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Marketing Yourself Pays Off

August 18, 2017 | Posted in Business Practices, Clients

When Rosevine, Texas, farrier Ralph Hampton meets someone for the first time, you can bet the topic will eventually turn to horses. Hampton admits that some of his colleagues don’t like, nor understand why he’s adamant about marketing his hoof-care practice.

Farrier Quick Takes

[Video] Shoeing for Performance

May 2, 2016 | Posted in Business Practices, Clients, Disciplines & Breeds, Shoeing

Wellington, Fla., farrier Fabio Gnoatto explains how he handles performance horse clients who lose shoes while they are not competing.

AFJ Top Search Topic: Lost Shoes

August 26, 2014 | Posted in Education

During the previous week, "Lost Shoes" was a top 10 searched term on the AFJ website. Because this is a popular search subject recently, we've shared a November 1999 American Farriers Journal article by farrier Steve Kraus.

From The Desk Of AFJ

Lost Shoes: To Charge or Not to Charge?

Sure it’s good customer service, but you could also be rewarding a client for a lack of good horsemanship

By Pat Tearney posted on September 25, 2013 | Posted in Business Practices, Shoeing

Sure it's good customer service, but you could also be rewarding a client for a lack of good horsemanship.

Shoeing For A Living

[Video] Sizing Up A Cow Horse's Foot

November 6, 2012 | Posted in Disciplines & Breeds, Shoeing

Farrier Donnie Karr (Loomis, Calif.) discusses shoe size, warning that using a small shoe to avoid lost shoes can lead to more serious problems. He then describes how he decides how big a shoe is needed.

Solving the Mystery of Lost Shoes

Educating your clients about how this happens will enable your business to run more smoothly

By Blake Brown posted on March 1, 2009 | Posted in Clients

Lost horseshoes are a nightmare for horse owners as well as horseshoers. For the horse owner it never fails to happen at the most inopportune time.

Briefings

December 1, 2008 | Posted in Business Practices, Education

"If a shoe is lost and the client is willing to wait for me to fix the problem at my convenience, I usually don't charge extra when they have the shoe," says Michael Chisham. "If they don't have the shoe, I try to use an old shoe that will do the job and charge $10. I leave old shoes at the barns so clients have them in case of an emergency."

Online With The Farriers' Forum

Pulled shoes, using side clips on front shoes

December 1, 2004 | Posted in Education

Q: I need some advice with a shoeing problem. I hot shoe all my horses, as I have found this cuts down heaps on lost shoes. I have one horse, however, that constantly loses his front shoes. The shoes usually hold for the first 3 to 4 weeks, then they almost always fall off. This happens only on this particular horse that most often is ridden on rocky trails.