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Millwater Publishing: July 2012
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The Dictionary of Farrier Terms and Technical Language. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Farriery. And other projects. Monday, July 30, 2012. Millwater's Farriery: The Frog and Hoof Flexing. Happened to have PBS on the other night, and the late, great Victor Borge. Was on talking about the history of the piano. In particular, how it was a horribly boring and monotonous instrument until somebody came-along and invented the cracks. Why make part of the hoof out of relatively soft and vulnerable material?
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Millwater Publishing: February 2015
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The Dictionary of Farrier Terms and Technical Language. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Farriery. And other projects. Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Prophet's Thumb Farm: YMMV! Your Mileage May Vary. There's a common problem in modern discourse. Perhaps more common on the Internet. When someone expresses a general. Observation or opinion, some folks hear it as an unqualified statement of an absolute. Nature applying to every individual case. Some years (okay. decades. The breeders call it "brio". If I write ...
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Millwater Publishing: November 2013
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The Dictionary of Farrier Terms and Technical Language. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Farriery. And other projects. Friday, November 29, 2013. Millwater Publishing: 'Tis the Season. Hope you all had a fine Thanksgiving! Now that it's Black Friday, let's see what kind of holiday specials we've got going on. You can order Millwater's FARRIERY. Trade paperback directly at this link. And enter the code: YPLFZ3CT. For a 25% discount. Has the trade paperback at 10% off. At a great deal. Links to this post.
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Millwater Publishing: Prophet's Thumb Farm: Why Quargians?
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The Dictionary of Farrier Terms and Technical Language. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Farriery. And other projects. Monday, March 24, 2014. Prophet's Thumb Farm: Why Quargians? So, naturally, breeders have been trying to produce extra-tall Quarter Horses for many years. Which gives us some problems. Second, since selecting for height means neglecting other factors, the result is often far from the scaled-up Quarter Horse people wanted. I've seen 17 hand AQHA registered horses, and they usually look ...
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Millwater Publishing: December 2012
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The Dictionary of Farrier Terms and Technical Language. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Farriery. And other projects. Friday, December 14, 2012. Millwater's Farriery: Project Lexicon. Project Lexicon. About Millwater's Farriery. The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.". I wire-brushed the devil out of the bottoms of a lot of hooves trying to get them clean enough so that I could see the "dot" that Duckett fellow had discovered, which some magazines mentioned, but didn't explain. By the early 1...
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Millwater Publishing: February 2013
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The Dictionary of Farrier Terms and Technical Language. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Farriery. And other projects. Saturday, February 23, 2013. Millwater's Farriery: Barefoot Movement Revisited. Scuttlebutt over on the Facebook is that a horse magazine article has the whole Barefoot Horse cult back in the spotlight. Of course, we'be been around this track a whole lot of laps over the years, so I'll just give us a quick round-up. On this very blog-. On the Barefoot Movement. On Doug Butler's blog-.
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Millwater Publishing: March 2015
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The Dictionary of Farrier Terms and Technical Language. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Farriery. And other projects. Thursday, March 26, 2015. Prophet's Thumb Farm: Appreciating Our Girls. Okay, before I snap and Go Henry VIII, doling-out executions for failure to produce a male heir, I should review some of the things I really appreciate about my broodmares and their {cringe}. Afflicted with creatures such as these! Anne and I have been involved in horse breeding, sometimes on a much. Third, the Belgian...
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Millwater Publishing: April 2013
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The Dictionary of Farrier Terms and Technical Language. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Farriery. And other projects. Sunday, April 21, 2013. Millwater's Farriery: There's More Horse Above Knee-Level. I've commented before about how many farriers these days are somewhat over-focused on hooves and forgework at the expense of appreciating the whole horse. Them I was in that mode myself for quite a while. Now, despite the fact that my best-laid schemes gang aft. Note that I said "horse production". So many h...
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Millwater Publishing: Prophet's Thumb Farm: Appreciating Our Girls...
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The Dictionary of Farrier Terms and Technical Language. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Farriery. And other projects. Thursday, March 26, 2015. Prophet's Thumb Farm: Appreciating Our Girls. Okay, before I snap and Go Henry VIII, doling-out executions for failure to produce a male heir, I should review some of the things I really appreciate about my broodmares and their {cringe}. Afflicted with creatures such as these! Anne and I have been involved in horse breeding, sometimes on a much. Third, the Belgian...
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Millwater Publishing: Millwater's FARRIERY: Horseshoe Repair for Horseowners.
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The Dictionary of Farrier Terms and Technical Language. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Farriery. And other projects. Friday, December 19, 2014. Millwater's FARRIERY: Horseshoe Repair for Horseowners. Hope you're all having a very merry Christmas season! Over the years, I've heard from many horseowners that their access to truly competent horseshoeing is limited because the quality farriers are too far away and don't want to make the trip for small barns. PDF files at links. Fixing Loose and Thrown Shoes.
