Farrier Focus Podcast

Butler Professional Farrier School
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The Farrier Focus Podcast shares inspiring tips, techniques, and strategies to help farriers unlock the secrets to succeeding in their businesses. With informative interviews, stories, and ideas, you'll hear real advice on what it takes to succeed in today's competitive environment.

  1. 09/21/2025

    Advanced Anatomy Applied to Therapeutic Shoeing - A Seven Point System for Discussing Cases and Working with Veterinarians

    In this episode, Dr. Doug Butler discusses a seven point system you can use to discuss cases and work with veterinarians. This discussion of applying advanced anatomy to therapeutic shoeing will give you valuable insights through sound principles and stories about how to take on specific foot diseases as a farrier. You'll get a lot out of this discussion from a previous Farrier Focus conference.

    42 min

  2. 06/04/2025

    Dr. Doug Butler on Functional Balance

    In this episode, Dr. Doug Butler continues his discussion on balance by discussing functional balance and how it relates to geometric balance which was discussed in a previous Farrier Focus podcast episode. This discussion from a previous seminar can be used in conjunction with studying Chapter 38 of The Principles of Horseshoeing III.

    54 min

  3. 05/01/2025

    Dr. Doug Butler - Horsemanship for Farriers

    In this episode, Dr. Doug Butler shares his observations about the early history of horse training. Many of the misconceptions that exist in the minds of horse owners about horse training have arisen in recent years. Dr. Butler talks about how to effectively train and work with horses and key horsemanship skills that all farriers must develop. You'll get a lot out of this discussion on the nature of horses and principles and steps you can take to stay safe when working with horses.

    34 min

  4. 04/12/2025

    Dr. Doug Butler on Geometric Balance

    In this episode, Dr. Doug Butler talks about the basic fundamental skill of farriery of geometric balance. You'll get a lot out of this discussion that Dr. Butler conducted as part of a teleseminar with his son Jacob Butler. You may want to use Chapter 9 of The Principles of Horseshoeing III as a further resource for better understanding and applying this topic in your daily work.

    52 min

  5. 10/02/2024

    Lessons Learned from Horses - Interview with Dr. Doug Butler

    In this episode, Dr. Butler shares lessons he has learned over a lifetime of working with horses and tips that can help you be a better farrier.

    52 min

  6. 09/19/2024

    8 Diseases of the Horse's Foot and Their Treatment - Dr. Doug Butler

    In this episode, you'll hear a discussion that Dr. Doug Butler had with a group of farriers and veterinarians on eight specific foot diseases including abscesses, white line disease, keratoma, canker (and the rare coronitis), quittor, pedal osteitis, osteomyelitis, and low ringbone. These correspond to pictures and additional information that can be found in Chapter 39 of The Principles of Horseshoeing 3 on Diseases of the Horse's Foot. He discussed the DACCT method of studying and describing foot diseases: D - stands for definition of the condition A - stands for anatomy of the structures involved in the condition C - stands for clinical signs of the condition C - stands for cause(s) of the condition T - stands for treatment of the condition, including prognosis This episode covers several common and several rare foot diseases and what can be done by farriers and veterinarians to help the horse.

    35 min

  7. 02/15/2024

    Dr. Frank Gravlee and Dr. Doug Butler Discuss Founder

    In this episode, Dr. Frank Gravlee of Life Data Labs and Dr. Doug Butler discuss the treatment of founder. You'll get a lot of great insights from this informative discussion from a previous Farrier Focus conference.

    1h 9m

  8. 11/13/2023

    How to Recognize and Treat Club Feet in Horses - Dr. Doug Butler

    In this episode, Dr. Doug Butler shares insights of how to recognize and treat club feet in horses. He shares techniques, stories, and strategies you can use to deal with this condition. You'll gain valuable insight from his experiences, his mistakes, and his successes that will help you more successfully deal with this condition in the horses you encounter that have a club foot.

    33 min
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The Farrier Focus Podcast shares inspiring tips, techniques, and strategies to help farriers unlock the secrets to succeeding in their businesses. With informative interviews, stories, and ideas, you'll hear real advice on what it takes to succeed in today's competitive environment.

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  • Creator
    Butler Professional Farrier School
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2025
  • Episodes
    190
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2016-2024
  • Show Website
    Farrier Focus Podcast

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