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Legendary
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 Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 10:26 am Post subject: |
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| Kholran wrote: |
#3- How much do vet bills usually cost for just an exam?
I pay about $25 every few months for worming. Shots and specialized visits cost more. If something goes wrong (ie colic) you're looking at thousands of dollars in vet bills.
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You can also buy and give your own shots. Also when we owned horses(had to get rid of them for money reasones, but we might be getting a mule soon) the farrier was verry kind and did the feet and put on shoes for something like $50 or $75 total. I was recently doing the calculating for me getting a horse and boarding it at my house and it came out to around $40 a week, which includes feed and hay and shots and coggins (which I just gestimated $50 on coggins) and everything. In my area you can find pasture boarding for $10 a day(but I live in the horse capitol of the world), which if the horse is on good pasture it gennerally won't need feed. You can also cut down cost by only getting shoes for your horse if it would be walking on rocks or concrete or pavement regularly. If you did this you alsocould learn how to trim the hooves yourself. All that involves is a wood working rasp(which you can find in a equine catalog though it might be listed as hoof rasp) and someone to hold the horse for you. My friend boards around a hundred miles south of me and her boarding is like 450 a month which includes hay and feed and stalls cleaned and the horse is turned out every morning and brought in at night. She told me that it cost more when the vet and farrier come out but I dunno how much more it is down there. |
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ambrosia
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | If you did this you alsocould learn how to trim the hooves yourself. All that involves is a wood working rasp |
thats not all, even for bare foot trims. You need a hoof knife to cut away the hoof on the underside of the hoof (a rasp wont do this), you need a pair of nippers to shape and also cut other overgrown hoof away. If you decide to do this, make sure you really know what your doing because a simple error of taking too much hoof off could leave your horse lame. |
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Karleigh
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| Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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I dont generally suggest that new horse owners trim their horses feet. I've been around horses for a while and even though I know the theory about trimming I still have the farrier out.
Im going to go to farrier school so I can learn how to shoe from professionals before I attempt it myslef. |
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