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Ways to earn more

• Therapeutic and corrective shoeing

  Working with vets on lame horses. Skilled, in demand, well paid.

• Sport and race horses

  Show jumpers, racehorses and reiners need frequent, precise work.

• Draft horses

  Big feet, big shoes, few farriers who will do them.

• Competition forging

  Farrier associations run shoeing contests. Winning builds your name.