DIY Grass Livery

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What would you pay for it ????

I am seriously thinking about putting an offer on a 9.5acre field. It looks like it will drain well and I'm thinking of having a few liveries to help me with the costs.

My plan would be to have grass liveries and I would put up field shelters, hay in the winter with plenty of grazing.

Do you think people would pay £100 pm plus hay costs. It is in the south and all livery yards around here are very short on grazing and most don't even have 24hr turnout in the summer.
 
I would say thats alot for no facilites other than the field and shelters but I'm not in the south. I would want a manege and good hacking before I would consider somewhere
 
10 -15 pounds per week is the norm round here, and that is atplaces with facilities such as use of a school and on site security.

You will have to take in to account the costs of insurance and the fact that you could be liable for tax on your income from the liveries.
 
For DIY Grass livery you're are looking at £10 - £15 per week.

I have 2 grass liveries here at the moment, who I check at least twice a day, give them hay daily and poo pick for £25 per week per horse.
 
Thats too much Im afraid. Im in sussex and pay £14.10 each for my horse and cob. The YO varies the cost depending on the height of the horse. We pay approx £2 extra per animal per week for hay in the winter. Only one of the ponies on my yard is shod, which cuts down on the damage done to the fields in the winter. We had two fully shod horses from off the yard use our woods for hacking, and the damage they did was very noticable and certainly made me appreciate my yards policy.
ETA we also have free use of stable and straw if we need it, say one goes lame or something, plus water and electricity
 
Definately too much, I pay £100/month for a stable, field, floodlit school etc. etc.
Maiden is on eight acres of good grazing (we rent the whole field between myself, my YO and YO's daughter for their two youngsters and my broken horse), they have nothing apart from an auto-filling water trough and fencing repaired if they wreck it (
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I am having problems finding livery for my horse in the south of hampshire as it's very short of grass, most liveries i looked at only turn out every other day and too many in each field. I much prefer the all year round turnout availablty with decent stable/shelter in case i need it. they seems so expensive round here and not enough turn out. At the moment my horse is in West sussex on part livery with turn out everyday during winter and 24/7 in summer (he only just started coming back in stable last week). I pay £20 a week for huge stable and 6 acre grass (2 other horses sharing) (elect and water inc) thats about £87 per cal month, no fact. hay/straw on site.

It does seem alot for grass livery but with shelter up i would probably looking up to 15 a week.
 
Thanks for comments. The problem I am faced with is the fact that it will cost me around £1,000 pcm on my mortgage to purchase the land. I would love my own land as both my horses would live out 24/7 and at all the livery yards near here turnout is rubbish. Long term I plan to put up stables and sand school, but need help to pay for everything to start with.
 
I am in Hampshire and have my two on DIY grass livery - I pay £15 per week per horse. We have a big barn with electric and water, and field shelters in every field, post and rail. I think its in total about 10 acres, and its just my friend with her pony there as well so 3 horses in total - the owners don't want any more people there. We have too much grazing in the summer, so have to have sheep to keep it down, and we have plenty in the winter to keep us going 24/7.

Last year we had 5 horses at the yard, and it was awful in the winter. No grass, and very boggy.
 
Purely grass livery shouldn't be any more than £10-£15 a week depending on the quality of the facilities and what the hacking is like.

I would also suggest before you plunge in with an offer that you find out exactly what the field is like all the year round. If nothing's been on it, it could be very wet but it wouldn't necessarily be obvious. It might be a swamp in the winter anbd like concrete in the summer. Also check very carefully how easy it would be to to put up stables and have a school, go and have an informal chat with the council in whose area the field is. Some planning authorities are very twitchy about such things and not allow you to do it and you could end up with a very expensive millstone.
 
... and also, will you be able to get planning permission for stables and sand school... it not, you'll be stuck will an expensive mortgage on a field.
 
I used to pay £15 a week and hay was on top of that throughout the winter!!We had a shelter and part of the field fenced off to school!I wouldnt want to pay any more than £20 a week!!Would consider £100 only if it had facilities,such as school,tackroom,feed room!!
 
i only pay £120 in summer, £150 in winter for full grass livery - horse is fed and checked twice daily, all hay and hard feed included, he's brought in for farrier/vet and basically looked after for me. definitely wouldn't pay £100 just for a field - i'd expect 2 horses for that price and i live in the south so am used to the prices round here. never paid more than £15 a week for field with no facilities.
 
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