Cost of a trim?

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What does your farrier charge?
My old farrier usually did it free (when he was doing two full sets) Newer farrier charges about £20 but ponies don't really fall in with the timing for the horses shoes and my farrier travels a long way to me so i don't want to ask him to come out twice really.
I've contacted a more local guy and pretty much have said come but then asked the price and its £30- each, 2 ponies. I think this is expensive? They literally get rasped really, rarely even trimmed and are both over and done within 10 minutes.
Is this a fairly standard charge?
 
In New Zealand, I'm paying $40 per trim, for two and he also shoes one every six weeks. I tie them all in together as much for him as me as I have to take time off work.

Barefoot trimming was costing $50 per horse every four weeks.
 
Barefoot trim is now £25 here, but I think the farrier may have been a bit zealous last time so hoping all will be well next time! I am lucky as hoof & hair grow slowly on my boy, clip from November is only just growing out with his summer coat coming through!
 
Trim is £20, half set is £40 and full set is £70. Used to be a £5 call out fee per owner but that has now been abolished.
 
If your ponies only really need rasped why dont you do it yourself? A wee skim round with a rasp every week will keep on top of them and get the farrier to check them when they do your others/every other time they do your others.
 
My trimmer costs £25, I do know some who charge upwards of £35, but they will often teach you how to maintain so visits are less frequent. I know it's easy to say but cost is the least of my concerns, it would be the quality of the work and how good the horses' feet are becoming. On my past experience I wouldn't have a farrier to trim, they seem incapable of leaving soles alone.
 
My farrier charges £25 a trim, and yes he is there about 10mins per horse, but a fully qualified farrier!
I had a barefoot "trimmer" want £40 per horse!
 
Diamore said:
My farrier charges £25 a trim, and yes he is there about 10mins per horse, but a fully qualified farrier!
I had a barefoot "trimmer" want £40 per horse!
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Who was likely also qualified, just not to put shoes on.

If you can find a good farrier to trim without touching frogs/soles/bars (usually) for £20 you are laughing :).
I paid a trimmer significantly more because my farrier had no experience of bare rehab and I got more out of her than just the trim, and what cost him getting his soundness back. I also learned enough that I do him myself now.
 
My farrier is awesome. He charges £20 for a trim. He's also happy to bring in/turn out if I'm not around. He's happy for me to leave an envelope with cash if I'm out. He's very honest and has given me money off a trim when I had accidentally overpaid him the previous time.
 
I pay £40 per horse for trimming. It is money well spent as she has turned two horses around -they were both written off, thanks to remedial farriery. She also taught me how to maintain them, so visits more infrequently now. If they were still shod, I'd be looking at £130 every 6 weeks.
 
I pay £20 per horse (we have 2), although occasionally the farrier will turn round and say "I won't charge you for that one" if he's hardly had to do anything. I have a qualified farrier who was also involved in setting up the UKNHCP - best of both worlds :D
 
Between 20 and 25 per horse, i dont have one set farrier I just use which ever can fit me in when needed, tbh I don't rate either of them and think I will give the barefoot specialist my friend used at 40 a pop next time for a couple of them
 
I recently paid £25 for a farrier to trim and I think this is about average for the area - in fact I think I paid the same about 4 years ago when I used farriers before.

Usually use a UKNHCP trimmer but unfortunately she is injured at the moment and I had a knee op so hadn't been keeping up the work. Trimmer costs £45 and I know that may seem a lot to some people but this last experience with a farrier left my horse sore so I resent that £25 a lot more.
 
20 pounds per horse, we have four and they are all trimmed at the same time. One of the youngsters had some issues after a field incident caused a cut on the sole (vet sorted it under sedation twice and she got very upset) and farrier spent a long time getting her to accept him working with her fronts, still the basic charge.
 
So £30 is actually quite a lot then. Glad it's not just me!
Ok, am going to weasel my way out of this plan.
To the person who suggested I give it a try myself and just get it checked when regular farrier does the others I may well give it a try tbh.
I've seen those easy rasp things for sale which look quite good. Any one used one? They look like oval, maybe almost egg shapes with a L shape cut into one side?
 
for the most part you are better off with a standard rasp, I use a save edge which has a rough and a fine side. Ask your farrier for a used one and you won't be able to do much wrong with it but get used to using it a bit. I literally just shorten F's toes, I don't touch anything on the back half of his foot he does that himself, stick a 45 degree angle on from underneath and then roll the toe from on top. I use an adjustable car axle stand with a bit of thick stick on neoprene on the top to stop slippage.

Of the ovally rasps the radius rasp seems to have the best reviews :)
 
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