4 to 5 trims per hour doesn't feel like rushing to me . 900 broodmares and foals per month is certainly do able. With the foals I'd be spending more time looking at them than the actual trim but still 5 per hr. The sad thing is, those days of the big breeding operations around here are long gone. Till about 10yrs ago, my regular routine would be to care for 100 to 150 Tb & Stb , 20 to 30 arabs and 15 Sport horse foals per yr. This year I've seen 9 foals total, no race horses at all, 2 donkeys, 2 minis, 4 paint pos and only 1 good sport horse.
Every other week I go to a place and do 18 trims, get there at 9:00 and out of there by noon for lunch. If you can't make a living with a day like that, you need to look at how your running your business or someone has a spending problem at home.
Tell you what, you guys happy to do a million trims a day, send me your number. I'll flick on the next all day trim job. I reckon it has knobs on it, bent over all day whacking away...... no thank you.
Wouldn't want to make all my money trimming, its nice to make money standing up too (shaping, drill/trap, pads etc) but in the end trimming is way more profitable. I'd have to charge $175 a shoeing to even gross the same amount but even at that it'd still be more profitable to trim. As for what I've done. . .20-25 trims. . .best day recently was 8 trims, 1 pair, and 2 full sets. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2
That's a polite way of saying it's more than others and some might call bull Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2
That's true, so long as they're all in one spot. Driving around to do one here, a couple there changes the dynamics of that. I like trims when you lob up to do two or three shoeings and there's also two or three trims. It's a bit of cream for that stop. Also, in my area at least, anyone with lots of trims (studs and clowns with more horses than they can afford), don't want to pay $40. They'll find some muppet to do it for $25 a head.
Kermit the frog here.lol well not quite i prefer shoeing but trimmings gravy no cost to me but fule a to get there and a little wear on my nippers the more you do in one spot the lower your cost
I have nightmares of all the broodmare bands I trimmed for $6 ahead...30 yrs ago... Only made $360 for the whole day back then...
Twenly five years ago you could fill a truck for twenty bucks now i cant pass a the pump for less then a hundred bucks .are we that mutch better off.
I had my kid time me doing a real easy trim once, just rasp work. Took two minutes. That works out to $1200.00 per hour. Trouble was, there was just one horse at that rate that day. Trimming is the gravy in this business.
It'd be nice if they were all that easy. . .course clients might get a but annoyed if you're able to trim all their horses at that rate. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk 2
I reckon if you can trim all four feet in two minutes, it probably didn't need a trim in the first place! You could at least have had the decency to stay down and make rasping noises for five!
Yes we get some just need a clean up if you do a decent trim and the horse is on a six week trim every second time is a clean up i will post some trims and then in six weeks
