues associated with white line disease, seedy toe and thrush.
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