Are you on full livery? Questions..

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charlie76

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Please could I ask how much you pay?
What you get for your money?
Facilities?
Part of the country?
Any improvements you would like?

Many thanks!
 
In Cheshire. £95 per week, includes all hay/feed/bedding/turnout and half an hours exercise per day, maybe ridden/lunging or horse walker.Large outdoor schoolandquiet hacking.
 
Not anymore but used to be:
£80 per week
Turnout every day
Use of 60 x 30 menage (only 2 of us)
Pick out feet
Rug Change
One bale shavings per week
Basic feed
Hold for farrier etc..
Hay/ haylage
Staffordshire area- access onto good hacking
 
I'm in Essex, and my yard charges £460 a month. Yard has great facilities - Indoor school, 2 outdoor schools, jumping paddocks, XC course, lots of turnout paddocks (all year) hacking is OK, but does involve small road work, but then you have lots of Bridlepaths. Also hold local comps. Is half riding school, so always have lessons you can join.
The only thing they don't do is groom and ride your horse.
 
I work on a full livery yard.
£130pw
Includes mucking out, grooming etc (everyday needs), exercise (schooling, hacking or walker), turnout, bedding, feed and haylage, getting ready for comps/hunting and after care.
We have a large outdoor school with jumps, fields to ride in, little xc schooling fences, horse walker and lunge pen, individual turnout.
We are in the South West.
A personal improvement would be floodlights as us grooms have to do our own horses outside work hours and in the winter it is very hard to ride in the light.
 
"The only thing they don't do is groom and ride your horse. "

That isn't full livery!

Sorry but this really annoys me (and I know it's petty!), but full livery includes exercise of the horse. Everything but exercise is part livery.
 
Used to be on part livery - south west. £100 per week included everything except riding, grooming and tack cleaning.
Was a fabulous yard but just too expensive for me to stay there with two horses.
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Ok George is on part livery as grooming (except picking out feet) and riding isn't included.

I'm in Essex, yard of 10, £410 a month
Turnout every day all year
Use of 40 x 20m floodlit school with jumps
Alarmed tack room
Excellent hacking, very little road work
Owners live on site, cctv on yard

It's a fabulous yard but if I was being picky I would like longer turnout in the depths of winter (they get at least 4hrs every day), and some xc jumps would be fab!
 
Hi Jazz is on part livery (as he's not exercised for me). I'm in Somerset (South West).

It's £390 a month which includes all feed, bedding and chores (mucking out, feeding, rug changes, turnout, bringing in etc but not grooming)

The facilities include 20m x 40m outdoor sand/rubber school which is well maintained, access to SJs in school, really good hacking and great people to hack out with, secure tack room with CCTV and good turnout. The yard is also BHS approved. YO also said that if there are any competitions that I want to do then she'll take me in the big lorry.

If I were to suggest improvements I'd like to have some VERY SMALL (!) XC fences to see how Jazz would respond as he jumped the logs on the fun ride really well, but I'm not sure I'd use them a lot and I've survived this long without them! Maybe XC would be a bit ambitious for us!
 
ok, well i'm on assisted DIY (not what was asked for in the OP sorry), but seem to be getting a hell of a lot for my money looking at what you guys are getting for 'full livery' i'm amazed at how much i get!

I groom & muck out & exercise.

The yard feeds (and will mix feeds if i want), turns out, fetches in, does one rug swap a day (if required) all haylage (as much as we want) and bedding (i use straw) use of a 60x30 school, hundreds of acres of offroad hacking, on site competitions and will do the odd extra when required now and again - my bill for the past month (including a wormer) was £180.00 (ish)!!
 
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ok, well i'm on assisted DIY (not what was asked for in the OP sorry), but seem to be getting a hell of a lot for my money looking at what you guys are getting for 'full livery' i'm amazed at how much i get!

I groom & muck out & exercise.

The yard feeds (and will mix feeds if i want), turns out, fetches in, does one rug swap a day (if required) all haylage (as much as we want) and bedding (i use straw) use of a 60x30 school, hundreds of acres of offroad hacking, on site competitions and will do the odd extra when required now and again - my bill for the past month (including a wormer) was £180.00 (ish)!!

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Gosh!!! where are you? that's amazing value for money.
 
Just about to move to part livery.
It will be £85 a month which includes hay/shavings/hard feed/muck out/bring in/turnout/fed morning&evening and all rug changes.
They can be exercised on an as and when needed basis.

I will have use of a 60x40 outdoor flood lit arena, full course of showjumps, horse walker (i think it costs £3 per use but in winter if they can't get out they go on twice a day for free) solarium, coffee room, tack room, loads of hacking. Its a small yard with only 12 boxes. The YM also lives on sight.
 
forgot to say, Leicestershire, obviously summer costs are lower then winter (24 hour turn out = less haylage/hay and bedding so they drop the costs) although all the horses do come in at about 3pm every day (unless on grass livery) although this sounds odd, its really good, my horse is in and waiting for me when i get to the yard, it also means that all of the horses are checked and seen not only by the owner but also the yard (you can ask for them to stay out, but i just prefer her to come in, have a break from flies etc.) in winter my bill is a maximum of £230 (if i'm away its an extra £7-10 a day for full livery)
 
WOW I must say it sounds absolutely brilliant, lucky you, I bet you won't leave there in a hurry. Nothing remotely that reasonable and good down this neck of the woods, (as far as I know). happy where I am but don't get any services included in £25 per week, just stable individual grazing and free use of menage.
 
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Just about to move to part livery.
It will be £85 a month which includes hay/shavings/hard feed/muck out/bring in/turnout/fed morning&evening and all rug changes.
They can be exercised on an as and when needed basis.

I will have use of a 60x40 outdoor flood lit arena, full course of showjumps, horse walker (i think it costs £3 per use but in winter if they can't get out they go on twice a day for free) solarium, coffee room, tack room, loads of hacking. Its a small yard with only 12 boxes. The YM also lives on sight.

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Surely you mean £85.00 per WEEK?
 
£75 a week
all year turnout, restricted in winter
Walker, Arena (with jumps), Jumping Field (in summer)
rug changes, T/O, B/I, pick feet out
mucking out, bale of shaving every 4 days
Hard Feed/hay/haylage included
will be there for vet, physio, farrier, dentist
Will exercise/groom/clean tack if needed at extra charge
Owner lives onsite, cctv and alarmed tack room, Kitchen, toilet
Excellent Hacking, but have to go on roads first
Nice liveries, qualified professional owner
In Yorkshire
 
it is a great yard - as they all do there are a few things (and people) i'd change if i could (a nice indoor school would be good!) i was on a couple of different yards before this one, but have said that i wouldnt move now - its lovely, really nice YO and most of the other liveries, big american barn style stable etc etc.
 
Gosh, whereabouts are you in Leicestershire if you dont mind me asking. Im in that neck of the woods and pay a lot more than that!
 
I get full livery Mon - Fri including 2 bales shavings, all hay, muck out, turn out/bring in etc but DIY at weekends for £60 a week = £260 a month.
Individual turnout, own paddocks x 2 small indoor, SJ, show field we can ride in April - October, but currently no full size menage (hopefully getting this October).
Hacking straight onto bridleway but busyish roads the other way.
Lovely staff and nice YO - although I've been there over months and not had a bill yet!! Have the money stashed away though
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Southwest, £85 per week which includes all hard feed/ hay/ shavings/ brand new stables with rubber matting/ use of large flood lit school(sand and rubber) / riding access around field boundaries / access to great off road hacking/ instructors on site/ turn out/ rug changes/ mucking out/ holding for farrier/ etc. Fields are all post and safety tape with automatic water troughs and rubber matting at gate ways. If we want horse to be exercised it's £15 per 1/2 hour schooling, £12 1/2 hour lunging. £10 per hour hacking. Lessons are £15 1/2 hour, and everyone is really lovely!!! If we want anything else doing they are happy to accomodate too.
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Oh and a solarium and wash bay, secure tack room, no complaints at all as only 2 mins from my house, so perfect!!!
 
My girl is on full livery in Staffordshire
£85 PW including
Large Stable
Daily Muck Out
Also skipped out during day
2 bales of bedding PW
Turnout
Bring in
Wash legs off if needed
Rug Change
Grooming
Horse Walker if required
Round Pen
Hard Feed
Haylage
Use of 3 arenas
Equissage
Owners and staff are professional and friendly
Riding is extra
Full set of SJs
Secure tack room
competitons held on site every week including, dressage, SJ, showing, combined training and arena eventing.

Also on site at extra cost:
Solarium
Therapy spa

Only improvement I can think of is either floodlights on one of arenas or an indoor.
 
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Not directed to any one in particular. But why do we wonder why the horse industry pays such dire wages to it's staff !

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I understand where you are coming from but actually the staff are paid quite well, the yard is full and nearly all liveries spend money on competition entries, schooling, spa treatments etc. Suppose that's what makes it worthwhile for them.
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The last yard I was on charged me £100 pw for 5 days livery, paid their groom minimum wage and expected her to do all the horses (11) in just 4 hours a day. Probably why they never got groomed, beds were filthy and liveries kept moving off, including me
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Not the groom's fault, she was very capable
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