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What is the structure of bovine hooves?
What is shoeing and what is it for?
What is hoof iron?
What is the structure of equine hooves?
Why were cattle shoed?
What is the difference between horse shoes and cattle shoes?
What is labor?
How were animal shoes made?
How does a farrier shoe horses?
What is foot trimming and why is it important?
What are the blacksmith's tools?
How does the farrier use pliers?
What is a blacksmith knife and what is it used for?
What is the interlocking and what was it used for?
How does the farrier use the rasp?
What is a blacksmith’s hammer and what is it used for?
What is the cash register and what is it for?
What does “cold” and “hot” shoeing mean?
What are torcinaso pliers and what is their function?
Who is the blacksmith and what does he do?
What is a blacksmith’s key and what is it used for?
In Ticino, is it believed that horseshoes bring good luck?