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July/August 2017

Volume: 43
Edition: 5

American Farriers Journal is the “hands-on” magazine for professional farriers, equine veterinarians and horse care product and service buyers.

  • Table Of Contents

    Table Of Contents

    Frankly Speaking: The Complexity Of Paying Your Farrier Help

    By Jeremy McGovern posted on July 3, 2017 | Posted in Safety & Healthcare
    In late May, the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate passed a $15 minimum wage bill. Currently, Illinois’ minimum wage is $8.25. Should this plan pass the governor’s desk, the full $15 rate would be reached in 2022 for those age 18 and older. At the time of press, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner had yet to sign this bill, and isn’t expected to do so.
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    Letters: July/August 2017

    July 3, 2017 | Posted in Lamenesses, Safety & Healthcare
    Count Your Blessings After reading the May/June 2017 “Frankly Speaking” column (“Rather Than Just Talking About It …”) and the article “Treatment for Dealing with Penetrating Injuries,” I suggest that having full-time farriers at seven veterinarian schools is better than none.
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    Putting Service in Customer Service

    East Texas farrier thrives by embracing marketing and good business practices
    By Jeff Cota posted on July 3, 2017 | Posted in Business Practices, Clients, Disciplines & Breeds, Education, Diseases, Lamenesses
    At his core, Ralph Hampton is a farrier. Not like Jack is in construction or Jill is an administrator. The Rosevine, Texas, shoer is a throwback to the days when a farrier fulfilled an important role in a small rural town. “This is not something you do for a living,” he says. “This is something you do for life.”
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    A World Cup Education

    Jason Critton’s farrier team embraces the chance to learn from some of the best at the FEI jumping and dressage finals
    By Jeff Cota posted on July 3, 2017 | Posted in Clients, Disciplines & Breeds, Education, Shoeing, Therapeutic Shoeing
    It would be easy to sit around as a horse show farrier and collect a paycheck while waiting for something to happen. After all, there’s a fair amount of down time, and it would be a nice break after shoeing scores of horses the previous week.
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    Give Your Hammer A Face-Lift

    If your rounding hammer has lost its crown, refinishing it will improve your forging work
    By Mikel Dawson posted on July 3, 2017 | Posted in Equipment
    When maintaining tools, we immediately think of pritchels, forepunches and such. How many of us, though, stop and think about repairing the face of our hammers?
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    Q&A: July/August 2017

    What are your best tips for repairing or maintaining your farrier tools?
    July 3, 2017 | Posted in Equipment
    A: I use a Dremel tool with a cut off blade to knurl the head of my driving hammer. This helps prevent me from bending nails. I only have one good eye and without the knurled head, I’ll bend too many nails.
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    Moving Beyond the Pain and Swelling of Equine Inflammation

    Deeper knowledge of the concept can improve outcomes for horses
    By Tom Schell posted on July 3, 2017 | Posted in Anatomy, Clients, Diseases, Lamenesses, Nutrition
    Is there more to heat, pain and lameness than meets the eye? Is there a reason why a horse is not responding to therapies? Potentially, yes. A farrier often is the first line of defense in identifying inflammation of the distal limb, and understanding its influence is critical for proper management.
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    Metallurgy: How Much Do You Need to Know?

    While not necessary to shoe horses, a working knowledge of how steel is made and reacts to heat and pressure can make a good career great
    By Pat Tearney posted on July 3, 2017 | Posted in Equipment, Forging, Safety & Healthcare, Therapeutic Shoeing
    If you’re a horseshoer, you work with metal every day. But how much do you have to really know about metallurgy — the science underlying the working of metal — to be successful? That might depend on how you define success and what kind of farrier you want to be.
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    A Study System To Learn Equine Anatomy

    Whether you need a deeper understanding or refresher of equine anatomy, these tips will help you retain this information critical to your work
    By Jacob Butler CJF, AWCF posted on July 3, 2017 | Posted in Education
    In the first article of this series, I presented some simple strategies that are motivated by our desire to excel. As we learn new skills, we need to apply and implement them into our lives and businesses so that these become part of our everyday work.
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    Thank You, Farriers

    Farriers Spotlight features industry tributes for National Farriers Week
    By Michelle Drewek posted on July 3, 2017 | Posted in Business Practices, Clients, Education
    For the past few months, we have been asking the equine community worldwide to share their stories, pictures and videos with us for the 19th Annual National Farriers Week celebration this year from July 9 to 15. We received many submissions over the past several months, and here are a handful of the farrier tributes sent to us during that time.
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    Recipe for Success as a Therapeutic Farrier

    Arizona farrier John Samsill explains how being effective in therapeutic shoeing relies on much more than skills and knowledge.
    By Jeremy McGovern posted on July 3, 2017
    Every facet of being a farrier requires teamwork. Whether you are working with a single client with a backyard horse or the trainer, owner, groom and others with a high-level performance horse, to effectively do your work means there is a team dynamic.
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    Ideas for Improving the Perceived Value of Your Farrier Practice

    Yes, you need to keep horses sound, but how your clients perceive you may have more to do with other factors
    By Jeremy McGovern posted on July 3, 2017 | Posted in Business Practices, Clients
    Teaching someone how to nail on a keg shoe, according to Bob Smith of Plymouth, Calif., isn’t the most difficult lesson. Of course, that doesn’t account for selecting the correct shoe, shaping it properly to the trim and other aspects of doing that job well. But to successfully run a farrier business takes investment — you need to know more than just how to shoe a horse.
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    Research Journal: July/August 2017

    The information, ideas and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the United States Department of Agriculture.
    By Albert Kane posted on July 3, 2017
    Risks For Grass Founder Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College conducted a prospective cohort study of risk factors for the development of pasture associated laminitis (PAL, also called grass founder) among ponies with no previous history of laminitis.
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  • Featured Articles

    Featured Articles

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    Putting Service in Customer Service

    East Texas farrier thrives by embracing marketing and good business practices
    By Jeff Cota posted on July 3, 2017 | Posted in Business Practices, Clients, Disciplines & Breeds, Education, Diseases, Lamenesses
    At his core, Ralph Hampton is a farrier. Not like Jack is in construction or Jill is an administrator. The Rosevine, Texas, shoer is a throwback to the days when a farrier fulfilled an important role in a small rural town. “This is not something you do for a living,” he says. “This is something you do for life.”
    Read More
    OPEN_FEIWorldCup_AFJ_0717.jpg

    A World Cup Education

    Jason Critton’s farrier team embraces the chance to learn from some of the best at the FEI jumping and dressage finals
    By Jeff Cota posted on July 3, 2017 | Posted in Clients, Disciplines & Breeds, Education, Shoeing, Therapeutic Shoeing
    It would be easy to sit around as a horse show farrier and collect a paycheck while waiting for something to happen. After all, there’s a fair amount of down time, and it would be a nice break after shoeing scores of horses the previous week.
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  • Digital Edition

    Digital Edition

  • Online Extras

    Online Extras

    Online Extras: July/August 2017

    September 1, 2017

    Web-exclusive content for this issue includes:

    • Videos of Jake Whitman sharing ideas of how he improves his footcare practice.
    • Additional insight on Coach's eye, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the flip-flop.
    • Additional advice on dealing with interference within various disciplines.
    • More insight on the Iowa State research on street nail procedures.
    • Download the 2017 National Farriers Week Certificate.

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