This is my first content creation proof of concept since I made the recent decision to become a content creator as my primary goal. The change from my goal of going out to shoe horses every day to instead going out to create content every day gives us the most potential and flexibility since the … Read more
This is for a horse that has been diagnosed with navicular syndrome. I like to think of navicular syndrome as similar to carpal tunnel syndrome in humans. Its not cool. I’m not going to go into detail here about the pathology or the mechanical options farriers have here other than to say that this is … Read more
Boo has a chronic lameness. It appears to be navicular syndrome of some fashion. We have been working as a typical farrier, trainer and veterinarian team with this horse, experimenting on what we can do to make her feel better. The above shoe is what we were using. I have had a lot of success … Read more
This is an ongoing project exploring how to create tools, shoes (appliances) and attach those appliances to horse hooves in an effort to promote movement and soundness. What I mean by that is this section will cover how we forge and fabricate the shoes and other special things we put on horse feet to help … Read more
Yup. Sometimes you have to do it a couple of times to get things going smoothly again. Usually, when you have to reboot something multiple times, its old enough and troubled enough that you may want to consider getting a new one. In this case, I will ask that you do not replace me just … Read more
This exercise is a way to practice drawing as many clips as we can from a single used horse shoe. The idea came to me while I was apprenticing with Dave Farley back in the mid ’90s. I had asked him to help me, and so he did. But, it all came down to the … Read more