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10 Traits of Top Farriers

By Jacob Butler CJF, AWCF posted on December 15, 2014 | Posted in Education
Growing up, I spent a lot of time around the world's best farriers as they came to our home and were trained by my father, Dr. Doug Butler. I was able to work side-by-side with many of them as they became master craftsmen and learned the fundamentals of farriery. I also have worked and consulted with farriers from around the world.
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Q&A: Becoming a Farrier

Briefly describe how you became a farrier. Did you attend horseshoeing school? Where? Did you apprentice? For how long? Who helped you get started in our career?
December 5, 2013 | Posted in Education
Briefly describe how you became a farrier. Did you attend horseshoeing school? Where? Did you apprentice? For how long? Who helped you get started in our career?
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Are You A Wonder Junkie?

By Jeremy McGovern posted on May 17, 2013 | Posted in Education
On a recent flight from Providence, R.I, to Detroit, Mich., I read the airline magazine that featured and interview with filmmaker/TV host Jason Silva. Silva explains how the late Carl Sagan, famed astronomer/cosmologist, coined the phrase “wonder junkie,” which meant once wonder of a subject afflicts you, it becomes an addiction.” How does a term coined by an astronomer have anything to do with farriery?
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Filling the Middle Ground in Farrier Education

Virginia practice offers innovative farrier internship program
By Pat Tearney posted on December 1, 2008 | Posted in Education

Paul Goodness has long been a big believer in helping young farriers learn more about the trade. And now, he and his partners in the Round Hill, Va., shoeing practice, Forging Ahead, have taken that belief one step further by setting up an unusual apprentice program that some other farriers might want to look to as a good working model.


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AFA Task Force Being Revamped With New Members, Focus And Name

Education/Registration Task Force gives way as AFA leadership looks for representatives from inside and outside the group, and says school survey information will create database for students
By Ron Perszewski posted on July 1, 2005 | Posted in Education

AFTER A SURGE of controversy about its proposals on standardized farrier education and registration, the American Farrier’s Association has dismissed the original members of the Education/Registration Task Force who developed the plan and started looking for new members from inside and outside the AFA.


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A Badger-Aloha Get Together

Hawaiian farrier travels to Wisconsin to broaden shoeing view
By Pat Tearney posted on December 1, 2004 | Posted in Education, Equipment
It’s not all that unusual anymore for a couple of farriers to get together to share techniques, talk about approaches to horseshoeing and simply see how “the other guy” does the job.
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Cornell Honors Its Horseshoeing Tradition

Cornell Farrier Program Carries On Great Tradition Of Teaching
By Pat Tearney posted on December 1, 2004 | Posted in Education
Say “Ivy League” and the image that comes to most minds probably does not include anvils, shoeing aprons and horseshoes — unless you’re one of the many farriers and horse owners who have benefitted from the farrier education program at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
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