Where is mike wildenstein

Our objective as farriers addressing conformation is to allow that animal to perform to the best of its ability with what it has, and enhance it. The way that we do this is through our attention to detail.

A lot of farriers, though, have a token team that they work on. Understanding deviations will guide you in helping the horse, Hall Of Fame farrier tells Summit attendees. Wildenstein, CJF. Horses that have unbalanced hooves, coronary band damage or interference injuries are all susceptible to hoof cracks.

Damage to the laminae from abscess tracts will predispose a hoof to crack. Hooves that are not trimmed or shod regularly can crack from the added stress of long hooves. Cornell offers the only farrier education program in the world that is located within a veterinary school. He has completed the grueling Fellowship of the Worshipful Company of Farriers. Wildenstein benefited from the precedent of Mr. Henry Asmus, a noted German farrier who served Cornell as Professor of Surgery and instructed veterinarians in the fine points of farrier science.

With their front, back or lateral elevation, removable plates, shortened sides, special cushioning, rolled toes, frog support, extra-wide stance or supporting bars, they address a long list of specific problems, whether caused by disease, injury or conformational defects.

Not all of the farrier's work is with equines. Wildenstein says he treats "pigs, cows, calves, whatever," using adhesives and other materials. He has had the opportunity to trim up some grizzly bears and a tiger.

Once he trimmed the beak of a toucan. When asked if he just improvises in such cases, he responds with a bemused smile, "Improvise?

What do you mean? A claw is a claw; a nail is a nail. It's all keratinous tissue. Wildenstein, the co-author of "Draft Horses: An Owner's Manual" and numerous articles on hoof care and lameness, gets enough invitations to lecture that he could be on the road every weekend, but he holds to a schedule of once a month.

He estimates that he gets 30 calls per day for consultations. Alumni who know him from their student days call for advice while out on calls; practitioners send him radiographs and digital images on a regular basis.

Of the 35, to 40, farriers in the United States, Wildenstein trains only nine per year, three at a time.