Farrier Urges American Horse Council To Back Footcare Standards:It would entail development of a program to include education, training and eventual licensing of all farriers

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For more than 4 decades, Walt Taylor has favored the licensing of farriers. But for years the founder and long-term president of the American Farrier's Association (AFA) accepted the wishes of the AFA membership to develop an in-house certification program as an alternative to licensing.Finally realizing that no change was going to come from the AFA or from most of today's farriers, the Albuquerque, N.M., farrier has changed direction in recent months. He is now campaigning for professional education and training of farrier students that would eventually lead to the licensing of all farriers.