Talk:Farrier

Clean up
Edited this page today because I thought it needed expansion and happen to know a few things on the topic. I also know enough to know that this article could be expanded considerably. I'll give thought to addressing that myself.

Erraunt 18:40, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Need to apologize. I just went ahead and edited the entry. Discovering as I get to know this place that that was "bad form".


 * Sorry about that. I'll do better next time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erraunt (talk • contribs) 15:30, 2 March 2005 (edit)


 * Not bad form at all on stub.--Jirate 15:42, 2005 Mar 2 (UTC)


 * thanks.


 * doing a bit of surfing ... there are some specific urls that would be good links from here ...


 * one example: http://www.thehorseshoof.com/gallery3.html Why this has been deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erraunt (talk • contribs) 21:49, 2 March 2005


 * I added these two paragraphs but they has been deleted without any talk about (see History):


 * A recent branch of farrier trade is specialyzed care of barefoot horses. The name for such a trade is not firmly established: "I still don’t know what we should call ourselves. Barefoot trimmers, hoof care specialists, natural hoof care practitioners.[...] I smell just like a farrier and have the same eternal backache, so until someone comes up with something better, I just went back to calling myself a farrier.(Pete Ramey)"
 * - A recent task for farriers/barefoot trimmers is hoof boots fitting. Hoof boots, mainly used by transitioning barefoot horses, need sometimes professional work to be fitted.


 * Can we speak a little about, please? It's a NPOV matter!--Alex_brollo Talk|Contrib 06:05, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Veterinary Medicine
I've added this article to the VetMed Project for the moment, as it seems most appropriate. Note that I'm NOT suggesting that only members of WP:VM can contribute, or that vets ar better qualified to do this than farriers, its just that it seemed wise to keep an eye on the page in view of the NPOV potential of the Barefoot Movement - see Navicular Disease for an example of an article where arguments over this technique have got a little out of hand! I've rated it start-class as its clearly better than a stub, but not by much, yet. Dlh-stablelights 21:49, 6 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Hmmm. Is this a veterinary topic?  I mean, hoof health IS a veterinary topic, but farrier as opposed to, say, the horse hoof article.  There is also horseshoe and, of course barefoot horses.  Maybe look over the whole lot of them, as they are sort of a "family."  The horseshoe article at this point is the most extensive one in the farriery topics.  I agree with your assessment of quality and importance, though.  Montanabw 02:57, 7 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree... meant to do them all last night (my time), but battery on my laptop cut out... :o)
 * Dlh-stablelights 11:31, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to see this article strengthened, perhaps in conjunction with horse hoof. Between all the assorted wikipedia articles, this one, the hoof one, horseshoe, horse care, etc...there is some decent info, but it's kind of scattered. Not sure how to organize, but this is a rich topic. Montanabw (talk) 05:17, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Unable to add link to Spanish Wikipedia article
I tried to add a link to the Spanish Wikipedia, but could not understand the mechanism under "Edit links". Could anyone knowing how to do it, add it? This is the article:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrador

By the way, please add a link to the English article in the Spanish Wikipedia, also.

Pmronchi (talk) 14:04, 21 August 2013 (UTC)


 * There's a bot that now moves all the interwiki links. But just for now, at the bottom of the article, put in a link that says es:Herrador, that should get you there.  Montanabw (talk) 23:50, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Farrier act in UK
Where it says it is illegal for any person other than a certified farrier to perform farrier work in the UK, does that mean it is also illegal for a horse owner to trim their own horse's hooves or what? Or does it just mean they can't call themselves a farrier and shoe other peoples' horses for money without being accredited? White Arabian mare (talk) 16:07, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't know. I'd say the not doing it for money, for sure.  Our UK editors aren't very active these days, but I suppose you could research it.  I suppose it's like any other profession, medicine, etc... can't work on others and definitely not for pay.   Montanabw (talk)  00:22, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Too many external links
Article was turning into a linkfarm. Moving the EL here in case they have info that could be used as a citation in the article. Montanabw (talk) 19:41, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Museum of Horse Shoeing Tools
 * Understanding Farrier Certifications
 * What does a farrier do?
 * Forge and Farrier
 * Hoofcare and Lameness "Hoof Blog"
 * Organizations
 * American Association of Professional Farriers
 * The Brotherhood of Working Farriers Association
 * The Guild of Professional Farriers
 * The Farriers Registration Council
 * American Farrier's Association
 * The United Kingdom Horse Shoers Union
 * The Irish Farriery Authority
 * Magazines
 * American Farriers Journal
 * Anvil Magazine
 * Professional Farrier
 * Hoofcare and Lameness Journal
 * European Farriers Journal
 * FORGE Magazine

Did table
Ok, I did the tools table thing. Let me know if I missed any; I did all I could think of (I don't think nails count as tools). If anybody can contribute pictures that'd be great. I have a few tools and an anvil I inherited from one of my great-grandfathers (two were blacksmiths in the pre-car days; both grandfathers plowed with mules or horses) but I've tried to upload pics before and it didn't work from a mobile. Besides, I don't think I can carry the anvil outside the shed into the light! White Arabian Filly Neigh 22:44, 12 June 2016 (UTC)


 * I'd add nails, they are "equipment" if not "tools" -- horseshoe nails are weird looking compared to, say, carpentry nails. I think I might have a box of them somewhere.  No anvil, though.  Maybe we can find an existing photo on commons and crop it... If you can send photos to someone else's mobile and then can download to their computer, maybe that would work.  I have a "dumb phone" so I'm not the one, but maybe post at WPEQ and see if anyone either offers, or has tips to upload from a phone.   Montanabw (talk)  22:16, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I don't personally know any other WP editors or anybody who'd be interested in uploading anything. There are a couple of decent anvil pics on Commons, so people can at least get the general idea. (We actually have an article on anvils...) There might be freely licensed pics on Flickr or somewhere. White Arabian Filly  Neigh 22:36, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Let's use the best of those, then. I'm up to my ears in company right now, but ping me if I don't get some more photos here by next week sometime.  Montanabw (talk)  23:41, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

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Oxen
They also shoe Oxen, not just horses. Broichmore (talk) 14:48, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

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