A look at female farriers who keep the Okanagan’s working horses from slipping in the snow

A group of female farriers in the Okanagan work together to keep horses upright through the winter. In recent years, the ...
The Blood-Horse

Heumphreus Lecture Features Farrier Daisy Bicking

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 ...
Daily Herald

Meet the female farrier who started at 16

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 ...
Seven Days

They Shoe Horses, Don’t They? A Farrier Tells All

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 ...
Poughkeepsie Journal

Elke Albrecht loves working as farrier for her 'neighing neighbors'

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 ...