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What do you pay for shoeing in your area? Anyone in the horse section shoe your own horses?

Wondering how much you pay to get your horses shod on all four feet. A friend of mine is going to farrier school in Oklahoma, and I'm wondering how much he's going to make at this job. He has a lot of horse experience, so I know he'll do a nice job. And he lives in Idaho, where everyone who uses their horses must put shoes on them regularly. What does your farrier charge?

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  1. i live in florida..i pay $100 four 4 shoes to be put on..its a racing horse by the way
  2. I don't shoe my horses, but my farrier charges $80 for all four shoes. I'm in Minnesota.
  3. My farrier charges $45 for all 4 hoofs.
  4. I am in Ohio, I pay $80.00 for my saddle horses and $150.00 for my drafts.
  5. for me all for regular shoes is 165, and to get winter show shoes is 220... its its great living close to Boston!
  6. I pay $125 just for fronts - squared toes with clips. In the Gainesville, TX area where I lived for a long time (and dated a farrier), it's between $150 and $300 a set but there are a lot of big QH trainers there.
  7. In kentucky it cost around 50 for all 4 shoes with borium. In Colorado it costs 115 for all 4 shoes with borium. And if your friend is going to the farrier school in Oklahoma he can charge more than the average farrier. It is the best school in the country and people will pay more if they know he is certified through Oklahoma. I just looked into going to school for farrier but in colorado the schools are crappy and most farriers do not have any kind of certification. The only way it would have been worth my time would have been to go to Oklahoma, which im not willing to do
  8. My farrier charges £50 for a full set or £35 for half set and back trim, £15 for a trim. A typical visit (4 horses) takes an hour and costs me £135 -£145 depending on if the shoes get refitted. My son also wants to be a farrier. Around here they are hard to find - a lot of them just can't take new customers because they are so busy. I'm living in the UK.
  9. I don't believe in shoeing my horses' feet. They've all been barefoot since I've got them. Personally, I think barefoot is best. They've all had rock hard hooves. I do get their hooves trimmed every couple of months. One time it took the farrier over three hours to trim my pony's white hooves. (Whoever says horses with white hooves have soft hooves is totally wrong!) My farrier charges me $20 to trim all four hooves, and doesn't charge for travel costs, but he told me that some farriers do charge over $25 per hoof, plus travel costs. This is in Australia, so maybe farrier work pays differently where you are. However, as long as people ride horses, they'll continue to shoe them, so farriers will always be required to nail the shoes to the hooves.
  10. Here in Missouri, professional farriers charge 75 to 85 dollars. However the best farrier around is an Amish man who charges $45. However you have to take the horses to him as he does not drive, and if you do not get there by about 5 am there will be a LONG waiting line. He opens at sunrise. And yes I shoe my own. I did not think it very hard to learn regular shoeing. Can even do a little a few corrective shoeing. My neighbor is a retired professional and I get advice from him when I need it.
  11. 100 Euro ($150) for four shoes 45 Euro ($70) for a trim CURSE the Euro to dollar exchange!!!!
  12. My farrier charges $90 for shoes and $50 for a trim.
  13. My farrier charges €25 (euros) to trim all 4 feet. He doesn't wear shoes yet, so I don't know the price of those.
  14. I live in Arkansas. My farrier charges $25.00 for a trim and $55.00 for shoeing. He's very experienced and very good with my horses. My three year old will let him trim her without a halter or lead rope. She just stands there for him.
  15. It totally depends on the area, your horse, what kind of shoes he takes and what special needs that he has. I have large horses, so farriers always charge more...they are much more work and the farrier should be paid more. The shoes themselves cost more to begin with and I always get either borium or drill tech on the bottom to prevent slipping on streets or bricks. The minimum that I pay is $175 and sometimes as high as $250, depending on what needs to be done. When we used to live in Dallas and boarded there, the farriers there would also charge about that much, but I do know that smaller horses cost much, much less to shoe, as a farrier can do several in a day, and it takes hours to do a large horse. Some people have been taking their horses to the horse shoeing schools, you do have to somewhat oversee what is going on, tell them what you want and be prepared to stay a while, even if you have an appointment. If your friend goes to Oklahoma School, that's where a good friend of mine and several of my acquaintances take theirs to be shod. Ask him if he has ever seen or worked on Remington, (world's tallest Clydesdale), he goes there as well, or used to.
  16. My farrier charges $45.00 a horse..... its not bad at all!!!! I live in NY, but he is from Canada
  17. What we pay for the normal flat shoes with no extras is $60 for all 4 feet. The Belgian uses a different farrier (the normal farrier has back problems) charges $120 -$150 for the front feet only. The Begian never gets back shoes. I am in western PA roughly 15 mile from the Pittsgurgh International Airport.
  18. In Indiana i pay about $110 and this includes 2 horses and traveling expenses for the blacksmith
  19. Im in so cal and I pay $85 for all four.
  20. well this one man i know he charges 75 to 85 dollars and he provides the shoes with boron on them and nails for all four feet he never went to school for it and another man i know charges 35 dollars to shoe all four feet he didnt go to school either where i buy my shoes and nails its 8 dollars a piece for the boron shoe and and i think for a box of #5 nails i think its 10 dollars i have one saddle horse an one flat sod racking mare im from west virgina
  21. I trim my girls hooves myself. When i get them shooed the farrier i used to use charged about $90 for all four feet but he wasn't certified. Now i take my horses to an Amish man who charges 25$ and he does a great job!
  22. In Ventura County, CA, some farriers charge upwards of $130 for hot shoeing; more for corrective shoes. My farrier only charged $95, but he cold-shoes only. He does 5 or 6 horses a day. I wouldn't recommend doing your own horses. If you get the angles wrong (even by 1 degree), you can cause all sorts of hoof and leg problems.
  23. Where I live in TN it's 35 For a trim and just when up from 65 to 75 for all 4, But my farrier hot shoes I don't no It that makes it different .
  24. 30 or 35 bucks for trim 90 bucks for trim + shoeing on all feet, not hot shoeing (don't know what it's called... cold shoeing?)
  25. My farrier charges $50 for shoes all around, doesn't matter if it's new shoes or reset. If I want borium, it's $65. In this area, that's pretty much on the lower end of the price range. My vet pays $125 to have her gelding done all around, with equi-pak. But regardless, it's tough physical labor. I'm grateful to have the guy that I have, but it's a hard way to make a living.
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