For those on DIY livery

I pay £33 for stable, turnout, haylage, straw (unlimited) 2 outdoor and one indoor arena, tea room, heated rug room, free trailer parking, hours of off road hacking, small cross country course.

And I get a discount cause I have three there
 
I rent a yard with one other person, 4 ponies, 3 stables. We have sole use, no electric, no facilities other than running water. My share for 2 stables and grazing is £16.25/week per pony.
 
We pay £20 pw & for that we get the following:
stable, individual paddocks, secure tack room, space in barn for hay/bedding/feed, kitchen & toilet, lorry parking, 45 x 23mtr arena. There is power & water. There is an on site groom who will turn out, muck out, clip etc & you pay her seperately.

All feed, bedding, hay etc is the responsibility of the owners to arrange. In our area this is a real good deal & any vacancies are rapidly filled from a waiting list.
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My current yard is £38 a week for that I get
Stable with automatic water drinkers
Field with post and rail
Individual storage
Use of 3 schools and 1 DR arena
Use of wash boxes

The yard I'm moving to is £25 a week I get
My own field
Individual storage for hay and feed within the field
Place in communal tack room
Use of school
Use of jumping paddock in the summer
Use of pens so can bring in for a few hours
 
I pay £27 a week for stable, own tack room, lunge pen, jumping arena, flatwork arena, x country fields, good hacking and turnout. We do everything ourselves, if you want your horse fed in the morning, turnout or anything you pay the groom to do it.
 
In essex the general DIY is £32 per week all you get is the stable & tack room and their morning / night feed put in.
Everything else is extra.

God so jealous of you lot.
 
£90 pm per horse

12x12 mat stables in my own barn.
lights and water
own lock up 6x7
sand arena 20x40 with lights
YO will bring in or out/do am feeds etc if i ask. and i do the same for her..its only me and her on there.
fields post and rail- i have 3 fields which i use as i like
auto water troughs
hacking is good- beach is 10mins in the box.
car parking
buy my own hay etc in.
 
I pay £20 per week for stable, grazing, unlimited straw and hay - but my horse lives out 24/7!

There are no facilities, although I can ride on the fields after harvesting, but there are bridlepaths very close by which I couldn't do without as I don't have a traffic-proof horse.
 
Varies between £115-£125 per month depending on the size of your horse. For that you get stable, all year grazing (weather allowing), haylage in winter, turnout & bring in in winter weekdays only. Not that great a school surface-wise but has lights. Can hack straight from yard onto bridleway. In summer we have to pay extra for haylage per day. Geldings and mares are segregated but those of same sex all in together.
 
The yard I am at is £125pcm all inclusive.
For this we get:

Good quality, locally sourced hay and straw- hay is in one barn, straw is in the other and you take what you need, obviously within reason.

Floodlit sand school, YO rolls it once a week so its in really nice condition. You can't lunge in there, however, incase it gets spoiled. You can pop your horse/pony in there whilst mucking out, providing you keep an eye on it.

Locked tack room with metal door, bars across windows so very safe. That also has a little tea room bit with a kettle, microwave, fridge and you can bring biscuits, long life milk, tea, etc as you please.

Barn with two floors and upstairs has rug racks, and you can store any other bits and bobs up there.

Good hacking, bridleway at the end of the track. Loads of fields, gallops just up the road.

Lots and lots of turnout! There are 4 paddocks and two big fields on one side of the yard, and three paddocks and three massive fields out the back. We alternate the front fields during winter so they go out in one for a few weeks then we rest that, etc. They go out in the biiig back fields during summer 24/7. They are turned out in same sex herds. At the moment there are two mares out together and four geldings out. Then there are two german colts that are brothers and they are in a paddock. Then there is the little group of ponies (two shetties and two retired ponies) which the YO has had since she was a kid so they have their own paddock too. There are two field shelters with concrete hardstanding for those who have just come off boxrest.

YO is lovely and very fun, more of a friend than a 'boss'! Her and her husband live onsite so yard is very secure with a great dane called Ruby who is an excellent guard dog.

Stables all have rubber matting, YO's husband is a roofer so stables are always in top condition. All fencing is fixed if broken. We have wooden posts and electric tape.

YO is more than happy for you to do restricted grazing providing you supply the tape, posts and battery pack and that you take care of the ground and manage it well.

In summer you have to poo pick - one barrow a day.

Big muck heap which is regularly 'tended' so easy to manage.

YO has a sparkly purple lorry, will take you out to shows/clinics but asks for a contribution of £5 towards petrol.

Everyone on the yard is lovely and supportive, no bitchyness, etc. Always help each other out, x

I've been on my fair share of nasty, bitchy yards so wouldn't want to be anywhere else now!
 
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