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Ceifer

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My freelance groom is moving out of the area and I’m reluctantly looking at replacements.
Currently if she’s covering a full day I pay her £20 for the morning. Turn 3 out. 2 lead together and third lives next field. Mucking out all on deep litter - get a barrow out between the 3. Hay is fed from floor.
The morning routine takes me about 1/2 hr - 45 mins if I’m being slow.

Then I pay £15.00 for evening visit which is feed and put them in stables. They live in turnout rugs and the pony is naked. It takes 15 mins.

Does this seem reasonable?
 
Ceifer said:
My freelance groom is moving out of the area and I’m reluctantly looking at replacements.
Currently if she’s covering a full day I pay her £20 for the morning. Turn 3 out. 2 lead together and third lives next field. Mucking out all on deep litter - get a barrow out between the 3. Hay is fed from floor.
The morning routine takes me about 1/2 hr - 45 mins if I’m being slow.

Then I pay £15.00 for evening visit which is feed and put them in stables. They live in turnout rugs and the pony is naked. It takes 15 mins.

Does this seem reasonable?
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I think it’s fine if there is no travelling but otherwise you would need to take that into account and pay more
 
That looks very reasonable, but I suppose it is regular.
I pay £20 for someone to catch and feed two ponies, once a week. I have already put the beds down and prepared the feeds, so all they have to do is fill the water buckets and give them hay and feed. Catch and change the rug on one.

But I had to pay the same £20 to someone else for holiday cover, just visit once a day back in the summer.
 
Orangehorse said:
That looks very reasonable, but I suppose it is regular.
I pay £20 for someone to catch and feed two ponies, once a week. I have already put the beds down and prepared the feeds, so all they have to do is fill the water buckets and give them hay and feed. Catch and change the rug on one.

But I had to pay the same £20 to someone else for holiday cover, just visit once a day back in the summer.
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It tends to be once a week to give me a break and she covers when I go on holiday.
I’ve been quoted £60.00 a day for the same and at that rate it would be more than my holiday 🤣
 
I mean, for a groom who was based half an hour away from you, £60 is only £20ph including travelling time (give or take). It's one of those things where it's worth whatever you can get someone to do it for. If you're in a high density area with a few grooms based locally, it'll be cheaper than if you're out in the sticks. If you're flexible about times, it may well be cheaper than if you want everything done at the peak horsey times. There's not really a single answer to this, I don't think.
 
Ours is £12 a day for full livery with is probably 30-40 mins per horse so very similar. They're on site with their own horses so not paying for travel. Travel is expensive if they're just coming to your area for you, it's time and fuel.
 
My freelance groom does about half the shifts for me (they live out, so she gives hay and feed in the field in the morning, and in the evening brings in and refills bowls, and puts out more hay. I pay £2 per horse morning and evening so at the moment she is making £26 for each session. She lives 10 mins away, I reckon she can leave home and be back in an hour, so that's roughly her hourly rate including travel. She also gets free livery for her own horse so she gets a decent deal - worth it from my point of view as she's incredibly reliable and cheerful. Reliability is worth paying for.
 
I'm a bit out of the way in a small village so I find it hard to get help of any kind whether it's horses or anything I need doing. With freelancers it depends on how close they live or if they have other clients in the area. The last one I had did mornings on a yard about 4 miles away and would come here after that as I am flexible on time, sadly she moved away. Now I pay for 2 hours @£18 per hour to get someone at all, she does travel about 15 min each way as well. I think it depends on the individual circumstances.
 
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