According to a news article in today's Billings Gazette, farrier instructor Rik Mettes at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming is teaching two farrier courses at once this semester to meet the demand of want-to-be farriers.
Rik is a long-time subscriber to Hoofcare & Lameness Journal and a veteran farrier instructor.
The school has published an appeal to local horse owners to bring their horses in for trimming (at $7 a head) or shoeing (at $20 a head), saying that they need twice as many horses now for the students to shoe.
Let's hope there are plenty of horses for the new farriers to shoe once they are out of school, too!
I'd love to know what the application/admission rates are at other farrier schools around the country.
