DIY Livery - How much do you pay?

[josephinebutter2]

Just had a note that my DIY livery bill is going to be increased by £10 PCM to £140 per month. We do have excellent facilities, but this just seems rediculous.

How much do you guys pay and for what facilities?

Also, does anyone know of any good DIY yards near Wickford, Essex and how much they are?

Thanks!

 

[samp]

£30/week - 60x20m school, horsewalker, turnout - not great, can park horsebox there, hacking is quite good

 

[the watcher]

£30 per week, stable, straw, hay, outdoor school and trailer parking included
equates to £130 pcm

 

[EnduroGal]

Round here DIY livery (stable/grazing/use of school) costs between £10 - £25 per week.

 

[_OC_]

I pay £108.33 per calendar month and I'm in Surrey.do have a flood lit school,just had new stables and the grazing not to bad....has not gone up in 7 years.........so lucky I guess for this area!

 

[Happytohack]

4 years ago was paying £70 per week for 3 horses (it was £25.00 per week for one horse) - this included superb grazing, big american style barn boxes, all with automatic drinkers. All year round turnout, parking for lorry/trailer and use of outdoor 60 x 40 school. There is a local DIY livery near us now charges £40 per month!

 

[horsegirl]

£128 per month assisted DIY (they feed and turnout, I provide the food)

When I posted a few days ago about whether £200 a month was expensive most people said no that seemed fair?

 

[AmyMay]

Do you have gold plated stables????

£86 per month.

 

[aran]

i pay £110 per month
amazing TO (5 horses in 20 acres)
large barn stables (12x14)
flood lit new menage
off road hacking (miles of it)
trailer parking
and people about to help out if needed!

think it depends on your location as to what you expect for your money

 

[josephinebutter2]

Just to clarity - Facilities are year round turnout 24hrs in summer, day only in winter/20x60 and 40x80 schools/lunging arena/surfaced hacking round farm so can hack when it's dark in winter.

Trailer/lorry parking would be £25/£30 extra PCM.

 

[Mellymoo1]

Octobercob - I think you might be near me - Wherebouts in Surrey are you? You can PM me if you'd prefer!

 

[KatB]

£25 a week icludes all year turnout, use of floodlight (in theory) and stable.

 

[_OC_]

Is always more expensive down here!....and mine is cheap for round here!

 

[Mellymoo1]

I pay £140 pcm - Way to much considering I'm a livery at a riding school and can't even get in the school most of the time. Plus the grazing isn't too good.

 

[SSM]

£60 a month, fantastic grazing, floodlit menage with amazing surface and £5 a week haylage!!!!!!! -

 

[JACQSZOO]

£25 per week includes good grazing, trailer parking and use of outdoor school.

 

[pottamus]

I am not on a yard myself but my sister pays £25 per week for all year turnout (but hardly any grass), outdoor un lit menage and a fairly run down stable block. She pays for all hay, bedding etc on top and £1 per day for turning out and rugging in the morning.

 

[Kelly1982]

I pay £20 per week.

We have quite good turn out (3 big fields for our 3 horses), hacking is rubbish though and our sand school is not brilliant either. It's knee deep at one end and shallow at the other end and gets so water logged you can only ride in 1/4 of it in the winter.

Needless to say i am looking for somewhere else.

 

[Super_Kat]

I pay £45 Per horse per week (I have 2 horses) and we get:
-Stable
-Turnout (only between 8am & 4pm)
-Feed (Coolmix, Alfa A, Hi Fi & sugar beet at some point aswell!)
-Really bad quality hay (will be teaming with other people and hopefully buying a large bale of haylege)
-Use of 3 schools (one indoor, one covered and one unlit waterlogged outdoor) but the schools are usually booked so it's a bugger to try and find a time to ride!
-Horse walker (which is usually full of sh!t)

 

[Tempi]

dont get me started on my yards riduculous DIY prices

For Bloss i pay £160

a month which includes:
- as much haylage as needed (or hay whichever you want)
- unlimited use of 70x25 outdoor school (it is floodlite but the lights are an extra 50p per half hour as they are on a meter thingy)
- stable
- individual paddock (which is maintained by me)

For Archie i pay £140 a month which includes:
- turnout with other geldings
- school (same as above)
- stable
- haylage (or hay) as much as i want

Lorry parking is free, or not, depends on how you look at it!

ETS - i buy in my own feed and shavings.

 

[lisan]

£17.90 pw for stable
£10.00 pw for grazing
£ 7.50 pw hayledge
£ 4.75 pw 1 bag shavings

Which equates to £40.15pw £160 per month - Expensive for oooop north!

This includes the use of small indoor school
2 floodlit outdoor schools
good hacking
Lorry parking
Own tackrooms
nice stables
loads of grazing
winter turnout
Can ride on all the land
morning feed/haynet put in

Oh, and currently paying a mate £85 a month to muck out since I broke my leg, but am planning to do it myself from this weekend now I can walk again!!

 

[johnsongreyhorse]

£72 every 4 weeks, use of menage, turnout unless wet

in winter, completely DIY - good hacking

 

[cosmo_sam]

For me (per wk) :

£17 stable and year round turnout
£3 wagon parking
£3.25 for a bale of hay
£5.80 for shavings

Facilities are 20x60 outdoor, 20x40 indoor, small jumping field in the summer.

 

[Pasha]

I pay £110/month on the Kent/Surrey border - we have a 60x20 floodlit school (pasada surface which is fab, no pools of water and doesn't freeze). We also have fantastic turnout (my boy is still on summer rations) and great hacking with direct access to the bridlepaths from our yard

 

[Baileysno1]

God my yard is dearer than I thought:

£33.50 a week (£145 a month)

DIY:

For my stable small but perfectly formed
Turnout v. good (24 hours in summer daily in winter)
Lovely floodlit 70 x 70m silica sand arena
small lit indoor arena (good for lunging)
Horsewalker
And parking for my trailer

Hay Shavings feed all on top

And we're in the bleak north near Grimsby - I assumed the south would be loads dearer!

(lighting for arenas and walker are on tokens)

 

[not_with_it]

£100 pcm.

I get a big stable in a barn
All year TO but in a yard in winter
60x20 school whenever I like
Free lorry parking

If ever I need any help ie turning out / fetching in its free.

 

[Blackhawk]

When I was on a livery yard it was £72 per month for stabling, good grazing, halylage, outdoor school.

 

[TheresaW]

I pay £60 a week for each horse (I have 2). For this I get stable, straw and haylage plus feed. Dolly is on Hi-fi which I buy as an extra. Turnout is crap. We each get about 2 hours a day. I am lucky as I get in really early and get mine up the field about half six so they tend to get a bit longer as they don't get brought in til about 10. We have no school and no other real facilities. The plus side to the yard is that the hacking is brilliant. We are right on the edge of Epping Forest and we don't have to do any road work, other than crossing one road, if we don't want to.

 

[malibu211211]

Mine is £20 a week
I share a stable block of two internal stables with Bellaboo (my boy is teaching her mare some fab habits!!) The stables are old but useable, all round turnout and a sand arena which is a bit deep in places. It's great though not being on a big yard (been there, done that and NEVER want to do that again!)
Forgot to say our hacking is fantastic, straight out of the yard onto bridlepaths which go along the coastal path.

 

[xEMPx]

That dos seem quite expensive, is there any hay/straw including