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Since Lockdown we have seen a rise in online and other forms of farriery education.... This is a good thing!
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To put this on takes a lot of time, effort and of course money.
One of these people throwing his hat in the ring is todays guest Connor Morison DipWCF. Connor is an Ex-Army farriery instructor who currently works at the Warwickshire college school of farriery, and like many of us has a passion for education. He has recently set up Farrier Scholar an Online farriery education platform, to help farriers on their educational journey.
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David Gulley FWCF
On the 2nd of May 2024 we received the sad news of the passing of David Gulley FWCF.
Born on the 4th of August 1939 in Plymouth Devon, David grew up with an obsession for horses, his mother once telling him of his fascination of the Shire horses working in the streets Plymouth. When David reached the age of 15 due to the lack of farriery apprenticeships being available due to mechanisation, David took on a 4-year apprenticeship in Blacksmithing and Engineering.
On completion of his apprenticeship in 1960 he was called up for National Service into the British Army. As he signed up, he asked about the possibility of being an Army Farrier, of which the ill-informed Army recruiting Sergeant replied, âthere was not such a thing anymoreâ. David then opted to become a Driver.
Whilst in basic training Davids unit was visited by a recruiting officer from the Royal Army Veterinary Corps (RAVC), looking for recruits. David asked the officer did they have Farriers? The officer replied âyesâ. At that point David told the officer that if he could transfer to the forge, he would instantly sign up for 22 yearsâ service, the maximum engagement you can sign up for. In late 1960 David moved to Melton Mowbray and started working at the Remount Depot, now known as the Defence Animal Training Regiment, and started his life as an Army Farrier Apprentice at the old Army School of Farriery (ASF).
Coincidently David joined the school 1 day after another farriery legend and lifelong friend David âSlimâ Symons FWCF (hons). David was lucky enough to be taken under the wing of Jock Green a very well-regarded Army farrier instructor who pushed David to excel through hard work and determination. David managed to achieve the uncompressible feat of becoming a B1 Army farriery instructor and the rank of full Corporal in under 2 years.
After 9 years of being based at the ASF teaching and competing David took the decision to leave the army and set up his own business. These were the days pre regulation, which would not become an act of parliament for a few years. At the time there was a lack of good farriers in the Leicestershire area servicing the fledgling equine leisure industry, with many untrained farriers cold shoeing applying shoes poorly. David was lucky enough to get the opportunity to repurpose a disused cattle shed into a forge, which is where he remained for the rest of his life in Thorpe Satchville, Leicestershire with his partner Judy.
It wasnât long before David had built a busy business and the requirement for more manpower, so started his long list of successful apprentices. The first of which was Andrew Speck RSS, which went on to include the likes of Cecil Swan, Gary Darlow, Kevin Green, Joe Bryan and Andrew James. He went on to train 24 apprentices in total and was always proud of the achievements of all he trained and had said countless times that his proudest achievement was training his own son Micheal. On retirement he was presented a âFamily Treeâ, by some of his ex-apprentices, starting with David, his apprentices, their apprentices and so on. To this date there are 5 generations of farriers with lineage back to David, over time this will grow and will remain one of Davids Legacies.
After leaving the Army Davidâs involvement with the National Association of Farriers, Blacksmiths and Agricultural Engineers (now known as BFBA) began. Joining his local branch, Leicestershire, David became an active member and very quickly rising to
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Iâve just got back from a very busy summer period. Back to school for me now! Last week I spent the week in Canada with my awesome friend Brian Mullins CJF. Week spent the week fine tuning and preparing for his upcoming AWCF exams. I met Brian back in lockdown through our respective podcast passion projects. As we were together we decided to chat with microphones and this is the results.
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Check out Brianâs podcast if you havenât already as it is the best one out there. Thatâs not to say all the Farriery podcasts are all awesome.
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In this episode we have recorded a discussion session which was part of our recent TTFA course. This discussion was hosted by Dean Bland BA(Hons) DipWCF(Hons) GradDipELR(RVC) Dip.Ed MAFA and the students on this course and was part of one of assignments covered within the course, of which is part of the pathway to becoming a training farrier (ATF) here in the UK. Within this we discuss many topics including Health and Safety, Safeguarding, Legislation, Employment Law and most importantly training.
This episode is aimed at potential ATF and trainers, but is important CPD for all existing ATF's currently in the system (free CPD for ATF's, you're welcome).
For those living outside the UK this will give an insight into what it takes to be a trainer in the UK system.
Link to FRC ATF info page
Farriers Registration Council : Approved Training Farriers (ATFs) (farrier-reg.gov.uk)
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Tom Smith FWCF GradDIP ELR (Dist.) (RVC) is a working farrier from Hampshire England, and is also the current Chairman of the Farriers Registration Council.
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Tom previously spoke to me about doing this podcast not just to make farriers aware of the upcoming council election but to also promote a better understanding of the role of the FRC and how it functions.
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Fat Fat Fat Fatty Fat Fat
Equine Obesity is a huge (excuse the pun) problem in the UK.
In todays episode i speak to one of the leading experts in this subject.
Tamzin is a social scientist with a background in global health, and has a specific interest in the interconnections between human and animal health and wellbeing. She completed a PhD at the University of Liverpool studying how we can improve the management of obesity in horses, particularly focusing on horse-human relationships and human behaviour change. She now works on projects covering a wide range of aspects of understanding human behaviour in order to improve companion animal welfare, and in using social sciences to find out more about how we can help people to change.
Awards:
University of Liverpool Public Engagement Award 2023, Commended
University of Liverpool Early Career Researcher of the Year 2020, Winner
University of Liverpool Public Engagement Award 2019, Winner
Examples of recent keynote speeches and major conference appearances:
Managing obesity across companion animals: invited presentation at British Veterinary Association conference (BVA Live); May 2023
Managing obesity: the human factors; invited presentation at British Equine Veterinary Association conference; September 2022
Behaviour Change Science for Animal Welfare: Keynote at the European Association of Zoo Animal Nutrition Annual Conference; 28 Jan 2021
Human behaviour change for improving equine welfare? Keynote lecture at the 3rd International Equine Welfare Conference 2020
From Overbreeding to Obesity: the one key to addressing equine welfare; Keynote lecture at Alltech Hartpury Equine Student Conference, June 2022
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Sat down one evening and spoke to my good friend and research partner Abby Bunyard AWCF about the BFBA of which she is about to be the new president and our Fellowship journey so far. We go off on tangents, we discuss the state of the industry, and we drunk a lot of Gin in the process! This was a great conversation.
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To hear more about Abbyâs route into Farriery, listen to her episode with the Mullins Farrier podcast, itâs a great listen.
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Last week I was invited to attend a meeting in Norway to with Mustad Hoofcare, on behalf of the BFBA Craft Committee to help develop a working version of the Mustad Farrier Portal. This is a scoring system developed to help competition organisers, and is a lot more than just a calculator. This system is the brainchild of Aksel Vibe AWCF. We sat down and and Aksel explained the system and how and why it was developed.
Although this conversation is very competition centric there are plenty many nuggets of information to learn from.
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Today I'm at what can only be described as farriery's equivalent of Area 51. The Shoeing Lab is owned by Kelvin Lymer DipWCF, and he has been in a previous episode talking about Endurance Racing. Kelvin is one of the most innovative that I have met over the years, not just as a horseshoer but as a business man. Kelvin is the type of person who is always spinning plates and looking to improve equine performance and comfort.
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For over 10 years he has been working and evolving his approach using 3D printing and has developed many products already and has even more not yet released.
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Pads, Packers and Bar Shoes,
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Today and my good friend Wayne Preece FWCF have a catch up and we discuss Pads Packers, Bar shoes and other hoof care packages. Like most of our chats we go off on tangents and discuss other farriery subjects.
Hope you enjoy this as much as we did making it.
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Welcome to 2024
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This year I aim to be a lot proactive with the Podcast. Last year was challenging to find time as it can be a time consuming, plus there was a lot of things going on in the world of Farriery.
This episode has been on the wait list for a long time.
Dean Lewis AWCF is a passionate and highly skilled Farrier and Blacksmith from Australia who's background in Harness Racing as a Racer and farrier served him with some excellent insight.
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Its that time of year again, BFBA Focus 2023
Again this year we are going to get as much content to you from the set up of the event, the 42nd International Team Horseshoeing Competition, and from the Focus event itself.
Here is a few of Brian's first day of set up interviews he captured today......
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Tiffany Gardner Dip WCF CJF is a North American farrier currently on the Edward Martin Farriers Cultural Exchange Program. We met whilst she was taking part in the Farriers Foundationâs Tour de Farrier bike ride. We chatted and found out she was a fellow educator at the Pacific Coast Shoeing School. I invited her to spend a couple of days at the Hereford School of Farriery. She stayed for over a week both teaching, shoeing and even mountain biking!
In this episode we discuss the route in to education and the benefits and the pitfalls and discuss some of the common problems we see in students and their learning. -
The last episode of the BFBA Focus PodcastâŠ.. In this episode we speak to the industry suppliers and trade stand holders at this yearâs event.
BFBA Focus 2022 was a fantastic event and is going to move onwards and upwards next year. I hope you have enjoyed these episodes as much as me and Brian enjoyed making them! More content to come from Brian via his Podcast The Mullins Farrier Podcast in the future including some amazing interviews from some of the industry greats.
For me, on this channel normal programming will resume with the standard Lockdown Farriery Podcast educational mandate. -
Me and Brian have finally arrived at Stoneleigh. We arrived at an empty giant tent and exhibition hall. And then the most important team arrived. Mark Watson and the Purple Army have been running the Competition for around the last 7 years and have run the best International Team Competition in the world.
We spoke to some of the volunteers and some of the competitors as they turned up on site. -
The Road to Stoneleigh..............
I have teamed up on behalf of the British Farriers and Blacksmiths Association with my good friend and fellow Podcaster Brian Mullins to capture the build up to and the main Event at this year's BFBA Focus Event and the 2022 International Team Farriery Competition.
In this episode we spoke to team USA as they set up camp practising at Alex Mercer's forge in the wilds of Lincolnshire in preparation for this weekend's international team farriery competition. -
The Road to Stoneleigh..............
I have teamed up on behalf of the British Farriers and Blacksmiths Association with my good friend and fellow Podcaster Brian Mullins to capture the build up to and the main Event at this year's BFBA Focus Event and the 2022 International Team Farriery Competition.
Today we caught up with Team Canada who are practicing at Mark Watson's forge as part of their journey to the International at Stoneleigh. It is fascinating to see the commitment that these competitors put themselves through to attend these international competitions.
Look out for Team USA tomorrow. - Vis mere
