Farrier prices !!!

My farrier has just put up their prices with the VAT rise. I'm paying £70 for a new set, with a split call out charge as someone else gets their pony done by them at the same time.
 
£68....with the promise that it's going up next time :-(.......was only £45 when I started out 9 years ago...HOWEVER my farrier is fantasic & I love my horsey so happy days and I'll have to spend less on other things.....mainly me! xxxxxxxx
 
mine are £60 per set or at least it was as farrier coming 2mrw so be interested to see if the prices have gone up. my friend from the same area pays £72 per set and £2 extra per stud hole
 
I pay £65 for new, £60 for re-fits. Toying with the idea of going barefoot though, not because of the price(he's been the same for years), I think my boy would cope fine barefoot.
 
Dont forget theres VAT added andits now 20%. Where I live a farrier was fined for VAT evasion a few years ago and now he insists on issuing a reciept even if you pay cash and its £x plus VAT @ 20%. I do wonder if some single-man-self-employed farriers are not charging VAT. £50 or£60 seems quite cheap whe you think about this added to the cost of diesel/petrol. I just wish our villages had farriers like in the old days and yu could walk your horse there. I bet shoeing would be about half what it costs if that arrangement was commonplace.
 
Derby/Notts.

£60 full set.
£1 per road pin.
£25 trim.
£35 fronts only.

Never uses re-fits.

First lost shoe, free.
Second lost shoe, £10.
(At one yard, used to lose shoes like it was going out of fashion!).
 
I'm in Sussex and my Farrier is from Surrey -my horses shoes are £85 per set and a trim is £35! I'm not complaining though as worth every penny.
 
Mine is £76 for a full set including road nails - i would say its a fair price his work is excellent and he is fabulous with my timid tb mare! cant fault him - plus she hasnt lost a shoe since hes been my farrier (touch wood) :p
 
Have literally had mine done this morning - £20 for refit of fronts and trim on the back. Was paying £45.00 before winter for a full set, but upped to £50 so i decided to take hinds off.

Another farrier in the area charges £65.00 for a full set - expensive to me as his workmanship is no different to the one i use.

there are 12 of us at our livery yard, and there are about 9 horses that get shod by the same farrier. we organised one visit for them all so he gets a good days work from us, and the diesel cost is spread between all of us. We aim for a visit every 8 weeks.

my boy lost a shoe about 3 weeks before he was due to be shod this time, and as i couldnt afford to pay to get the farrier out for one shoe (when the horse was sound and wasnt in work) when he'd be due again soon anyway, i left it off. I told my farrier this morning, and he was surprised - he told me he'd replace a lost one for free. I'm used to being charged unless it comes off within 2 weeks of first being shod.
 
Think it was 67 last time for a new set, less if he has re fits, and less if i have him done when others are being done nearby.
 
My old farrier bless him charges £60 for a pony and £65 for horses wether it's new or refit's mind you he does do a good job but ouch on some of the prices you guys are paying id be skint as mine get done every 6 weeks and one is retired and the other is only worked in the school 3 times a week
 
Horsesforever1 said:
Dont forget theres VAT added andits now 20%. Where I live a farrier was fined for VAT evasion a few years ago and now he insists on issuing a reciept even if you pay cash and its £x plus VAT @ 20%. I do wonder if some single-man-self-employed farriers are not charging VAT. £50 or£60 seems quite cheap whe you think about this added to the cost of diesel/petrol. I just wish our villages had farriers like in the old days and yu could walk your horse there. I bet shoeing would be about half what it costs if that arrangement was commonplace.
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VAT is only applicable where turnover is £70k I think, so many one-man-band farriers won't fall into this bracket. My friends' farrier does, because he has apprentices/staff.
 
Was paying £55.00, but was forced to change farriers, so now paying £60.00, however the new guy lives local, answers his phone, phones you back, and came out within 10 minutes on a sunday evening when the sausage pulled a shoe in the field, he only asked for £5.00, I gave him £10.00, so quite happy at £60.00
 
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