Horseshoes traditionally mean good luck, but not always for the people who work with them. Nervous animals weighing upward of 1,000 pounds can easily cause broken bones, cracked ribs or muscle ...

Dennis Clymer has had a horseshoeing contract with the National Park Service for 40 years to trim and shoe horses used in parks like the Rocky Mountain National Park. Every year, the U.S. Department ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — The twists and turns of life landed Brandt Walden exactly where he is supposed to be — making a living taking care of horse hooves. While Walden, 21, Wilkinson, had visions of ...

MONTGOMERY –Without a hoof you have no horse. That’s what farrier Jessica N. Lowman says. She knew when she was 12 that she wanted to be a farrier. “I’ve always known that horses were my passion in ...

Keith Warner, owner of KW Horseshoeing based out of Great Barrington, is a second-generation farrier who learned the historic craft nearly 30 years ago while he was still in high school from his ...

A horseshoe forged by Travis Burns in the farrier shop at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine will soon be ...

Tina Tompkins held a photo of her grandfather, George Tompkins, a Lexington farrier who was honored Saturday by Phoenix Rising, an organization that celebrates the legacy of Black horsemen in Kentucky ...