Cytek Farriery

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Does anyone know much about this? I am not considering it as i am happy with my wonderful farrier and the job he does. Just curious.

Do you have to be a farrier to train to fit cytek shoes or
is the cytek training instead of the normal farriery training.

I think they would have to be a proper farrrier in the uk to do it but what about other countries that don't have the same strict regulations?

Just wondering as the thought occurred to me that a barefoot trimmer could claim to be a farrier also but has only done the cytek training in another country.
 
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I would not allow anything like this to be put on my horses!
My ex farrier started to shoe with the squared toe that these shoes offer stating that it was 'natural' as mustangs had been brought in from the wild and they had squared off toes.

I have had many ponies from the mountains and moors and have yet to see any with squared off toes.

All that happened when the horse had this type of shoe on was that they started moving like cripples on that their stride got very short and therefore rushed. They tripped a lot and hated it as much as I did! The break over was coming way to soon hence the shuffling.

In answer to your question, a qualified farrier would have to fit them on any horse in the UK and if a farrier trained in any other part of the world wishes to shoe horses in the UK then they have to pass the exams here.
 
I had cytek shoes on my horse years ago for a few months. I was riding with a particular famous dressage rider and she had a cytek farrier shoe all her horses and said I should use him too. Being a teenager I did what I was told. It was ok. My horse didn't really do anything different to what she did in normal shoes. The price was the same. The guy showed up on time and treated my horse fine. Then my horse went out on loan and the loaner (who is a highly experienced AI who had her own riding school) wanted to use normal shoes. I was happy with her judgement so we switched back. Again, horse was fine. No big deal.

I don't understand how it's 'natural' though - shoeing is not natural.
 
yeah, but what I want to know is,
can someone who isn't a qualified farrier here go and do the cytek training abroad, and although he can't practice here, could claim to be a farrier because he did the cytek thing.
so after doing the cytek farriery training abroad, go and do a trimming weekend here and then tell prospective trimming clients that he is a farrier who is now specializing in barefoot trimming? so in effect lulling people into a false sense of security as they are under the impression that he is a bona fida farrier to uk standards who has done the trimming course.
Or
to do the cytek training, even abroad where the regulations aren't as stringent, do they need to be a proper farrier in the first place and do that as an extra string to their bow.
 
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Its horses for courses. My old fella was written off by Rossdales back in 2004 for having caudal heel pain/nav syndrome. We tried all manner of remedial shoes before NFU stopped paying. He was chronically lame.

I found a Cytek farrier and he went from 6/10th lame to 1/10th lame in his first shoeing. The shoes really suited him. He was shod 5 weekly (despite what they day about them going 10 weeks) . In the opinion of my vet those shoes were a God send when the old bugger sustained a spiral fracture to his cannon bone in 2009 as he stood x-tied for 8 weeks and the sole support was invaluable.

He is now in roller shoes and is a happy chappy. It took 6 years of careful rebalancing and building up of his soles to get him into roller shoes and I will be forever grateful to my farrier for his patience and hard work, raising the heels and rebalancing the foot.
 
quote ''In answer to your question, a qualified farrier would have to fit them on any horse in the UK and if a farrier trained in any other part of the world wishes to shoe horses in the UK then they have to pass the exams here''

yep but say he doesn't want to actually shoe horses here, cytek or otherwise. he just wants to do the barefoot trimming thing. could he then claim that he is a 'farrier' in order to make the client think he was more qualified than he is. or to do it in the first place, in any country, need to be a proper farrier first anyway.
can you do training in cytek farriery abroad, without actually being a proper farrier?
 
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