Hickmans Farriery

The standard textbook for professional farriers, veterinary surgeons and students. A complete illustrated guide covering the whole art of shoeing horses demonstrating how traditional skills combined with modern science benefit welfare, soundness and performance.

Hickmans Farriery, first published in 1977, has been completely revised and updated to bring it into lie with the latest developments in this field.

There is a section on shoemaking which includes numerous practical exercises, each one illustrated with specially taken step-by-step photographic sequences. Advice and guidance is on assessing a horses conformation and action, and having done so, on how to remove a show, trim the foot and fit a new shoe. There are also sections on the care of the feet in sho and unshod horses, including youngstock, methods of preventing slipping; and the use of pads. Along with information on injuries caused by shows and abnormalities of gait, the shoeing of defective feet and surgical shoes.

The second edition of Hickmans Farriery will continue to provide an authoritative working reference for farriers, veterinary surgeons, horse owners, career students and professionals in the horse world.