The Lockdown Farriery Podcast

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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 information click the link below for The Shoeing Lab Web Store and take a look at the products mentioned in the Podcast.

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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.

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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 

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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

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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 and their learning.

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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.

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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 mandate.

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Day 1 of the BFBA Focus Event

In this episode we Speak to David Gulley FWCF, The Farriers Foundation (Grant Moon FWCF, Jon Nunn FWCF, Mick Handley RSS & Dan Hewer Dip WCF), and then the Livecast we did with Haydn Price Dip WCF & Spud Allison Dip WCF

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Day one of the competition started with a 6 am start for me and Brian interviewing Chief Steward Mark Watson FWCF on the way to the forge. Brian then broke out into Sport caster mode capturing all the day 1 action.

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Me and Brian have finally arrived at Stoneleigh. We arrived at an empty giant tent and exhibition hall. And then the most important team arrived. Mark Watson and the Purple Army have been running the Competition for around the last 7 years and have run the best International Team Competition in the world.

We spoke to some of the volunteers and some of the competitors as they turned up on site. 

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