NORTH EAST ― The prospect of getting kicked or bitten might keep most people away. For Bill Spellman, it's all part of the job. Spellman, 40, has spent nearly 15 years as a farrier, trimming hooves ...

Corrective shoeing for laminitis doesn't always work, despite veterinarians' and farriers' best efforts, and it's not always clear why a particular shoeing job isn't successful. In-shoe force ...

"When shoeing a horse, you want to first evaluate what the feet look like from a general, overall standpoint. But I know Jake quite well so I'll just get started," Rennie said. He bends next to the ...

VALLEY FALLS — After trimming the hoof and cleaning out a hoof abscess, Steve Senn carefully drills holes in the chestnut mare's right front hoof. The mare is a victim of chronic founder, a painful ...

Jamie Westland Wandell excels in a field dominated by men. She is a farrier and travels to stables around Kane and DuPage counties, where she fits horses with shoes, trims their hoofs and forges ...

Joe Mantie Jr., a farrier who shod horses for the Governor’s Horse Guard for more than 35 years, died Sunday of cancer. He was 75. Mantie, who rarely went by his given name of Herman, is survived by ...

Founder or laminitis is a common disease of the horse's foot that can cause chronic lameness or even death. The laminia is a connective tissue that attaches the hoof to the coffin bone (see diagram 1) ...

Dr. Larry Bramlage, right, assisted by Dr. Eric Carlson, inserted a screw in the knee of a Thoroughbred yearling during corrective surgery at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital. Herald-Leader All eyes on ...