The call usually starts innocently enough. “How much do you charge to trim a miniature horse?” (or foal, mini donkey, goat, any other little hooved animal). I ask a few...
Farriers are an enigma, but as horse owners, we can’t live without them. When my husband and I were dating, he wanted to go to farrier school. I supported this...
It has been said that there is no such thing as a stupid question, and for the most part, that’s true. However, sometimes people don’t think before they speak. At...
Running a farrier company, we get a lot of calls for help with unusual hoof-related issues. Whether that’s trimming pigs, goats, cows, etc. or just odd horse issues (um, the...
I like efficiency. I like the idea of multitasking and being all sorts of productive. We live in the middle of nowhere, so when my farrier husband is working on...
One of the oddest phenomena that I have come across running a farrier business with my husband is simply the challenge of figuring out where he needs to go to...