Mention 'Equestrian' and £££'s are added on....

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...so I'm having a mid-life crisis and my poor mare is suffering from my need to purchase 'hot pink' items for this summer season. She has the KP cooler (cheap and used off ebay) a matching saddle cloth, brushing boots with hot pink straps....and my my latest requisitions are a jacket (from a tack sale!) that has a hint of pink and a lovely fly veil that arrived today. :)

She also has hot pink travel boots and a tail guard! :D

Thing is, I realised at the weekend, none of my ties matched and if I dared to use the red one, we would be a fashion disaster! :o

....sooooo been trawling ebay and noticed if I buy a hot pink tie from the 'men's' section, it's £1.80 with free delivery. If I look under 'Equestrian' I can add another £8 on the price!

Anyone else ever found a huge difference because it's 'for the 'oss'.....

(No comments about the colour, humour me.... :p )
 
Not just you! Horse hi-viz is expensive, but you can pick up a tabbard in Poundland! I always go elsewhere if I can, but annoyingly, other shops don't really make bridles :P haha
 
Yes! Vets.

My farmer OH was £200 for a vet to come out to one of his cows and perform a Caesarian.

I had a vet out to my old mare for a foot abscess a few years ago and that was £200!
 
Oh yes, skip buckets that we use for all sorts of things, small ones for feeds, large ones for water, and middle ones for skipping out. Buy them from the builders merchants and anything from 99p to £4.50 -from an equestrian shop they start at £7.50. Yard brushes, spades, wheelbarrows are the same if it's 'Equestrian' we obviously all have heaps of money to waste. And don't even get me started on 'human' clothing. GRRRRR
 
Haha not strictly actually!

My dad needed unbroken trugs (the large like 20 litre buckets) so off he goes to ScrewFix.. 12.50 for a bucket later and he spent 30 quid on buckets.. he was a bit miffed when we told him the horsey ones were cheaper..!
 
I've found yard tools such as brooms and shovels always have a beefy pricetag because horses. I ended up going to The Range for ym broom, £5 and I have an awesome broom.
 
Hmm well I have a rabbit too, and can't believe how much pet shops expect people to pay for mini shavings bales, one enterprising place had a standard horse shavings bale, at double what it would be in local feed store, and it still looked really cheap next to the mini bales!
 
Tern said:
Haha not strictly actually!

My dad needed unbroken trugs (the large like 20 litre buckets) so off he goes to ScrewFix.. 12.50 for a bucket later and he spent 30 quid on buckets.. he was a bit miffed when we told him the horsey ones were cheaper..!
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Aah - I went to Wickes to get mine, ok so they are all black but they match :) :)
 
cattysmith said:
Yes! Vets.

My farmer OH was £200 for a vet to come out to one of his cows and perform a Caesarian.

I had a vet out to my old mare for a foot abscess a few years ago and that was £200!
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The chap who delivers my hay asked how much is a pregnancy scan for a horse. Couldn't remember exactly but £50 ish, he's paying £5 per head for his cows :(
 
The vets fees are where I notice the biggest difference, I have a smallholding and really notice the difference in the bill for livestock and the bills for the ponies. the latest bill for the sheep was two antibiotic injections to give at home = £6.
 
WelshD - and the same drug at those prices in a horse dose? Bearing in mind that the average cost for an injection of antibiotics for a horse (broad spectrum) is about £18 (less for procaine penicillin G), it would work out very very similar.
 
Tubtrugs in horse shops and outside of horse shops are shockingly different prices! Also rider wear - I don't understand why people would waste £45 on a long sleeve top or t-shirt when you could buy at least three for that from another shop perfectly suitable for wearing to the stables!
 
cattysmith said:
Yes! Vets.

My farmer OH was £200 for a vet to come out to one of his cows and perform a Caesarian.

I had a vet out to my old mare for a foot abscess a few years ago and that was £200!
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Exactly this...local farmer was charged £192 for a cow caesarean a few weeks ago which all got a bit complicated and vet was there for a while - I was £195 for two ponies to have bloods taken on same day which took a grand total of about 10mins!!! :(
 
Apache Warlord said:
Hmm well I have a rabbit too, and can't believe how much pet shops expect people to pay for mini shavings bales, one enterprising place had a standard horse shavings bale, at double what it would be in local feed store, and it still looked really cheap next to the mini bales!
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I had a bunny as a kid and laughed at people paying a £1 for a carrier bag od hay/straw from pet shop every week for there bunny, I bought a whole bale of straw £1 and hay £2 of my yard manager and kept them in the barn and just took a carrier bag home each weekend as I need, equally so I bought a £5 bale of shaivngs too and bagged it up as I needed.
if id of been more entrepenrual I could of flogged it to my friends and made a fortune!
 
Hawks27. I think the reason why people pay to buy small packs of hay/straw for rabbits is because of mixy. The prepacked stuff was usually treated in some way
 
Penny Less said:
Hawks27. I think the reason why people pay to buy small packs of hay/straw for rabbits is because of mixy. The prepacked stuff was usually treated in some way
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Nope, it's because your average rabbit owner hasn't a clue where to buy a 'proper' bale of straw, and wouldn't have anywhere to put it if they did.
I'm sue some owners would pay extra for treated straw, but most wouldn't if they had the option. The risk is smaller than the cost differential.
 
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