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What is the structure of bovine claws?
What is shoeing and what is it for?
What is a shoe?
What is the structure of equine hooves?
Why were cattle shoed?
What is the difference between horse shoes and cattle shoes?
What is the stock?
How were animal shoes made?
How does a farrier perform horseshoeing?
What is hoof trimming and why is it important?
What are the farrier's tools?
How does the farrier use pliers?
What is a farrier’s knife and what is it used for?
What is "the incastro" and what was it used for?
How does the farrier use the rasp?
What is a farrier’s hammer and what is it used for?
What is the pritchel and what is it for?
What does “cold” and “hot” shoeing mean?
What are nose tongs and what is their function?
Who is the farrier and what does he do?
What is a farrier’s clincher and what is it used for?
In Ticino, is it believed that horseshoes bring good luck?