TEACHING UPDATED AND RELEVANT FARRIER SCIENCE WITHIN
A TRADITIONAL HORSESHOEING SCHOOL EDUCATION
Basic Barefoot Trimming for Horses in a Wet Climate
~ A Common Sense Approach ~ Wild Horse Publishing
This video offers novice and professional hoof
trimmers and farriers a practical, common sense
approach to trimming horses that live in the wet
environment. From an equine perspective, a wet
environment is any environment other than the high
desert. For example whether your horse lives in the
damp Pacific Northwest or an irrigated pasture in
Kentucky, whether irrigated by man or by God, the
result is the same, a soft, distorted foot. There
are many factors that influence a successful
barefoot management program. The environment in
which the horse lives and works, performance
expectations, hoof conformation, and soundness
concerns are discussed. This video covers 3 horses
that represent a cross section of feet. You will
see examples of trimming young horses, neglected
horses, and reasonably good-footed horses with
minimal hoof distortions. Each demonstration offers
good insight into foot function, recognizing hoof
distortion, and ��common sense” trimming guidelines.
DVD - Approximate Run Time 80 Minutes
$50.00 US
(add $10.00 for APO/FPO, Guam, PR, Virgin Islands,
International delivery addresses)
Common
Sense Shoeing~ With Special
Consideration for the Wet Climate ~ Wild
Horse Publishing
This DVD series
was developed to give viewers a common sense
approach to shoeing horses in all types of
environments, but with emphasis on the moist
environment, when ever and where ever too much
moisture challenges the integrity to the over-all
health of the foot. At Mission Farrier School, we
teach horseshoeing in the Pacific Northwest;
however moist environments can found in many
places; Hawaii, California, Florida, Kentucky:
any place where there are irrigated pastures. The
equine foot was designed to be as hard or harder
than the environment in which the horse lives and
is expected to work. A flexible foot is not a
good foot. It is a foot already “at risk”. Living
and working as we do in a moist environment, we
see a lot of flexible feet, and most of them are
in trouble to some degree. If you are a beginning
farrier, we believe that if you can learn to shoe
horses here; with some common sense, you’ll be
able to go anywhere and successfully meet the
needs of a horse. If you already have an
established farrier business, we hope this DVD
will help you evaluate, trim and shoe horses to
meet their needs, given the environment in which
they live. Thanks for watching.
This is a
2-Disc DVD set with a combined run time of
approximately 150 minutes. Highlights include:
conformation & environmental considerations,
addressing a long-toe & low-heel condition, plus
a bonus feature on basic forging skills &
techniques.
$60.00 US
(add $10.00 for APO/FPO, Guam, PR, Virgin
Islands, International delivery addresses)
At Mission
Farrier School, our emphasis is on three key
areas of study: Relevant Hoof Science, Good
Horsemanship, and Craftsmanship. In this DVD,
our focus is on craftsmanship. It’s important
to be the best craftsman you can be to properly
meet the needs of the horses in your clientele.
This means you need to put the time in at the
forge and anvil. Since the advent of keg shoes,
or ready-mades in the early 1900’s, quality
craftsmanship by farriers all but disappeared
mid-way through the last century. The term
“ready-made shoes” implied that shoes were
ready to nail on. And along with this loss of
forging skills the application of the
ready-made pattern also lead to the demise of
the understanding of what a horse’s foot should
look like. And while we’ve come a long way in
the last 25 years, and now we have a vast
inventory of front and hind pattern shoes,
there is still an intense need to learn how to
properly shape a keg shoe to meet the needs of
the individual horse. This 2-Disc DVD set will
give you the basic techniques & skills
necessary for the most common forging tasks of
today’s farrier, as well as guidelines for
producing quality hand-made shoes.
This is a
2-Disc DVD set with a combined run time of
approximately 120 minutes. Topics include:
basic keg shoe modifications, pulling clips,
lengthening stock (heels), modifying
fronts-to-hinds and hinds-to-fronts, and basic
shoeing making (hand-mades).
$60.00 US
(add $10.00 for APO/FPO, Guam, PR, Virgin
Islands, International delivery addresses)
Mark Plumlee introduces the viewer to Thunder, an 8 year
old Mustang that ran out in the wild until he was 5. Even
though he has been domesticated now for a couple of years, as
a youngster, Thunder had the ultimate environment to develop
a healthy foot. After maintaining a traditional shoeing
practice for 20 years and as a third generation farrier, Mark
gained exposure to Natural Balance Farrier Science in 1993
and has enthusiastically pursued it’s advancement since that
time. As shown in this video, even healthy feet can be led
into distortion by the environmental influences of
domestication. Mark shows how shoeing to Natural Balance
parameters addresses that distortion.
$40.00 US
(add $10.00 for APO/FPO, Guam, PR, Virgin
Islands, International delivery addresses)
Excerpt from Introduction to Hoof Health DVD
Mission
Farrier School Phone # has changed to
425 890-3043
To Order: email us at
MissionFarrierSchool@hotmail.com or
call Karen Plumlee at 425 985-8321.
All DVD's Presented By:
Mark Plumlee, CJF, RJF, CNBBT, CNBF, & CLS
Mission Farrier School, Snohomish, Washington
Mark Plumlee is the Owner and the Instructor at
Mission Farrier School. His qualifications are
unique, certified through three farrier
affiliations CJF (Certified Journeyman Farrier)
through the American Farriers Association, RJF
(Registered Journeyman Farrier) through the Guild
of Professional Farriers, and CNBBT (Certified
Natural Balance Barefoot Trimmer) and CNBF
(Certified Natural Balance Farrier) through the
Equine Lameness Prevention Organization.
In addition to his certifications, Mark’s Natural
Balance experience dates back to its inception.
Mark was privileged to travel with Gene Ovnicek
back in the early 1990’s as Natural Balance farrier
science first emerged. He was the first instructor
to successfully integrate Natural Balance farrier
science within a formal farrier education program.
This gives his students a unique opportunity over
all others. Mark has given talks and clinics on all
aspects of Hoof Health for over 15 years. No one is
better suited at bridging the gap between the old
and the new, and at maintaining a common sense
approach in everything he does.
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