Hi there... I'm new :o, what's your total spending?!

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Big hello as I'm new!

I've had a couple of horses but more recently have just been riding for other people/breaking/schooling in my area... Anyway I've been thinking of getting a youngster to bring on and just wandering what everyone is paying at the moment. I have budgeted up to 2000 for a nice 2/3 year old to do some sj/dr and eventing but all at very low affiliate/club levels in a couple of years.

how much do you pay?
type of livery and cost? hay/feed/bedding? shoes? vaccs/teeth? chiro? insurance...

what's your grand total per year??:confused:
 
Hello Welcome :D

Um i have my own land so don't have to worry about hay etc

For my most recent youngster i paid £2,400 for a 2 year old lipizzaner - got him cheaper off a friend who bred my other youngster

For my 9year old who i bought when he was 3 - off the same lady - i paid £1500 purple papered welsh section d top quality :D

Broke them myself so te only thing i had to pay out on was tack and hundreds of bits :D

Sorry not too helpfull
 
Ha ha mmm..... depends what u need.

Full livery £70 per week.
Shoes £60 every 6 weeks
Jabs £30 a year.
Insurance £350 per year (i have just cancelled mine tho)
Back lady £45
Saddle fitter £60

I probably spent about £1200 on tack/rugs etc to start out.

Oh my horse cost £4500 (but he was 7yrs old and a saint). £250 for 5stage vetting and cost me £250 to transport him home!
 
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Hellllo & welcome!

Well..how long is a piece of string!

I bought my pony as a 2yo-He was £600.
DIY livery £90/pca =£1080/yr
Bedding £15/month =£180/yr
Hay £20/month =£240/yr
Insurance =£432/yr
Trim £20 every 8 wks =£240/yr
Feed £15/month =£180/yr

That comes to £2208 but with competitions, vaccs/teeth/vet, new equip it's probably well over £3k ... can't believe you made me do that...haha!
 
Oh I know it makes you feel a bit sick eh!?:o

I have a few saddles and with a growing youngster I won't get them fitted until they are backed and have been turned away then come back and built up a bt of muscle o thats no prob and I should have rugs that will cover it (I seem to have an ever growing collection from my old clan!)

its really the running costs with living in/near london that get me! :(
 
i will do this for Rio as hes my more expensive horse

livery - £100 - 24/7 turn out and a stable nothing else
insurance -£44 a month
hay - £35 a month
bedding - £11 - snowflake soft chip - deeplittered
farrier - £20 every 6-8weeks (just a trim)
feed - £45 every 6 weeks - fast fibre, redi grass and topspec balencer
vacc's and teeth - £99 - part of health check
chiro - £40 every 12 weeks

£265 per month
£3279 per year

hes in the same rountine all year round so it doesnt change... this is kinda frightening as i have 2 horses D:
 
The other end of the spectrum
Full Livery (not inc riding) - £550pm
Farrier - £70 every 6 weeks
Insurance - £60pm
Supplements - £30pm
Physio -£50 every 3 mths

(we have 2 horses so times that by 2)
 
Oh god, this is going to add up! - for the more expensive horse.

Bought my 4yo for €3500
She was a nightmare to find a saddle to fit so got a custom albion for her - 1600
Full Livery - 500 pm
Lessons - 60 per wk
Shoes - 65 every 6 wks
Insurance 600 for the year
Vaccs 100 a year
Back 240 a year
Also about €100 pm on new stuff she doesnt need:eek:
 
wow Sharky!! AGggghhhh I may have to rethink this... Bearing in mind emergency vet fund! (I will probably take my chance and dodge the insurance...)
 
This is going to be depressing! I'm near London too.

Livery (DIY) £108
Hay + Bedding £60
Shoes every 5 weeks £65
Feed £15
Lessons £60
Insurance £40

Total: £348 a month... no wonder I'm broke.

Youngster I share (4yo ISH x TB) just bought for £3500

Extras... £30 vaccs, £85 chiro twice a year, £50 saddler twice a year, £30 dentist once per year. Not to mention vets bills (£5000 so far this year - thank god for insurance) but still had to pay other bits that werent covered like transport (£200 total for 4 trips) and over night stay not covered (£35 a night!). Competition entries....tack.... endless supply of carrots....!!!

so taking away lessons etc I pay just under £4000 a year.

Hmm thinking about it anyone want a horse... free to good home :-/
 
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I paid £1500 for my green 4yr old TB.
Vet check was £228 for a 2 stage and bloods with call out included.
And her previous owners brought her to my yard for the cost of petrol as they wanted to see her new home :)
I spent around £2000 on tack, rugs, rubber matting etc

Costs...

£310 livery pcm for monday-friday full livery and turnout on the weekends. This will change when I move closer though and the yard is 45mins outside of central london. So not bad really!
£75 every 6 weeks for farrier.
Hay £50pcm
Bedding tally ho shavings £35pcm
Feed (she is just on dengie hifi at the moment) £10 every 6 weeks.
insurance £37pcm
Lessons with my instructor £50pcm for two 1hr lessons a month and unlimited phone calls when I am worrying about something ;)
Physio £45 for as long as it takes
dentist £40 for check up
saddler £50
Vaccinations £40 yearly

I don't want to add it up to yearly amount as its scary ;)
 
Ouch. Don't like looking at the figures, and also made the mistake of multiplying by 12 then by 25, as I'm an optimist and hope to keep my lad for life, and hope he lives a long time!

Part livery £200pm inc haylage
Bedding £20pm (but freee in summer as he'll be out)
Hard feed - cheap, only a tenner a month max
Supplements - £10pm
Foot trim £30 every 2 months but he hasn't needed one yet and doesn't look like he will for a little while
Vaccs - vet friend, £30 p.a.
Worming - £20 every 3 months
Insurance £400 p.a.

To be honest, this is all OK. It's the startup that's hit me hard as I didn't have ANYTHING so have had to buy everything in. Horse, 5 stage vet £260, transport home £200. Bits, saddle, bridle, headcollar, lead reins, lunge line, long lines, grooming kit, rugs (£120), buckets, brushes, stable cleaning equipment, tricklenet (definitely worth the money), big trunk to keep everything in, clothes for me to wear (thank you Aldi)... the list goes on and on and took all my savings! I'm now officially broke and wearing a very uncool hat. But at least as of tomorrow I should have a saddle and actually be able to ride!
 
Haha! I love this thread, we must all be mad!!! :eek:

I have a ex-racer and paid nothing for mine (lucky me!) Although he came with nothing! Start up is expensive aswell as ongoing costs;
Bridle
Saddle
Rugs
Boots
Headcollar, leadrope
Feed bowls, water buckets
Grooming kit
First aid kit
Rubber Matting
and so the list goes on.....

I am Assisted DIY and always have been; (below are winter prices, always cost more in the winter!)
Per Month;
Assisted DIY - £250
Feed - £20
Bedding - £30
Hay - £50
Shoes - £70
Supplements - £20
Insurance - £50

Routine things;
Saddler - £60 every 6months
Physio - £50 every 6 months
Dentist - £40 every 6-8 months
Jabs - £35 once a year
Worming - £20 every 3 months
Lessons - £60 every other week

Other;
Shows
Transport
Unexpected vet bills :eek:

Good luck, owning a horse is definitely a passion! If you don't have the passion for it don't bother, it is hard work and massively expensive! If you put the effort in you will definitely reap the rewards :)
 
My horse costs me around £1000 a month to keep including lessons/shows etc

£7000 to buy him , another £3000 on tack & rugs.
 
Yes you lot are definitely mad... but if it keeps you happy then it's priceless surely??

You only live once, so just go out and enjoy. Things could change tomorrow and you will regret never having done it.
 
Mine costs about £3k a year, which works out to around £250 a month.

The horse cost £1850
Tack was around £500. Good quality second hand K&M and new bridle. Got a Sprenger bit for xmas ;)
Rugs about £250
Vetting £200
I had free delivery :)

DIY Livery £30 a week
Shoes £55 every 6 weeks
Feed around £10 a week
Two vets bills this year £60 for sedation and £60 for vaccs
Dentist once this year £50
Physio once this year £50
Saddle fitter once this year £195 (price inc two nuumeds ;))
About £60 a year on wormers

I try to keep things as cheap as possible, dont have many lessons and don't go competing. I simply couldn't afford him if he cost any more. I may have found myself a sharer that will pay £20 per week though, which is a HUGE £1k saving per year!!

I think you would be able to keep a youngster for cheaper than this, as you can just chuck it in a field over winter if you want to. Grass livery is cheaper. It probably wont need shoes. And you wont be having lessons on it or buying tack and stuff. :)
 
Ok so this is pretty scary but here goes.
Full livery £380 per month includes most feed and bedding, hay etc
Supplements for barefoot and barefoot specific food I have to buy approx £15 per month for one horse.
Shoes on the front only for one horse £9 per week
Insurance for both £50 per month
Vaccinations approx £70 each per year, lessons about £40 per month.
Dentist £35 each every 6 months
Back lady £50 per time done 3 or 4 times a year each so £400 a year!

I'd guess my average spending for the pair of them without any new tack or rugs etc is probably around £1200 a month by the time I've put everything in.

Oh my god! Does anyone want two horses?! :eek:
 
OMG even as I'm thinking of writing this I'm dreading to think what I actually spend!!!!

My boy cost me £600 to buy with no tack rungs etc.

Monthly he costs me:
£120 pcm for DIY livery, hay, stable and T/O
£30 pcm woodchip
£25 pcm hard feed
c.£10 pcm on supplements
c.£50 pcm clear rounds/local shows
£75 p/6 weeks shoes
£35 p/6 months dentist
£40 p/6 months chiro
£24 p/6 months saddle fitter
£40 pcm Insurance for him and me
£10 worming p/3 months
£35 p/year jabs
 
You can get some lovely youngsters at the sales for £400-£500 at the moment, or and ex-racer even cheaper? but depends what sort of breeding you are looking for.

A thoroughbred or warm blood will need stabling and more feed etc over the winter.
I rent a 2 stable yard with 60 acres and keep mine on shavings and they are both Irish sports horses in competition and hunting:

Yard: £30pw
bed: £7pw (1 bale)
Feed: £12pw ( 1 bag)
hay: £15pw (3 bales)
shoes: £10pw (if divided)

so roughly £74 a week- which would be roughly £37 each. Not too bad.

A cob/ heavyweight though coud potentially live out all year with a shelter?

There are still the one off cost to consider though like worming, rug replacements/ re-waterproofing, any vets bills, chiro etc.
 
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