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You Will Study During the
Course......
- Length and Angle of Foot
- Types of Shoes and Nails
- How to Make Handmade Shoes
- Common areas of lameness
- Tendons
- Corns
- Cracks
- Navicular
- Founder
- Forge Work
- Calks
- Clips
- Rolled Toe
- Square Toe
- Beveled Heeled Shoes
- Pads
- Race Plates
- Borium Treated
- Overreaching
- Welded in Forge
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Week Horseshoeing Course Curriculum... There will be a total of 300 clock hours of instruction comprised
of class time and laboratory experiences with periods from 8:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m. each day,
Monday through Friday, for the six week course. Additionally, 60 clock hours of video
instruction and forge time is required on Saturdays and evenings to reach proficiency.
- 30 Hours of classroom lectures by staff
instructors on anatomy and corrective shoeing.
- 120 Hours of practical horseshoeing - hot
and cold - in shoeing classroom.
- 42 Hours of forge work. Learning to make
handmade plain and corrective shoes from bar stock. There is also instruction in making
specialty tools.
- 48 Hours of horseshoeing in the field
(using the portable shoeing rig) away from school.
- 60 Hours of video and forge work.
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O.S.H.S. offers an extensive
curriculum in the classroom
as well as in the shoeing shop.One hour lunch break.
Coffee breaks at 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
(A clock hour is equivalent to 60 minutes) |
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Gina Berreth,
female Canadian student,
Picture Butte, AlbertaAn
O.S.H.S. legend in the making.... |
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You are welcome to return to O.S.H.S.
at any time after you graduate, if you feel you need extra instruction. We will
help you in any way possible, at any time, at no extra charge.
Call 580-223-0064 if we can be of service to you. |
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