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 … Continued
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. … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued