Draft horse farrier schools

[paintedmountainfarm]

Are there any farrier schools that specialize in draft horse shoeing?

[vthorseshoe]

I don't know of any school who just teaches Drafthorse shoeing. There are a few that will show you how to do it along with learning to shoe regular size horses.

Will Lent in Michigan has 1 and 2 day clinics and they are very informative.
Doug Butler and Mike Wilderstein both have vhs video's that will show you the basics in shoeing draft horses.

Mike Wilderstein also teaches shoeing at Cornell University and he will show you how to shoe a draft along with riding horses. Mike is one of the best and has yrs. of experience shoeing drafts.

There is another gentleman named Rockwell Irons. He lives on the New York state side of the Connecticut Berkshire mtns. He used to have a school in Nova Scotia and he taught draft horse shoeing. I suspect he is retired now but if you could locate him and he was willing, he would be a wonderful person to learn from.

Bruce Matthews
Northeast Drafthorse Shoeing LLC
vthorseshoe@aol.com

[Mattfarrier]

You know what they say over here..... Never shoe anything whose breed begins with an S......Shires and Shetlands !!

[Rick Burten]

Originally Posted by Mattfarrier

You know what they say over here..... Never shoe anything whose breed begins with an S......Shires and Shetlands !!

Over here, that list included SBelgians, SPercherons, SClydesdales......