A cut or shaping tools, fitting into a square hole (the Hardie Hole) on the face of the anvil....
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A unit of measure equal to 4 inches, used to measure the height of a horse at the highest point of the withers. The number of whole hands is properly followed by a hyphen, then the remaining height in inches. Thus a horse who measures 5 feet and two inches at the withers would be designated...
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50 pounds of shoes. From the days when horseshoes were sold in small wooden kegs that contained 100 pounds of shoes....
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A farrier organization which issues professional credentials and which requires all members to meet the Registered Journeyman Farrier (RJF) standard, which is based on the knowledge, experience and skills needed to practice farriery on a professional level....
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See: Epiphyseal plates....
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Cutting or burning a horizontal groove across the fibers of the hoof horn to alter the way in which stresses are transferred up the wall. This may be done when treating founder, flares, basal cracks, and other hoof maladies....
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Distance around body behind elbows and over withers; may be used as a reasonably accurate estimate of weight....
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A B.W.F.A. membership policy which allowed horseshoers to join as CJF I, CJF II, and CMF members without taking examinations, based upon prior experience....
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A collective term for all of a given horse's offspring....
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A castrated male horse of any age....
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