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What's This? Boiler-Plate Horseshoe

March 4, 2022 | Posted in Therapeutic Shoeing

Working horses played critical roles in everyday life before the motorized carriage drove them to pasture. Like a truck that breaks down today, a horse that couldn’t do its job was a liability. While businesses might go to the junkyard to find a part to get the truck back on the road, farriers forged applications that would help the horse so it could return to work.

Letters: April 2017

April 3, 2017 | Posted in Education

The Future Of Hoof Care, As In The Past, Is Sole Protection Contrary to popular legend, horseshoes were not invented to protect hooves against wear.

Hoof Protection Options For The Long Run

Vettec representative reviews the top three appliances that dominate endurance racing

By Jeff Cota posted on April 4, 2016 | Posted in Disciplines & Breeds, Equipment

It’s been said that an endurance horse will take as many as 80,000 footfalls over the course of a 100-mile race that traverses such diverse terrain as rock, water and mud. That’s more than a fair opportunity for a faulty step to result in lameness.

Farrier Q&A: How does the footing that a horse will compete on change your choice of shoes, excluding calks?

July 3, 2015 | Posted in Disciplines & Breeds, Shoeing

All our horses go barefoot through breaking. Once they reach the racetrack, we fit them with square-toed aluminum shoes.

Options Aplenty to Give Working Horses a Little Extra Help

Whether it’s simply the trim or the need for protection or support, farriers have plenty of tools to solve hoof pain

By Red Renchin posted on December 1, 2014 | Posted in Lamenesses

It is a rare horse that does not have some kind of lameness issue sometime during its working life.

Q&A: Non-Steel Horseshoes

April 5, 2013 | Posted in Disciplines & Breeds, Diseases, Therapeutic Shoeing

What types of non-steel shoes do you use in your practice? What types of horses/disciplines/cases do you use these with?

Shoeing for a Living

Putting Together a Shoeing Day on the Fly

Scheduling gets tricky when a horse show intervenes

By Pat Tearney posted on December 1, 2004 | Posted in Business Practices

Some days just don’t start out well. Hank Highfield, the normally affable farrier from Indianapolis, Ind., is clearly a little miffed as he sets up his shoeing rig outside the barn at his first stop of the day.

Fighting Founder With Hospital Plates

Veteran Texas farrier says these devices are valuable tools in the worst laminitis cases

By Baker Chapman posted on December 1, 2001 | Posted in Lamenesses

While Working extensively with laminitic horses over the years, I have used the heart bar shoe with great success, as have many farriers all over the world.

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What's This? Boiler-Plate Horseshoe

Letters: April 2017

Hoof Protection Options For The Long Run

Farrier Q&A: How does the footing that a horse will compete on change your choice of shoes, excluding calks?

Options Aplenty to Give Working Horses a Little Extra Help

Q&A: Non-Steel Horseshoes

Putting Together a Shoeing Day on the Fly

Fighting Founder With Hospital Plates

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