On a cool, drizzly morning, riding instructor Bridget Campbell brushed her fingers across the withers of Chiquita, a 12-year-old Andalusian mustang boarded at Hillsboro's MCM Ranch. Chiquita's ...
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 ...
Do you think your horse moves a bit unevenly after a trim? You might be right. Researchers recently showed that while routine farriery care had little influence overall on horses' movement, horses do ...
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 ...
It's "graduation" time for 12 horses and four mules -- bred, raised and trained by animal science students -- that will be auctioned Saturday, June 21, during the 16th annual Horse Production Sale at ...
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 ...
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 ...