A team of researchers at Michigan State University's (MSU) McPhail Equine Performance Center offers hope to horse owners facing underrun heel and flat-footed woes with a 16-month study examining the ...

Do you think your horse moves a bit unevenly after a trim? You might be right. Researchers recently showed that while routine farriery care had little influence overall on horses' movement, horses do ...

Ross Smith, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, has shod horses for 40 years—a career that led him to develop an innovative tool for balancing a horse’s hoof when trimming and shoeing. “I grew up on a ...

Dennis Clymer has had a horseshoeing contract with the National Park Service for 40 years to trim and shoe horses used in parks like the Rocky Mountain National Park. Every year, the U.S. Department ...

There's much more to the job of a farrier than simply nailing shoes on a horse's hooves. A farrier is responsible for the horse's foot health, so some veterinary knowledge is required. Many farriers ...

Bryce Burnett's hands tell you he doesn't spend his days in an office cubicle. Those hands wear a dark, grimy coating, a mixture of iron residue and dirt. Scratches and cuts decorate the skin, and ...

Keith Warner, owner of KW Horseshoeing based out of Great Barrington, is a second-generation farrier who learned the historic craft nearly 30 years ago while he was still in high school from his ...

Steven McFalls leans forward, bent in the shape of a question mark as he braces his leather chaps-covered knees against T's raised hoof, sizing it up for a new horseshoe. It's a position McFalls knows ...

Keith Warner, owner of KW Horseshoeing based out of Great Barrington, is a second-generation farrier who learned the historic craft nearly 30 years ago when he was still in high school from his ...