In recent years, the tides in the industry have turned from a male-dominated trade and now the majority of farriers in the ...

The 32nd Annual Charles Heumphreus Memorial Lecture will take place Feb. 3 at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, featuring farrier Daisy Bicking, founder of Daisy Haven Farm: School of ...

Jamie Westland Wandell excels in a field dominated by men. She is a farrier and travels to stables around Kane and DuPage counties, where she fits horses with shoes, trims their hoofs and forges ...

When it comes to her job, Elke Albrecht does not horse around. There is no need. The horses do it for her. Albrecht, 39, is a farrier. She spends her days driving from one stable to the next to trim ...

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 ...

Just because blacksmithing has traditionally been a male occupation doesn't mean that a woman can't forge iron or shoe horses just as well. "You don't have to be a guy to do this," said Heather Abbe, ...