WET LABS & BONUS SESSIONS
More information on wet labs and additional educational opportunities will be available in the next few months! Check out 2025's bonus sessions!
Wet Lab Sessions
Special Equine Limb Dissection with Mitch Taylor
Understanding anatomy is the foundation of farriery. International Horeshoeing Hall of Famer Mitch Taylor of the Kentucky Horseshoeing School presents a special, extended equine limb dissection featuring an interactive discussion of vital structures that improves your understanding of quality hoof care.
VIP Hands-On Sole-Hoof Wall Immobilization Wet Lab with Shane Westman
Woodside, Calif. farrier Shane Westman will lead an exclusive hands-on wet lab to apply a novel sole-hoof wall immobilization technique for stabilizing P3 fractures. The technique was published in 2024 by Veterinary Surgery and provides a new tool for your footcare arsenal.
VIP Hands-On Dissection Wet Lab with Paige Poss
The external appearance of the equine hoof offers farriers and veterinarians indications of what is transpiring with the internal structures. In this 2-hour VIP Hands-On Dissection Wet Lab, Paige Poss of Tucson, Ariz. will lead a lively and informative discussion in which attendees inspect cadaver limbs before, during and after dissection.
University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Private Tour with Dr. Deb Bennett
Dr. Deb Bennett, of the Equine Studies Institute, and Dr. Robert M. Timm, curator emeritus of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, will lead a private behind-the-scenes guided tour of the museum’s Mammals Division. This “bonus” tour will build on Dr. Deb Bennett’s Summit presentations including: Horse Conformation for Farriers: Fallacies and Insights; Equine Check, Stay & Reciprocating Systems: The Big Picture; and Supporting the Hoof, Supporting the Client: Lessons Farriers Can Teach.
The exclusive tour offers an up-close view of the skeleton of Ethan Allen, America’s most famous horse from 1850-1875. The handsome liver bay Morgan trotter had an 18-season racing career, among the longest in history. He was the first horse to record an official time of 2:30 or less for the mile at a trot. This remains the standard for harness trotters to this day.
Attendees also will see the Comanche exhibit, dedicated to one of the few equine survivors of Custer’s Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn. L.L. Duche and C. Saunders, the early museum scientists, meticulously prepared Comanche’s body for exhibit. The horse underwent restoration in 2005 and remains in a low-light, temperature-controlled environment to protect it.
The private tour also includes various examples of equine hoof and bone pathologies in the extensive Mammals Division, skeletons of other equids, such as African zebras, and skeletons of animals closely related to horses, like rhinos. Tour participants also will be able to get up close to specimens on the central worktable.
Questions about the International Hoof-Care Summit?
Contact American Farriers Journal
by phone at (866) 839-8455 or (262) 432-0388; by fax at (262) 786-5564;
by email at info@americanfarriers.com
To learn about sponsorship opportunities contact Michael Ellis
at (262) 777-2432 or mellis@lessitermedia.com
To learn about group attendance discounts contact Joanne Volkert
at (262) 777-2442 or jvolkert@lessitermedia.com
