How much is your farrier?

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Just wondering really what does everyone pay for their farriers mines
£20 trim £60 full set, i like to think im quite lucky hes super calm with the horses, talks to them while hes doing it etc & dont bother him if they go mad
 
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£20 a trim, £50 for a full set :)

A good, reliable farrier are worth a lot - I always here stories of unreliable farriers and don't know how people cope!
 
That is very reasonable.

Mine is £25 for a trim and £70 for a set - there are cheaper farriers in our area, but mine is super reliable and always on hand if I lose a shoe or have a lame horse. I have used him for over 10 yrs so is more like a family friend and great with the horses too.
 
GBL said:
£20 a trim, £50 for a full set :)

A good, reliable farrier are worth a lot - I always here stories of unreliable farriers and don't know how people cope!
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Can I have your farrier please?!?!?!?

Up here in Central Scotland it's £25 a trim - tb or Shetland doesn't matter. And £80 a set of shoes. £35 for just fronts and then another £5 if you want the hinds trimmed as well.

Gone are the days of £10 trims and £40 shoes ...

I'm not using the farrier I did again as he spent 2 hours putting on a set of 4 shoes, one of which came off within 2 days, and he stopped to smoke and drink between putting on each shoe. He didn't even clench up or rasp down between fags, left the horse standing with sharp nails sticking out ...
 
EKW said:
Can I have your farrier please?!?!?!?

Up here in Central Scotland it's £25 a trim - tb or Shetland doesn't matter. And £80 a set of shoes. £35 for just fronts and then another £5 if you want the hinds trimmed as well.

Gone are the days of £10 trims and £40 shoes ...

I'm not using the farrier I did again as he spent 2 hours putting on a set of 4 shoes, one of which came off within 2 days, and he stopped to smoke and drink between putting on each shoe. He didn't even clench up or rasp down between fags, left the horse standing with sharp nails sticking out ...
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Move to Lancashire and I'm sure he'd be happy to help!

I know he does charge slightly more for heavy horses but I am lucky. He's cheap and good at his job.

I wouldn't be happy with your farrier at all. Never mind the cost but leaving nails sticking out is dangerous, or it would be for my self harming thoroughbred!
 
£20 a trim and £87 (I think! I only do shoes in summer) for a full set including road nails.
Never had a single shoe come off. Very good and reliable :)
 
Had the same farrier for 35years! He's fantastic at what he does and in all those years he's always made every appointment and at exactly the time we arranged. And he charges me just £10 a trim!
 
Mine is just worth his weight in gold to me lol. It's no good me telling you how much I pay for a full set as my ned has feet the size of dinner plates so it's more than the average price and his front shoes are hand made as 'off the peg' aren't big enough.

He's never late, checks legs as well as feet every time, never ever had a shoe come off between visits and he's prepared to tackle the dreaded ergots!!
 
Because he is a funny beggar with funny feet and the farrier I now use is the one he had in racing so knows how to deal with him and what needs done with him. He's a bit spesh is the Hocamaffe!
 
Actually, before anyone misunderstands me... I think good farriery/trimming is priceless. It's just that I believe that you can, as an owner, a person who is closest to the horse can carry out a trim on the feet as you would trim a tail or mane that is too long. If you can trust yourself to feed, worm and do all those basic things.... why not trimming?
 
Mine is.. £15 for a trim, £45 for cold shoeing, £50 hot, or £60-70 for special shoes (eg if he has to make wedge shoes specially). He has trimmed my friend's pony for 20 years, shoes all over the country and works for some very good vets - we are lucky to have him - though I suspect he charges new clients more than we pay.
 
EKW said:
Because he is a funny beggar with funny feet and the farrier I know use is the one he had in racing so knows how to deal with him and what needs done with him. He's a bit spesh is the Hocamaffe!
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Has he always been flatfooted?
 
Yes and no, in racing the farriers did a good job of helping build his feet up to be more normal. It's when he left training and I used a different farrier that things went to pot as new farrier was more of a get it done quick style. It only took about 3 months to see the drastic difference and realise just how much work had been put into him so it's back with his normal farrier and back to having relatively normal feet.
 
tallyho! said:
Actually, before anyone misunderstands me... I think good farriery/trimming is priceless. It's just that I believe that you can, as an owner, a person who is closest to the horse can carry out a trim on the feet as you would trim a tail or mane that is too long. If you can trust yourself to feed, worm and do all those basic things.... why not trimming?
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I can see your point. I consider myself a competent owner but would never trust myself to trim a horses hoof. As I see it trimming manes and tails is unlikely to impact upon the horses conformation as farrier work is. I would never forgive Myself if this led to strain on their limbs and potential lameness. Just as I would never carry out physio or dentistry work without the relevant training and credentials I would rather trust a farrier who deal with hooves day in day out and have had the relevant training. I feel there's enough to go wrong regarding lameness issues without my interference!
 
Charmin said:
I can see your point. I consider myself a competent owner but would never trust myself to trim a horses hoof. As I see it trimming manes and tails is unlikely to impact upon the horses conformation as farrier work is. I would never forgive Myself if this led to strain on their limbs and potential lameness. Just as I would never carry out physio or dentistry work without the relevant training and credentials I would rather trust a farrier who deal with hooves day in day out and have had the relevant training. I feel there's enough to go wrong regarding lameness issues without my interference!
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Quite agree!
 
Charmin said:
I can see your point. I consider myself a competent owner but would never trust myself to trim a horses hoof. As I see it trimming manes and tails is unlikely to impact upon the horses conformation as farrier work is. I would never forgive Myself if this led to strain on their limbs and potential lameness. Just as I would never carry out physio or dentistry work without the relevant training and credentials I would rather trust a farrier who deal with hooves day in day out and have had the relevant training. I feel there's enough to go wrong regarding lameness issues without my interference!
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Maybe not dentistry... though perhaps, if you were interested enough you could.

Physio I can certainly deal with myself even though I call out a physio 2x a year. All the maintenance stuff I do myself. Its very simple. Hooves are even more simple than that if you had the courage to look into it.

I was very scared about hooves... until my beloved boy got lami... then navi... heartbreaking but I learnt so much. It really is something we could all do as owners. If we all knew about balance and hoof structure, we would all do it I am sure. We are not stupid. We are just in the dark.
 
£10 for a trim, which I have twice a year. Was chatting to a farrier today about bf trimmers, and how farcical it all is, we have many bf trimmers in Cornwall and only one I'd consider trusting with my horse, she charges as much for a trim as the farriers do for a set, and most of the farriers I would trust to do as good a job as she does at a trim :/
 
10 euro for a trim, 50 euro a new set and 40 euro for removes. A very good farrier who comes when he says and if you have one gravelled will get to you sometime that day or the next (if you don't ring him early enough) and only charges 10 euro for dealing with it!
 
Last years prices were:

£55 full set
£30 just fronts

Free refit of lost shoes inbetween visits if you still have the shoe.
Usually if you have one fitted with a full set and a youngster just needing a quick rasp the youngster's free.

He is normally a bit late but no more than twenty minutes, he is sometimes dramatically early and gets my mare in and has taken shoes off by the time I'm down!

I had a TB who overreached and yanked shoes off left right and centre, I started paying him for refits of that because I think it was taking the mickey a bit. Paid £10 per refit for him.

I think full set prices will have gone up but haven't shod my mare all round yet, so will be interesting to see by how much.

Also I think the free refits is because we're on his way home and available normally whenever's convenient for him so he just pops in.
 
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