Fat Fat Fat Fatty Fat Fat Equine Obesity is a huge (excuse the pun) problem in the UK. In todays episode i speak to one of the leading experts in this subject. Tamzin is a social scientist with a background in global health, and has a specific interest in the interconnections between human and animal health and wellbeing. She completed a PhD at the University of Liverpool studying how we can improve the management of obesity in horses, particularly focusing on horse-human relationships and human behaviour change. She now works on projects covering a wide range of aspects of understanding hu ..read more

Sat down one evening and spoke to my good friend and research partner Abby Bunyard AWCF about the BFBA of which she is about to be the new president and our Fellowship journey so far. We go off on tangents, we discuss the state of the industry, and we drunk a lot of Gin in the process! This was a great conversation. To hear more about Abby’s route into Farriery, listen to her episode with the Mullins Farrier podcast, it’s a great listen. Please check out the sponsors of this podcast https://silverbackchaps.com/ https://theshoeinglab.com/ And checkout the BFBA https://www.forgeandfarrier ..read more

Last week I was invited to attend a meeting in Norway to with Mustad Hoofcare, on behalf of the BFBA Craft Committee to help develop a working version of the Mustad Farrier Portal. This is a scoring system developed to help competition organisers, and is a lot more than just a calculator. This system is the brainchild of Aksel Vibe AWCF. We sat down and and Aksel explained the system and how and why it was developed. Although this conversation is very competition centric there are plenty many nuggets of information to learn from. Massive thankyou to the Sponsors for your continued support Si ..read more

Today I'm at what can only be described as farriery's equivalent of Area 51. The Shoeing Lab is owned by Kelvin Lymer DipWCF, and he has been in a previous episode talking about Endurance Racing. Kelvin is one of the most innovative that I have met over the years, not just as a horseshoer but as a business man. Kelvin is the type of person who is always spinning plates and looking to improve equine performance and comfort. For over 10 years he has been working and evolving his approach using 3D printing and has developed many products already and has even more not yet released. For further i ..read more

Pads, Packers and Bar Shoes, Today and my good friend Wayne Preece FWCF have a catch up and we discuss Pads Packers, Bar shoes and other hoof care packages. Like most of our chats we go off on tangents and discuss other farriery subjects. Hope you enjoy this as much as we did making it. Don't forget to subscribe on your podcast platform. This podcast is sponsored by Silverback Chaps. Thank you to Danny Elliot for your continued support. Silverback Chaps – silverbackchaps.com ..read more

Welcome to 2024 This year I aim to be a lot proactive with the Podcast. Last year was challenging to find time as it can be a time consuming, plus there was a lot of things going on in the world of Farriery. This episode has been on the wait list for a long time. Dean Lewis AWCF is a passionate and highly skilled Farrier and Blacksmith from Australia who's background in Harness Racing as a Racer and farrier served him with some excellent insight. This is a subject I personally know nothing so I will definitely be claiming some CPD points for listening  ..read more

Its that time of year again, BFBA Focus 2023 Again this year we are going to get as much content to you from the set up of the event, the 42nd International Team Horseshoeing Competition, and from the Focus event itself.  Here is a few of Brian's first day of set up interviews he captured today...... Listen out for more tomorrow ..read more

Tiffany Gardner Dip WCF CJF is a North American farrier currently on the Edward Martin Farriers Cultural Exchange Program. We met whilst she was taking part in the Farriers Foundation’s Tour de Farrier bike ride. We chatted and found out she was a fellow educator at the Pacific Coast Shoeing School. I invited her to spend a couple of days at the Hereford School of Farriery. She stayed for over a week both teaching, shoeing and even mountain biking! In this episode we discuss the route in to education and the benefits and the pitfalls and discuss some of the common problems we see in students ..read more

Bone Spavin is a common pathology seen in the hock joints of the horses hind limb. In this episode Wayne Preece FWCF and I discuss Bone Spavin, its causes and the available Farriery treatment protocols ..read more

The last episode of the BFBA Focus Podcast…..  In this episode we speak to the industry suppliers and trade stand holders at this year’s event.  BFBA Focus 2022 was a fantastic event and is going to move onwards and upwards next year. I hope you have enjoyed these episodes as much as me and Brian enjoyed making them! More content to come from Brian via his Podcast The Mullins Farrier Podcast in the future including some amazing interviews from some of the industry greats. For me, on this channel normal programming will resume with the standard Lockdown Farriery Podcast educational ..read more