PREPARING FOR TRIMMING OR SHOEING

• Training The Young Horse To Be Shod
• Importance of the Shoeing Bay

FARRIERS

• Choosing a Farrier
• How to Find a Farrier    (views as PDF)
• Does your farrier listen to you?
• Ego - how much should you pay for it?
• Farriers Folly
• Farriers vs Horse Owners
• Fear Factor
• Train the Trainer
• Where have all the farriers gone           (View as PDF)
• Farrier Convention in Cincinnati   Snippets PDF

GENERAL

• A Day In The Life Of A Farrier   (PDF page1)   (PDF page 2)
• Floating the Horse
• Helpful Hints
• Interesting Stuff
• Left and right handed horses
• Biosecurity and hygiene
• The effect of EI on Hoof Maintenance
• Preventing Peak Performance
• Ponies for Kids PDF
• Ponies for Kids
• The Slow Learner


• Upside Down Horses    (view as PDF)
• Teaching Australian Style
• The Tide is Turning
• Supersize

BALANCING THE HOOF

• Balancing the Hoof 
• Slide Presentation of Balancing the Hoof
• Evolution of the Hoof-Line PDF
• Medial/Lateral changes in the bottom of the hoof

HOOF PROBLEMS

• Attitude Problems
• Balance Related Navicular Syndrome
• Balance Related Navicular Syndrome (part 2)
• Corns
• Flares are your biggest enemy     (view as PDF)
• Flares Presentation - Hoof Summit Cincinnati 2008
• Founder in Donkeys
• Hoof Abscesses
• Hoof Abscesses PDF 
• Hoof-Related Back Strain
• Over Reaching and Forging     (view as PDF)
• Quartered Heels
• Dry Hooves
  

CONFORMATION PROBLEMS

• Club Feet and Bent Leg
• Club Feet - The Brutal Truth
• Club Foot Care
• Correcting Gait Problems
• Crooked Legs and Club Feet

TRIMMING

• Barefoot Myths
• Barefoot Trimming
• Hoof Care for Donkeys
• Hoof Care for Foals
• Little Horses
• Tried and True Trim PDF

TRIMMING, SHOEING, SHOES AND NAILS

• Trimming
• The Changing Hoof
• Graduated Shoes
• Hoof-Preparation Gone Mad
• Hot Shoeing Pros & Cons
• Preventing Peak Performance
• Sensitive to Nailing           (View as PDF)
• Shoeing without violence
• Do You Really See What You Are Looking At?

TOOLS

• Make your own Farrier's Toolbox
• Make Your Own Sole Chisel
• Make your own Sole Knife
• Purchasing & Maintaining Tools
• Tools for Dry Hooves in Dry Times