farriery
Equine foot craft
Farriery is the craft of shoeing horses—trimming hooves and fitting them with horseshoes.
A farrier must understand both metalworking and equine anatomy.
The trade remains essential wherever horses work or compete: The stable employs a farriery service for its thoroughbreds.
Metal-shaping block
- forgeFurnace for shaping metal
- hammerTool for striking nails
- tongsHinged grasping utensil
- bellowsHandheld device forcing air
fuller · swage · hardy · clincher · quenching · tempering · coal · charcoal
U-shaped hoof plates
- trimmingCutting away excess
- raspCoarse shaping tool
- nippersGripping or cutting implements
- hoovesUngulate foot coverings
frog · sole · laminae · keratin · pastern · barefoot · laminitis · thrush
Domesticated riding animal
- mareFemale adult equine
- stallionIntact male breeding horse
- geldingCastrated male equine
- ponyCompact equine breed
foal · fetlock · shoer · equestrian · stable · gait · soundness · conformation
anvil
Metal-shaping block
bellows · fuller · swage · hardy · clincher · quenching · tempering · coal · charcoal · horn
horseshoes
U-shaped hoof plates
hooves · frog · sole · laminae · keratin · pastern · barefoot · laminitis · thrush · navicular
horse
Domesticated riding animal
pony · foal · fetlock · shoer · equestrian · stable · gait · soundness · conformation · leg
apprenticeship
Learning trade through employment
- journeymanQualified trade worker
- certificationAttestation of qualification
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
vocation · artisan · craftsman · heritage · tradition · skills · apron · chaps · truck · clientele
- handicraftssewing, knitting, pottery, weaving, embroidery
- old tradesblacksmith, blacksmithing, cooper, carpentry, cobbler
- equine sciencehorse behavior, horse breeding, conformation, lameness, bone structure
- smithingforging, blacksmithing, hammering, hand forging, upsetting
- craftssewing, knitting, painting, glue, scissors
- horseshorse, mare, mares, stallion, stallions
farrieryindustrial manufacturing
Large-scale goods fabrication