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In the US, four organizations—the American Farrier's Association (AFA), the Guild of Professional Farriers (GPF), the Brotherhood of Working Farriers, and the Equine Lameness Prevention Organization (ELPO)—maintain voluntary certification programs for farriers. Of these, the AFA's program is the largest, with about 2800 certified farriers.
Simon John Curtis (born 15 May 1956) is a farrier, author, lecturer and horse hoof-care expert with a PhD in Equine Physiology and Biomechanics (2017). [1] He is a 4th generation farrier; his family have been farriers and blacksmiths in the Newmarket area for at least 150 years.
The company was founded in 1886 when George B. DeArment, a blacksmith from Evansburg, Pennsylvania (present day Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania), began hand-forging farrier's tools and selling them from town to town out of the back of a wagon. He would spend the Winter forging tools, load up his wagon in the Spring when roads became passable, and ...
The shapes of the caulkin and the wedge have been designed to provide hoof traction, meanwhile ensuring the horse's safety is not compromised. The caulk/wedge horseshoe design has been recognised by the Worshipful Company of Farriers as being an appropriate specimen horseshoe to be used for the diploma exam. [3]
Carl Roth was a Swedish blacksmith, farrier, and ironmaster who lived during the mid-18th century. He is best known for his work renovating Charles XII's Stair at Katarina Church in Stockholm, Sweden; and as ironmaster of both Duvnäs (Duvenäs), and Nedre Fösked (Föske) ironworks.
The International Union of Journeymen and Allied Trades (IUJAT) is a general union in the United States, with a history as a labor union representing farriers. The union was founded on April 27, 1874, as the Journeymen Horseshoers' National Union of the United States of America .
Francis Clater (1756–1823), was a British farrier and writer.. Clater wrote 'Every Man his own Cattle Doctor' (1810) and 'Every Man his own Farrier.' In the preface to the last-named work, which was published at Newark-on-Trent in 1783, when the writer was twenty-six, Clater describes himself as 'farrier, late of Newark,' and states that he served a regular apprenticeship and one year as ...
Philippe-Étienne Lafosse (1738 in Paris, France – June 1820 in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, France), was a French veterinarian and the son of Étienne-Guillaume Lafosse, a farrier. [ 1 ] He is famous for a series of books on horse care, medicine and anatomy which feature elaborate and often highly abstracted illustrations.