Articles Tagged with ''Equine Lameness Prevention Organization''

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Hoof-Care Highlights: Aug. 31, 2024

By American Farriers Journal Staff posted on August 31, 2024

This Week: Hoof-care professionals across the country and the ocean are sharing what they know with others in the industry through social media, webinars and videos. Here are a few of our favorites.

This Week

Hoof-Care Highlights: April 20, 2024

By American Farriers Journal Staff posted on April 20, 2024

This Week: Hoof-care professionals across the country and the ocean are sharing what they know with others in the industry through social media, webinars and videos. Here are a few of our favorites.

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New Farriers can Improve their Careers with the Success Mindset

This article was originally published August 1, 2020 and has been updated.

By Chase Rutledge posted on July 31, 2021 | Posted in Business Practices, Education

The mindset with which you approach your journey into the world of hoof care can often be the difference between fulfillment or frustration with your chosen career. Adoption of a successful mindset provides beginning farriers with the courage to try new things, learn from experiences and approach their chosen trade without being controlled by fear of the unknown. Let’s look at these ideas and how they can help you develop a successful, fulfilling career in hoof care.

The Success Mindset Can Improve a Farrier’s Career

Colorado farrier explains how the future of your practice hinges on your approach

By Chase Rutledge posted on November 11, 2020 | Posted in Business Practices

The mindset with which you approach your hoof-care practice can often be the difference between fulfillment or frustration with your chosen career. Many successful people in various career fields have adopted a positive mindset. When this mindset is developed early and followed regularly, it tends to allow beginning farriers the courage to try new things, learn from experiences and approach their chosen trade without being controlled by fear of the unknown.

[Video] Farrier Takeaways (Chris Niclas): Drawing the Equine Foot

March 13, 2020 | Posted in Anatomy, Education, Diseases

Chris Niclas, a Sequim, Wash., farrier and vice president of the Equine Lameness Prevention Organization, demonstrates how to draw a non-distorted horse foot for improving recognition of hoof distortion.

Manage Leverage to Treat Lameness

Colorado farrier continues his research and development of unconventional therapeutic shoes

By Ron Perszewski posted on April 10, 2019 | Posted in Lamenesses

Drawing on 60 years of experience, master farrier Gene Ovnicek says he and other horseshoers are finally reaching a point where they can help prevent lameness with advanced hoof mapping, reduced ground surface and his newest development, the Freedom Shoe.

News & Notes

ELPO Joins International Hoof-Care Summit As Educational Partner

June 1, 2018 | Posted in Education

The Equine Lameness Prevention Organization has agreed to be an Educational Partner for the 2019 International Hoof-Care Summit.

Defining The Hoof Quarters

The prevalence of caudal foot problems leads Hall Of Fame farrier to spell out the critical, yet elusive, description

By Katie Navarra posted on March 10, 2018 | Posted in Anatomy, Education, Diseases, Lamenesses, Shoeing, Therapeutic Shoeing, Trimming

The front half of a horse’s hoof has been the center of trimming and shoeing discussions for quite some time. Specifically, finding the ideal breakover point has been the focus of countless conversations and endless training. Lafayette, Ind., farrier Danvers Child points out that the vast majority of hoof issues occur in the back half of the foot, not the front.

Farriers Question AVMA’s Proposed Elimination Of Exemption

Definition of veterinary medicine is open to interpretation, farriers say

By Jeff Cota posted on March 10, 2018 | Posted in Business Practices

A simple strikethrough of Section 6(8) in the American Veterinary Medical Association’s (AVMA) proposed Model Veterinary Practice Act (MVPA) has raised a multitude of questions in the farrier industry.

News & Notes

Farriers Provide Therapeutic Shoes For Giraffe

May 21, 2017 | Posted in Diseases, Lamenesses, Therapeutic Shoeing

Two farriers teamed up to serve an unprecedented shoeing client: Twiga the giraffe.

Videos

Remembering Red Renchin with Mark Ellis: Part 3

In this episode, Mark Ellis, a Wisconsin farrier who learned the ropes with Renchin, recalls Red’s relationships with area veterinarians, his legacy and the second career as American Farriers Journal’s technical editor.

Events

Michigan Horseshoers Association 55th Annual Clinic

Date: 01/02/25

Location: Lansing, MI

The Michigan Horseshoers Association will host its 55th annual clinic Jan. 2-4, 2025 in East Lansing, Mich.

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