Counting the cost of keeping horses in the UK.....

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Who else feels they are getting ripped off in the UK, where as other countries seem to be able to keep thier horses much cheaper...

I lived in Australia long enough to find out that shoes, vet bills, feed, livery yards are MUCH cheaper over there, and horses in general were cheaper to buy.. you could get a much better quality animal for the same price as your average equine here...

When it came to routine annual tet jabs, it was around £5.00... what does it cost here?!
Shoes were $50 a set.. (20 pounds) .. what are they here.. £60!
Clothes were pretty much the same though....

ok Rant over.... anyone wanna emigrate?
 
Yes well this is 'rip off Britian' we pay more for most things
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Been to the states recently and things are much much cheaper! I know some people will say everything is relevent but I still say we pay more and comply with lots more legislation than lots of countries! ... Rant over!!
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its not just horses though either....
council tax
car tax
petrol tax (80%)
did i mention TAX?

and theres also more TAX

then TAX again..... (sigh)
 
It isn't just keeping horses, it is the mortgage, electricity, water la la la, need I go on!

I don't know how people survive really. I earn reasonable money, but could never afford to move out of my flat into a house.

I know we have horses, but we are allowed some luxury! I don't want to just work to pay the mortage.
 
If I buy cattle wormer for the cows I can worm a 500 KG beast for £2.50......the same horse would cost £10-12 if I was daft enough to pay it!

I use cattle and sheep wormer on all my lot and save ££££££

Just make sure the active ingredient is licensed for nags. The presentation won't be so you have no comeback if the horse chokes or dropps dead............but if you pat £10 you will!
 
My friend is breeding her horses in Holland because it is cheaper than having them at home and doing them herself and her mares are in foal to Jazz.She says everything is so cheap ,she just rents out her stables here and it more than pays for them over there
 
Ah well, I've got you beat; full livery for PF costs £45 a month, a set of shoes costs about £12 for a very expensive farrier and about £8 for Fabian. Equest (most expensive wormer) costs £6. Flu vac costs about £4 (actually, all vacs cost about the same!)
Actually, my livery is VERY cheap. It's more likely to cost about £100 a month somewhere like the jockey club which has 4 schools and a horse walker...
Unfortunately my salary is correspondingly tiny!!
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But the weather is great
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Talking as a YO and an owner its all in the TAX and the fact that horses are not considered livestock!
In Holland and Germany there are Tax concessions for breeding and there is govermant help, unlike in this country where we get Government derision, infact we must be the landed gentry , according to the Government so everthing costs.
Transport / fuel costs = Tax, no one else actually pays more for the raw crude its Mr Brown and his heavey handed tax makes things so ridiculous . Add to that our complete submission to European will, when others dont, it makes our lives more unweilding and therefore full of stealth taxes.
Ok rant over! thank you for relieving some stress!!!!
 
Not just a rant, some very valid points made, especially in terms of concessions for breeding in europe which means that the UK cannot compete on a level playing field, this has been raised here before on this forum in many guises
 
A friend of mine in a firm of accountants ran a test where everyone from office tea girl to the head honcho recorded *everything* they spent for a month and then one of the bean counters worked out the tax they were paying on average...

Result:

we're paying 70% tax in the UK, people

that's your friendly fat Chancellor for you...

If I could persuade my OH to move, I would. Ireland anyone? Or NZ?

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