Tammytoo
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How much would you expect to pay for DIY Livery in Yorkshire? Stable, bedding, grazing and hay. Access to electricity and water, but no other facilties. We have no idea whether £30 pw is a bargain or a rip-off!
DIY Livery
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MardyMare
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If £30 includes your bedding and hay then I would say a bargain. 
Bedding these days is expensive as is Hay. I am S. Yorks / N. Notts and we pay that for just stable and grazing
Bedding these days is expensive as is Hay. I am S. Yorks / N. Notts and we pay that for just stable and grazing 
Chestnutmare
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i pay £32.50 / wk thats just stable and grazing and use of school but everything else I have to buy
Enfys
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Bargain That's less than a fiver a day!
Hay is what, an average of 4 pounds a bale and you might use, say 4 a week? That's half your fee for a start. A couple of bales of straw, another 6 pounds? You are left with 8 pounds for stable, grazing, power and water, then you'll expect paddocks/stables/access to be maintained, presumably tractors/machinery to fuel and maintain, also insurance and rates to be paid etc, etc
...the poor yard owners are subbing YOU! 
I really hope they have another source of income because they'll be on beans if they rely on livery income to pay a wage/mortgage
Someone once told me that the only way to make money from DIY livery was to "get the hell out of it!"
That's less than a fiver a day! Hay is what, an average of 4 pounds a bale and you might use, say 4 a week? That's half your fee for a start. A couple of bales of straw, another 6 pounds? You are left with 8 pounds for stable, grazing, power and water, then you'll expect paddocks/stables/access to be maintained, presumably tractors/machinery to fuel and maintain, also insurance and rates to be paid etc, etc
...the poor yard owners are subbing YOU!
I really hope they have another source of income because they'll be on beans if they rely on livery income to pay a wage/mortgage
Someone once told me that the only way to make money from DIY livery was to "get the hell out of it!"
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greenmonkeykelly
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£30 sounds about right for DIY These days!
I think ive found a bargin thou with my livery here in Bedfordshire!
£60 per week - 5 Day part Livery!
Ad Lib Haylege/hay
x3 bales of straw per week (or £1.50 per bale after using 3)
Turn out, bring in, rug change, hoofs picked, feed given for 5 days..Its DIY at the weekend or £10 a day!
This includes use of a Floodlit Dressage arena and One hell of a xc Course that is 4 miles long!
I think that's a true bargin!!
I think ive found a bargin thou with my livery here in Bedfordshire!
£60 per week - 5 Day part Livery!
Ad Lib Haylege/hay
x3 bales of straw per week (or £1.50 per bale after using 3)
Turn out, bring in, rug change, hoofs picked, feed given for 5 days..Its DIY at the weekend or £10 a day!
This includes use of a Floodlit Dressage arena and One hell of a xc Course that is 4 miles long!
I think that's a true bargin!!
Tammytoo
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Thankyou people.
Enfys - don't worry, it's not a "proper" DIY just a local farmer who makes his own hay and straw and has a couple of empty boxes. It's also on the understanding that the two liveries keep an eye on his horse when he's on his jollies!
Enfys - don't worry, it's not a "proper" DIY just a local farmer who makes his own hay and straw and has a couple of empty boxes. It's also on the understanding that the two liveries keep an eye on his horse when he's on his jollies!
Enfys
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Oh no, I'm not worrying about the YO,
I just think it is a real bargain, and I did assume that it must be a farmer as few could buy in hay and straw and make any money otherwise. A canny move to have you keep an eye on his horses too, I was on a set up like that years ago, I ended up paying no board, running the yard, working for the farmer and competing his horses somehow...not sure how that happened though. 
Dexter
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One of the big yard round here charges that, and I'm on the border of North Yorkshire and Teesside. I think its £20 a week in the summer and £30 a week in the winter to include ad lib hay/haylage and straw. And people go silly with it, I've seen horses with a pile of hay bigger than they are! They have loads of turnout, 2 outdoor schools an indoor and miles of off road hacking, plus access to the beach.
Taking in to account your looking after his horse sometimes and you have no facilities, it seems fairish, but not a bargain.
They have loads of turnout, 2 outdoor schools an indoor and miles of off road hacking, plus access to the beach. Taking in to account your looking after his horse sometimes and you have no facilities, it seems fairish, but not a bargain.
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