Upper Midwest Horseshoers Association

Winter Workshop and Hammer In - March 2012

9-9:30 Coffee & Donuts (Lyle’s shop rules)
9:30-Noon Forging demo’s
A. Basic modifications
-rolled toe, rocker toe, square toe
B. Selecting and measuring bar stock
C. Basic shoe shaping
-front pattern
-hind pattern
-heel checks
-nail holes
-finishing
D. Advanced shoe shaping
-fullering and creasing
-bar shoes
E. Forging tips and advice
-coal vs. gas
-time saving tricks
-shop set-up and safety
Noon-1 Lunch/UMHA Meeting
1-4 WCB forging practice (open to all)
-categories and rules
-hands on practice

This Clinic has been approved for two (2) American Association of Professional Farriers (AAPF) Continuing Education Credits. For more information visit their website - www.ProfessionalFarriers.com

2012 Winter Clinic Announcement

January 14th
Centaur Forge
Burlington, WI
9:00am till 3:00pm
Free lunch, head count at 10:00am

Learn from and share with each other about tool repair and tool maintenance. Learn valuable tips on how to preserve your tool life, how to repair your tools, and even how to make some of the tools yourself.
Covering everything from grinders and drills, to knives and rasps, trimming tools and forging tools.

UMHA Meeting

Get caught up on association business. Learn about our 2011 success and failures. Contribute to our 2012 plans. Be a part of the future of the Upper Midwest Horseshoers Association.

UMHA Winter Elections

Vice President: needs to be readily available on short notice to take over the President's tasks and responsibilities when the President is unavaible
Secretary: generates and files corporate documents and meeting minutes; also manages all correspondence, including e-mail, website, and newsletter mailings
Board Member: to assume the role of either membership coordinator or activities coordinator, or both

2012 Membership Dues

Dues are $45 per year. We'll be on hand to collect membership dues all day during the clinic, meetings, and elections. If you are unable to attend, or simply want to mail your dues in ahead of time, please use the association mailing address listed below. For new members who are considering joining UMHA, I am compiling a list of reasons to be an association member. The list is endless, starting with but not limited to the fellowship with other farriers that we help to provide, the Injured Farriers Fund that helps injured farrier in need, and the education derived from hiring clinicians and hosting clinics. All of the dues money goes toward these three goals.

2nd Annual Midwest Farrier Conference

From an e-mail dated Tuesday, July 12, 2011 from Madison Equine Clinic:

To all the local Farriers:

Please join us for the 2nd Annual Midwest Farrier Conference sponsored by the Lodi Veterinary Hospital. This year we decided to make the program a two day event. On Friday evening, November 11, we will have presentations and a dinner at Blue Mounds Equine Clinic. On Saturday, November 12, we will continue the program with demonstrations and discussions with Dean Johanningmeier.

The focus of this year's program will be hind end lameness. We would like to solicit interesting cases, so if you have a challenging hind limb case that you would like to submit please contact our office. To help defray the cost of this event, there will be a $40 fee for this two day event. We will be reserving hotel rooms in the Mt. Horeb area so please Save the Date and join us for this educational program!

More detailed information will follow, and if you know of any other farriers that may be interested in attending, please let us know and we will send information to them as well.

Sincerely,

Dave Kolb, DVM
Dean Meyer, DVM
Neil Ruppel, DVM
Jennifer Thompson, DVM
Cassie Torhorst, DVM
Dean Johanningmeier

Blue Mounds Equine Center
2505 State Road 78, Mt. Horeb, WI 53572
(608) 437-1702
www.bluemoundsequine.com
equinestaff@lodivet.com

Map - Location of Blue Mounds Equine Center

2011 Fall Clinic @ Centaur Forge

Word on the street is that Dave Farley,
sponsored by FPD, will be at Centaur
Forge in Burlington, WI on October 8th

We look forward to seeing you Dave.

--Upper Midwest Horseshoeing Association

AAEP/AFA Farrier Short Course - UW Madison

Coming September 17th

The vet student short-course offered at UW-Madison is looking for a few farriers to help demo horseshoe nailing, horseshoe removing, and hoof trimming. My understanding is the morning session is a lecture by one of the professors and also a slideshow presentation from an AFA Journeymen farrier. The course is free and there will be coffee and doughnuts.

The more farrier participation the better. Please RSVP (to Lowell Johnson @ 262-748-2448) as soon as possible and I will let you know if other farriers in your area are attending so you may carpool if desired. I helped with one of these a few years ago and it was a lot of fun and very informative.

Here is the address:

Charmany Instructional Facility
5801 Mineral Point Rd.
Madison, WI 53705

WHEN
September 17, 2011
Approximately 8am - 3pm

WHERE
UW Madison - School of Veterinary Medicine

2011 AFA Certification

2011 AFA Certification
June 24 & 25, 2011
All areas, All levels
Examiner: Brian Barrett, CJF

Friday June 24th
Location:
RT&3L Farm
4240 Jefferson Pike
Jefferson, MD 21755
9am: Pre-certification workshop
Brian and the testers will shoe a horse and go over any areas of the
exam that candidates would like to review.
12 pm: Registration
1 pm SHARP: Written Exam

Saturday June 25th
Location:
Silverado Stables
11515 Angleberger Road
Thurmont, MD 21788
7:30 am: Set up, registration
9 am SHARP: Practical Exams

Contact:
Corey Minnick, CJF
301‐748‐7754, midvalleyfandf@gmail.com

UMHA Officer Meeting

This meeting is open to all members, so if you are in the area please stop by and say hello.

We will be discussing Fall and Winter clinician choices, AFA certification dates for this fall, and other association related stuff.

Probably going out to eat at a nearby restaurant after the meeting.

We have been asked to start our meeting early, so be there early - that means around 4:00

See you there!

Centaur Forge Spring Clinic - Blake Brown

Blake Brown will be presenting shoeing techniques for a variety of pathologies from ringbone to club foot to laminitic cases.

Silent Auction ending at 3pm will include your donations and some tools from Jim Kieth and Todd Walker. Bring your own donations to help support this fundraiser.

UMHA Meeting to discuss current business and future plans/clinics/etc.

Gene Lieser Clinic - WCB Warmup

Location:
Kenny Tekampe
9206 Rt 173
Richmond, IL 60071

Cost: $50 Deposit

American Farrier's Association 40th Annual Convention and National Competition

Location: Lexington, KY
Website: AFA Website