Three day training course for professionals or horse owners.
Cost: $300 per day.
Students will travel to Pete's home area in the northeast corner of Georgia and work with the horses and clients in his care.
Prerequisites: Study Horse Owners Guide to Natural Hoof Care (Jaime Jackson) and Making Natural Hoof Care Work (Pete Ramey); available at Star Ridge Company .
Maximum of three students per class to ensure “one on one time”.
DAY ONE
1) Why bother making the change to natural hoof care?
2) Understanding the natural hoof and natural locomotion and their effects on your horse. Should joint problems be normal in our ten year old horses???
3) The importance of heel first landing and health of the frogs and digital cushions.
4) Hoof trimming step by step.
5) Recognizing improper trimming styles.
6) Tools; use and care.
7) Hoof Boots and foam padding for lame horses.
8) Horse handling
9) Live trimming demonstration and discussion on 4-5 horses with minor problems.
10) Question and answer session.
DAY TWO
1) Founder: Treatment and prevention.
2) Navicular Syndrome: Treatment and prevention.
3) The end of under run heels and runaway toes.
4) Club feet: Hoof problem, or essential adaptation? Looking at the big picture.
5) Imbalance: How to correct it and how to know when you should not.
6) White Line Disease, fungal infection of hoof walls and white lines
7) Miscellaneous hoof problems
8) Live trimming demonstration and discussion on 4-5 horses with severe problems (experienced students will be “put to work” on some of the horses, with guidance and discussion by Pete)
9) Question and answer session.
DAY THREE
1) Trimming for a living. Business, advertising, customer relations.
2) Communicating with the Veterinarian
3) Hoof boot fitting
4) Hoof Trimming: Students will go to work on horses under Pete’s observation. Any necessary tips or advice on methodology or technique will be given. By now the “already experienced” professional will be able to create masterpieces out of deformed hooves and be deep into Pete’s head. The “green” horse owner may be ready to take competent care of their horses hooves.
5) Continuing your education. What to study and how to learn from the horses.
HORSES ARE DANGEROUS. IF YOU GET NEAR ONE, YOU ARE KNOWINGLY RISKING LIFE AND LIMB. IF YOU GET UNDER THEM AND WORK ON THEIR FEET, YOU WILL EVENTUALLY GET HURT, NO MATTER WHAT PRECAUTIONS YOU TAKE. Pete and the owners of the horses and trimming locations can and will assume no responsibility for your safety. You are ENSURING pain and suffering for even considering trying to trim the hooves of a horse!!! (Students will be required to sign this)_______________________________________
