Added up what i spend a year!

[catdragon]

I don't dare do it.. Before I start livery is £300 pm, Farrier set of shoes every 8 weeks so £30pm, Insurance £70pm - So there's £400pm before I consider teeth, back, innoculations, supplements, feed, lotions and potions, rugs, rug housekeeping (cleaning, repairs et al), pony treats, carrots, apples. Fuel - it's a 30 mile round trip per visit - I go every day even though she's on full livery Mon-Fri...

So I think it best I stop right now LOL !

In summary - permanently broke but happy with my lot - my ponio is THE best therapist in the world.

 

[sharky]

2 horses at approx £800pm each horse including everything (inc 2 new rugs per horse per year and Lessons)

so nearly £20k per year for both horses - not including insurance and running the tow car which only gets used for the horses.

 

[autumn7]

£4800 per year (average £400/month) for two horses, one ridden, one retired. Kept at home, doesn't include hunting, lessons or comp. entries.

 

[lcharles]

For 2 horses

Stables = 185 per month/2220 a year
Shoes= 130 per month/1560 a year
Feed= 40 per month/480 a year
Worming/vaccs = 380 a year
Insurance= 70 per month/840 a year
Competitions= 150per month/1800 per year


£7280 per year not includig the lorry but im stopping now cuz its getting too much :O/ lol x

***runs off to see boss about a payrise!***

 

[Arizahn]

I know the essentials (livery, feed, bedding, farrier, etc) come in at around £250 PCM. But there's travel, tack, rugs, shiny new brushes, etc...

Can't put a price on the feeling that being near Ali gives me though. I think it's called happiness...

 

[horsesatemymoney]

didn't do mine annually- £3840, not including other bits (I rarely buy new stuff, have heaps of it!), so round it up to £4000- don't do shows etc- not bad I suppose, for 2 horses, although my rent for me is only £2400- when you put it like that, maybe not so great!

 

[claireandnadia]

I forgot teeth @ £70 a year for both of them and say £50 for saddle check. My horsebox is £200 for insurance, £118 for tax, say £70 for the summer on petrol, £60-70 entrance fees, horses insurance = £5572 - WHOOPS.

 

[D66]

Luckily I have to collect OH's poultry food at the same time as picking up the horse food and that hides the true cost. Can't hide the hay bill though.
He's not too bad about it, he knows they make me happy.

 

[ShadowFlame]

You lot must be bloody good at juggling your money stashes - for a hardy cob who lives out unshod, unrugged and not fed an awful lot I allow £50pw... :\

 

[RolyPolyPony]

I spend around 360 a month on my 2!! That's livery, hay/straw, feed for the old boy and feet trimming. Plus usually extras on top!

 

[SuperCoblet]

I think mine averages out to something like £30 a month

 

[SuperCoblet]

* which is mainly pony club and hay, which hes not on atm!

 

[ABC]

I have no idea how some of you can afford to keep your horses the amount you spend on them

I pay

£200 a year on rent, so thats £16.70 a month
£40 a month on hay from November to April
£30 on straw every two months
£80 for vaccinations and teeth rasp
£40 on food every two weeks
£10 every two months for his feet trimmed.

So my overall monthly cost is.... £105 (ish)

Granted I had to do all the fencing myself, and build the field shelters which has cost a lot but now I've done that, I'm saving myself a fortune! I'm hopefully getting another 2 ponies, which will only add about £50 a month onto my overall bill, if that.

If I got another 2, but kept them on livery I'd be paying £375 a month for livery alone

 

[Cobiau Cymreig Wyllt]

Approx £150 per month. (Averaged out over the year)

So that's for:
2 horses, 1 pony,
out 24/7,
all native v. good doers,
all v. good bare feet (off-road riding),
includes winter hay-bill,
grazing-rent,
wormers and feet trims.
All unrugged.

Does not include any extras (vet bills etc) or start-up/tack costs...so there are usually some big one-off expenses now and again such as saddles etc.
I don't compete and don't have a trailer currently.( Hope to buy trailer this year so that would be another big extra) But am in the middle of great off-road riding facilities so don't need to go far.

Value for money as far as I'm concerned!!!!

 

[Tinsel Trouble]

Averaged out for the year for my 1 boy when he comes to live with me on DiY it is £288.20 pcm...
I was definite about getting another until I saw that two horses would average out at £515.96pcm... maybe i can pursuade my boss to give me a payrise!!

 

[Fun Foals]

£30 a month fairplay! do you keep him at home then or what, we need to know how you do it!lol

 

[SuperCoblet]

Easy! Own a cob!!! Next to no hay, front shoes only, which is every 10 weeks for us as they seem to last no problem atall, that's only £25. Pony club/lessons average out about £15 a month. Teeth are free as our dentist is a trainee and her boyfriend is the overlooking vet, bottle of wine! Not sure on insurance though.
Ok, maybe more than £30pm but still
Cob cob cob cob cob

 

[Fun Foals]

lol point made
The joys of Tb's I wouldnt b without him tho, plus now got the lil welshie so geting there on the cob side of things

 

[Farma]

Never mind yearly I worked out that mine over the last 18 years for the basics (no shows/vets/tack/luxuries) has cost me £87000 and I have had other horses at the same time that have come and gone that I have counted for!

 

[Fun Foals]

Never mind yearly I worked out that mine over the last 18 years for the basics (no shows/vets/tack/luxuries) has cost me £87000 and I have had other horses at the same time that have come and gone that I have counted for!

Now that is scary! luckly i have only had him a few years, but not looking forward to doing that maths in 18years time i dont think i would be brave enough, yearly is it i think

 

[Beatrice5]

When I had one on DIY 10 years ago he cost me £224 a month.

I now have 3 at home with no stables and all they cost me is Hay ( huge bale at £25 one every 2 weeks in winter) = £300 ish yr
Farrier ( £28 each x 3 every 6 to 8 weeks depending on amount of road work as barefoot and season ) = £504.
Wormer as required as do poo egg counts ( approx £90 yr max)
Rug wash I do myself but a huge bottle of nikwax and reproofer is about £60 a yr
Vaccs and teeth for all 3 and call out (£200 ish)

Feed and vits I shall guess £20 a month as on fast fibre, speedi beet and pink powder and micronised linseed . = £240

No trailer to run
No lesson

= £1214 so thats £101.17 a month for 3

But if I included cost of buying paddock off my Dad at £120 a month and renting church paddock at £200 a yr it would add £136.

= £237.83 so still cheap compared to DIY livery But don't tell hubby as I am a lady of leisure and he'd tell me to get a proper job

 

[Clofox]

Well i only share my pony so dont have to pay livery although i do contribute towards the livery her farrier feed ect..soo it totes up to £100 a month(thats including her "extras" and prezzies that i get her!)

 

[MeganLindsx]

erghhh here goes:

Livery and Hay- £220 per month

Bedding- £25 p/m

Feed- £25 p/m

Supplements- £20 p/m

Vaccs- £80 p/y

Farrier- £50 every 6 weeks

Dentist -£100 p/y

Average est vet bills- £200 p/y at least

Physio- £100 p/y

Replacing chewed rugs and broken things- £10 p/m (average)

per month= around £365 ish

tbh i thought it would be a lot worse!! I think realising how much i spend on supplements is what killed me!

 

[jeeve]

Easily spend $10 000AUD a year

 

[LadyLuck1977]

Added up last year and I spent £5600 last year on madam and that only includes one show and we are on diy.
OH didnt spend that much on his two

 

[coss]

I have never actually added this up before as I always put my head in the sand with regards to spending money on them, but here we go….

Livery £25 per week = Month £100
Hay £12 per week = Month £48.00
Bedding £5 per week = Month £20.00
Shoe/trim £8 per week = Month £32.00
Insurance Month = £35.00
Feed Per month (4 horse) = £40.00
Total = £245 for one
4 X = £980

Wagon Storage £10 per month
Full livery for 2 horses £250 per month
Grand Total = £1240 per month

Then
Injection £60ish each
Dentist £50 per year each
Wormer £60 per year each
Total = £170 per year


This is not including rugs, tack, lessons, comps ect I am actually scared to add those extras on!!!

Surely my math’s have gone wrong!!
Double checking now with a calculator

is that 4 horse's feed - then you times that by 4 again? how did you work out weekly shoe/trim?
still a heck of a lot though

 

[Pearlsasinger]

Best not to know, if you ask me!

 

[Bikerchickone]

Oh my god!!! Some of you have some seriously cheap (to keep) horses! I have one good doer cob and one fairly good doer IDxWB. My husband jokingly said the other day that if he'd not been spending £100 a week on my horses since he'd known me (9 years) he could afford a new BMW now! Scary thing was I didn't like to tell him that it's actually a lot more like £200 a week and has been since I bought my youngster (4 years ago), plus there was a time when daughter had her own pony (for 3 years) and so if I'm honest I'd say hubby has actually spent more like two new BMWs in the last 9 years.

Lucky for me he doesn't really like BMWs isn't it? *Beetles off to go cuddle hubby and make him feel much more loved and wanted in case he ever figures it out*

Not liking this thread much now!!!

 

[bushbaby28]

I think mine averages out to be £300-400 a month :S I have to keep an eye on the amount i'm spending as i'm on a very tight budget. Strange how when I need to cut down its my food and life style that goes first

 

[CarolineJ]

Late teenage native type, living out 24/7 at home in a very cheap part of the country works out as follows for the last 12 months:

Farrier - £160 (unshod)
Hay - £300
Feed - £240
Shavings - £100
Vet - £300 (includes booster, worm counts, wormers when needed and two call outs and a scan when he went lame)
Various bits of tack, brushes etc. - £150

Total for the year = £1300 or about £110 a month. That said, I've just had to order some Onduline sheeting for a new roof for the field shelter as the felt is starting to split and it's leaking, so that'll be £110 by itself. Husband is taking payment in kind for the labour though