🔨 Farrier
A hoof care expert who trims hooves and fits horseshoes.
Lots of horse timeHands-onOutdoorsShorter training
🛠️ What they do
- Trim and balance hooves
- Shape and fit horseshoes
- Help horses with sore feet
- Work with vets on special shoes
📍 Typical workplace
Farms, stables and their own mobile forge truck
📚 Useful school subjects
Science, Math, Shop / metalwork, Phys ed
🎓 Education & training
Often a farrier school course plus an apprenticeship with an experienced farrier.
🐴 Horse contact
Lots
🌤️ Indoors / outdoors
Mostly outdoors and in barns
⏰ Working style
Physical, travelling to many barns
💪 Useful traits
Strong, Patient, Good with tools, Calm with horses
Interesting Fact
Farriers can heat steel horseshoes until they glow orange to shape them.
Training routes, qualifications and pay are different in every country and province, so always check local information.