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Shoeing Under the Big Sky

Montana guest ranch gets its horses shod while also helping educate future farriers
By Pat Tearney posted on September 1, 2006 | Posted in Shoeing, Therapeutic Shoeing
The month of May is drawing to a close and spring has come to the Montana mountain country — and it’s easy to see where the state got its Big Sky Country nickname.
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Bill Poor & Paul Simms
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A Lone Star Shoeing Storm

Five Texas farriers demonstrate how teamwork, camaraderie and efficiency pay off in their hoof-care work
By Pat Tearney posted on July 1, 2006 | Posted in Shoeing
The day is already warming up as Bill Poor and Nick Hannan leave a Denny's restaurant just a few miles from the George H.W. Bush International Airport in Houston, Texas, where they've stopped for breakfast and get ready to head out to start their day shoeing horses.
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Farriery Farm Aid

Nebraska's Gregg Kremer started shoeing to try and save the family homestead
By Pat Tearney posted on May 1, 2006 | Posted in Disciplines & Breeds, Shoeing
A few years back, Gregg Kremer was right in the middle of an unfortunate continuing economic story — and he wasn't enjoying it much.
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Off The Beaten Career Path

North Carolina farrier gave up a career with a major manufacturer to do what he loves
By Pat Tearney posted on March 1, 2006 | Posted in Disciplines & Breeds, Shoeing, Trimming
North Carolina farrier Jeff Pauley is a man who’s willing to give up the safe and secure and take a chance. He’s also someone who’s willing to make sacrifices to achieve a goal he’s focused on.
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Steve Stanley
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From Foal Barns to the Red Mile

Shifting the focus of his practice just a bit made shoeing more enjoyable for this Kentucky farrier
By Pat Tearney posted on January 1, 2006 | Posted in Shoeing
A few years ago, Steve Stanley did virtually all of his hoof-care work at racetracks. It was work he loved — and still loves — but he decided adding a little variety to his shoeing practice might be a good thing.
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TEAM DAWSON
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Teamwork Rules the Day

Veteran Las Vegas farrier combines teamwork, continuing education, helping others and quality shoeing work to run a successful shoeing business
By Mike Podoll posted on September 1, 2005 | Posted in Education, Forging
Several common themes become crystal clear when you spend some time with Mike Dawson.
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Shoeing Down the Highway

Young Georgia farrier takes to the road as a sensible compromise between lifestyle and income
By Pat Tearney posted on May 1, 2005 | Posted in Shoeing
Even in Georgia, late February doesn't qualify as early spring. Nevertheless, it's a spring-like day, with temperatures already hovering around 50 in the bright early morning sunshine as farrier Derrick Perry drives the pickup towing his shoeing trailer south on I-75 from his home near the Georgia-Tennessee border toward Atlanta. It's not a short drive, but it's one he makes fairly frequently.
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Farriery requires knowledge and skills to provide proper equine hoof care. In this series, sponsored by VICTORY, American Farriers Journal visits Heartland Horseshoeing School in Lamar, Mo. In this edition, Chris Gregory discussed his journey to becoming an educator, his focus in teaching farrier students and the state of farrier education.

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