Education

A Half-Century’s Lessons on Working Smarter

Hall-of-Fame shoer Lee Green shares lessons he wishes he’d learned earlier in his career
While he’s learned many things in his horseshoeing lifetime, Lee Green continues to analyze shoeing techniques and how to work smarter to make more money, save time and minimize labor. He encourages younger farriers to learn from older farriers’ war stories and to avoid the mistakes they’ve made.
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Achieving Balance Through Trims

Developing a thorough knowledge of anatomy, load-bearing and trimming techniques helps achieve critical balance goals
For the majority of the first half of my shoeing career, I educated clients — and farriers — about conformation and the proper way to balance a foot.
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Local Association Spotlight

Shoers Needed For The Once Wild

Bureau of Land Management wants to bring together quality farriers with new owners of adopted wild horses, burros

THIS ISSUE, WE’D like to use this space to give a boost to a program we think not only is good for animal welfare but helps preserve a bit of American history as well.


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Book Notes

Keep It Nearby for Easy Reference

WHEN YOU LOOK through your horseshoeing library, you are bound to find some guides to various hoof problems: maybe something lighter in the way of personal farrier accounts, and definitely a number of textbooks that you will never throw away. Mike W. Ross and Sue J. Dyson have recently published the latest textbook that needs to find a home on your bookshelf — Diagnosis and Management of Lameness in the Horse.


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Veterinarians Roundtable

Can we produce an arthritic condition by exerting extra pressure on the bone surfaces through the continuous use of a trailer on the shoe?
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Shop Talk

How Many Horses Are There?

While private funding for a new national survey of the horse industry is being sought, American Horse Council staffers recently told Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman there are 6.9 million horses in this country.
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Tufts Delves Into Drafts

Tightly focused event delivers big on big horses
If you wanted to know more about shoeing draft horses or other large breeds and weren't in attendance at a recent seminar held at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in North Grafton, Mass., you missed a great opportunity.
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Shop Talk

International Hoof-Care Summit “Outstanding Presentation Awards” Announced

Four presentations have been designated as the "Best of the Best" from the inaugural International Hoof-Care Summit, held in Cincinnati in February 2004. Based on the evaluations of Summit attendees, four individuals are being recognized for the outstanding quality, depth and overall presentation of their material in contributing to hoof-care education at the International Hoof-Care Summit.
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