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Hoof-Care Highlights: April 6, 2024

By American Farriers Journal Staff posted on April 6, 2024

This Week: Hoof-care professionals across the country and the ocean are sharing what they know with others in the industry through social media, webinars and videos. Here are a few of our favorites.

The Ideal Hoof Angle Depends On The Horse

No single number should dictate how all horses are trimmed

By Steve Sermersheim posted on December 5, 2016 | Posted in Anatomy, Education, Diseases, Lamenesses, Trimming

Over the past 28 years of my shoeing career, clients, veterinarians and other farriers have asked three common questions about hoof angle. What is the ideal hoof angle? What angle do you like the front hooves? What angle do you try to achieve for hind hooves, etc.?

Online Extras: May/June 2015 Issue

May 11, 2015

Web-exclusive content for this issue includes:

Farrier Kyle Crawford discussing keeping an open mind
Video of Jim Quick building a heart bar
Marc Jerram's research and standardized method of calculating limb symmetry in pairs of forelimbs
Videos of farrier Pablo Calderon's working on a canker case
2015 National Farriers Week Certificate
Article about the process for preserving equine specimens for long-term study
Physical restraints vs. chemical restraints

Thoughts On Medial-Lateral Balance

Colorado farrier Jim Quick shares food for thought on trimming and shoeing for a balanced foot

By Jeremy McGovern posted on May 8, 2015 | Posted in Education, Therapeutic Shoeing, Trimming

If you go to a Jim Quick clinic expecting him to dictate how you should shoe a horse, you’re at the wrong clinic. Instead, the Niwot, Colo., farrier says his purpose is to not give instructions to tell other farriers how to shoe, but to share his thoughts on how he does the job. Quick did just that at Bruce Daniels Memorial Clinic in early April when he suggested points of consideration regarding medial-lateral balance.

Dealing with Low Lateral Heels in the Hind Feet of Reiners

Here are key points to look for when dealing with these kind of heel concerns

By Ronald Aalders posted on May 1, 2011 | Posted in Anatomy

While this article deals with how reining horses tend to wear down their lateral heel, similar issues occur across all disciplines.

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Managing the Base-Narrow Horse

When you come across a base-narrow horse due to medial-lateral imbalance, this approach could address the issue within two shoeings

By Tab Pigg posted on April 1, 2011 | Posted in Therapeutic Shoeing

If you shoe horses, you’ll come across base-narrow, high-inside heeled horses.

Using Diagnostic Imaging to Pinpoint Foot Problems

The vital information that technology can provide is another reason for farriers to work closely with veterinarians

By Heather Smith Thomas posted on May 1, 2010 | Posted in Lamenesses

Many new diagnostic techniques and imaging modalities have come into use and it can often be challenging to understand which ones might be best suited for a given lameness problem. It is also important to know when to use these tools.

They Can’t Get Enough On Balance

The topic of how to shoe a horse for his own conformation always comes up whenever farriers, vets get together

By Blake Brown posted on May 1, 2008 | Posted in Education, Trimming

For several years, farriers in Northern California have been holding farrier-veterinarian forums to help improve communication between the two professions.

Tee It Up

A T-square is a low-tech tool that pays off for farriers in making an accurate assessment of the foot

By Ron Perszewski posted on May 1, 2008 | Posted in Equipment

Much like the hoof gauge, using the T-square is a basic tool that can go a long way toward accurately assessing medial-lateral balance.

The Homemade Hoof

Hall Of Fame farrier Jim Keith offers his own take on hoof balance and how it can change with the conditions that the horse calls home

By Ron Perszewski posted on May 1, 2008 | Posted in Education, Trimming

It's called horseshoeing, not footshoeing, says Jim Keith, explaining why he rejects the traditional approach of aligning the hoof-pastern axis as the starting point for bringing a hoof into balance.

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