[Greek keratos, horn]: The tough protein component in horn, hair, skin, and hooves.... ↪ Read more

A conventional, factory made horseshoe.... ↪ Read more

100 pounds of shoes. From the days when horseshoes were sold in small wooden kegs that contained 100 pounds of shoes.... ↪ Read more

Brand of horseshoes. Handmade from 1824 to 1859, then machine made until 1925.... ↪ Read more

[French journee, a day's work. From the Latin diurnus, daily]: A person who has completed an apprenticeship and is free to sell his labor to the master of any shop willing to hire him. Due to the mobile, independent nature of the modern horseshoer, the traditional journeyman farrier is rare today.... ↪ Read more

See: IUJH.... ↪ Read more

Female donkey or ass.... ↪ Read more

Extra sharp calks.... ↪ Read more

One heel appears to be jammed up into the foot, with its bulb and coronary band correspondingly distorted.... ↪ Read more

Male donkey or ass. Mammoth jack is a large breed of asses.... ↪ Read more

International Union of Journeyman Horseshoers. A farrier trade union started in 1874 as the Journeyman Horseshoers National Union. The name was changed to its current form in 1893. In 1934 the primary emphasis of the IUJH shifted from draft horses to track horse shoeing. a.k.a: JHU; Platers Union.... ↪ Read more

Suffix meaning inflammation or disease.... ↪ Read more