A genuine livery question

I believe how much you are happy to pay is based on how good the yard is...I'm based in Essex and I pay £40 per week each for 2 stables and £30 for a little pony stable. this is for DIY and is the most expensive in the area but BY FAR the best yard, both on facilities and support. I get ind turnout for 2 of mine, nice large paddock split into 2 (each) so I can close off one side and rotate. (my little new forest is out with some of the YO ponies, but only because she is happier with them and 'limboed' out of her paddock to be with them. I have the use of a small indoor school, outdoor manage, jump paddock, tracks to ride round, 24 hour CCTV and my own lockable storage. I wouldn't consider being on any other yard. The YO is also very good and sorting out the wheat from the chaff......any trouble makers are asked to leave meaning that the yard is nice and calm and friendly!! Priceless as far as I'm concerned! :)
 
I'm on a small family run livery yard with a small (only about a handful of RS ponies and two RS horses) riding school. I pay for DIY £25 a week, that includes a floodlit all weather school, toilet and sink, use of all jumps, decent hacking (albeit some good 'gallop' spots require road work to get to it) tea room, electricity, storage for hay, shavings, feed, rugs etc, 2 secure tack rooms, horses fed breakfast feed and hay inclusive. Obviously a stable, all year turnout (although this was restricted in the torrential rain we had this winter to less hours) in a mixed herd. I am based in the midlands.
 
I am midlands based and have been on around 7 DIY yards over the years....
The most I have paid was 30 per week, with that you got an indoor school, tea room, toilet, individual grazing, big stable with auto drinkers.
I currently pay 25 per week per horse and we have an un lit rubber school, horse walker, unlimited turnout, masses of storage, free lorry parking, massive stables.

The other yards were all 20-25 per week so I would say your nieces is slightly exspensive but not massively so
 
blazingsaddles said:
Now Owlie, as a per previous post, I love you & want to be you but it's overpriced. Although, if it is perfect for the horse & owner then it's spot on!
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I have to agree with Owlie here the economics for a DIY yard just do not stack up. If you buy the land and bear the time and costs of maintaining it then £35 is not enough. I am in an expensive area though so my view is definitely coloured by that.
 
That sounds reasonable, in Warwickshire any yard with comparable facilities (but inc a loo) would be about that cost.
 
Ours is £90/m/horse. Includes stable, tack room, 24hr turnout in summer/day turnout in winter, floodlit school and hot horse shower, loo, owners on site, plenty of parking and the odd fresh chicken now and then :D
Excludes bedding & hay.

I would also say its a but steep for what you're getting.

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ETA we're near Bath
 
It's expensive.

I'm in Warwickshire (Warks/Staffs/Leics border) and pay £25 per week for stable, grazing, herd turnout, kitchen area with radiator, loo with radiator, we can each store 24 bales, seperate feed/bits & bobs storage, seperate tack area (both locked), floodlit 20x40 school. Hacking is on country lanes but they are busy, bridlepath 10 minute walk away, parking for trailer.

Yard is lovely and kept beautifully.
 
I'd probably expect hay/lage included, at least in winter.

I used to pay £49 a week for grass livery (a box if required in american barn but would have to buy my own bedding), including haylage in winter, chaff and cubes year round (although I ended up buying my own hard feed to suit my feeding regime anyway), a 20x40 sand school with lights, and miles of off-road hacking as well as feeding, rug-changing, holding for vet/farrier etc included, locked tack room, plenty of storage. No toilet.

I now pay £50 a week for a box, as much turnout as I want/can arrange with fellow liveries, and use of the 25x50 indoor, 20x40 rubber outdoor, a gallop track, a jumping field, wash bay, and haylage included in winter, but not great hacking, although very close to hack to a local comp centre, some storage and locked tack/feedroom. I exchanged feed and assistance for facilities essentially. Same yard offers grass DIY, the same included except no box and no storage, for £40 a week. Toilet and canteen.

So to me, £35 for what is described seems a little off - I'd expect hay/lage included.
 
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Expensive. I have on site hacking, floodlit school, toilet for that plus I'm really near London. I'd hope to pay less up where you are.
 
In MK I pay £87 a month, individual electric fenced grazing of 2 acres cross grazed with sheep, YO sorts the electric. 12 x 12 stable with automatic water. Floodlit 60 x 20m school, vets practice on site and VERY cheap hay and straw bought from the YO and delivered to my storage spot. Amazing hacking! No toilet but I pee in the stable :P and drive 10 miles to the yard as its fab! We are moving house as soon as our current tenancy is up as our current house is ok, but the yard is amazing :P
 
Sounds expensive, when i liveried in West Midlands, I paid 100 a month (25 a week) for a stable, group or indiviual all year turn out, school with jumps, 2 jumping/schooling fields, tons of country side hacking, hay, hayledge, straw all included!
 
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