Full livery peeps/ yard owners that offer it?

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What do you charge/ pay per week and what does that include?

Yard owners how do you come up with your prices, and costs for the services you offer?

Just wondering if this a feesable route to go down!

Thanks.
 
It's £80 or £85 a week for full livery on our yard (I can't quite remember).

It includes: ad-lib haylage, mucking out, feeding, water, turnout, bringing in and rug changes. YO will hold horse for blacksmith, vet etc as well.

It doesn't include: feed, bedding, grooming, tack cleaning and exercising.
 
Where I work at the weekends it is £110 for full livery. This includes feed, ad lib hay/hayledge, turnout, bring in, muck out in the morning skip out in the evening, exercising twice a week, tack cleaning, 2x shavings bales a week or as much straw as needed and grooming. Part livery is £95 which is the much like full livery but it excludes the exercising, grooming tack cleaning and you get 1 bale of shavings (or as much straw as you want).
 
I think what you can realistically charge depends on whereabouts in the country you are. I have a friend who lives in Hertfordshire who pays £120 per week for full livery, but I only pay £72.50. For that I get rug changes, basic feed, bedding, ad lib hay, turn out and fetch in, grooming and farrier, dentist and vet attendance. I'm especially grateful for the last because my horse HATES vets with a passion!!
 
Full livery Mon -Fri £66 pw includes feed, ad lib haylage, turn out/in, mucking out, rug change, 2 shavings a week - everything but riding.

Would suggest limiting shavings, not including supplements and charging per week not per month. My rate is per month so hence makes weekly rate cheaper !.
 
Thanks for the info. I am in Cheshire. Just at the mo have DIY, and work part time. However just trying to see if going full livery might be worth while? Or whether for the work there isnt much money in it?- As at the mo i have no idea!

Just trying my best to try and find a job that can involve the horses and yard really, as i dont think a 'normal' hours job would leave much time to have my own horses.
 
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Maybe I'm old fashioned, but didn't full livery mean everything included (which means exercise as well)? And part livery was everything excluding exercise??

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Absolutely!

Unless it includes absolutely everything except farrier and vet bills, it can't be classed as full livery at all because the owner would still be paying/doing something other than just arriving and climbing on! I'd be having them up for trading standards!
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I pay £80 a week which includes:

Shavings (bale every 5 days)
Feed x 2 (Feed provided and horses fed)
Muck out and Skip out if required
Turnout and bring in
Rugs changed
Hoofs picked out
Summer grazing and winter turnout (i.e all year round turnout)
Use of outdoor school, indoor school, summer riding field and cross country course.
 
We charge £120 per week which includes everything apart from being ridden. Haylage is regularly analysed, top brands of feeds to suit your horse, as many bales of dust free bedding at the horse needs, mucked out fully in morning, skipped out late afternoon - first feed is 6.30am - last feed is 11pm (and depends between times as to weather and turnout whether one or two more feeds given), last check on horses is at 2am - in winter they are all on 3-4 feeds, and so on. Use of all facilities at no extra charge of horse-walker, exercise track, jumping paddock, etc. This also includes 30+ years of professional handling of horses, business rates and insurances, and come with veterinary references. Our details are on our website which is in our profile.
 
I pay £370 month and includes everything except riding, grooming and tack cleaning. The hay is ad lib and soaked if required, there is good hacking, and a floodlit school. I have George on straw but I think you pay a little extra for shavings.
 
In the 'green belt' areas, it is sky high - a yard I used to be at was over £800 a month, which included everything plus 3 days a week hacking. The standard of care there was extremely high though, and the facitilies were excellent. But we were told it was going to come out lower then that, so we left after 6 months because of the price. It was lovely there tho - it's very comp based. It seems to range from, in the S. East. 400 - 800ish.
 
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