EL PASO COUNTY — It’s mid-morning on a hot July day and Todd Weeda is bent over in the blazing sun, his case of tools resembles a cross between what you might find in an auto shop and a kitchen. His ...

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, ...

What is the difference between a farrier, blacksmith and equine podiatrist? It’s a good question — and one that surprisingly few equestrians can answer in full detail and complete confidence. Quite ...

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 ...

Equine professionals give their insight on farrier work and the importance of a complete team working together to get the best results for performance horses. Getting equine professionals to agree on ...

On a balmy morning in mid-July under a tent in the middle of a field in Litchfield, the flies taunting his horses, Jason Spieth is crossing his fingers that rain would stay away so he can teach his ...

Dustin Siegler, though only his 20s, is a throwback to an earlier time. He earns a living being a skilled craftsman. His greatest tools are his calloused hands. He works with animals, big animals.

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 ...