What are horseshoeing schools teaching anyway
Posted by johnny Silveira at 6/28/2007 8:09 PM 
Categories: Horses, barrel racing, shoeing, Equestrian, pleasure, farriers, jumping, Western, Riding, eventing
Categories: Horses, barrel racing, shoeing, Equestrian, pleasure, farriers, jumping, Western, Riding, eventing
Hello everyone , hope you're all enjoying the riding weather.
i got an email from a new client the other day regarding problems she was having with the shoeing of her horse. Turns out this woman at the age of 40 decided to quit her job and go to a horseshoeing school. She just was not getting farriers who could work on her horses without there being problems so she decided to become a farrier herself.
The interesting part when you think about it is - she just recently finished a two month long education and she is getting ahold of me for advice. When talking with this woman i could tell she was intelligent and astute yet i could tell by the questions and discussion she and i were having that she was missing some real KEY information about how to get the shoeing job done on horses correctly. So she and i exchanged more info between ourselves and she learned more that is crucial to keeping horses sound that obviously the horseshoeing school she attended had omitted.
Hummm , isn't that interesting. The school left out key information ? And when she and i talked she had never heard of the things i told her beforehand ! This is "Current " - i graduated farrier college almost 17 years ago - they didn't teach me the key information to shoeing either , and now here we are 17 years later in the year 2007 and the schools "Still " aren't getting it right ? They're " Still " behind ? " Still " operating out of "Old School thought " ? APPARENTLY SOooooo i say in all confidence to you ...
What's the point ? well the point is - if your Farrier is ill informed your horses are at risk of lameness . And if your horse comes up lame that's going to HURT / i'm not talking just about the horse / it's going to hurt you too. Your pocket book - your time nursing your beloved animal - the down time away from training and riding - the heartache - the worry - is it permanent - will i have to put my horse down !!! Seriously - if you don't know what your Farrier doesn't know then what do you have ? You're just taking chances . It's like what is said about the court of law - " If you don't know your rights you don't have any " - well if you don't have the knowledge about shoeing horses you just don't have it - and your Farrier isn't going to be of any help either.
i'll say this again - Want to nearly completely reduce the risk of lameness - GET the TRUTH about shoeing..
Honestly , i have a 16 year track record of not one single lame horse as a result of my shoeing method ... this information will be made available soon. Just leave your email address and i'll contact you immediately upon completion of the materials.
Contact me at : John@Care4horses.com
as usual - Happy and Safe Riding and remember to www.Care4Horses.com
take care
john
i got an email from a new client the other day regarding problems she was having with the shoeing of her horse. Turns out this woman at the age of 40 decided to quit her job and go to a horseshoeing school. She just was not getting farriers who could work on her horses without there being problems so she decided to become a farrier herself.
The interesting part when you think about it is - she just recently finished a two month long education and she is getting ahold of me for advice. When talking with this woman i could tell she was intelligent and astute yet i could tell by the questions and discussion she and i were having that she was missing some real KEY information about how to get the shoeing job done on horses correctly. So she and i exchanged more info between ourselves and she learned more that is crucial to keeping horses sound that obviously the horseshoeing school she attended had omitted.
Hummm , isn't that interesting. The school left out key information ? And when she and i talked she had never heard of the things i told her beforehand ! This is "Current " - i graduated farrier college almost 17 years ago - they didn't teach me the key information to shoeing either , and now here we are 17 years later in the year 2007 and the schools "Still " aren't getting it right ? They're " Still " behind ? " Still " operating out of "Old School thought " ? APPARENTLY SOooooo i say in all confidence to you ...
What's the point ? well the point is - if your Farrier is ill informed your horses are at risk of lameness . And if your horse comes up lame that's going to HURT / i'm not talking just about the horse / it's going to hurt you too. Your pocket book - your time nursing your beloved animal - the down time away from training and riding - the heartache - the worry - is it permanent - will i have to put my horse down !!! Seriously - if you don't know what your Farrier doesn't know then what do you have ? You're just taking chances . It's like what is said about the court of law - " If you don't know your rights you don't have any " - well if you don't have the knowledge about shoeing horses you just don't have it - and your Farrier isn't going to be of any help either.
i'll say this again - Want to nearly completely reduce the risk of lameness - GET the TRUTH about shoeing..
Honestly , i have a 16 year track record of not one single lame horse as a result of my shoeing method ... this information will be made available soon. Just leave your email address and i'll contact you immediately upon completion of the materials.
Contact me at : John@Care4horses.com
as usual - Happy and Safe Riding and remember to www.Care4Horses.com
take care
john
John, you should think about giving lessions! Fill in the gaps the so called "schools" are leaving.
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Hello John,
would you please elaborate on the things you discussed with her and what the shools are still not getting right?
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Hey Christine.
thanks for stoppin in.
The schools , and the textbooks are still operating out of old school thought and technology. One of the biggest wrong doings is their explanation of how to correct pigeon toed or toed out horses - they advocate shortening one side of the foot to force the foot in the more correct direction. That's a huge mistake. I'll be posting photos of the bones and joints of feet which will make it much easier to see how little tolerance there is to make the kind of changes they're suggesting.
Horses feet are designed to stay what we call "Level". It basically keeps the bones in alignment. The hoof wall is a capsule - "Encasing" the bones.
With proper shoeing there's just no need to "Force" feet into directions the bones won't accomodate hence so much lameness.
thank you for the question. Hope to hear from you more.
take care
happy and safe riding .
johnny
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