Thanks for the feedback. I’m in Texas. Do you mind saying where you’re located? I would expect someplace like FL to cost more.
Keep in mind you may be paying for your farrier’s skill level. A great farrier who produces a well balanced foot is worth his or her weight in gold. It’s also difficult, potentially dangerous job.
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NC. And GA. Certainly horse country but not the expensive parts 
@NaturallyHappy makes an excellent point. I’d rather pay someone $120/trim and have them do an excellent job, vs $25 or $50 and have it be a lesser job.
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That doesn’t sound like it’s out of the realm. Last time I did all 4, prepping shoes with leather pads, welded on tabs, DIM with mesh etc. I commented to my husband that if I was going to do this for someone else I would have to charge about $500 factoring in the cost of materials.
I recently did a class with Daisy Bicking and she said a front shoe setup for laminitic horse with acrylic glue is $175 in materials alone, then she charges by the hour for labor.
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Great thread! Charlie is getting his rads on June 20th to see if there has been any changes after this bout of laminitis. We have an appt with the trimmer the 21st to get him some glue ons once we see the rads. She doesn’t think we’re going to see any issues but Im double checking to be sure.
He’s been comfortable barefoot in the indoor footing, but I am hesitant to chuck him back in the limestone dry lot completely barefoot as we move through rehab. We started in Cloud boots, then transitioned to Scoots and now full barefoot. He’s moving pretty comfortably on the driveway barefoot, but I’d rather just err on the side of caution for now. Much less of a pain for all involved with taking on/taking off boots too. He’s had the scoots on for half days and they fit well enough, but not well enough that I want to leave them on in an extended sense.
Excited to see how they work for us.
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