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For Want of a Nail

Aug 08, 2019 by Pete Butler Category: Conformation, Equine Soundness, Horse Foot Care 0 comments Tags: Butler farrier schools, Butler Professional Farrier School, DBE Continuing Farrier Education, equine foot care, Farrier School, hoof growth, low ringbone

These last few weeks, I have been working in the tractor in the field to make hay. Cutting fields and baling hay can be fun…when everything works properly. However, there is a lot of time devoted to dealing with “breakdowns.” A part on the baler fails, a cutter bar wears out on the swather, a […]

Dangers of Overfeeding

Mar 14, 2019 by Pete Butler Category: Equine Soundness, Horse Care, Horsemanship 0 comments Tags: basic farrier training, Butler farrier schools, Butler horseshoeing schools, Butler Professional Farrier School, competency in equine foot care, Doug Butler, equine foot care, individual horse care, low ringbone, nutrition

Many problems with horses are caused by horse-loving people. Perhaps the most disturbing is the harmful, yet common notion, that “food is love.” There are far too many cases of young horses crippled with developmental orthopedic disease resulting in club foot, epiphysitis and secondary hyperparathyroidism. Many older horses are afflicted with low ringbone, navicular disease […]

Special Holiday Offer!

Nov 30, 2017 by Pete Butler Category: Anatomy, Best Business Practices 0 comments Tags: Butler horseshoeing schools, Butler Professional Farrier School, competency in equine foot care, DBE Continuing Farrier Education, Doug Butler, equine foot care, farrier customer service, low ringbone, ringbone

With the holidays approaching, we are offering a discount on the Hands-On Teaching Models and Study Aids collection at Doug Butler Enterprises, Inc. The Ringbone model which typically retails for $120 is now available at the reduced price of $99. The Foundered Foot Model which retails at $79 is now available for $59. This promotional […]

Case Study – Horse with Low Ringbone

Oct 27, 2016 by Jake Butler Category: Anatomy, Conformation, Farrier training, Horse Care, Horse Foot Care, Veterinary Care 0 comments Tags: competency in equine foot care, DBE Continuing Farrier Education, equine foot care, exostosis, farrier customer service, Farrier School, fractured extensor process, fractured P3, hoof care, Horseshoeing School, how to shoe a horse, Jake Butler, low ringbone, radiograph, ringbone

  Farriers are presented with different horse feet scenarios.  Often these come as a last resort from horse owners.  This was a horse that was injured 4 months ago.  The owner was not sure how the horse injured himself.  There is a bulge at the coronary band and the right front foot is beginning to […]

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