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Simple Biosecurity Measures to Protect Your Hoof Care Business & Clients

An infectious disease response plan requires communication with owners & disinfection strategies to reduce transmission
Healthy, protected horses mean more consistent client appointments, and looking out for their well-being through basic biosecurity measures can build trust and respect between the farrier and owner.
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Briefings

Turn the calendar back to 1957 and the typical Thoroughbred averaged 40 lifetime racing starts. Yet the average number of Thoroughbred racing starts has dropped to fewer than 14 today, says Bobby Trussell, co-owner of Walmac Farm near Lexington, Ky. Sharing his thoughts recently with readers of The Blood-Horse, Trussell doesn’t buy the conventional wisdom that the number of reduced racing starts is due to the breed becoming more fragile, a change in track surfaces or growing concerns about soundness issues.


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Quarantined

Epidemic Hit Shoers' Pocketbooks Hard

Australian farriers lost an average of 76 days work during a 7-month long equine-influenza quarantine
If a serious equine disease outbreak were to limit your travel and work, let’s hope you don’t find yourself in the same situation as Bryn Jones. After an equine influenza (EI) outbreak hit Australia last August, the “down-under” farrier lost 130 days of work over the next 7 months.
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