£260 - £320 Pm for DIY Livery?!

I get full livery for not much more than their top price! And I'm in an expensive area. Round here the most you will pay for DIY is £35 a week and that includes stable, unlimited haylage and straw bedding and a large school, though not indoors.

For £260 I would be looking for all that plus bring in for farrier and vet at no extra cost, free check of horse once a day, free turn out in morning with rug change, superb turn out with no mud, enormous stables with mats, cross country course, large indoor and 2 large outdoor schools, free trailer or lorry parking, common room, individual tack rooms, discount on lessons by regularly visiting top instructors, someone to help you put up jumps and take them away, and very posh yard!

Otherwise thats just a rip off!
 
3 and half years ago I was at a yard in Winchester and it was £50 per week DIY then without hay straw etc, just the bare stable. It did had specially fitted rubber matting and top class facilities. Only thing missing was a x-country course and there was no room for that!
 
I pay £195 a month for DIY livery - this includes haylage. This area is quite expensive, but the yard is nice with good facilities etc.

I definitely wouldn't pay an extra £65 a month for straw - which is all you would be getting more than me!
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I would pay that if there was an indoor and outdoor school, flood lights, a horse walker etc.

I currently pay £30 a week for turnout, feed and bring in. Bedding and hay and feed are on top of this. The only thing is the school is not very good.
 
I currently pay £115 a month for DIY in Essex - massive stable, individual paddock and use of floodlit school inc jumps. Price includes unlimited hay, straw is another £20 per month but I use Hemcore. It is the cheapest I could find in the area I was looking in.
 
I pay £35 per week per horse (about £160 pcm) for DIY to include stable, good grazing, straw and hay. There are two indoor schools and a floodlit outdoor school, good hacking and access to showjumps and cross country jumps. I am completely DIY with no assistance. I might stretch to a little more for really spectacular facilities (thinking walker, clients lounge with shower room, etc) but the OP's quote sounds completely excessive.
 
My hubby went to see a field for me a couple of weeks ago and was told it was £400 pcm! That was with use of 1 stable....when he enquired about adding additional horses to split the cost a little he was quoted an additional £25 pw per horse....

Anyhoo, we declined...I think that field will be empty for a little while yet....
 
That expensive. I pay £148 for DIY, unlimited haylage, 2 outdoor schools, own locker, horse walker, kitchen, and some of the best hacking in the area.
 
Well as a comparison but I know it is cheap mostly due to location and size of yard I will be paying about £230 a month for FULL livery without exercise! That includes hayledge, straw and feed. I will literally have to pay on top for wormers, farrier, vet etc!

Current yard for DIY with no assistance including hayledge, straw and use of outdoor school and V small indoor is £51 a week.
 
some of you guys are very lucky with the prices you pay for livery!
i live in Hampshire, big horse county and it is expensive too.. i used to keep my boy at a yard near Hook (left about 1yr ago so Andy could live out 24/7) DIY - £37 pw including stable, field, school, horse walker and ad lib hay and fab hacking. if i budgeted £30 pm for hard feed and £20 pm for straw then that adds up to about £215 pm.. it is actually quite hard to find decent DIY yards round here, as all the cheaper ones do not have any facilities.

am currently on grass livery, £60 pm, +£35 pm for ad lib hay (winter only) no arena, just grass for schooling but in a nice area..
 
When I was a student at a well known equestrian centre in Yorkshire DIY cost me £70 per horse per WEEK!!!! That only covered the stable and straw, you had to pay £2 extra for 1/2 day in a field, £2 a day for haylage. So that came to a minimum of £98 per week!!!!!! Plus feed which I had to provide myself. The stables were in appaling condition (falling down, door falling off, roofs leaking), and I was given a 9'x10' stable for my 16.2 wb. Full livery (not including riding) was over £1000 a month!!!!!!! Then again I did have 2 olympic trainers on tap.
 
When I first got by boy we were on DIY livery on the out skirts of Southampton, we paid £28 a week for turn out (24 x7 in summer and daytime only November - May), stable and access to a smallish sand school (no lights) and limited hacking, that was it. I would say less and less of the bigger yards which have decent facilities are allowing DIY it's pretty much all assited or full liverey near us.

However, depending on where you're going to be you'll find lots of private yards which do offer DIY, it's just a case of finding them. It would be worth doing a trawl of the local tack shops as they're often advertised this way, it's how we found our new yard.

Good luck
 
i hope the OP finds a cheaper yard!

what facilities would you get for £260 - £320 pm?

For my yard, DIY is between £82 and £108 pcm. Thats for stable, grazing (all year) use of indoor, outdoor woodchip paddock, off road riding, horsebox/trailer parking etc.
 
I don't think thats unreasonable for DIY including hay and bedding! It's comparable to what I was paying for DIY in Weybridge, Surrey
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Facilities are:

- Floodlit Outdoor Menage.
- Small X Country Course (Doesn't say HOW small)
- Full set of Show Jumps.

Not even an indoor school.

Isn't it amazing the difference in price everyone pays for their livery? I can't believe that some people think that this price is competitive. I think it's extorsionate!

I used to be on an ex-olympic showjumper's yard with amazing turnout, amazing hacking, massive floodlit outdoor area with full set of showjumps always up, massive indoor arena, discounted lessons, big stables (minimum 14x14)... all for £90 a month! That's what I think a DIY price should be.
 
My liveries pay £108 a month DIY and all help each other out.

They get a stable, fields, floodlit school.

Cant see what more they would want for that price!
 
the whole time i had owned horses since 1998 in hampshire area different liveries I have paid between £70 lowest in 98 to £105 highest this year per month big stables (i had 17 hand nag), reasonable turnout. School. walker. great hacking. T/Outs or T/Ins, rug checks/changes. Storage for my and horse's stuff/saddle. On site 24/7 security.
 
I was paying £46 per MONTH for DIY, it didn't include anything but a 12 by 16 stable and unlimited turnout all year round and great hacking though. It had average storage facilities for hay but huge tack/feedroom. But prices round here are low. Also, on site there was a wood merchants so you could get free (slightly dusty) shavings too if you wanted.
 
It's about £180 a month DIY for me- indoor school, 2 outdoors schools and regular shows summer and winter (not free obviously) but the fields aren't very good over winter.
 
I don't think its extortionate for the area. It all depends whereabouts in the country you are as to how much is normal! I'm in Surrey and pay 165 p/m for DIY, but add hay and bedding on top of that and it works out about the same, and its the going rate around here if you want decent facilities as well.
 
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