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Farriers Helping Farriers

I recently started shoeing an endurance horse. The toes of both fronts have nearly worn through in less than 5 weeks. Is there anything I can do in regards to shoe type, the placement or hoof-angle adjustment to help alleviate this problem? He has very upright pasterns and the hoof angle on both fronts is 55.
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Farriers Offer Sanitary Tips of Their Own

We asked shoers who receive the American Farriers Journal e-mail Shoeing Tip Of The Week to share some of things they do to help avoid transferring disease from one barn to another.
We asked shoers who receive the American Farriers Journal e-mail Shoeing Tip Of The Week to share some of things they do to help avoid transferring disease from one barn to another.
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The Blame Game

Lame horses might have legitimate complaints, but they don’t point fingers at farriers. Should you?
When dissatisfied with the work of a farrier, one horse owner told us, she likes to “hit the nail on the head and get the air cleared. It isn’t always pretty, but it’s a necessary evil.”
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