Farriers

If you are a professional farrier, please get involved. Over half our instructors, clinicians, and many of our students are former farriers! If you are not offering your clients official AANHCP natural hoof care, you are missing out on an important opportunity to help horses, and may be limiting your own business potential: natural hoof care is the wave of the future and will not "go away". Experienced farriers can expect to complete our training program and become certified in less than a year -- without disrupting their hoof care businesses. To get started, begin by studying this website in its entirety. Then, order our required learning materials by going to our official online AANHCP Storefront. Next, fill out our official on-line Application. With your application will come special instructions on what to do next. If you have specific questions about the program or your future training, feel free to contact any of our Instructors or AANHCP Director of Operations, Jaime Jackson. We'd like to welcome you on board and invite you to be a part of the greatest "hoof care" adventure in history! You won't regret it.

The AANHCP further recognizes that farriers wishing to "cross over" to natural hoof care by entering our training and certification program, will have specific concerns and questions unique to persons with farriery backgrounds. Accordingly, the AANHCP wishes to make some of its CP's with professional farrier backgrounds available to farriers for consultation. Please feel free to contact any of the practitioners below with your questions. They are looking forward to talking with you in complete confidence and helping you make the transition to our ranks.

John Graves (CP-CO) 
Mike Edwards (CP-FL)     
David Darnell (CP-TX)
Eddie Drabek (CP-TX)
Fred Striebeck (CP-WA)
Nick Hill (CP-United Kingdom)

Veterinarians

If you are a busy equine veterinary practitioner, certification may or may not be appropriate for  you due to time constraints. However, attending the official AANHCP Orientation clinics is an excellent way to familiarize yourself with the basics of natural hoof care, without having to enroll and spend a year or more time in our full training program. Increasingly, horse owners are asking that their vets help them transition their horses from shoeing to barefoot/boots via natural hoof care. Attendance at our clinics will educate and prepare you for this service to your clients. Unfortunately, natural hoof care is not taught at our nation's schools of veterinary medicine, so the AANHCP Training and Certification Program is the only way to receive authentic information.

If you would like to talk with a veterinarian who has completed our entire training program -- Neal Valk, DVM, DACVS (CP-TN) -- we can arrange for dialogue between the two of you. Dr. Valk, our Coordinator for Veterinary Affairs in OCC, is working with the AANHCP leadership to develop a training program for veterinarians who wish to be a part of the AANHCP and work closely with our practitioners in hoof care, rehabilitation services, and research. If "going natural" resonates with the direction you want to take your practice, this may be just the opportunity you are looking for. You may reach Dr. Valk by going to the OCC link.

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