Trimming horses feet cost

[Rusky]

How much are farriers charging on average to trim horses feet in Scotland

 

[Britestar]

Was paying £40, change of farrier now paying £35.

 

[rhino]

£30 here (South of Scotland)

 

[Follysmum]

I pay £25
My farrier charges £30 normally
I have had him 25 yrs so get a loyalty price which is fantastic of him

 

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£45 but they can charge what they like here as there are so few of them!

 

[poiuytrewq]

I have paid £45- £30 for mine with the same farrier!
I now just give him £30 cash each (for a few) without asking!

 

[millitiger]

£45 but with a trimmer who spends a good 45 minutes on each one, watches them move before and after etc. and their feet have never looked better.

 

[Sanversera]

£45 each farrier daylight robbery.

 

[m.l.c coloured]

Remember the good old days when it was a tenner for a trim

 

[meleeka]

Remember the good old days when it was a tenner for a trim

I can remember it being £8!

 

[Barton Bounty]

£35 for mine

 

[homepaddock]

In 1971 it cost £9 for a full set of shoes, cold shod on 14.2hh pony. Farrier was Mr.Lyon, Lincolnshire!

 

[Barton Bounty]

In 1971 it cost £9 for a full set of shoes, cold shod on 14.2hh pony. Farrier was Mr.Lyon, Lincolnshire!

When I was 14 and my pony was fully shod, he was 35 for a full set 1989…

BB in 2022 was £120 for a full set

 

[Emilieu]

40 pound for us

 

[Birker2020]

In 1971 it cost £9 for a full set of shoes, cold shod on 14.2hh pony. Farrier was Mr.Lyon, Lincolnshire!

£45 for a set in 1995 Midlands though.

The farrier was gorgeous too! Bonus

 

[JenJ]

I feel really guilty now - I'm in Surrey, and granted, the eight feet my farrier trims for my two Sec As are small and don't take more than 15-20 minutes in total, but I only pay £30 (plus VAT) per pony! He hasn't put my price up since Covid when he picked up enough business from other farriers that he had to get VAT registered.

I'm wondering now if other people's have gone up but he's kept mine low as he's lovely...

 

[Nocturnal]

Hope my farrier doesn’t read this I pay £20 in Oxfordshire

 

[MuddyMonster]

£45 each farrier daylight robbery.

To be fair, when you consider the training & expertise that goes in to good hoofcare alongside the importance of a good trim in maintaining soundness, I think claiming it's daylight robbery is a bit unfair if the farrier is good. It's certainly cheaper than a soundness work up & treatment

I pay £60 for a trim & consider it good value in the long run.

 

[Sanversera]

To be fair, when you consider the training & expertise that goes in to good hoofcare alongside the importance of a good trim in maintaining soundness, I think claiming it's daylight robbery is a bit unfair if the farrier is good. It's certainly cheaper than a soundness work up & treatment

I pay £60 for a trim & consider it good value in the long run.

Not for trimming. Fair enough for shoes and remedial work to charge a relevant fee for training. I now trim my horses myself. £45 cash for a few minutes work is shockingly expensive for me.i buy a new file annually which costs about £30.

 

[MuddyMonster]

Not for trimming. Fair enough for shoes and remedial work to charge a relevant fee for training. I now trim my horses myself. £45 cash for a few minutes work is shockingly expensive for me.i buy a new file annually which costs about £30.

We'll agree to disagree on the skill involved

To my mind, there's still an awful lot of skill involved in a good barefoot trim for a working horse. I've had some good and not so good farriers or barefoot trimmers and value highly my current trimmer as they are just so good.

 

[Equi]

£20 here now, but he comes and does 80% of the yard at once. when I had another one who came just for 2 he was £35 (£30 for the other but had put a “big foot” tax on mine )

 

[criso]

I pay £55 though that includes travel costs. While my trimmer was on maternity leave the yard farrier who cost £35. He does a good job on the shod horses but my horses feet went downhill quickly. So I'm happy to pay the extra.

 

[Birker2020]

Hope my farrier doesn’t read this I pay £20 in Oxfordshire

£27 Midlands but still think this is cheap for the expertise and frequency he's out.

 

[meggymoo]

Usually £35 when he does half a dozen on the yard but £40 last week when we asked if he could come on a specific day and time so only ours done. Fair enough, I thought.

 

[Sugarplum Furry]

Wales....£30 per excellent professional trim per pony, also get all the local gossip, terrible jokes and veg growing advice thrown in.

 

[catembi]

North Beds - I pay £100 for four... Two littlies and two big. Sounds as if I'm getting a bargain!

 

[I'm Dun]

To be fair, when you consider the training & expertise that goes in to good hoofcare alongside the importance of a good trim in maintaining soundness, I think claiming it's daylight robbery is a bit unfair if the farrier is good. It's certainly cheaper than a soundness work up & treatment

I pay £60 for a trim & consider it good value in the long run.

As someone who can and does trim my own, its good value!

 

[holeymoley]

£70 for my two. I think it's gone up though.

 

[MuddyMonster]

As someone who can and does trim my own, its good value!

I trim in between visits & I definitely don't begrudge the £60 ... especially when it's hot

For me, it's so much more than 'just a trim' - it's the static & dynamic assessment of hoof landing & overall movement, it's their knowledge of knowing when to work with and when to try to change something to continually improve straightness, posture and way of going, the on-going assessment of hoof quality and functionality and the fact they can explain it all to me at 7am in a way I can understand.

They've also trimmed to X-rays before & helped measure and fit hoof boots. Invaluable to me!

I don't even want to try and replicate what they do to save £10 a week.

 

[Rusky]

I pay £40 and I did wonder if it was a fair price for probably less than 10 mins. I haven't had any bother with my boys feet so happy now after reading posts. Thanks guys.