Vet university collaborates with Brooke Hospital for establishing Farriery Institute

To train veterinary students, veterinarians, veterinary paraprofessionals, local services providers and horse owners, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Brooke Hospital for Animals (India) for establishing a Farriery Institute.

The university will be the second institute to collaborate with Brooke Hospital for Animals (India) for this purpose. Breeding horses and working mules often suffer from poor hoof health due to the inadequate skills of local street farriers, as farriery in India is traditionally a hereditary trade, passed down through generations with little to no formal training.

This collaboration will result in the establishment of a dedicated Farriery School to provide structured training on hoof management and will cater to the needs of veterinarians and local farriers from Punjab and adjoining states such as Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir. The school will deliver certified, skill-based farriery education, enhance hoof care practices, reduce lameness in horses and mules, and promote farriery as a professional livelihood in North India.

Dr JPS Gill, Vice Chancellor, said, “The collaboration with Brooke India will certainly help local farriers to be equipped with better skills for the welfare of equines.”