Full livery cost per day at vets etc?

M

MrsART

Member
Joined
13 March 2009
Messages
22
Location
Cumbria
Visit site
How much are you charged per day for full livery and what is included in this price?

Particularly interested to hear from anyone who has had their horse stay at a vets/therapist.

Thank you in advance.
 
I think its a difficult one to answer. My horse was at Liphook for four days last week, and although I haven't had the bill yet, they mentioned £150 per day. i'm not sure what that included - whether his medical treatment was included in that. Will be better able to advise when they send me the enormous bill I was expecting to receive on Sunday when I collected him! The suspense is killing me!
 
Mine was around £50 per day, split on the bill as livery £20 nursing £30, this was the basic as he had no nursing as such, things such as injections were charged at £10 per jab on top of the drugs and it was things like that that really added up, the livery was minor in comparison.
 
Mine had a stay of 8 days at Minster York last year. Livery was 26 per day but then on top I had varying prices for medical nursing depending on how high his dependancy was (so this reduced through his stay) His 8 day stay for a respiratory problem cost my insurers £4k!
 
Basic cost per day at the vets I worked at was £40 for a night. Included all feed, hay, mucking out, watering and basic nursing care. Everything else went on top!
 
Mine have been at the RVC a few times and I think at the moment it's about £35 a day. That includes all livery care, feed, bedding, hay. It also seems to include checks, bandaging and dressing change and some nursing care as I have never had a separate charge for these.

There is also an intensive care unit so not sure if that is a different daily charge.
 
Mine was more expensive on the day my boy had the general anaesthetic and was then sedated for bandage changes (50 quid a day) as this was classed as hospitalisation but on the days he was just lounging about and eating loads it was 30 quid a day. He was in hospital 10 days in total - thank goodness for insurance!!
 
Reading this lot I'm feeling a bit more positive about my bill when it arrives! Sound like they included pretty much everything in the £150 a day guesstimate!
 
My mare spent 10 days at Newmarket Equine Hospital and I was dreading the cost, I was suprised to find out it was in the region of £30-£40 a day not the £100 a day I had expected.
 
April 2013 I was charged £25 per day for basic livery at my vets (horse was not there under insurance).
This was bedding, hay, basic feed & muck-out etc. They had students there at the time, so the Fuzzy got a groom daily too.

It was actually cheaper to send that Fuzzy to the vets for 8 days for treatment than to pay for 3 vet visits to my yard for the treatment in the same time! So it made sense to leave HF there :)
 
The Fuzzy Furry said:
April 2013 I was charged £25 per day for basic livery at my vets (horse was not there under insurance).
This was bedding, hay, basic feed & muck-out etc. They had students there at the time, so the Fuzzy got a groom daily too.

It was actually cheaper to send that Fuzzy to the vets for 8 days for treatment than to pay for 3 vet visits to my yard for the treatment in the same time! So it made sense to leave HF there :)
Click to expand...

Definitely cheaper than own vet visiting - this is why we decided it was best to send mine to Liphook. I was also delighted when I picked him up on Sunday, to find that he was considerably cleaner than when I left him there (clay mud and profuse sweating is a NASTY combination!).
 
My mare went to the vets and because its a small practice so no other horses around and the fact she's hard to box,her companion Shetland went with her!!! We were charged £30 for about 24hours and the shettie looked very pampered when she came back!!
 
My vets is £20 per day for livery, daily veterinary care is charged separately as they found that insurance were quibbling about paying it when they charged combined. It was £140 per day for intensive care for a foal post surgery.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top