How often do you shoe your horses??

My horse with Navicular, every 4 weeks.

My riding horse, every 5 weeks, but that is because his shoes are totally worn out after 5 weeks, and I can't stretch it to 6 weeks.

I used to have cytex shoes, and you can go for 8 weeks between shoeings with those, but I did too much roadwork and they kept falling off, which is why I went back to normal shoes.
(Cytex £78 a set, normal shoes £64 a set)
 
Every 6 weeks and it costs £65, Brilliant farrier he just books us in and leaves us a card so we can put it in our diaries, will just carry on and do them if we can't be there.
 
Every 7 weeks £65 for full set at the moment, farrier says he's upping his prices soon though, hopefully not this afternoon when he's coming!
 
Never - costs me £30 each for a trim every 5/6 weeks, and I tidy them up myself inbetween if they need it. Hacked out on roads and lanes every day, sand school, fields - have hoofboots but rarely use them - £90 a pair, last forever.
 
Sadie has a trim all round and is shod up front every six weeks on the dot. I pay 40GBP for this and am based in Surrey.

She is fully retired so not in any work, but scrapes/paws at times hence shoes on the front.

Sadiemay
 
A healthy hoof will on average (broad generalisation here) grow 1cm every four weeks or so.

Maybe the trend for longer and longer shoeing intervals is contributing to the sky scraper hooves seen all over the UK? And the high level of contraction.

Maybe it is also contributing to tripping, slipping, tendon injuries and worse?

If you horse grows hoof very slowly then maybe investigate why? It could be from reduced blood supply (contracted hooves are especially vulnerable to this), poor diet or lack of stimulation.

I don't often feel sorry for farriers, but I do when they are asked to keep shoes on for longer and longer intervals. The only way they can do so is by compromising hoof health in one way or another.

Farriers - next time a client judges you by if you can keep a shoe on for x plus silly number of weeks walk away! :-)

Ok now going to hide in a deep hole somewhere to avoid all the flack that is bound to come my way :-)
 
Every 6 weeks £50.00 per set
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Every 8 weeks for my big lad (on advice from my farrier as his feet are very slow growing.....not nutritional or anything he just has bad feet) £140 a full set and £70 for a refit (yes, I'm serious).
 
Wow that seems expensive!! ^

£60 for a full set (was £55 till 4 weeks ago) and every 7/8 weeks (I have a TB with good feet amazingly)
 
I have this year stretched mine out to every 8 weeks (previously 6/7 weeks), this was purely down to financial reasons and farrier said it was okay, feet were fine.

I'm in Worcestershire and pay £65 for full set, have recently changed one horse to fronts only and that was £45 I think? Pay £18/£20 for Shetland trims.
 
I get mine done every 4 weeks. In the summer they get gel pads so it's £120. In the winter it's £90. Bit expensive but no hoof no horse!
 
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