Born a city boy in St. Paul, Robert McKinnell has found his passion in shoeing and trimming horse hooves. He's a farrier who travels the region from his home in Erhard, Minn., to perform his job.

METHUEN — The 10 draft horses surrendered to the MSPCA at Nevins Farm in late June took a big step forward in their recovery on Wednesday with a special visit from area farriers. Farriers are ...

Daniel Puckett, a local farrier, works on a Belgian draft horse at The Hope Center in Perryville, Missouri, Tuesday, March 11, 2015. A farrier is a specialist that combines the skills of a blacksmith ...

Sweat dripped from Sonny Pistilli’s nose and evaporated on the red-hot horseshoe he’d taken out of a burning forge. He’d been pounding steel with a mallet for two hours, his hands like anvils from a ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - After a round of false starts, fire blossomed in a portable furnace hung from a work trailer. Gripping metal tongs, the teen slid a horseshoe into the oblong pit until gray metal ...

BOZEMAN (AP) - In a blacksmith shop in a field on the edge of town, Tom Wolfe is teaching a dozen men to transform cold chunks of steel into horseshoes. Thirty years of heating metal to a glowing ...

NORTH EAST ― The prospect of getting kicked or bitten might keep most people away. For Bill Spellman, it's all part of the job. Spellman, 40, has spent nearly 15 years as a farrier, trimming hooves ...

PASADENA – If none of the 254 horses in the Rose Parade slips and falls on the five-mile route Jan. 1, equestrians can thank renowned farrier Ada Gates Patton. The ...

We all know what it feels like to break a fingernail or toenail, and it is certainly not comfortable. Luckily for humans, we do not have to walk or stand on that nail after it has been cracked or ...

DEL MARDEL MAR — Most ladies love to get new shoes, but this one, on this day, was not having a very good time of it. She was fine with her front pair, but her back pair, not so good. That can happen ...

PHILADELPHIA — Sweat dripped from Sonny Pistilli’s nose and evaporated on the red-hot horseshoe he’d taken out of a burning forge. He’d been pounding steel with a mallet for two hours, his hands like ...

Sweat dripped from Sonny Pistilli’s nose and evaporated on the red-hot horseshoe he’d taken out of a burning forge. He’d been pounding steel with a mallet for two hours, his hands like anvils from a ...