Re: RC: RE: Curiousity Shoeing Question

[owens <owensall@sierranet.net>]

Dear Linda;
Remember, the currency is different in Brittish Columbia,
Canada...doesn't the exchange rate make it 40 per cent less?  So, it
would be about the same.
My farrier charges less...yippee!
Katee
> 
> Trish,
> 
> It sounds like a "standard shoeing" even differs from area to area.  I
> can speak to SE Virginia (where I lived until 2 years ago) and
> Northern West Virginia.
> 
> A standard job in Virginia was a trim and 4 new keg shoes - may or not
> be hot worked).  The price was around $60 for the best farrier we
> could find.  His prices were relativel average.  A trim ran $15.
> 
> West Virginia is a "depressed" state - incomes are quite low.
> Farriers who charged $100 per set would probably have <very> little
> work!  We have an <excellent> farrier (who I wouldn't lose for the
> world!).  He does not hot shoe unless there is a specialty shoe that
> needs to be made.  For a trim and 4 new St. Croix Eventers with clips,
> it runs $40.  Just a trim is $10.  He also charges mileage one way
> since he covers a wide area.  He travels about 38 miles to see us...
> About an extra $12.  (An example of the cost of Donald's specialty
> work - trim, 4 new shoes with hand-pulled clips, partial toe resection
> with a hoof polyfill $65)
> 
> There are a number of folks in my area that pick up an Amish farrier &
> drive him from farm to farm for shoeing.  Handmade hot shoeing for 4
> feet with a trim runs $25-35.  He's a better than average farrier, but
> not as good as Donald who we use.
> 
> Linda Flemmer
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trish Grant [mailto:grantt@unbc.ca]
> 
> My curious mind wants to know what kind of prices everyone in
> different
> parts of the world is paying for their standard shoeing.

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