For £16pw grass livery, what do you expect to get?

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Hi, am looking for somewhere for my young horses to graze. Aside from the other field I've posted about this morning, a local yard has quoted me £16 pw/ph for sharing a single decent sized field with a couple of their other liveries. No forage supplied (so not sure how that works when there are several people sharing and I want my babies to have access to ad lib haylage and hard feed). They are not keen to section a bit off for me, so is this rather dear do you think or is it the going rate? Can't help thinking it would be a pain in the neck not to have somewhere separate to put the youngsters if I want to feed them their hard feeds separately from the other ponies sharing the field. However, I'm desperate as I've lost my current stables and HAVE TO MOVE. Options are thin on the ground apparently. I've been advertising for ages locally.
 
Is there not anywhere you can put them when you bring them out of the field to feed- a yard to tie up on etc?

I pay £30/week for 2 horse's grazing and 1 stable.

I share the field with 1 other and if we want to feed hay then I buy 2 bales for every 1 she buys and we just put it out in field every evening, whoever gets there first.
 
Sounds like you will get a field and no more, hopefully the other owners will be reasonable and you can all share hay etc otherwise it would be pretty awkward I would think.
 
Yard is full. No spare stables.

My youngsters are a yearling filly and 6 mo old colt. Can't bring them down to the busy yard and tie them up outside - both are too young for that. Also cannot stand and hold two of them at that age, whilst they feed standing outside the field gate. Expect I would have to feed ad lib haylage in the field (at my own expense), and cut out the feed balancer I currently feed them; then hope to find a better location as soon as I could. I just thought £16 per week per horse was fairly expensive. Around here, most DIY yards charge £15pw for DIY stable and grazing (without facilities - but I don't need them for my babies). And £25pw DIY livery for a stable/grazing at a yard with all weather surface arena and facilities. Does seem to make £16pw for a shared field kind of dear IMO
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However, beggars cannot be choosers!
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It's quite expensive imo. But depends where in the country you are. Are the fields and fencing/water supplied and maintained by the landowner?
 
Yep, I think £16 a week per horse is pretty steep for what you're getting. I'd rent out a separate paddock for £10 a week per horse if I didn't have such evil clay!
 
Can I ask why you think they are too young to be brought onto a yard to be tied up? we have a 7 month old foal on our yard, and he is always being brought onto the yard, tied up groomed or whatever is needed - he has to get used to it at some point.

With regard to the price, our yard charges £75 per month for grass livery, but that does include the use of the sand school should they want it - and the general yard facilities (obviously apart from a stable).
 
I'm not sure where you are based but I think £16 is ok if you are getting everything you want but I think you will have problems with the feeding / haying arrangements. Not all people feed like you want to and therefore separating yours will be tricky, either that or you'll out hay down and everyone will feed off it.

If the owner can't / won't section off a portion of field I personally would look elsewhere.
 
I pay £70 a month for my yearlings grass livery, we are in Surrey. For that he is in a well maintained field with 3 other horses with good fencing and water supply, yard manager maintains the grazing well and does all the fertilising. We have a small square yard area with a small hay barn and 7 stables of which we can use the free one's at anytime for feeding, farrier, vets, tying up, grooming, bathing etc. We have electricity and water and a small tack/ feed room. We don't have any riding facilities but the hacking is fantastic. Oh and the YO hays and poo picks weekdays for us so I only do it at the weekend!
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ETS: Having a youngster you really need to be able to separate them if nesscessary and especially if your feeding separately. Plus having somewhere to ty up/ shelter is so useful! I don't think it sounds like a great deal TBH, or maybe I've just been really lucky.
 
I pay £30 per week per horse during the summer for grass turnout and £24 per week in winter for winter paddocks supplied with hay! The stables are yours all the time but if you want to keep your horses in you have to pay £5 for straw and hay for one night!
 
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Really????? Where abouts are you? Down here, you'll be lucky to get field only livery (no hay etc) for less than £25 pw!! £16 is cheap as chips!!!
 
Crikey, for the equivalent of about 25 pounds a week, my Pasture Boarders get EVERYTHING except a designated stable and exercise!

Pasture rent in the UK has shot up obviously, 3 years ago I would have taken a fiver per horse, per week. (OK, so a mile up the side of a mountain, no mains water, no power, but sound fencing, a barn and excellent mountain access)
 
Can't you maybe then go to one of the DIY yards wit a stable - but that allows 24hr TO? You don't have to use the stable - although i think with youngsters it'd be good practice for them to get used to coming in a stable and being tied up etc. Also, handy to have the use of a stable should something happen.

I think that's what i'd do if there was that option for the same price as just field only.
 
Have you asked local farmers? At this time of year cattle are often being taken indoors.

This is what I have done, although a tad embarassed when my 2 year old chased all the cows after jumping out of her paddock. She was gleeful and loved it, but they didnt!
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Really????? Where abouts are you? Down here, you'll be lucky to get field only livery (no hay etc) for less than £25 pw!! £16 is cheap as chips!!!

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Gosh, where are you??
 
My grass field rent costs me £15/week no matter how many horses I have on it. It si just basically a grass let though, I get nothing lese for it. Still pretty cheap, especially once I have 5 horses on it, although I'm sure my other half would disagree!!!
 
A friend has a livery yard, not sure what her prices are now but knowing her they won't have gone up that much. Last year for £15 a week you had daytime turnout in a shared field, and a stable. Plus shared tackroom, feed room etc. £16 per week for just a field does seem a bit expensive but I suppose it depends whereabouts you are.
 
we charge £14 per week per horse for stable and grazing though this is d.i.y. When i had my youngsters i use to have a large round bale of hay dropped in the field and we all split the cost.
 
when i lived at lincolnshire i worked on a farm and they said i could put my horses on farm, grazing was short but had stables for both they charged me 15 pound a week for both.i have now recently moved back to derbyshire and been very lucky to of found livery for 20 pound a month per horse i only have grazing at moment(which is a ten acre field just with my two on) as stables not ready yet but doesn want anymore for stables its on a run down farm but riding out is very good
 
We loaned a pony of ours to a girl a few years back. They 'rented' grazing for him - 2 fields - one was £1 a month, the other £1 a year!!!
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me and my parents run a yard, we charge £15 per week for grass livery we check them daily, maintain fencing, we also do the water daily and they can use the arena whenever they want, we have a separte little area we call the coral between the field and the yard just between 2 gates but big enuf for 2 horses to be fed within and not be bothered by other horses, we charge £25 per week for a stable and grazing DIY and same as grazing. we have 16acre of grazing and a maximum limit of 10 horses we take on so never short on grass so tend not to need to give hay also but when we have done in the past the price of the big round bales £25 is divided by however many horses there are in and the owners share that cost between them so its about going rate, altho it depends what area you are in to be honest to local rates.
 
As all the stables on our yard are full I am being charged £17 per week at the moment for grass livery
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BUT that includes use of a floodlit school, jumping school etc etc

I am finding it a right pain not having a stable, but as I'm up at different times to everyone else (before and after work) I can get away with nicking the wash box to feed/groom/tack up in
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I pay a set amount per week for unlimited haylage, as does the owner of the horse Bob shares with at night, so we just put out haylage for both of them every night
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