Talk:Farrier

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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.

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

[edit] Why this has been deleted?

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)

[edit] 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)