Oregon School of Natural Hoof Care
6975 Sterling Creek
Jacksonville, Oregon 97530
This educational facility was started in 2006 and has a staff of 12 experienced hoof care professionals from a variety of hoof and equine educations. All are successful with their own work. And have been working for years together as a cottage research group for a better understanding of the hoof.
Onsite lodging, with a family, resort type feel is provided in the tuition. Two levels of training:
Level One: The Whole Horse Trim
Session, focuses on all topics to insure good stewardship, trimming, knowledge on topics presented by experts in the field on, diet, laminitis and founder, physical fitness for the trimmer, operating a trimming business, tool handling, trimming horses, mini's, mules, donkeys, and technical trimming of the damaged and foundered hoof. There are 5 days of individual instructor supervision of trimming. The evening programs are viewing all hoof video's that show information on the hoof and trimming techniques by natural trimmers, and farriers. The schools library is one of the largest collections on the hoof available for student referrals.
Level Two: Advanced Hoof Care
Focuses on topics for the professional, reading equine x-rays, learning to recognize lameness, classifying lameness, hoof deformity and more to discuss with veterinarians. Understanding how to guide clients to better stewardship through, diet, lifestyle and how healthy hooves are developed. Learning to trim sore, damaged and contracted hooves.
We have instructors who have gained years of education from a variety of sources and backgrounds. This school teaches to trim hooves by understanding the inside of the structure, incorporating a large base of proven common information in trimming and applying it to the soundness of the hoof. This is not a clinician based school but, a school that encourages ongoing education by all sources available.
Cheryl Henderson
www.abchoofcare.com
