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Location: The Lone Star State | For basic shoeing needs? Obviously no major corrective shoeing. Just curious thanks. |
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  Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Absolutely. Mostly because all the farriers around here are on drugs or no shows. I'd definitely give one out of school a chance. |
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Location: The Lone Star State | Lol right! |
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 I Chore in Chucks
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Location: MD | yes and I'm actually using a graduate of that school now! |
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Location: Arkansas | Definitely! Everything is still fresh on their minds and they do TONS of shoe/trim jobs while in school. My SO went to school there and they pretty much worked all day on all types of animals! They have a great program.... |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | For just the basics, absolutely. I agree with the "fresh in their mind" comment from above! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Nope. I'm a believer in apprenticeships after school. School is the foundation so you can learn how to shoe for real. You have to develop your eye and no way is a 6 week course going to teach you that. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I would for some trims to see how his work is on that end. He needs to start somewhere and have a chance at what he went to school for  |
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Location: Alabama | No. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Not unless they have gotten better than they were when I went to OFC. The 20 week class I went to was just barely enough to get a start. |
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She's a Tough One
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| Three 4 Luck - 2014-02-24 10:25 AM
Nope. I'm a believer in apprenticeships after school. School is the foundation so you can learn how to shoe for real. You have to develop your eye and no way is a 6 week course going to teach you that.
My thoughts too. |
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| I know someone who went there and they were only in the school a week til they got a certified! Id wait til they had more practice |
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Location: Kansas | Yes I would |
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| I went to OHS in Purcell. Most days there was only enough horses to shoe one foot if we were lucky two. A few of our instructors were students before us. Enough said.
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Location: ND | Might just be me but I don't care if or where someone went to school if they've taken the time to learn and study the foot and do a CORRECT trim. A piece of paper saying they're certified or graduated from one school or another doesn't mean a thing to me compared to the quality of work they do. |
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 The Bling Princess
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Location: North Dakota | SaraJean - 2014-02-24 4:04 PM Might just be me but I don't care if or where someone went to school if they've taken the time to learn and study the foot and do a CORRECT trim. A piece of paper saying they're certified or graduated from one school or another doesn't mean a thing to me compared to the quality of work they do.
Not just the foot, but the body and how it moves as a whole is going to affect foot fall. I want my farrier knowledgeable in all areas and have a strong understanding of the whole animal. |
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Location: Texas | No. 6 weeks isn't near enough time to learn how to shoe a horse correctly.last time I used a farrier fresh out of school I ended up with 7 hot nails and a lame horse. Oh and he didn't even finish the job. Got three shoes on then gave up. |
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Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | WYOTurn-n-Burn - 2014-02-24 3:45 PM SaraJean - 2014-02-24 4:04 PM Might just be me but I don't care if or where someone went to school if they've taken the time to learn and study the foot and do a CORRECT trim. A piece of paper saying they're certified or graduated from one school or another doesn't mean a thing to me compared to the quality of work they do. Not just the foot, but the body and how it moves as a whole is going to affect foot fall. I want my farrier knowledgeable in all areas and have a strong understanding of the whole animal.
VERY TRUE! |
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| Call the school and ask them what kind of student the guy was. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | My favorite farrier is a Vietnam vet (I think in his late 60's) that learned his trade from a WWI vet that was in the Calvary. He has kept up and can do some of the newer stuff too, but he has such a knack with horses and doesn't do all this fancy crap. He trims and shoes correctly and I have never had an unsound horse because of him. |
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Location: Oklahoma | For me it would depend on the student/farrier and how long they have been around and understand about horses's feet. I would ask a lot of questions and contact his/her instructor and ask alot of questions. It is to important of a job for me to be wrong when it comes to their feet. We use a guy that has been at it 25+ years and cked ref before he started. I wouldn't say I wouldn't use them fresh out of school- but I would sure ask alot of questions and do the best research I could. I agree they need to start somewhere and we def need more of them around- but they need to be the right kind of farrier with the right mind set of understanding the how's/why's of the feet. |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | If the ONLY experience that person EVER had was at the school, I would be leery. But, if he had been trimming and working under someone and then went to the school, I wouldn't be concerned.
Everyone's career has to start somewhere. I wouldn't just dive in and say hey shoe my best rodeo horse. but I would surely let them trim horses and see how they do. If he does a great job, sweet, if not, move on to the next one. |
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| No. I was very blessed to have had the pleasure of having one of the best farriers in the state of Texas. He had a wealth of experience and knowledge. Everytime I had to have a shoe tacked back on when away from home the new farriers always said I had one of the best show jobs they had ever seen. He passed away, I now use his son. He is not quite the same level as his dad but he is good. I think there is so much more to it then just what you learn in school. We bought a new horse, vet recommened changing how he was shod. Called Sam, showed him the x rays and what vet said. Sam did something totally different. Went back to vet after 6 months and vet said Sam had fixed him and was spot on with what he did. I feel the same way about vets, I like the guys who have seen just about everything thing out there. |
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Question, would you use a farrier fresh out of Oklahoma horseshoeing school?