Think I've been fleeced - how much to you pay for shoeing?

Mine charges me between £30 to £40 for fronts and its £60 for a full set and £20 for trims depending on what mood he is in and he thinks he can charge more if your horse is naughty!! We had an argument over this lol so you can tell i think he rips people off and has got to big for his boots now smacking horses when today my pony was perfectly good with her feet so im pleased it hasn't scared her. All be it he branded her "Dangerous"
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£64 for a full new set and £58 for refits - shocking if you ask me which is why I'm planning on trying him barefoot in the winter!
 
Just fronts and a tidy up on backs is £47
Full set is £73! So... i don't think you've been fleeced toooo badly...!
Its crazy isn't it!!!
 
My boy has been shoeless for about two years but some months back he came up lame. Nerve blocks and xray showed very mild arthritis in his knee - sprained suspensory ligament and tendon. The vet came the other day and suggested he is coming down on the his foreleg on the inside of the hoof first she said that I should get my farrier to call her so she could explain the reason for shoeing him. He is not unbalanced in the hoof but the farrier explained his hooves are quite short so they need to be lengthend and this is why the vet suggested shoeing...does this make sense, does anyone think it will help ease any strain to ligament/tendons. She said he is grade 1 lame on a scale of five. The farrier said today I should find this improves his lameness. (This probably explains my initial post on shoeing prices I've been out of the market a good few years still think too much though!)
 
£65 for full aet with road nails, £20 for the old lady to have hers trimmed. Does an excellent job, takes his time, asks me how they are going and makes changes as he thinks fit. I have no problem with paying this, think how much a plumber charges for call out and time.
 
Ah ha, you are now in a new category, that's remedial farriery you have paid for!! If he has taken the time to speak to the vet and taken a bit extra time to trim a hoof that's not had shoes on for two years, then you will be paying a bit more. Maybe when he comes back for the next set you can say you thought £50 was a bit much and will it be a little less now he is being shod regularly? Worth a shot.

But I pay my farriers whatever they ask and often I will round it up by a fiver because I want them to pick ME when they have half a dozen people desperate for a lost shoe to be put on for a weekend competition, and only time to do one
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£6 per foot for a trim. £50 for a full set of shoes including road nails and no charge to replace a pulled/lost shoe in between regular appts. Plus you can set your watch by my farrier and he's got some of the funniest jokes around (gets them off the local vicar's wife!). He's a dying breed.
 
No there was no remedial farriery required my horse has been having his hooves trimmed/filed by very same farrier every 8 weeks since I moved my horse to this current yard 1 year ago - even the farrier said it is straight forward shoeing. Just because my horse has been barefoot does not mean maintenance of his hooves
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On Wednesday i paid £40 for a pair in front and a trim behind, £20 for a trim for my mare and £15 for a trim for my yearling. which i thought was very reasonable, he was a new farrier
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i pay a similar amount, i had 2 trims on a 11.2 and a 15hh and fronts on my 17hh and trim on her backs and that cost me £90 total. But to me it's worth it as my farrier is brilliant, never lets me down and you book a day and a time and he is there, for me thats worth the little bit extra.
 
We are £65 for a full set. However last year I had a horse on loan the the owner wanted her to be shod by a farrier who charged us £95 and she needed done every 6 weeks. It was one of the reasons I gave her back.

I think £50 sounds about right. But up here the prices are high as there are so few farriers. Although it is slightly better than it was a year ago!
 
this was remedial..

if a vet has been involved it becomes a remedial case.

im sorry but i am with your farriar on this one! £50 is resonable if he has had to go through the tiem with thevet, then trimming and shoeing your horse...

have a horse trimmed and shod are two diffrent ball games and the foot is paired diffrently

I hope you gain more trust and respect for the next farrier you have i really do!

Lou x
 
I don't think you have been fleeced at all.

Here in Kent I pay £60 for a new set and £55 for re-fits.....Which I do not consider excessive.
 
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