8. my farrier just raised his prices for a full shoeing from $110 to $115.
I think it would be interesting to compary horsey price points around the world, like prices for shoeing, board etc. Should even be done in something like 'liters of skimmed milk' or another price index instead of cash value, with the dollar right now I am sure this looks a lot cheaper to European eyes than it was even 2 years ago...
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Yup, looks cheap in now-a-days $$$ ;)
Prices here are around $170 for a reg shoeing, $200 for a winter shoeing including studs. Barokko tends to wear his shoes down really quickly and slips around on them within 2 weeks of shoeing on reg shoes, so I plan to keep him in short studs year round.
Well, all things being equal which they never are in the fine art of shoeing, I am paying $100 for a full set of shoes. Nothing fancy, no pads or weight, just plain keg shoes heated and shaped.
But for a reiner I would be paying $150 and probably about the same for an english pleasure horse.
Thanks for playing along with the 7 things meme! Interesting to compare prices - I don't know the exchange rates at all, but a full set costs me £52 (GBP) and I think that's pretty standard for the UK. I am lucky that Echo keeps her shoes on well and her feet hardly grow at all, so she can go 8 weeks between being shod. Even then thay don't look like they need doing.
52 GBP (haha, no Pound sign on a US keyboard) is about $102 (USD), so it seems like it is much like the price here.
Odin doesn't wear his shoes much, but his feet are a bit a steep. It would be best if he done every 6th week, but he can go 8 with no problem (which is an issue, because the good farrier is not the stable farrier, of course).
I think he re-uses the shoes, but that does not give a discount, he evens it out.
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