Horse costs per year

wipeout said:
These posts should be banned!!!

I don't want to know how much it costs, I am in denial!!! ;)
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Exactly - expecially when you have an OH and a joint bank a/c.

I just seem to go without more "other" things ie holidays, days out etc.

Once kept a tally about 30 years ago and it so frightened me how much it cost that I'd said I'd never again work it out to the penny.
 
My most expensive couple of years were circa £24k for two.

One in full training livery and the other part livery plus all the extra's for both. Shocking and is what made me reassess and buy land to build my own yard.
 
Eeek, costs about £250 a month to keep them in the summer, and about £300 to keep them in the winter so about £2300 for the both of them in a year .. OWCH! :p

And thats just DIY livery, feed and hay .. god knows when i add farrier, rugs .. :o
 
I clocked mine up one year, it came to a staggering 5000 pounds!!!!
That did include absolutely everything though, from a hoof oil brush to rugs, dentists, jabs etc etc.
We now have our own place, deducting livery costs certainly bring the costs down!
 
£3300 approx for me and that's without vet bills and physio, rugs and those little extras you buy.... Eeep I spend a lot of my wages on horse - this is why I have no new clothes!
 
OMG!!.... I cant beleive the costs to keep a horse in the UK now..
I worked mine out this summer.... 800€ (£700 ish) per horse per year, that was based on maximum feed, incase ive got no grazing.... but I do keep them at home, and they are all barefoot and I trim them myself... and no lessons to add on either.. so that saves money..
 
My car with the cost of fuel at the moment and amount of work it's needed done this year (still got MOT and extra costs in December) has turned out to be only marginally cheaper than the horse so the horse will always feel like an absolute bargain. And while I love driving, the horse brings me so much more. I think working out the costs of things and budgetting is actually quite helpful in knowing what really matters and what you will fight to keep in your life - at all costs! :)
 
I'm keeping track on every penny I've spent on my horse and a half this year but I haven't added it all up yet. That's a job for New Year's Eve when I'm the only one in the office. I'll let you know then but I think it's probably about £3,500 although I only pay for Monty's shoes and insurance and a few extras like clipping and I get £60 a month from Archie's sharer so that offsets it a little.
 
I put aside £230 per month into a 'horse' account which I use to pay all horse bills apart from insurance. I have nothing left over in horsey bank account. Therefore I must have spent it all... oops
That works out at £3000 a year for one horse plus accessories on DIY with a competition or lesson once/twice a month.
 
i find it interesting how people who have liveries think they get their horse kept for free. i used to think this when i had liveries but realised it doesnt. why? because if you didnt have a horse(s) their stable and/or field place could be taken by another livery,so,whatever you charge your livery people is actually what your horse costs you, plus the other expenses like farriery.
 
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