Then when spring and summer gets here you go back to yor 60 to 80 hour weeks and weed out the bad horses and chose additional clients that will stay with you all year. This time of year they really look for them. He bought his wife a new saddle and all the trimmings. I give these ten percenters out every time a client pays me cash at time of work. So you will loose clients due to this.
Slow season is when the bale out.
Those that are on a budget and will try to keep a current schedual, those that things really get tight in the winter and they coast, and then those that find any excuse not to trim or shoe. I know when I served by AP, we always had a slow season, that is when we made all our blank shoes and punch holes for the busy season. And this shop had been in busiess for over a hundred years before I got there and the Master was the best in the area. We had all the big barns and still a slow up. But he charged enough to keep us on the payroll and busy through the slow season.