full livery costs

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was just wondering how much you guys would expect to pay for full-livery if it included the following:

Individual turnout
Feed Costs (including hay/haylage)
Bedding
Feeding am and pm
Daily grooming
Tack cleaning
Mucking out
Turnout/Bring in
Poo picking daily

Part livery would be as above, excluding weekends.

This wouuld not include farriers, vet fees, dentistry, clipping, specialists supplements.
Excercise if wanted would be charged depending on what is required eg. 1 hours ridden = £10, lunging = £5

Any ideas grately appreciated!!
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It sort of depends on what area of the country you are in and the quality of the facilities.

For full you would be looking at £70-£120
Part around £60-£100
 
thats my part livery bar the tack cleaning. i charge 95 per week for stabling, grazing all feed adlib hay TO,BI.rugs feet and brush off.all on full rubber but full banked shavings beds mucked out each day to floor and clean shavings 2 to 3 times a week as req. good facilities incl a menage which is still working, alarmed tackroom toilet coffee/ tea etc. i dont do 5 day week as am fussy about my mucking out. turnout every (yes EVERY) day individual or bunch!
 
It really depends whereabouts you are in the country if im honest! I know at home (watford hertfordshire) its anywhere from £15 to £25 a day (yes a day :S), yet at uni (at notts but in leicstershire) its £75 to £130 a week
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where just outside ickworth park area in the countryside with plenty of hacking. There will be a full size indoor school when its finished in the autumn, locked tackroom / tearoom and plenty of storage. the stables are brand new and the yard is lovely and quiet.

just wasnt sure the going-rate for full and part liveries!!

thanks guys!
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Sorry if this sounds rather direct but - why would you have your own horse if you're not doing the majority of this yourself?

Having said that, we pay the following for 17hh 5 yr old:

Livery (stable & grazing) - £70 per month
Straw - approx £15 per month
Hay (winter) - approx £40 per month (less in summer)
Turnout (Mon - Fri) - £30 per month (£20 in summer)
Full livery (turnout & mucking out & feeding) - £5 per day

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Sorry if this sounds rather direct but - why would you have your own horse if you're not doing the majority of this yourself?

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Because some people have boring things like jobs with 10-hour days and 2-hour commutes, and simply don't feel like mucking out at the end of all that. Some people have dodgy bodies that can cope with riding but not with hard physical stable work, and some people just hate mucking out!
 
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Sorry if this sounds rather direct but - why would you have your own horse if you're not doing the majority of this yourself?


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If you work long hours.... my mum used to work 6am till 8 or 9pm and have hers on full livery so it was nice to know it was being cared for. Had her own to breed and compete on, which you cant do at a RS or share really
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Have mine on part cause i get great facilities and they dont offer DIY, having said that
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. Plus it means i get a lay in in the mornings before uni
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Yea well..... i like being lazy.... ask ella, shes the same
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! Unless that is ella (guessing not from the no spring chicken comment)... Anyway you know thats not true haha, who was the one always offering to help?! (still am at new yard)?? hmmm, Plus i dont have a useful mum like you to go and muck out my horse and bring in etc for me, so im allowed to be lazy
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We ALL have jobs and nobody LIKES mucking out.

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Which is precisely why, as I have the disposable income to do so, I used to choose to pay someone else to do these chores! DIY now purely because I have started my own company and wanted to cut costs 'just in case' - as it turns out I could have afforded to stay on part livery and in this weather I blooming wish I had!
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I pay £105 covers feed,bedding,in and out (with rugs!) AND trailer parking.I work irregular/unpredictable hours and a half hour drive away (at 90mph)-so if I'm free I'll do more but if I can't get there he's well cared for.Depends where you are-the adjacent yard is £140 plus payingto use tack room and to park a trailer-allof 5 feet from my yard...I work so that I can have this flexibility so I can work-hmmmm!-tricky thing this work life balance.
 
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