Ha Ha. I did that a travel jo in Hawaii for a few years as a farrier. It was a lot of fun
Interested in moving to New Zealand?
Are you a farrier?
Are you interested in living in New Zealand?
We have a severe shortage when it comes to farriers.
Are you interested in living in New Zealand?
We have a severe shortage when it comes to farriers.
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We're not quite like Hawaii, but unique and awesome!
Where in NZ are you? I’m no farrier but I’m planning to be there for a couple of months with my family and would love to volunteer at a horse barn.
There used to be a thing people said, to teach your children to shoe a horse and to start a colt, and that way they would always have work.
This has proven true, as I’ve seen many of us go to shoeing outside horses or riding outside horses when we need to make bills meet.
So, I am wondering this: do you not have people like that in your country? If there is a shortage, aren’t there cowboys (I mean this as the job title, not like people who wear hats. Lol) and ranchers? Or has this trend of teaching your children these skills and requiring your cowboys to shoe something passed away? Are there ranches in New Zealand? Do they run by different rules?
I would dream of hopping on a plane and making a new start in a beautiful country, but I think my life is tied to this ranch.
This has proven true, as I’ve seen many of us go to shoeing outside horses or riding outside horses when we need to make bills meet.
So, I am wondering this: do you not have people like that in your country? If there is a shortage, aren’t there cowboys (I mean this as the job title, not like people who wear hats. Lol) and ranchers? Or has this trend of teaching your children these skills and requiring your cowboys to shoe something passed away? Are there ranches in New Zealand? Do they run by different rules?
I would dream of hopping on a plane and making a new start in a beautiful country, but I think my life is tied to this ranch.
@Knave Not from New Zealand myself,So, I am wondering this: do you not have people like that in your country? If there is a shortage, aren’t there cowboys and ranchers? Or has this trend of teaching your children these skills and requiring your cowboys to shoe something passed away? Are there ranches in New Zealand? Do they run by different rules?
but thanks to the marvelous inventions that are Google and Wikipedia, I can provide the answer to at least some of your questions here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_(New_Zealand_agriculture)
@PineHollow it did answer that there are ranches. It just seems they might want to look into their people, but I don’t know the culture of their ranching.
So, although most ranches here do their own feet, there are some who hire out. Our place used to in fact be one of those places, long before I was born. Then, my father took an outside job for a time, and the day he showed up to work the boss said he needed to shoe the cavvy. Dad was embarrassed, “I’ve never shoed a horse.” The boss was mad, threw a book at him, and yelled “I’ll show you one time! That is it!”
Hahahahaha. He shoed the horses after the lesson, and he read the book, which is something as he doesn’t read a lot. He taught me as a preteen so I wouldn’t face that experience I guess, and he said I couldn’t depend on a man to do it for me. He was right. So many marriage battles were had, and then I just went back to doing my own.
You would think that we wouldn’t study, or continue our education, being taught, many of us as children, to do the task. But many of us put a lot of research into our methods. So many conversations can be heard between cowboys discussing feet of particular horses with actual problems. We learn the tricks of casting and corrective shoeing, and how we want our feet to look to the research regarding best angles and that type of thing. We study x-rays. We may be uneducated by outside standards, but we are educated.
I wonder if those people exist in that country. If there are cowboys sitting around at brandings having discussions regarding a navicular horse or a thin soled animal. I’d like to believe there must be. There must be a whole avenue of people they are not turning to, right?
So, although most ranches here do their own feet, there are some who hire out. Our place used to in fact be one of those places, long before I was born. Then, my father took an outside job for a time, and the day he showed up to work the boss said he needed to shoe the cavvy. Dad was embarrassed, “I’ve never shoed a horse.” The boss was mad, threw a book at him, and yelled “I’ll show you one time! That is it!”
Hahahahaha. He shoed the horses after the lesson, and he read the book, which is something as he doesn’t read a lot. He taught me as a preteen so I wouldn’t face that experience I guess, and he said I couldn’t depend on a man to do it for me. He was right. So many marriage battles were had, and then I just went back to doing my own.
You would think that we wouldn’t study, or continue our education, being taught, many of us as children, to do the task. But many of us put a lot of research into our methods. So many conversations can be heard between cowboys discussing feet of particular horses with actual problems. We learn the tricks of casting and corrective shoeing, and how we want our feet to look to the research regarding best angles and that type of thing. We study x-rays. We may be uneducated by outside standards, but we are educated.
I wonder if those people exist in that country. If there are cowboys sitting around at brandings having discussions regarding a navicular horse or a thin soled animal. I’d like to believe there must be. There must be a whole avenue of people they are not turning to, right?
I'm in South Auckland. We don't have barns as such, as we're much more independent/self-sufficient.Where in NZ are you?
We don't have the population, or the ranches.There used to be a thing people said, to teach your children to shoe a horse and to start a colt, and that way they would always have work.
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