Want to train to be a farrier, where to start?

In which era Ray... Now or "old School". There is the character issues"s of the stundent..... IMOWS, "One true character will resolve, the resolve will produce; production will make a life time. BUT that calls for dedication...

Ray,
If I had posted the question as the first poster did, and read the responses and debate that followed, I would either be thinking that this journey look quite interesting and challenging.
Or that it's way over my head. Either way, good info.

Its probably more difficult in the UK to learn to be a farrier. Here in the U.S. really all you need to do is print up some business cards buy a bunch a front and hind shoes and start tacking them on and whacking horses around when they misbehave. Judging from the quality of most work that one sees thats the basic career path.

Now on the other hand if one wants to be a professional its a long hard road. But the reality of the unregulated status of the profession on this side of the pond is a wide variation in core competency and horsemanship.

at this point you are running out of time.....if you have money....go to the U.S. and go to only a couple of schools that are least good.
Doug Butler. in Colorado.?.... Cornell University, Ithica, N.Y.....Kentucky Horseshoeing Sch. Mitch Taylor...Heartland Horseshoeing Sch. Chris Gregory......Eastern Sch/Farriery..Danny Ward, Martinsville, Va......or Meridith Manor...in West Va........
there are ones I am familiar with. have to get a farriers journal for more info....or Ray could send you something in the mail to the UK.

at least you will be getting the basics and be able to shoe in Europe; just not in England.
this is job where you must start out young; it takes 10yrs to build up......10 yrs...make "Mulla" [money]; 10 yrs to save your Mulla, and 20 yrs. to retire and spend it