who comes to see to your horses feet?trim/shoe style?bad experience?

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just being nosey really.
esp for anyone whos horse is barefoot was wondering who comes to trim them and if they do a particular trim?
anyone had a bad experience with a type of trim/shoeing?
and how much you pay and how often
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farrier for all - wouldnt let anyone else touch my horses feet. I have two TBs who are only shod in front because they dont need hinds....

costs me £25 per horse for a set of fronts and a trim behind.
 
Please, please, only let a qualified farrier touch your horses feet. It is not possible to have a weekend course in foot trimming and be any good at it.

Barefoot or shod, only let a proper farrier do it !

I live in Surrey and I pay £50 for a set of shoes and £10 for the ponies feet to be trimmed, so long as it is done at the same visit. And yes, I know he is cheap. I am a very lucky woman.
 
Only let a qualified farrier trim or shoe my horse (he doesn't have the best feet as it is!)

I pay £70 for full set of shoes with road nails and 2 stud holes in each shoe
 
Hi there,

I get a barefoot trimmer (ep) who after only two trimming sessions has made a massive difference to my thoroughbreds terrible feet. I dont know exactly what she does down there but he seems alot more balanced and moves beautifully now
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All cracks and funny business have vanished and his hooves look lovely. £35 per session every eight weeks and well worth it
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Farrier for everything. Was barefoot all summer due to various problems. Trimmed every 4 weeks - not a "pasture trim", but rebalancing the foot, £30 a trim. Now shod in front, done every 5 weeks, £40. All round is £60, not sure how much for remedial shoes. Would not dream of letting anyone other than a qualified, registered farrier NEAR my horse's feet.
 
My boy has a farrier every 8 weeks (or whenever he comes out) and he is barefoot all around (he's only 20 months) he is brilliant and only charges £20 for trimming. Though my boy has naturally strong hooves so it's pretty easy all around.

He did sort out the foot when it was flaring quite a lot (we hadn't been able to find a farrier for a while) and is about to sort it for good on the next trip (2nd trip only), so fingers crossed, and I'm not sure that I would have trusted someone else to sort it out right other than a registered farrier.
 
only used qualified farrier but still had a massive problem posted about it last week horse been crippled for weeks couldnt find out what the problem was so went to the vets for xrays and nerve blocks the problem was the feet were well out of balance and not trimmed properly.She has since had remedial shoeing the farrier who did that was disgusted with what he saw she has to go back in two weeks for more xrays and to make sure no damage done bill so far £1000!!
goes to show you have to be careful even with registered farriers this one was reccomended and is a trainer it is only since we have been told horror stories about him
 
farrier for anything foot related.

I have a differant farrier for both my horses and they're both brilliant.

Red- £61 for full set.
Solo- £57 for full set.
 
Registered farrier - he specialises in shoes for showjumpers.

Stella's hooves hadn't been seen to for almost three months when we got her from the dealer so she needed all four trimmed/rebalanced and new ones on her front (she's bare behind) and that cost just £30 (!) and has made a big difference.
 
Farrier for my three - all barefoot at the moment but tb will probably have fronts on when he starts doing more work.

I pay £20 for a trim and he comes every 8-10 weeks.
 
Currently use a farrier as he's very good and is interested in doing further training specialising in barefoot trimmng. I would also use a suitably qualified barefoot trimmer and have done when I have lived in another area. Trim can be anything from £10 to £25 depending on how much needs to be done. Ideally would have horse trimmed every 4 weeks, but generally get him done every 6 weeks when the farrier visits the other horses on the yard.
 
Farrier for our six, of which only one is shod. I have looked into 'barefoot' trimming and seen how good a properly trimmed hoof can be and then compared to my animals hooves, and I am fully satisfied that all my (working) neds have great feet. he also only charges £10 per trim but takes less than the hour most EP's seem to take (Can you imagine standing outside 6 hours having hooves done)
Nothing against EP's who have trained properly but they are not fro me!!
 
I agree with sticking with a farrier for feet - after all think how long they train for & can a short course for barefoot trimmers cover even a tiny amount of info needed to look after your precious neds feet. Mine's really good and he tells me how often mine needs doing each time & the previous farrier was fab but he moved out of my area (shame !!)
 
I have a qualified trimmer for my barefoot pony (see barefoot thread). I had a farrier when I was in Newmarket and he was very, very good - but only because he'd been off and learned how to trim for barefoot performance work WHICH IS DIFFERENT FROM SIMPLY PREPARING A FOOT FOR A SHOE.

Barefoot trimmers spend thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours training - and yes, there are good and bad ones just as there are good and bad farriers - but I"ve seen far more feet destroyed by farriery than by barefoot trimming. As an instance - when I was a vet, I went on a barefoot podiatry course, so I could learn what it was about. We had 30 pairs of 'dead feet' from the abattoir to use as subjects to learn on. These were the supposedly normal feet. Not ONE of them was healthy. Every one of these horses, (who were not put down for lameness reasons, at least not that the abattoir knew), had healthy, sound, balanced feet. All of them were shod.

Good barefoot trimmers can alter the foot-flight arc and change a horse's way of going - but you have to know how to look at a foot.

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Please, please, only let a qualified farrier touch your horses feet. It is not possible to have a weekend course in foot trimming and be any good at it.

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THis is not true. Please find out your facts before you argue a case. If you let someone with a weekend's experience trim your horse then you shouldn't have a horse - but most barefoot trimmers are not in this category. Read the websites on how to train. Talk to qualified EPs. Find out the truth and then discuss it sanely


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A good farrier is perfectly capable of knowing and doing the different trims for a shoe OR a working trim. They are taught the differences.
 
Barefoot trimmers with insurance are properly trained. This "trained in a weekend or from a book" is NOT TRUE. Most of the ones I have come across are also highly educated - degrees in all sorts of different professions.

Farriers don't need to be degree educated. Barefoot trimmers have also trimmed their own horses for ages,and probably started because they were having problems with (properly qualified) farriers.

Most have spent a lot of time and lots and lots of money going on courses and doing exams. They know lots about hooves and nutrition. Some are even farriers and vets.


My horses feet changed so much when his shoes came off - and don't think that I didn't agonise about the decision for weeks and weeks. Actually, he has never been lame or sore since going barefoot and lots of things about his feet have improved immensly. I was showing him last year barefoot and only the judge noticed.
 
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