Grass livery prices?

Ha are you ready?

£275 per month and we are full with 26 horses on that. Inc ab lib hay or haylage. Well draining sandy soil. Good floodlit sandschool. Excellent hacking.
 
Surrey is ridiculous! Go over the border to Sussex and you are looking at £100 a month but It's clay.

Even the little yard down the road from ours with just grass a tap and storage for hay wants £180 PCM
 
Omg really? I would pay no more than £20 p/w for grass livery!
I actually pay that atm and have stables for that also but I know that's a good deal.
I'm in the South too btw.
 
In Surrey (on the Reigate road, Epsom) I was paying £15.50 pw for stable and turnout

Moved to just outside Peterborough and am paying £15 pw for just grass livery with shelter
 
I've just moved to a private yard and am paying £65 pcm for grass. It's attached to a small yard so there's storage and lights and electricity. We haven't had to hay yet but will do soon so will have to pay for that.

I also pay extra for daily feeding and checks as I can't get up during the week during daylight.

Actually we're looking for a third to go out with 2 retired geldings so we can take one out without leaving one on its own.
 
Criso - I may have understood your needs but FreddiesGal on here may be looking to home her boy as a companion/light hack. Apologies FG if not. Just thought it might be wroth a mention here.
 
I am normally on grass livery in herts and weather permitting moving my pony back from full livery to grass livery next weekend.

For grass livery I pay £140 a month in the summer and £170 in the winter, I also get a stable though it is a very basic one and it leaks so I would not want to use it as an overnight stable in the winter but fine for a grass livery and used mainly for storage or if he comes in for a few hours occasionally. We also have a school, tack room, storage and nice hacking.

I think you can get cheaper with less facilities though.

I am not surprised grass livery is expensive though as you need more land to run grass livery than you do stabled livery and it is not the costs of the stables now that is expensive it is the land in the south east that costs a lot of money and you could probably have twice as many horses living in as you could living out in the same size bit of land.
 
I think people are mixing up space in a field and grass livery.
Space in a field -ie. DIY livery without a stable - is not the same as grass livery where the horse is checked, fed, watered and looked after without the owner needing to attend.

I had someone tell me £25 a week for grass livery (inc haylage and basic feeds) for a youngster in with my pair was too dear -their choice to travel a round trip of 20 miles twice a day and pay £15 in a shared field with a mixed herd plus buying all feed.
 
It costs so much more to provide enough land in this area for a grass livery out 24/7 than it does to provide stabled DIY so it should cost alot more.
I have 6 acres and I would only be able to have 3 horses max living out full time but could manage 5 if stabled at night year round. Land is more expensive per acre than a wooden stable so it's not surprising that most yards in this area don't allow 24/7 turnout at any time of year.

I really find it hard to understand why people charge/pay so little for grass livery when it costs so much to buy land, fence it and then maintain it well enough to keep horses out year round.
 
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