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But How much do you pay for DIY livery and what do you get for the price?

I've bitten the bullet and booked a stable in a DIY yard not far from where I use to keep Super on full livery. Explains all my post about DIY and Full livery - thanks to all who replied
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. And you've swung me to try DIY
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I use to pay €120 a week non ride livery and full livery was €150 a week.

The DIY is charging €75 (includes haylage) and the facilities are an indoor stable 12 x 12 in an american barn, outdoor arena with floodlights, turnout, tack lockers and the chance to hack on 300 acres. It's a nice tidy yard, quiet and private. So do you think the price is fair (I'm new to the whole DIY thing and not sure of prices!)

Thanks again
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I pay £128 per month and get a stable plus horse fed in the morning (I provide the feeds) and turned out.

They are really good and will bring in on occasions etc FOC
 
i pay £25.00 a week for that i get

12x12 stable with automatic water feeder and Rubber matting
80x60 flood lit school (sand/rubber
3 mile cross country course
individual paddock (self draining sandy soil) (dont worry they can all see each other and nuzzel over the fence.)
60Acres of off road private hacking.
24hr on site security
Tack shop with fabulous expert help

There is also assisted/full livery available.
 
I rent my own stables for £50 a week, however if i was to pay per horse then it would be £15 a week per horse, that doesnt include haylage, shavings or feed
 
I pay £22 a week for a big stable (havent messured it) all year turn out with good grazing, flood lit menage, cross country course, jumping field and show jumps for the menage, loose school/lunge pen, water, tack room, loads of off road hacking perhaps up to 5 miles, YO's lives on site, very high security the whole yard is sensored (sp?) urmm thats about it for now.....Oh and the hay and straw are delivered hay is £2.50 per bale and straw is £1.00 per bale so we dont have worry about getting our own. And a storage space for bulk shavings.
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I'm in Essex (quite an expensive area) and pay £130 (€184) a month for DIY livery.

We get an indoor stable, alarmed tack room, feed area (unused stable), hay/woodchip containers, one 20x40 floodlit outdoor menage, one 30x60 floodlit outdoor menage (with jumps) and one 25x25 floodlit outdoor lunging menage. Turnout is 24/7 summer and all day winter. Got an all-weather track round the edge of the farm.

Yard is v.busy though - it has a feed shop on site, other businesses round the edge and has probably about 50 odd horses
 
I pay £25 per week for DIY with ;

12x14 stables with own tack room built in behind.
Massive all weather school but no floodlights and it's really deep
Free school/lunge ring
Half decent grazing though quite a walk

There's a yard by my house with brand new indoor stabling, fab school with brilliant floodlights (though have to pay £6 p/h), ok individual grazing and the option to bring in but it's £45 per week. I'd love to move there but just can't justify that price
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I pay 15 per week for stable & grazing but have 6 horses so get a bulk discounted price. I pay 10 for a huge bale of straw which lasts just over a week between them and 20 for haylage which is beautiful quality and will last me about 6 days. My field is 6 acres and it is up to me what I do with it, if I churn it up in winter then I expect to have no grass in spring so I tend to look after it. I paid to put a post and rail fence up to create a foal paddock and enclosed schooling area as we are right on top of a steep, exposed hill in the cotswolds. I have no tack room or feed room but I can use the barn my stables are in and any spare stables as I wish. I don't pay any extra to keep my 7 1/2 tonne box there but I will help with the milking/calvings etc if they ever need another pair of hands.

My trainer charges me 130 per week for each horse and that is for full livery including all feed/bedding etc and training which I think is really good value - especially as he makes a fantastic difference to my horses!
 
£260 for stable
£26 (I read it wrong lat time - oops!) for straw

for that I get:

Turned out brought in and breakfast if there is any and fee dif its left out.
2 outdoor schools
1 indoor school (Schools do have lessons on most nights but cannot be booked for sole use!)
Short off road hacking track, but access to small b roads
Possible lifts to shows - charged of course
Locked Tack room
 
I've just converted €75 into £53 stg, but livery seems to be expensive around here. I thought it was going to be around €40 - €50 euros, so when she said €75 it seemed ok. I still have to buy my own bedding, feed etc

Thanks again to everyone who replied - It certainly is food for thought!
 
I know the livery yard nearest me who do DIY charge 65 a week and thats with turnout, use of 3 outdoors, indoor and hacking BUT the stables aren't great, just temporary type stables. I think about 60/65 is the going rate around here, livery near Dublin is alot more expensive. Does 75 include hay, bedding and feed, and is there an option for paying for extras, like turning out or feeding, if for some reason you can't get up? The yard sounds really nice though. I didn't answer your other post because I keep mine at home but I think if I did have to do livery I'd go DIY.
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We pay 100 euro a month and we get our stables and automatic waters (dont use them though!) We have a large turnout and indoor arena and quiet road hacking as well as being able to use the owners fields to ride around. We have to pay using a meter for the arena light but the lights for the stables are included in the price. As you know the arena we have isnt the best. it can get dusty and id pick an outdoor over an indoor anyday!
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I couldnt afford to pay full livery and i think i would be too fussy to do it anyway! i like things done my way!
i dont think the price is too bad. I have enquired about the yard you are talking about and it seems lovely! Also i think our livery is very cheap as all prices i have heard around the place for DIY have been alot more then im paying.
Try it out for a while anyway! if you arent happy you can always look elsewhere. but i would give it a good try first
 
Thanks again guys
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Thanks CasCas, wow that's a great price! Your arena is grand, it does get dusty, but when it's pelting out outside I say you are happy with the roof
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I will go there as I have to take Super out of the stud anyway as soon as I can. The other yard I looked at it would have been €50 but it was only temporary, so I might as well move now to a more permanent place.

The girl there said she is having a walker put in and a lunging ring put in some time soon but never said if it would affect the price
 
I pay £40 a week but get everything included - adlib hay, feed and shavings, great hacking, school and all year turn out.
 
£80 / month and 17 x 11 stable, own tack room, own hay / straw barn, own muck heap and i dont share the school with anyone! also he gets fed morning and evening and a hay net at dusk included. oh also trips out in yo trailer bless her heart. happy happy happy? i should think so
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but i do help yo alot, when she lets me
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and very glad to do so.
 
I think i can beat you all here in Cheshire, for DIY i pay approx £250 for each horse.

This includes - use of outdoor. farm ride and gallop track

However, if i want to use the indoor its extra. I love the stables I'm at but just wish it wasn't so bloody expensive!!
 
I run a yard in Cambs. and charge £75 per week for full livery, that includes hay, bedding and hard feed....75 euros for DIY sounds very expensive to me.
 
I pay £30 a week, including all ad lib straw and hay/haylage. Farm has a floodlit school, 700 acres of hacking, good turnout, small etc
 
I'd say that is on the expensive side then, especially when you've also got to pay for bedding and hard feed. Although livery prices over here do seem to vary alot depending on where the yard's based and what the facilities are like.
 
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