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Lecture 1 hour per day - Shop work or shoeing balance of the day
All shoeing is done on live horses
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From the 8th day when we start with plain plates, we progressively get into more advanced shoeing. The lecture studies and special shoes will be applied when horses come in with these problems. From the 37th day to the 55th day, we will be shoeing horses every day except for a few days when we will make tools and work with aluminum shoes.
The last week of class:
Monday - Review for shoeing test
Tuesday - Shoeing test
Wednesday - Anatomy test; shoeing horses
Thursday - Post review of test; shoeing horses
Friday - Closing comments
Because the background of a good corrective horseshoer is the forge work, many professional state horseshoeing associations, as well as the American Farriers Association and brotherhood of Working Farriers, give tests on forging skills for the novice and the journeyman. There is a lot to learn in twelve weeks, but students who are serious and apply themselves, are very pleased with the program offered at MHS, and become very successful horseshoers.
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Lecture day 1
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Shop 1
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Introduction to horseshoeing
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Discuss uses of tools, building fire in forge, welding, and making hoof picks.
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Lecture day 2
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Shop 2
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Discuss bone structure of the leg.
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Practice welding and turning shoes.
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Lecture day 3
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Shop 3
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Discuss anatomy of the foot.
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Practice welding and turning shoes.
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Lecture day 4
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Shop 4
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Study leg conformation - toe out toe in, knock kneed, bow legged, offset knees, base wide, base narrow, cow hocked.
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Practice welding, turning shoes, and punching nail hoes, handle horses, discuss proper use of trimming tools and techniques.
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Lecture day 5
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Shop 5
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Study leg conformation - sloping pastern, straight pastern, calf knee, buck knee, camped, sickle hocked, broken forward, and broken back.
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Practice welding and making shoes.
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Lecture day 6
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Shop 6
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Discuss foot and leg to knee.
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Practice making shoes and clipping heels.
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Lecture day 7
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Shop 7
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Study leg conformation - flared foot, club foot flat foot, dropped sole, false quarter, coon foot, contracted foot, mule foot, buttress foot, and sloping heels.
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Make, fit, and level shoes.
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Lecture day 8, 9, 10
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Shop 8, 9, 10
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Shoeing horses.
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Shoeing horses.
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Lecture day 11
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Shop 11
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Discuss the function of the foot.
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Make heel calk and clips.
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Lecture day 12
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Shop 12
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Study flight patterns - winging in, winging out, and length of stride.
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Make bevel edge, concave and square toe.
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Lecture day 13, 14, 15
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Shop 13, 14, 15
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Shoeing horses.
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Shoeing horses.
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Lecture day 16
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Shop 16
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Discuss tendons and ligaments of the leg.
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Make spoon heels and trailers.
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Lecture day 17
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Shop 17
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Discuss interference, brushing, stumbling, overreaching, forging, scalping, knee hitting, cross firing, and speedy cutting.
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Make bar shoes and the use of pads.
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Lecture day 18, 19, 20
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Shop 18, 19, 20
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Shoeing horses.
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Shoeing horses.
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Lecture day 21
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Shop 21
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Discuss pathological shoeing and diagnosis of lameness.
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Make toe weights and roll toes.
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Lecture day 22
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Shop 22
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Discuss lameness, shoe boil, capped hock, stifled stringhalt, thoroughpin, bog spavins, bone spavins, jacks, curb, popped knee, splints, shin buck, and bowed tendons.
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Make toe weights and roll toes. Learn to use and operate a trip hammer.
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Lecture day 23
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Shop 23
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Discuss tools.
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Shoeing horses.
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Lecture day 24
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Shop 24
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Field trip to vet clinic.
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Field Trip
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Lecture day 25
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Shop 25
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Shoeing horses.
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Shoeing horses.
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Lecture day 26
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Shop 26
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Discuss lameness, contracted tendons, suspensory sprain, windpuff, popped sesamoids, osslets, and ringbone.
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Make sliding plates and rocker toes.
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Lecture day 27
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Shop 27
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Discuss lameness, side bone, quittor, corns, sole bruises, abscess, thrush, canker, seedy toe, founder, and navicular disease.
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Make side weights.
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Lecture day 28, 29, 30
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Shop 28, 29, 30
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Shoeing horses.
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Shoeing horses.
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Lecture day 31
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Shop 31
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Discuss repairing quarter cracks, sand cracks, and hoof repair.
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Forge welding jar calks, forge brazing jar calks and grabs.
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Lecture day 32
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Shop 32
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Discuss public relations, business management, and rig setups.
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Work with full swedges, half swedges, and half rounds.
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Lecture day 33, 34, 35
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Shop 33, 34, 35
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Shoeing horses.
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Shoeing horses.
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Lecture day 36
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Shop 36
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Electric and torch welding.
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Electric and torch welding, toe clips, bars, and borium.
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