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Footcare & Farrier Business Insights

Each week our editors will bring you data we collected in our 2024 American Farriers Journal Business Practices Survey. Continue reading below for our latest update and check back weekly for the next set of information.
Each week our editors will bring you data we collected in our 2024 American Farriers Journal Business Practices Survey. Check back weekly for our latest update.
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Learn to Apply Indirect Glue-ons with Confidence

Take the guesswork out of Glue-U’s GluShu & get tips from Florida farrier Roy Verocay

When glue-on shoes are the best option to keep a horse comfortable and on its feet, it’s crucial to know how to apply them properly. At the 2025 International Hoof-Care Summit, Port Orange, Fla., farrier Roy Verocay demonstrates the correct application of Glue-U’s GluShu.


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Farrier Tips

When & How to Use EasyCare Glue-Ons

With high-activity racehorses regularly performing on tarmac or other hard surfaces, glue-ons are a reliable option that protects the integrity of the foot. It provides caudal support that a traditional shoe cannot — preventing quarter cracks, sheared heels and performance-impacting pain — and avoids damaging hooves that may need to be shod more often than the typical horse.


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Good, Solid Shoeing: Insights & Tips

Learn when to bend the rules & when to hold firm from farriers who shoe for a living
A merican Farriers Journal’s “Shoeing for a Living” series began in 1992 with Maryland farrier Gary Faulkner. Today, AFJ has published more than 120 “Shoeing for a Living” articles that spotlight farriers from across the country.
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Influencing Diagonal Gait of Trot

How the horse compensates for outside influences
There are lateral gaits and/or diagonal gaits that are required performance of the horses we shoe or trim. Some are natural lateral gaits, like Icelandic and Paso Fino horses, and some are learned, like five-gaited Saddlebred horses.
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