HORSESHOEING COURSE
COURSE INFORMATION
TRAINING HOURS
Oklahoma State Horseshoeing School is licensed and approved by the OBPVS to offer the training hours in Clock or Contact Hours, where 1 (one) resident training hour equals 60 (sixty) minutes.
PROGRAM
Six-Week Horseshoeing Course
TRAINING HOURS
300 Clock Hours
TUITION AND FEES
1.Tuition
$4400.00
2. Book, Tools & Anvil
$1300.00
3. Supplies
$800.00
4. Dorms
FREE
TOTAL
$6500.00
*Please take note that Book, Tools & Anvil are yours to keep and you will be the one to provide your own food.
OSHS classes are held Monday- Friday from 7:30a.m. to 5:00p.m., and Saturdays from 9:00am-1:00pm.
Classroom time is 8:00am to 9:00am. You will study horse anatomy, bones, ligaments and tendons from the knee down. Also, students will acquire the knowledge of different breeds of horses along with legs, hooves, white line, gender, abscess, damaged hooves, just like you would see in an everyday farrier practice.
OSHS is just like a full-time horseshoeing business, only on a very large scale. We shoe all kinds of horses for our student to practice on. To have a successful horseshoeing school we need hundreds of horses for students to work on in each six-week class.
You can see it is very important for our students to do a quality shoeing job, so we strive for professional quality work on every horse that comes in our school. We know that every horse is very important to the owner whether it is $100 horse or $10,000 horse so we treat each horse and customer equally. Horse handling safety is part of our everyday class and routine here at OSHS.
Blacksmithing and forging are big parts of OSHS. Students will be able to modify keg shoes or forge their own handmade shoes.

Field trips are a great opportunity for students to see just how a professional horseshoeing practice operates. At OSHS we go on five to six different field trips in a six week class session. We travel no more than 30-40 miles to surrounding ranches with some of them being only just a few miles away. We have some that are filled with trims for the day, some that are shoeing all day, and several that have a nice mixture. We believe this gives the student a chance to see what it will be like once they are shoeing on their own and traveling.
Class hours consist of instructional and practical experience.
HOURS
Resident hands on supervised curriculum
30
Classroom lectures on anatomy and corrective shoeing
160
Practice horseshoeing hot and cold in shoeing classroom
62
Forge work; Making specialty tools, making plain and corrective shoes from bar stock
48
Horseshoeing in the field using portable shoeing rig
300
Total Clock Hours
Lunch
30 minute break around noon as determined by the instructor
O.S.H.S. CLASS SCHEDULES
2021 Class Sessions
January 4, 2021 – February 12, 2021
March 1, 2021 – April 9, 2021
May 3, 2021 – June 11, 2021
July 5, 2021 – August 13, 2021
September 6, 2021 – October 15, 2021
November 1, 2021 – December 10, 2021
2022 Class Sessions
January 3, 2022 – February 11, 2022
March 7, 2022 – April 15, 2022
May 2, 2022 – June 10, 2022
July 4, 2022 – August 12, 2022
September 5, 2022 – October 14, 2022
November 7, 2022 – December 16, 2022