Bachelor Thesis - Christina Kuenen - Hufpfleger
Bachelor Thesis - Christina Kuenen - Hufpfleger
Bachelor Thesis - Christina Kuenen - Hufpfleger
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9.3.1 Alternative education institutes<br />
9.3.1.1 BESW Akademie in Schonstett<br />
The BESW Akademie has been founded in 2001 and managed by Dr Alexander Wurthmann. They offer a consecutive<br />
education system for three different professions: bare hoof practitioner, hoof technician and farrier. All of them end<br />
with a final exam. Every participant has to become a member of the association “Allianz für Hufbearbeitung e.V.” for at<br />
least three years.<br />
The bare hoof practitioner education takes place in Osnabrück or Ulm. It is split up into six blocks à four or five days<br />
practical and theoretical lessons. All in all it takes around six months. There are no preconditions for entering the exam<br />
also without taking part in the education blocks. The fee for the whole course charges € 4450 (BESW, 2011).<br />
The education for the hoof technicians takes also place in Osnabrück or Ulm. They do additionally learn to shoe with<br />
alternative material. The education is split up into six blocks of four days over a time scale of six months. It charges €<br />
4790. Also no preconditions are needed for taking part in the exam (BESW, 2011).<br />
The education for farriers take place in Deurne, the Netherlands. It is organised in six week blocks lasting five days.<br />
They take place within half a year. It is necessary to proof the pass of the bare hoof and bare hoof plus exams.<br />
Additionally a placement and the keeping up of a report booklet is part of the education. The fee is € 3990 (BESW,<br />
2011).<br />
9.3.1.2 Ebeta in Baisweil<br />
The Ebeta has been founded in 2001 and is managed by Boris Eberhard. They offer three types of educations which<br />
build up on each other: the bare hoof practitioner, who works on bare hoofs, the bare hoof practitioner plus, who works<br />
also with flexible hoof protection, and the hoof technician, who in addition works with stiff protection materials<br />
excluding iron. Every participant has to become a member of the association GdHK, which is also responsible for the<br />
final exams.<br />
The bare hoof practitioner education takes around one year and is split up into weekend courses, practical and<br />
theoretical. A placement of fifty days is needed to be allowed to take the final exam. It charges € 4.030,00 (Ebeta, 2011).<br />
The further education as bare hoof practitioner plus takes another six months with three practical weekend courses and a<br />
placement of 25 days. The fee is € 1.600,00. The pre-requirement is a completed bare hoof practitioner education<br />
(Ebeta, 2011).<br />
The education as hoof technician can be followed when the bare hoof plus education has been completed. It takes<br />
another six months for the practical courses and a 50-day placement. It charges € 2080,00 (Ebeta, 2011).<br />
9.3.1.3 Deutsches Institut für Huforthopädie (DifHO) in Morbach<br />
The DifHO has been founded by Jochen Biernat. They offer an education in hoof orthopaedics. This education is split<br />
up into seventeen weekend courses within two years. The first year is the study of the basics and ends with an<br />
intermediate exam. The second year is the practical one, ending with a final exam. Next to practical courses at the<br />
institute also a placement is obligatory including the maintenance of a report booklet. Every certificated hoof<br />
orthopaedist of the DifHO has to follow further education for four days every year. The education charges about €<br />
6.000,00 (DifHO, 2011).<br />
9.3.1.4 Lehranstalt für Huforthopädie (LfH) der Deutschen huforthopädischen Gesellschaft (DHG) in<br />
Mahlis<br />
The LfH has been founded as the instructive institute of the DHG. The DHG is taking the exams. For the education it is<br />
necessary to be a member of the DHG. The DHG has been the examination association of the DifHO until they split up.<br />
It is managed by Dr Konstanze Rasch. They offer an education in hoof orthopaedics of two years. It is organised in<br />
weekend courses of two days. Within the first year twenty days of basic courses have to be visited and finished with a<br />
intermediate exam. The second year includes also twenty days studying. The main study ends with the final exam.<br />
Additionally a placement of thirty days and case studies of five horses are required. The whole education charges €<br />
4.300,00 (DHG, 2011).<br />
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