BOZEMAN (AP) - In a blacksmith shop in a field on the edge of town, Tom Wolfe is teaching a dozen men to transform cold chunks of steel into horseshoes. Thirty years of heating metal to a glowing ...

A chestnut brown quarter horse with white markings leaned against Ernie Gaouette as he fitted snow shoes to the animal at Brigg’s Farm. The shoes, which have a bubble in the middle to pop out snow and ...

Enjoy the soothing sights of a farrier expertly shoeing a horse's hoof. The precision and technique involved in this craft are both satisfying and impressive. Trump suffers major blow in Ukraine poll ...

Sweat dripped from Sonny Pistilli’s nose and evaporated on the red-hot horseshoe he’d taken out of a burning forge. He’d been pounding steel with a mallet for two hours, his hands like anvils from a ...

When you watch Steve Shutler pick up a horse’s hoof in preparation for a shoeing, you can tell he’s made the same practiced motions at least a thousand times. Shutler is a horse shoer, or farrier, as ...

DICKINSON, N.D. - Horseshoes, and the people who shod them, have gone hand-in-hand with the rise and fall of nations since time immemorial. Historical evidence of horseshoes and horse husbandry exists ...

Ross Smith, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, has shod horses for 40 years—a career that led him to develop an innovative tool for balancing a horse’s hoof when trimming and shoeing. “I grew up on a ...

Farriering is an age-old profession and has been vital to horse care for centuries. Even though most do not travel via horse and carriage anymore or rely on a horse-drawn plow to farm their fields, ...

Should horses and similar animals wear horseshoes or go “barefoot?” It’s not a facetious question. Horse owners have strong opinions on both sides. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that nature’s own way ...

PHILADELPHIA — Sweat dripped from Sonny Pistilli’s nose and evaporated on the red-hot horseshoe he’d taken out of a burning forge. He’d been pounding steel with a mallet for two hours, his hands like ...