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Getting Better Results With Hospital Plates

Various insights on using hospital plates can help improve your chances for success when the need arises
March 7, 2016 | Posted in Equipment, Lamenesses, Therapeutic Shoeing

As a tool in a farrier’s arsenal for addressing hoof-care issues, hospital plates are like fire extinguishers — they are seldom used, but you are glad to have them as an option when needed. Also like fire extinguishers, incorrect or ineffective application of hospital plates could lead to disastrous outcomes.


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Online Extras: May/June 2015

May 11, 2015

Web-exclusive content for this issue includes:

  • Farrier Kyle Crawford discussing keeping an open mind
  • Video of Jim Quick building a heart bar
  • Marc Jerram's research and standardized method of calculating limb symmetry in pairs of forelimbs
  • Videos of farrier Pablo Calderon's working on a canker case
  • 2015 National Farriers Week Certificate
  • Article about the process for preserving equine specimens for long-term study
  • Physical restraints vs. chemical restraints

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Treating Prolific Canker

A Virginia farrier tackles a case of advanced canker — with favorable results
By Lisa Giza posted on January 1, 2012 | Posted in Diseases
A 25-year-old Belgian named Bailey was lame, thin and often nipped at his painful feet until they bled when a new owner’s love for the horse brought him to David Giza at Genesis Farriers in Culpepper, Va.
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Farriers Weigh in on Missing Frogs

January 1, 2009 | Posted in Forging, Shoeing, Trimming

A client has obtained a rescue horse, which I trimmed about 10 weeks ago. At that time, the frog was gone from three hooves. I didn’t think anything about it since most horses were shedding frogs at that time.


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Treating Hoof Cracks And Other Hoof Maladies

Cornell farrier offers primer on therapeutic cases
By Michael Wildenstein posted on September 1, 2004 | Posted in Therapeutic Shoeing
Source: Michael J. Wildenstein, CJF
Horses that have unbalanced hooves, coronary band damage or interference injuries are all susceptible to hoof cracks. Damage to the laminae from abscess tracts will predispose a hoof to crack. Hooves that are not trimmed or shod regularly can crack from the added stress of long hooves. In an adult horse, limb deformities or shoeing to attempt to change a limb deformity aggressively can crack hooves.
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