Every job has its ups and down, but how many people absolutely love what they do despite the risk of getting kicked or stepped on by a 1,000-pound animal? In farrier Deanna Stoppler, horses have met ...

NORTH EAST ― The prospect of getting kicked or bitten might keep most people away. For Bill Spellman, it's all part of the job. Spellman, 40, has spent nearly 15 years as a farrier, trimming hooves ...

What's a farrier? Fair question. It's a person who fits horses with shoes. A popular job a century or so ago when every farm had horses as part of the daily operation, farriers have seen their numbers ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — The twists and turns of life landed Brandt Walden exactly where he is supposed to be — making a living taking care of horse hooves. While Walden, 21, Wilkinson, had visions of ...

HAVILAH, Calif. (KERO) — Robert Head teaches the art of trimming horses hooves, which involves working with the horse, not against it. Video shows the process of trimming horse hooves on a ranch in ...

He shoes horses part time, and he's cutting back on his list of 30 to 40 clients. "I've had to let some go. If it's just one horse like this that's fine, but if it's five or more horses, it's tough, ...

Sweat dripped from Sonny Pistilli’s nose and evaporated on the red-hot horseshoe he’d taken out of a burning forge. He’d been pounding steel with a mallet for two hours, his hands like anvils from a ...

A chestnut brown quarter horse with white markings leaned against Ernie Gaouette as he fitted snow shoes to the animal at Brigg’s Farm. The shoes, which have a bubble in the middle to pop out snow and ...

Bill Hardy is proud of the nickname a customer gave him decades ago: Tardy Hardy. It shows, he says, that he doesn't rush through one job just to get to the next exactly on time. After all, it's not ...