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At one time, you could enter a trade only by reason of an apprenticeship. If you wanted to become a farrier, you got yourself apprenticed to some famous farrier close by. Only 1 or 2 or the well established farriers would condescend to taking on apprentices, and they might make their apprentices work like plentiful machines. Apprenticeships didn?t give you the benefit of announcing bye bye in a few months; after you were in, you were in for nothing but 3 yeas or much more. The delicacies required in the business of working with the feet of horses are mastered neither swiftly nor easily. Being a good farrier takes plenty of application and talent, and demands that the farrier has extensive knowledge of the horse?s body structure and most especially its feet structure, The farrier must be familiar with the physics of equine movement, a horse?s musculature and its skeletal system. A farrier needs to be a walking encyclopedia on all matters applying to the horse?s feet. She should be able to identify a problem correctly with any horse?s foot in a in seconds and set about implementing a solution also in a jiffy. The able farrier knows what can be healed and what can?t, and he can submit ideas to the pony owner about what to do to salvage the situation.

Unfortunately, not all farriers are encyclopedia-like, and there?s actually no formal education or training course for farriers, at least in the States. The English system of farriers is a bit more structured.

It?s not easy to find the ideal farrier. There are farriers by the dozens and the hundreds, but not all of them have a high level of experience. Many of them don?t, as a verifiable fact.

The arena of farriers is divided into two warring groups, which often snarl and growl at each other. One bunch of farriers thinks that shoes should get banned, and horses should be allowed to live and function in unshod feet. If god made them that way, who are we homo sapiens to go against god?s will?

Simply because we put shoes on our feet doesn?t mean we do so with horses also. We also forget that we buckle or lace or velcro our shoes firmly onto our feet, but we use nails to shod horses. I have heard many a horse shoe adversary ask a horse shoe advocate how he, the supporter, would like it if someone nailed shoes onto his feet. And I?ve heard the pony shoe supporter retort by asking how the adversary would like to run around gravel and hard surfaces and melting asphalt with no shoes on.

My experience tells me that shoes are good for horses, but they impose on the horse owner the responsibility of taking awfully close care of his horse?s feet.

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