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Vet and Farrier Team Tackles Keratoma

In a case with a rescue horse, recurrent lameness, abscess and hoof wall defects are secondary to keratoma
By Michael Russell and Bob Smith posted on May 1, 2010 | Posted in Diseases
As a farrier and a veterinarian, we have a unique working relationship. Over the past several years, we've treated and rehabilitated rescue horses at the Grace Foundation in El Dorado Hills, Calif. Our work provides the students at the Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School with a view on how a good working relationship between vet and farrier benefits the team and the horse. Also, because many of the horses are in poor condition, the students get to see some of the most devastating hoof conditions that horses can suffer.
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Clinchers: Tools For A Final Step

The right feel, height and angles are keys to finding the one that fits your work
By Pat Tearney posted on September 1, 2009 | Posted in Equipment

Clinchers are one of those tools that were originally developed to help farriers more easily do a job that they’d been doing by less mechanical means for years.


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Trimming Minis Is No Small Deal

Reversing your ideas about trimming may pay dividends when working with miniature horses
By Lynda Layne posted on September 1, 2009 | Posted in Trimming
Frank Lupton says miniature horses aren’t just scaled down versions of their full-sized counterparts, especially where the feet are concerned.
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Farriers' Roundtable

May 1, 2009 | Posted in Equipment, Shoeing
Experience! After seeing thousands of horses over the last 42 years, I use a straight bar for horses that have a sheared heel, an overreaching or forging problem.
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Shoeing for Founder

This case deals with a seriously dropped sole, damaged hoof wall and pedal bone
By Monique Craig posted on May 1, 2008 | Posted in Therapeutic Shoeing
I started working on Refreshing Pause (referred to here as RP) in February of 2002. She was a special horse, since she helped me find ways to assist other horses with similar problems. While RP was not my first foundered horse, she's the worst founder case that I've encountered in terms of capsular damage.
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Tee It Up

A T-square is a low-tech tool that pays off for farriers in making an accurate assessment of the foot
By Ron Perszewski posted on May 1, 2008 | Posted in Equipment

Much like the hoof gauge, using the T-square is a basic tool that can go a long way toward accurately assessing medial-lateral balance.


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Veterinarians' Roundtable

December 1, 2007 | Posted in Lamenesses

Q: How long can it take lameness to show up from a blind quicking? Is it likely that a possible quicking could be the cause of lameness that shows up 27 days later?


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