The Professional Horseshoeing Course is designed to begin at the
basic level and develop you to the point where you feel comfortable
practicing your craft for the public and charging a fair price for
your work. Free dormitory.
Forge skills become more important as you acquire larger accounts
with more horses; some of which will require handmade shoes to satisfy
a customer. If a customer has ten horses and only two of them require
more specialized skills, your ability to do that work gets you the
whole account. If you can't do the work, then you don't get that account.
As a professional shoer, you will want to work for larger accounts
so that you can spend more time working and less time driving. Also,
remember that more specialized work commands a higher fee.
Upon graduation from the Professional Horseshoeing Course, you will
be competent to shoe almost any type of horse for whatever special
requirements the horse may have with few limitations. At the Oklahoma
Horseshoeing School this is considered to be entry level, full time
professional horseshoeing.
| LENGTH: 8 WEEKS
(432 hours of instruction) 15% classroom, 85%
hands-on-work |
| TUITION: $4,000.00 |
| CLASS DATES: A
new class begins every Monday throughout the year |
| SCHEDULE: Monday
though Saturday, 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Your dormitory room is free while you are a student at Oklahoma Horseshoeing School. |
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CURRICULUM:
| Lectures, Reading Assignments,
and Demonstrations: (72 hours)
Anatomy with review in great detail of:
Bones and Joints
Tendons and Ligaments
Foot Biomechanics
Sensitive Structures
Hoof Structure
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Theory of Specialty
Shoeing including but not limited to:
Performance Horses - Western and English
Draft Horses
Gaited and Walking Horses
Endurance Horses
Mules
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| Corrective Shoeing with review
in great detail
of:
Foot Conformation Types
Limb Conformation Types
The Gaits of the Horse
Correcting Faults of Gaits
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Determining a Horse's Age
How to start and Run your Own Business
Horseshoeing: (360 hours)
Basic Horseshoeing
Hot Shoeing
Shoeing with handmade shoes for normal horses
Performance Horseshoeing with handmade shoes
Specialty Shoeing with handmade shoes
Corrective Shoeing with handmade shoes
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| Therapeutic Shoeing with review
in great detail of:
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Lameness of the Foot
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Lameness of the Fore-limb
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Lameness of the Hind-limb
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Hoof Repair with Plastics
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Leg Braces
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REQUIRED SUPPLIES FOR PROFESSIONAL HORSESHOEING COURSE:
Students must have hand tools, text book and manual. The
required hand tools and text are itemized in 8-week Required
Tools section of this Site. If you already have tools of your
own you may bring them. If not then PLEASE buy your tools from us
here in our office. The reason we ask this is that we have found that
almost all of the students who buy their tools elsewhere end up buying
the wrong tools to the extent that they are not even usable, leaving
them having to purchase new tools anyway. We do have economy brand
tools as well as the very best tools, and all are at very competitive
prices. You will be given your course manual when you arrive.
The Tool List is in Adobe PDF format. You can obtain the Adobe Reader free of charge at: Adobe.com
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