chris good luck on your adventure that is what horseshoeing and blacksmithing can be i have shod horses for about 35 years now and it is a good honest profession yhe politics can get into it as you can already see from some of the posts doug butler is not a vet chris is excellant so is mitchcraig trnka started the wcb and it is good the afa is good but not without problems cjf at 16 i am not sure about i know it happened but you cant get under enough horses by that age just my opinion, ihave shod horses from new mexico to new york and to florida mostly standardbred race horses with some sport horses thrown in again good luck and if i can help you feel free to call or pm iam not real good on this thing 386 749 4119:)