Bachelor Thesis - Christina Kuenen - Hufpfleger

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9.3.1 Alternative education institutes 9.3.1.1 BESW Akademie in Schonstett The BESW Akademie has been founded in 2001 and managed by Dr Alexander Wurthmann. They offer a consecutive education system for three different professions: bare hoof practitioner, hoof technician and farrier. All of them end with a final exam. Every participant has to become a member of the association “Allianz für Hufbearbeitung e.V.” for at least three years. The bare hoof practitioner education takes place in Osnabrück or Ulm. It is split up into six blocks à four or five days practical and theoretical lessons. All in all it takes around six months. There are no preconditions for entering the exam also without taking part in the education blocks. The fee for the whole course charges € 4450 (BESW, 2011). The education for the hoof technicians takes also place in Osnabrück or Ulm. They do additionally learn to shoe with alternative material. The education is split up into six blocks of four days over a time scale of six months. It charges € 4790. Also no preconditions are needed for taking part in the exam (BESW, 2011). The education for farriers take place in Deurne, the Netherlands. It is organised in six week blocks lasting five days. They take place within half a year. It is necessary to proof the pass of the bare hoof and bare hoof plus exams. Additionally a placement and the keeping up of a report booklet is part of the education. The fee is € 3990 (BESW, 2011). 9.3.1.2 Ebeta in Baisweil The Ebeta has been founded in 2001 and is managed by Boris Eberhard. They offer three types of educations which build up on each other: the bare hoof practitioner, who works on bare hoofs, the bare hoof practitioner plus, who works also with flexible hoof protection, and the hoof technician, who in addition works with stiff protection materials excluding iron. Every participant has to become a member of the association GdHK, which is also responsible for the final exams. The bare hoof practitioner education takes around one year and is split up into weekend courses, practical and theoretical. A placement of fifty days is needed to be allowed to take the final exam. It charges € 4.030,00 (Ebeta, 2011). The further education as bare hoof practitioner plus takes another six months with three practical weekend courses and a placement of 25 days. The fee is € 1.600,00. The pre-requirement is a completed bare hoof practitioner education (Ebeta, 2011). The education as hoof technician can be followed when the bare hoof plus education has been completed. It takes another six months for the practical courses and a 50-day placement. It charges € 2080,00 (Ebeta, 2011). 9.3.1.3 Deutsches Institut für Huforthopädie (DifHO) in Morbach The DifHO has been founded by Jochen Biernat. They offer an education in hoof orthopaedics. This education is split up into seventeen weekend courses within two years. The first year is the study of the basics and ends with an intermediate exam. The second year is the practical one, ending with a final exam. Next to practical courses at the institute also a placement is obligatory including the maintenance of a report booklet. Every certificated hoof orthopaedist of the DifHO has to follow further education for four days every year. The education charges about € 6.000,00 (DifHO, 2011). 9.3.1.4 Lehranstalt für Huforthopädie (LfH) der Deutschen huforthopädischen Gesellschaft (DHG) in Mahlis The LfH has been founded as the instructive institute of the DHG. The DHG is taking the exams. For the education it is necessary to be a member of the DHG. The DHG has been the examination association of the DifHO until they split up. It is managed by Dr Konstanze Rasch. They offer an education in hoof orthopaedics of two years. It is organised in weekend courses of two days. Within the first year twenty days of basic courses have to be visited and finished with a intermediate exam. The second year includes also twenty days studying. The main study ends with the final exam. Additionally a placement of thirty days and case studies of five horses are required. The whole education charges € 4.300,00 (DHG, 2011). 64
9.3.1.5 Das Barhuf-Institut in Stechendorf The “Barhufinstitut” founded by Detlev Urban in Stechendorf offers an education in natural hoof care. He has been a lecturer at the VdHP of Dr Strasser before he founded his own business and changed to another method of hoof treatment The bare hoof practitioners have to follow a ten-month-education split up into weekend courses of three days. In addition a placement of nine days is needed to be allowed to take the final exam. The education fee is € 3.700,00 (Barhufinstitut, 2011). 9.3.1.6 Europäisches Institut für Pferdephysiologie (EIPP) in Losheim The “Europäisches Institut für Pferdephysiologie” is managed by Christoph Gehrmann and located in Losheim. It is the only certificated institute in Germany offering an education for bare hoof practitioners according to Dr Strasser. The course is split up into 10 weekends of two days over a period of two years. Additionally a placement of 20 days and the participation in the VdHP, the association founded by Strasser, are required to take part in the final exam. The fees is € 9.490,00 (EIPP, 2011, VdHP, 2011). 9.3.1.7 Freie Hufschule in Flachslanden The “Freie Hufschule” in Flachslanden is managed by Wolfgang Busch. They offer an education in bare hoof care organised in sixteen weekend seminars over one and a half year. A placement of hundred-twenty days is obligatory. It has to be done at hoof treatment and veterinarian businesses. The total fee is € 3.200,00 (Freie Hufschule, 2011). 9.3.1.8 Europäische-Hufbeschlags-Akademie (EHA) in Enningerloh The “EHA” offers educations as bare hoof practitioner, hoof technician and farrier with a Netherlands certificate. These courses build up on each other. The management and organisation is done by Alfons Wiskow. The education for bare hoof practitioners takes eighteen days split up into weekend seminars over a period of six months. The evidence of fifty treated horses is necessary for the exam. The education charges € 2.950,00 (EHA, 2011). Another twenty-one days split up on weekend courses are needed to complete the education as hoof technician. The evidence of fifty shod horses and a completed bare hoof practitioner education are required to take the final exam. The fee is € 3.350,00 (EHA, 2011). For becoming a farrier the trainee has to visit six week courses in the Netherlands. This charges € 4.350,00 (EHA, 2011). 9.3.1.9 Lehrschmiede Nerdlen The “Lehrschmiede Nerdlen” is managed by Burkhard Rau. It is the only instructive farrier institute offering a separate education in bare hoof practices and hoof technique. The education for bare hoof practitioners is split up into twenty week course and charges € 4.750,00 (LS Rau, 2011). The hoof technician course is split up into sixteen week courses and the fee is € 1.900,00. As a pre-condition one needs to have a completed bare hoof practitioner course (LS Rau, 2011). An overview about the educations can be found in the following table: 65
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