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Mary Bramley

Are Farriers Essential in a Time of Pandemic Crisis?

By Mary Bramley posted on March 28, 2020 | Posted in Business Practices, Safety & Healthcare
The current impact of the COVID-19 virus on your farrier practice should have you asking whether you are prepared for this pandemic and how you are going to prepare yourself going forward with the ever-increasing measures being taken to curb the spread of the virus. What countermeasures, if any, should we take as farriers? How will this pandemic affect our daily business?
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Danvers Child

Farriery Doesn’t Have to be a Tug of War

By Danvers Child, CJF posted on February 29, 2020 | Posted in Education
The International Hoof-Care Summit recently concluded, and I have a question. Why do you go to the mid-winter farrier conference? I think the typical response is going to be that "I came for continuing education." That's what we did. We all came here for continuing education. But what are you continuing?
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Frank Lessiter

Without a Will, Who’ll Get Your Shoeing Rig?

Inheritance laws demonstrate why all farriers, regardless of age, need a written will to have any say in how their assets and property will be distributed after death
By Frank Lessiter posted on June 22, 2019 | Posted in Business Practices, Safety & Healthcare
When Aretha Franklin, Howard Hughes and Prince died without having bothered to create a legal will, they left their huge estates in a disastrous legal mess. While a farrier’s assets and property aren’t likely to be anywhere close to the value of what these three well-known individuals left behind, you want the legal protection that can be yours by taking a few hours to pull together a needed legal document.
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foundered pony

Let’s Wait Until Spring

By Kathleen Preece posted on May 18, 2019 | Posted in Clients, Diseases
The words felt like wads of cotton in my mouth — thick, difficult to swallow. I could barely spit them out: “Neal, should I put her down?” “Neal” is my farrier, Neal Martin; “her” is Annie, my defiant, independent little rescue pony. Neal’s answer: “Let’s wait until spring.”
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Frank Lessiter

More than a Century Later, Feds Terminate Horseshoe Antitrust Case

The Federal Trade Commission has decided it’s time to drop an antitrust case that dealt with the lack of competition for horseshoes, calks and pads in 1908
By Frank Lessiter posted on May 8, 2019 | Posted in Business Practices, Education
While most everyone recognizes the federal bureaucracy moves slowly, the Department of Justice may hold the record as it brings an end to some of its long-open cases regarding monopolistic practices and unfair competition.
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Jeremy McGovern

The Legacy of Change

By Jeremy McGovern posted on April 6, 2019
In the April 2019 issue of American Farriers Journal, we celebrate the legacy of Hall of Fame farrier John Marino, who passed away in March 2019. As you will see in the article in this issue, he had a tremendous impact on the farriers who knew him. He had a lengthy horseshoeing career that took him from the East Coast to the Lone Star State.
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