This week is the 35th anniversary of the landmark AAEP (American Association of Equine Practitioners) meeting where Burney Chapman, CJF and Dr. George Platt, DVM presented their research on effectively treating laminitis and founder. Much of what they presented then is still what competent farriers today are using to save afflicted horses. There has been […]
Happy Independence Day! This is a wonderful time of year to reflect on the great heritage of our country and our craft. We are indebted to our forefathers, who dedicated their lives to independence and freedom. George Washington was the commanding general during the revolutionary war. He was greatly loved by the men he led […]
By Doug Butler PhD, CJF, FWCF Recently, as I was searching through my extensive collection of horseshoes I came across a shoe made for Kello-Bask, a yearling Arabian colt that I shod from 1967 to 1970. At the time of his first shoeing I had just been hired to teach farrier skills to students and […]
Horseshoes can (and should) be modified to be more beneficial to each individual horse. Horseshoe clips are among the most versatile and useful modifications to help horses in different circumstances. Clips are the triangular tab of metal that sticks up on the foot surface of a shoe to be seated into the hoof wall. The […]
The horse’s foot is a bio-mechanical marvel with many parts. Each part has a function. One of the most interesting parts is the frog. The frog is an insensitive, wedge shaped cushion or pad that helps the horse with shock absorption, traction and circulation. It is also a scent gland. The exact etymology of how […]
The summer season is upon us once again. For Butler Professional Farrier School that means we get to shoe the horses and mules at Fort Robinson State Park in time for the park to open on Memorial Day Weekend. Fort Robinson has draft horse teams, mule teams, and saddle horses used for the stage coach, […]
By Doug Butler PhD, CJF, FWCF Lee Liles passed away May 12, 2018 at home in Sulphur, Oklahoma. He was one of the great farriers, blacksmiths and horsemen of our time. Lee was extremely knowledgeable on many subjects and possessed the finest library on farrier science of well over 1000 volumes. Lee started shoeing in […]
This article appeared in The Horseshoer’s Journal 39(12):578. It is by E. G. Myers and was published in Dec 1919. It has taken a man of iron to prove who is the richest individual and the particular person who rose to the question so often asked is a Nebraska blacksmith named E. G. Myers, whose […]
Last week, a group of scientists discovered that the Przewalski’s horses of Mongolia are not truly wild. This scientific study shows that there are no truly wild horses left in the world. Horses that roam freely in the United States and other countries are not technically “wild” horses as they descended from domesticated ancestry. Mustangs […]
There have been many changes in the farrier industry in the past 60 years since I shod my first horse. Some are more important than others. All have increased the income and prestige of the farrier as a professional craftsman and tradesman. Horse population increase. Horse population and popularity as a recreational outlet has increased. […]
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