HOOFCARE SPECIALTIES LLC
FULL SERVICE HOOFCARE AND EDUCATION SERVING COLORADO AND THE USA SINCE 1982
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Your source for Hoof Care
Your source for Hoof Care
Hoofcare Specialties LLC was formed to serve the needs of our equine friends and work partners.Our goal is to help horse owners learn about keeping their horses sound, and to offer farrier services and clinics with that goal in mind. Your horse's welfare is our number one concern.
We offer therapeutic and performance farrier services around Southern Colorado, and anywhere in the United States on request.
Patty Stiller CNBF, CLS is a farrier with over 27 years full time experience in the field.
Please see her biography on the 'about me' page.
She is a Natural Balance Certified Lameness Specialist farrier and barefoot trimmer.
Natural Balance was developed by farrier/ researcher Gene Ovnicek and has continued to develop and refine over the years,building with ongoing hoofcare research from around the world.
Patty has extensive experience shoeing and treating many hoof pathologies including navicular syndrome, laminitis, ringbone and severe hoof wounds .
She has worked with numerous veterinarians in California and Colorado, including at the the University of California Davis Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital .
Patty was recently the Farrier Science instructor at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs, Co, for three years.
She is now concentrating in developing horse owner classes as well as teaching full time farrier instruction through the non profit Equine Lameness Prevention Organization. For information about the ELPO see www.e-hoofcare.com
NEW ELPO Farrier School CLASS DATES for FALL 2009!
August 10th through October 9th,
with the week of September 5-13 off.
FOR INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION GO TO :
www.elpofarrierschool.com
Some of the 2007 Pikes Peak Community College Farrier class in session
assisting Dr Kiersten Becker DVM from Germany at a farrier round table
We also offer nationwide hands-on hoof trimming instruction for horse owners who wish to learn the basics of common sense, bare hoof maintenance on their own horses.
These in-depth clinics will give horse owners an insight into the anatomy and function of a horses lower leg and hoof, teach the need to proper hoof form and how to recognize it. Participants will do a basic simple hoof trim using the Natural Balance method. Information for those clinics is found in the "clinics information" page.
We now also offer one and two week intensive horse owner hoof trimming classes!
More information can be found in the "Two week classes" page.
Check out the Articles page. Patty will be posting original articles on many aspects of hoofcare, especially covering lameness issues.
The articles will be changed every so often, so check back every once in a while! I can assure you they are interesting. If you have suggestions on a subject that you would like to have covered, please Email us . Feel free to print the articles for your own personal use, but not reproduce them electronically or use them anywhere else.
To contact Hoofcare Specialties , call (719) 372-6703, or email pstiller@bresnan.net.
We offer therapeutic and performance farrier services around Southern Colorado, and anywhere in the United States on request.
Patty Stiller CNBF, CLS is a farrier with over 27 years full time experience in the field. Please see her biography on the 'about me' page.
She is a Natural Balance Certified Lameness Specialist farrier and barefoot trimmer.
Natural Balance was developed by farrier/ researcher Gene Ovnicek and has continued to develop and refine over the years,building with ongoing hoofcare research from around the world.
Patty has extensive experience shoeing and treating many hoof pathologies including navicular syndrome, laminitis, ringbone and severe hoof wounds .
She has worked with numerous veterinarians in California and Colorado, including at the the University of California Davis Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital .
Patty was recently the Farrier Science instructor at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs, Co, for three years.
She is now concentrating in developing horse owner classes as well as teaching full time farrier instruction through the non profit Equine Lameness Prevention Organization. For information about the ELPO see www.e-hoofcare.com
NEW ELPO Farrier School CLASS DATES for FALL 2009!
August 10th through October 9th,
with the week of September 5-13 off.
FOR INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION GO TO :
www.elpofarrierschool.com
Some of the 2007 Pikes Peak Community College Farrier class in session assisting Dr Kiersten Becker DVM from Germany at a farrier round table We also offer nationwide hands-on hoof trimming instruction for horse owners who wish to learn the basics of common sense, bare hoof maintenance on their own horses.
These in-depth clinics will give horse owners an insight into the anatomy and function of a horses lower leg and hoof, teach the need to proper hoof form and how to recognize it. Participants will do a basic simple hoof trim using the Natural Balance method. Information for those clinics is found in the "clinics information" page.
We now also offer one and two week intensive horse owner hoof trimming classes!
More information can be found in the "Two week classes" page.
Check out the Articles page. Patty will be posting original articles on many aspects of hoofcare, especially covering lameness issues.
The articles will be changed every so often, so check back every once in a while! I can assure you they are interesting. If you have suggestions on a subject that you would like to have covered, please Email us . Feel free to print the articles for your own personal use, but not reproduce them electronically or use them anywhere else.
To contact Hoofcare Specialties , call (719) 372-6703, or email pstiller@bresnan.net.