Horse costs p/m

Hay - £32.50 a round bale - 1 per month
shavings - £8.00 - roughly 5-6 per month
Feed/supplements - roughly £20.00 a month
Insurance - £36.00 per month
Trim - £30ish as and when needed (can go 3 months or so at a time)

That would be roughly £160.00 (not including livery which is £170.00 so works out roughly £350.00 a month)
 
Hay: £20 a round bale - lasts around a month or a little less
Straw: £15 a round bale - lasts a month
Feed: £40 / £50 per month (17hh WB - eats a lot!)
Insurance: £15 a month (veteran plan)
Shoes: £50 every 6 weeks for full set
Extras: £20 - £30 every month
 
I'm going to include livery in this because it includes my hay....

Livery £175 PCM (stable, field, tack room, feed storage area, sand school, xc field, ad lib hay, yo turns out and feeds am)

Feed, £10 ultra grass and speedie beet, lasts almost 2 months

Trim hooves £10 every six months

Insurance £28

Straw £23 lasts about 10 weeks, I make him huuuuuuge beds but the big round bales we get are very compact, plus he's pretty clean, I skip out day 1 & 2 and do a full muck out on day 3.

Wormed about 3 - 4 times a year (£40 approx)

Soooo, about £230 PCM. Minus livery but factoring in what it would cost in hay £80
 
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Full Livery: £350 pcm (includes hard feed, haylage, shavings, stable, individual field, bringing in/turning out, grooming, water, elec, flood lit sand school and BE event course up to 1*/Int) Basically everything other than exercising.
I use a balancer on top of hard feed £35 every other month
Insurance £50pcm (low excess and loss of use)
Shoes £80 every 6 weeks
Lessons: £60/month
Competing and buying new things is on top!

I prob spent what was equivalent to an extra mortgage every month!
 
Haylage one small bale per day around £140 per month
Bedding shavings eight to ten a month £ 70 per month .
Hard feed and supplement around £40 ish per month
Shoes £80 every five weeks. £70 ish per
So £320 this is a guesstimate per horse I have four .
On top of that staff time and up keep of the stables and upkeep of twenty plus acres the lorry the defender the trailers the carriages ......... I have a headache I want to go to bed .
 
I think I budget about £300 a month for my pony:
-£140 for full grass livery including hay
-£18 a month for shoes (front of shoes every 8 weeks)
-£35 a month insurance
-£5 as she gets a token bucket of low calorie feed after she’s been ridden
-£5 towards annual vacs
-£10 towards other costs such as back/saddle/teeth
That leaves about £70 a month towards other costs such as shows, tack etc over the year
 
£110 a month full grass livery (full livery on grass basically)!....an extra £40 a month for haylege in winter when needed :)

shoes trim im not sure (new farrier)!...

+ insurance £22 a month

i hate adding it up as some days im on the verge of selling...(like today)!....but i know i wont as shes a horse ive waited a very long time to own :)
 
Argh it hurts to put this in writing


Hay £35 big square
Straw £25 big square
Feed (alfa a oil, oats, biotin, speedibeet lasts me three months though) £28
Farrier (I go 8 weekly) £35/ month (£70 full set)
Insurance £20
Easily spend £25 on stuff she needs

In summer no hay, no straw , prob will change feed
 
325 for livery (i'm on part so this includes hay/haylage, bedding, feed, everything done for him x 5 days a week, school)
100 lessons (hoping to drop this to 2 weekly lessons soon)
28 insurance
30 balancer (lasts me 2 months)
15 trim (he's probably done every 3 months as barefoot)
worming or worm counts about £60 a year
Vaccinations 80 per year

Apart from the lessons, once my livery is paid he costs me very little.
 
Hay £20 a big bale, 2 a month =£40
Straw £6 a big bale, 2 a month =£12
Feed pony nuts, grass nuts and readigrass £25 for all lasts 2 months
worming £75 fo a years plan so roughly £6.25 a month
Shoes £35 full set every 8 weeks
Trim £10 every 8 weeks
vaccinations £80 a year
Extras £20-£30

So roughly £120-150 a month

I have 2, both good doers, dont pay livery as have my own land:)
 
I have low mainly low cost ones but more of them
Per equine I budget 1.50 day for hay and bedding if needed.
If the are on hard feed it works about £5.50 per equine per week, mainly conditioning mix
They are trimmed on average every twelve weeks, depends on the season. £20
One shod £65, every 8 weeks
Do not insure except 3rd party
I do have my own land but pay £1000 per year for extra land.
Wormers and vaccinations are the sting in the tale. I try for bulk deals
 
Ok scary to work it out but here goes -
Livery (inc. hay, straw, turnout, stable, school and walker) - 220 PCM
Shoes - 75 every 6 weeks
Trim - 25 every 6-12 weeks depending
Insurance - 100 PCM
Feed and extras - £50 PCM
= too much but this is for 2 DIY South west
 
Based on winter as he's in more than in the summer:-
Shavings - £60 per month
Hay - £83 per month
Shoes - £70 per month (£81.20 every five weeks)
Feed/supplements - approx. £40 per month
Services (bringing in Mon-Fri during winter) - £44.00 per month
Insurance - £28 per month
Lessons - £120 per month

If I include his DIY livery (£35 per week) and competitions, it takes it to over £700.00 most months.
 
Currently

Field/Stable rent - £40pm
Feed - £24pm
Supplements - £30-40pm
Arena hire - £25pm
Lessons - £50-100pm
Haylage - £40
Bedding - £52pm (approx.)

+ Feet trim - £22.50 every 6-8weeks

So the most he can potentially cost me is £350. Obviously in summer the costs go down because I don't need haylage (just a couple bales of hay every now and then), no need for bedding as he's out 24/7 and I don't need to hire the arena every month because we mostly ride in the field.
Of course that means that the disposable income goes on more lessons/competitions/clinics!
 
Ugh...
Ok, NOT including stable/field rent, monthly costs for two are...

Hay is £40 a month in winter; nothing in summer. So average about £10 a month.
Shoes: £65
Insurance: £110 (soon to be dropping, I can tell you! Whoever sent my renewal details through must have still been a little drunk from their works Christmas do!)
Hard feed: ~£20
Dentist: £110 a year, so £9 a month
Routine vets' fees: £140 a year, so £11.70
Mud fever treatment: £83 so far this winter, so £7 a month
I can't remember how much I spend on worming/worm counts, so will leave that off.

Extras: lessons; competitions; sparkly numnahs etc. - on average, £45 a month as there's a good few months' break over winter where I have no lessons/competitions and instead spend all the cold wet dark evenings buying yet more saddlecloths online.
Not counting petrol etc.! That would be about £30 a month, probably...

So, total excluding any yard costs:

£278 a month, or £139 a horse


I've never worked it out before. I feel a bit sick now! Going in search of some wine...
 
OMG! .. why did you have to ask?

OK … full livery £422, shavings 6 or so per month at £7.50 each, plus wormers 4 per year, jabs etc, teeth, back, lessons, replacing worn gear (rugs etc), buying new stuff (I try so hard not to!), competition entries, insurance for horse and trailer. Hope you don't mind but not even going to add all that up but along the same lines as others have quoted for similar. Also, going to the yard every day - a 14 mile round trip.

Full livery to me means stable, turnout daily, hay, feed, use of all facilities including excellent indoor school and outdoor menage, all the mucking out/rug changing and related work.

I need a lie down … hope my OH doesn't see this …..
 
Hay x5 small bales = £20
Bedding, bedwrap x3 = £18
Healthy hooves x1 = £13
Conditioning cubes x1 =£6
All of this only in the winter, as lives out 24/7 march-nov

Farrier £37.50 every 6 weeks- fronts only with road studs and back trim
Vaccination £35/year
Insurance £40/m incl £6 BHS

All I can think of for now :)
 
About £35 on feed, I'm lucky we cut our own hay so it's free, mine are out most of the time but use straw if in so large bale is £20 which lasts ages, then pay sixty for shoes every six weeks so £10 per week or £7.50 per month for the ponys trim. Plus extras which can be anything from a couple of quid to £100.
 
£177 for livery
£27 for hay
£27.20 shavings
£46 front shoes and back trimmed
£10 hard feed

So about £290 per month all together
 
We budget £60 a week for everything, so £260 a month for a native on minimal feed, supplements @ £35 every 5-6 weeks, DIY livery with adlib haylage, bedding @ £6 every 5-6 days, farrier every 5-6 weeks, insurance etc etc. Lessons every fortnight are an added £40 a month that we have when we can afford it, and unlimited use of school is an extra £20 a month that doesn't come out of his bank account, so only when we can afford it. Has been pretty tight over winter, but his bank balance will build up over summer next year when he is out 24/7 and livery charges drop £30 a month due to no haylage.
 
Based on 4 weeks (1 horse)

160.00 DIY livery
78.00 wood pellets bedding
28.00 shavings (one per week)
35.00 Hay
40.00 Feed
35.00 insurance

Not include fuel, stress and time!!!! £376

Then farriers, vacs etc etc
 
Oh god here goes . . . I don't think I want to know . . .

Full livery £260pm
(Includes stable, t/o, skip out x3 daily, haylage)
I supply own bedding and hard feed at extra cost as they only supply sawdust and cool mix

Shavings £6.50 per bale around 6 per month so £39

Hard feed is spillers hi fibre cubes around £9 per bag and use 4 per month so £36

Shoes every 8 weeks usually sometimes 6 weeks £55 full set so
£27.50 pm

£20-30 pm on extras like treats carrots likits ect

So like £390 ish pm

Yard is 12 miles away so 24 miles everyday in my not fuel efficient car :/ £ 25 per week so £100 pm
Although I try to go on way to /from work to save in this

Oh dear y did I out this in black and white lol
 
Haylage £100
Feed £40
Bedding £40
Foot trimming £15
Routine vet £5
Dentist £3
Wormcounts and worming £3.50
Insurance £40
Tack and rug replacement/repair/laundering £20
Water £5
Electric £10
So approx. £280
 
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