Cambridgeshire people - how much is your DIY livery?

[kit279]

A friend has asked if I want to rent a yard with her - lots of decent grazing, maybe 20 acres or so, plus 4 stables, parking and an outdoor floodlit school. We would have 4 horses in total there, maybe 5. It is privately owned by someone who never uses the facilities and he has no idea how the market rate for renting it would be.

Can anyone tell me how much their DIY livery is per month? We need to make him an offer but don't want it to be insulting or extortionate! THank you!

 

[Scoopy]

My own Yard is DIY

For that you get
Stable
Grazing 24/7 if wanted
Feed AM and PM
Horses get turned out and in
Rugs changed for turn out
Electric
Water
Flood lit school
Miles of of road hacking

£25 per week

 

[lochpearl]

I pay £49 per horse per week, this is one, because yards are like gold dust in my area and two we have good facilities compared with the others. This includes:
Stable
AYTO in own field
Flood lit huge school
Horse walker
ad-lib haylage
feeding in the mornings (first person on yard feeds all)
if you want to leave hay and feed out in eve YO will also put in for free for you.
discount if you take your horse away overnight (vets etc.)
subsidised shavings prices as they buy in bulk
arrangement of farrier and no charge to be there for you.

Where abouts is this yard? It sounds great!! (and no I'm not thinking of stealing it lol!!

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[Taffster]

[ QUOTE ]
My own Yard is DIY

For that you get
Stable
Grazing 24/7 if wanted
Feed AM and PM
Horses get turned out and in
Rugs changed for turn out
Electric
Water
Flood lit school
Miles of of road hacking

£25 per week

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Can i come and stable with you i pay that up north for a stable and med quality hay in a muddy winter paddock, everything else i have to do myself including telling them when the hay has run out!

 

[Scoopy]

We are a quiet DIY yard and only have 12 horses but we treat them all like our own, we are quite selective in the type of livery person, thats why my yard works so well LOL !

 

[Scoopy]

I also do other peoples horses as well in that price, but i get help back in return !

 

[lochpearl]

where are you santa_scoopy? trying to work out where bedford/cambs is???

 

[combat_claire]

£27 a week at our local yard where my mate stables her ned, plus £5 per week for adlib haylage during winter. Includes stable and grazing.

 

[Scoopy]

Im Huntingdon way !

 

[lochpearl]

I live in totally the wrong place :-(

 

[lochpearl]

whereabouts are you combat_claire?

 

[combat_claire]

Near Peterborough in March, my mate stables her horse at Peakirk.

 

[x_Sammie_x]

i know i live nowhere near you lot but i just wanted to say i pay
£20 a week for...
stable
own tack room
own 3acre field
use of xcountry course
and fantastic hacking (if only my horse was good in traffic)
no school tho

 

[Penniless]

Would love to know how anyone can feed ad-lib haylage for £5 per week! We buy ours in bulk, and there is absolutely no way we could feed one horse haylage for just £5pw. I know our haylage is very good (we get each load analysed to make sure) and it is quite expensive (though we have bought some a lot dearer), but however we work it out, £5's worth would do one of our horses just a couple of days.

Reading what you guys get for your DIY prices, makes us think it might be worth putting all our horses on your yards and letting you turn out, feed them, bring them in, etc. Could cope quite easily with just turning up to muck out and groom.

We've seen local adverts offering full livery for £55pw and however we try to work it out (using cheapest basic H&P cubes, cheapest hay, cheapest straw) we just can't see how anyone can do it as a business especially when they've paid their business rates, insurances, etc.

All we can say is that you are all very lucky people to have such great DIY yards at such great prices.

 

[kate081]

I reckon for that you could expect to pay in the region of £500 a month - so £125 per horse with 4 horses which is pretty good. My neighbour was letting a similar arrangement for £600 a month. I'm in North Bucks so not far away. I used to pay £25 a week DIY which included straw when I lived in Peterborough.