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New Mexico Shoe-Shaping Experiment Produces Unexpected Results

Little variation found as nine farriers forge keg shoes to fit the same trimmed foot
By John Bradshaw posted on January 9, 2011 | Posted in Shoeing, Trimming
Farriers all have slightly different shoe-shaping styles and a few have some very different techniques. Just about any farrier has pulled a shoe that was nailed on by someone else and puzzled over what that other horseshoer could have been thinking when he chose that shape.
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Causes Of Thin Soles

October 24, 2010 | Posted in Education, Trimming
Michael Wildenstein says a variety of conditions that span the gamut from genetics, nutrition, management, environment, aging and past pathologies can bring on thin soles.
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Shoeing Effect on Phases of the Stance

Study finds new rolled-toe shoe model improves breakover smoothness, lessens impact and loading
By Dr. Meike van Heel posted on September 1, 2010 | Posted in Shoeing, Trimming
Does a rolled-toe shoe really have any effect on breakover? Farriers have long felt that it does, but scientific evidence of this — as well as for many other questions regarding the effect of trimming and shoeing — has been sadly lacking.
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Farriers’ Roundtable

Is there anything that can be done about small cracks in the toe? I’m not talking about the bad ones. Just the small ones that farriers and owners want you to make disappear.
July 1, 2010 | Posted in Trimming
Is there anything that can be done about small cracks in the toe? I’m not talking about the bad ones. Just the small ones that farriers and owners want you to make disappear.
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Farrier Education: Heartland Horseshoeing School

Farrier Education: Heartland Horseshoeing School

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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