Cost of horse p/w?

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How much *roughly* are you guys paying for your horses per week? I figured mine out to be about £100 per week for the one horse and I was wondering if this was particularly expensive or not.
My livery is the largest percentage, being £60 per week.
Just curious, nothing serious.
Thanks (:
 
I account for and average of £25 per week budget but truthfully it costs me about 5 and a half grand a year for all four 1600 of which is field rent
 
I'm on DIY livery and he's a Welshie and a good doer so only has basic chaff and nuts (even then only to spoil him)- mine works out at about £45/w

However... If I factor in all the non essentials like new rugs just cause etc then it'd be a lot more, and quite frankly I don't want to work it out because I've a feeling my mother may be right about my spending habits lol! :S x
 
Only accounting for livery, insurance, haylage, straw, feed and shoeing - approx. £60/week. Add other costs such as worming, saddle fitter, dentist, competing etc and of course it all adds to more!
 
For essentials, mine should cost (theoretically!):
Livery (totally DIY) - £20
Bedding - £7
Haylage - £10
Insurance - £8
Shoes - £7 (£55 a set and my girl goes 8 weeks easily)
So that's a weekly total of £52.

That's not including all of the rugs that need repairing/replacing (prolific rug destroyer), and she did go through a stage of needing a new gullet in her Wintec every 2 weeks! Hopefully this has stopped now she's got up to XXL; any more and I'll need a new saddle. And all the random purchases that do add up, but I don't want to consider the true total!
 
As of next week week i'll be paying £130 per week for part livery which includes feed, hay and bedding. Farrier, vet, lessons etc all extra on top!
At current yard I pay roughly £80
per week.
 
For the year 2012/13 my horses cost £12000. I have my own land and stables so no rent. However my costs include fencing and land maintenance, making haylage, feed, farrier every 6 weeks (equivalent of 2 full sets and a trim) massage/McTimoney lady as needed, insurance, rug repairs, feed, water bill, any training I had and competing (which sadly was not often due to horse injury and lack of funds). That figure did not include the £7000 vet bill I paid, £5000 of which was luckily covered by insurance. That is for four horses.
 
We budget £60/week for one native pony, in at night during winter, out during summer. This includes everything, bedding, feed, supplement, farrier, dentist, vets etc. He has his own bank account that everything comes out of.

Sorry ETA on DIY livery, and lessons every fortnight work out at an extra tenner a week
 
Only had him a month, but discounting anything other than essentials...

Livery (DIY) - £20
Bedding - £6
Haylage - £8
Insurance - £6
Farrier - £2.50 (£20 a trim, and farrier reckons he'll need it every 8 weeks)
Weekly total: £42.50

I get a very good deal on my haylage and bedding, which helps.
 
Basically our mortgage, but then that includes our living space as well as theirs!! The odd bag of balancer would probably work out at perhaps NZ$5 a week? Some salt......cents!! Thank goodness I live in New Zealand, there is no way I could afford to live my dream in the UK nowadays!!
 
£60 a week roughly, that's assisted livery with about 2 bales of nice hay, a bale of bedding, a bit towards the feed and petrol costs. Farrier/dentist etc would be on top.
My yard isn't expensive, but quite a way from home so petrol is expensive but its well worth it :)
 
Basics (livery/feet/jabs/wormers/teeth/supplements) cost about £100 a week (£85 of which is part livery cost) however adding in the extras I'd say about £130 - £150 for things like lessons, rug repairs, new tack, breeches (my riding gear gets factored in to the horse fund) etc.
 
about £10 week but he lives at home, is not shod, gets fat on fresh air and goes no where !. think have paid about £500 this year on fences rugs etc but that was start up costs after having been at livery with a much bigger horse previously
 
I pay £20 per week livery, shoes £50 every 8 weeks, so approx £5 per week, feed I would say £20 a week, hay and straw I get free as oh is a farmer!!
 
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DIY Livery - £35 per week
Shavings - £12 per week
Hay - £15 per week
Shoes - £16 per week
Feed - approx. £10 per week
Services (bringing in Mon-Fri during winter) - £10.00 per week
Insurance - £6 per week
Lesson - £30 per week

If I add on entry fees, membership, lorry upkeep etc it takes the total to well over £700 per month.
 
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