Farrier

Farrier, a shoer of horses, who formerly also treated their diseases. See HORSE-SHOEING, VETERINARY MEDICINE. In every British cavalry regiment there is a farrier quartermaster-sergeant (formerly farrier-major), with eight sergeant-farriers and eight shoeing-smiths, who attend to the shoeing of the horses and their treatment when sick, subject to the veterinary surgeon. They wear as a badge on the sleeve a horseshoe, in worsted for the shoeing-smiths, and in gold for the farriers, who rank as sergeants and wear Chevrons (q.v.).