--- Stephanie Caldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > North Carolina School of Horseshoeing and Equine Lameness.....a > small > > school with no more than 12 students usually per week....
> Oh my... I'm sure Sally is one of the few good ones that the NC > School > of Horseshoeing and Quackery has turned out. > > Steph It is really one of the only farrier schools that lets you work on horses feet, and a lot of them.......of course Sally is also a Doctor as well, she had a primary care practice in Seattle...so she takes her research to a whole new level when she is learning something. She came back from school and was able to trim and put shoes on our horses feet better than any other farrier or shoer who had come out to our barn...... Since school she has studied Pete Ramey, Jaime Jackson and NB trimming and shoeing... Of course again my Main point was about 'Master Farrier'...it is really about Forge work, almost all the tests are about forge work, making eggbar shoes....etc etc.... Most of the schools focus on metal, and almost no time looking at real horses hooves.... And really most Farrier schools that we researched Sally was not interested in because of the focus on the metal, instead of the horse....it takes a lot of practice and research to become competant. I will tell you a story... One time before Farrier school, we called our shoer....he came out with one farrier who graduated from a program in Montana and the other who graduated from a program in Oklahoma (Lets talk Quackery..and Steph I did not appreciate the comment BTW) Anyway....they each took a foot to trim and shoe...it took over 2.5 hours....thats the way they learned in school....one foot at a time....they did not have enought time under a horse to do a set of shoes in an hour by themselves....it was truely sad...and they still expected payment....I figured my mare had stood for this nonsense for long enough...she started to fuss at 2 hours....they started to get rough with her, and we had to stop them....its the Wild Wild West out here I tell you. Storme ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL
