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What would you say is the best bedding for a wet horse with rubber matting down?
Roughly how many of the bedding would you need each week?
How long would a bag of dengie chaff last at a scoop twice a day?
Also do these cost sound reasonable

Monthly
Feed £20
Hay £20
Bedding...
Insurance under £30

2 months
Farrier £30
Worming £20 or less

6 months
Saddler £40
Dentist £50
Physio £50

Yearly
Vet £300

Please tell me if I'm being an idiot and forgot something or i have something totally wrong. Also replacement tack etc is from a separate budget haven't forgotten about them.
 
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What are you feeding, how much time will it spend at grass, will you be shod, half shod or unshod?

For mine big lad (16.3 ISH) out at grass approx 12 hours overnight in summer and approx 10 hours during the day in winter I probably average:

Hay £36 a month in summer, double that in winter. Small bales, must be bought from YO at £4.50 each
Feed £30 a month, this includes his bespoke minerals and joint supplement. He gets very little hard feed.
Bedding £12 a month, he's clean, reasonably dry and on wood pellets on mats, I buy by the tonne.
Insurance approx £30 a month
Farrier £60 every 6 weeks in summer when he's shod all round, £20 every 8-12 weeks in winter when he's bare to give his feet a break from shoes
Worming, not sure, yard worming programme, ranges from £6-£16 per time
Saddler from £20 if no adjustments needed and we share a visit, up to £60 if visit is not shared and adjustments needed
Dentist £45 every 8 months
Physio £50 -£60 every 6 months, depends on whether visit is shared.
Vet £50 a year for jabs. Whatever else needed for illness/injury. Insurance XS is £120.

Remember to include livery/field rent, holiday cover, tack and equipment purchases & repairs, rug washing and reproofing.........
 
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I get wood pellets, they worked out about £2.75 a bag approx. (dependant on quantity) and I use 2 bags a week for a fairly clean but wet horse. Its excellent value compered to previous years when he's been on shavings.
 
I pay...
Monthly
Feed £12
Hay £36
Bedding £28
Insurance not sure..

2 months
Farrier anything between £5 to £15 depending on how much he has to take off.
Worming £11 four times a year.

6 months
Saddler £50
Dentist £not sure
Physio £75

Hope this helps!
 
The horse is a 16.2 tb mare she is fed on chaff and mix 1 scoop chaff 1/2 mix twice a day (small scoop). Hay is round bales at around £15 each. She isn't shod in winter only in summer and the farrier is £30 when shod in summer and comes every 8 weeks. No livery cost kept at yard of person I'm loaning from, no holiday cover as owner will cover me if needed.
 
igglepop said:
What would you say is the best bedding for a wet horse with rubber matting down?
Roughly how many of the bedding would you need each week?
How long would a bag of dengie chaff last at a scoop twice a day?
Also do these cost sound reasonable

Monthly
Feed £20
Hay £20
Bedding...
Insurance under £30

2 months
Farrier £30
Worming £20 or less

6 months
Saddler £40
Dentist £50
Physio £50

Yearly
Vet £300

Please tell me if I'm being an idiot and forgot something or i have something totally wrong. Also replacement tack etc is from a separate budget haven't forgotten about them.
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Hay wise you need to double that per month - I pay £10 a week for ad lib but it's about the same as when I bought my own small bales.
Bedding my mare is wet and I used to go through 2-3 bales of shavings (at ~£6 a bale) a week. I currently use green shavings/sawdust which our yard gets in by the lorry load and I love it.

Farrier is every 6-8 weeks, £20 or so for a trim, £45 for a half set of shoes or £60 for a full set approximately depending on locaiton.

Dentist and physio is about right, vets fees will be anywhere from nothing to lots. Insurance is about £30-40 depending on the horse. I would say it's essential if on a budget for example my insurance just paid out over £2000 for a choke and pneumonia.

Feed depends on the type of horse and what you feed, I pay probably ~£30 a month on chaff, feed balancer and fibre nuts.
 
To be honest, a lot of costs depend on the horse - my native pony costs far less than my old TB did!

A bag of chaff lasts my 13.3/14 hh native in light work (hacking at weekends, mixture of ridden schooling, lessons and groundwork in the week) 6 months! A bag of fast fibre and high fibre nuts last about 3 months.

He is on ad-lib hay, so probably about £20 a month in winter - less in the summer!

I think my insurance is about £35 a month.

I probably use about £10-£15 straw a month.

I use a barefoot trimmer at £45 every 7-8 weeks.

We are having 3 monthly physio sessions currently, to help combat a long standing weakness - £45 a session.

Dentist is 6 monthly so is saddle fitter.

Supplements - magnesium at £18 for 6 month supply, general purpose supplement lasts about 4 months at £20 approx.

Vets fees are so variable - so far, touch wood, just needed jabs. Last horse though exceeded insurance limits on more than one occassion!

Will you be having lessons? I pay £35 a fortnight.

Your estimations sound pretty good though!
 
Thanks, I'm struggling to see how i will go threw more than a round bale a month as between two it last 3 weeks right now but will add in a little extra incase. They have a lot of turnout and even in winter are only in between 9.30pm and 6 am. I am planning to have lessons but not until summer now as school has no lights so lessons will properly be hard in the dark, luckily she rides well in the dark. Will put all cost in a neat list and show my parents considering that they were thinking £250 a month max it looks like i can be under budget, on paper at least.
 
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