How much a month do you spend on feed?

In the summer, nothing ;)

In winter about £30 a month on feed (Fibergy & cool mix once a day), hay is in with livery at £40 a week so not sure of actual cost xx
 
Less than £10 per month, per horse. I pick up a bag of fast fibre every six weeks or so and for most of the year that's all they get, with added minerals to balance the grazing. At the start of winter I buy one bag of sugar beet and one of micronised linseed, to add to the TBs feed. The others just get the fast fibre all year round (two cobs and two natives).

ETA: forgot about hay sorry - we grow our own so the costs are negligible. The two natives go through a big round bale together each month through spring/summer as they're on restricted grazing. Then in winter we usually use approx. one bale each week, depending on the weather. They only come in when we have lots of snow or if it's very wet + windy.
 
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Just hard feed?

Summer - one bag of happy hoof is lasting a month for my two - its on special offer at the local feed shop and £9 a bag, then garlic at £5 again for a month and glucosamine at £19 a tub which is still going so probably 2 months for that? Total say £22 a month - or £11 each.

At the height of last winter they both had a full bag of cubes each a week - D&H 16+ & Saracen show pencils, shared herb chaff 1-2 a month, alpha-beet 2 a month.

No glucosamine as a maintenace dose is in the D&H 16+, but they did have micronised linseed.

All that comes in at around £130 a month for two or £65 each. There was a carry over on the chaff but that is a low cost feed.

Obviously autumn and spring are somewhere in the middle of all that. My TB lost too much weight last winter for comfort. So i'll also be buying her pretty much anything I can this year to ensure that doesnt happen again.

Plus hay, hay and more hay ! :D
 
We make our own hay and the cost of doing that (diesel, fertiliser, string, weed killer etc.) is covered by the spare hay we sell - to technically hay is free.

Hard feed, the big horse has formula4feet all year - 2 big sacks at £80 each last all year and probably 1 bag of speedibeet and chaff over the winter (he's a good doer) so averages £15 a month.

The pony will be costing a bom this year as his teeth have completely gone now so he'll have grass nuts, speedibeet, Alfa A oil, linseed etc to keep weight on once grass goes. That said I allocate him 100 bales of hay and if I sell them over winter for £4 each then I can spend £400 on his hard feed before it 'costs' me anything!
 
Mine just has top spec lite, I bag every two months @ £26 per bag= £13 a month. Last winter I was spending £50 a month on haylage, though, which was ruinous. Looking into cheap hay now...
 
A lot!! I have two horses, 16yo TB who is not a good doer, and a 23yo who is an average doer. Last winter I was spending £60-70 a month on hard feed and £90 a month on hay.. Hoping to buy big bale haylage this winter to save a bit, and also so I can give them more.

ETA: In the summer they don't have hay (May ish to Oct) but feed bill is still £50-60 as TB is eventing/competing so still needs plenty of feed. 23yo gets a token feed as she is prone to getting a bit tubby int the summer if the grass is good.
 
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Probably about £100 per month for 3 including their various supplements. Another £100 per month for hay in winter/spring
 
Summer hard feed - around £40 for beet, linseed, oats, minerals
Summer hay - £10

Winter hard feed - lost a little too much weight last year for my liking so will be considerably more expensive I am imagining :(:rolleyes:
Winter haylage - £42 approx (around 6 bales shared between 5 horses)
 
Around £80 for two. They're not on much hard feed at all, especially just now with it being summer and all, but they do get various supplements, particularly my gelding as his feet aren't great, and that's what really costs.
 
I've never really worked it out, I buy as I need it. We obviously use less hay at this time of year because there is plenty of grass in the paddocks. Hard feed though is roughly the same in the summer as in the winter. I feed my horses depending on what they are doing, They are show jumpers & are in work at the moment so they get fed quite a lot of hard feed. This gives them the fuel & energy to perform at the top of their game. If they don't have enough they give a lack lustre performance which we don't want. Feeding when you have performance horses in work is a lot different from feeding horses on grass livery in the summer who don't have the same amount of training & competing. To be honest I've never worked out the total cost either of keeping my horses, it would frighten me to find out. I can still have meat on Sundays so I think I'm alright cash wise at the moment. ;)
 
I'm kind of the same as Toby... I try not to work out how much o spend or id very mortified! Three horses in winter have a bale of excellent quality hay between them a night, turned out during the day... Hay alone =£42 per week..
 
On hard feed about a tenner a month now I am using dengie healthy tummy, which is great as before I was buying supplements which plus the usual fibre feeds was probably about 30 a month and she's much better on this. I do also have a bag of hay chaff and some cheap fibre nuts for the small pony and for extra bulk but that lasts months and months!

Hay I'm not sure on, I only use it in winter bar the odd chilly day or haynet. Last year the field had had a rest and had a lot of standing hay so only used a few small bales up until December, but then winter went on forever and I was picking them up a couple at a time from the farm as too wet to deliver! I would estimate about a bale a week unless it is snowy and I can usually find it for 3 pounds a bale or even 2.50, so 10-12 pounds plus I will probably add linseed which will last 2 months so about 30 quid. For a 15hh horse and a tiny welsh living out all the time.
 
I did a calculation last year of either horse on top spec balancer, or cheapo pony nuts and sugar beet, and both came out at same cost of £30-40 per month. Obviously this doesn't include hay or supplements.
 
At the moment, £25 for a back of Baileys Lo-Cal Balancer and then we probably use about 2/3 bales of hay at most at the moment as we have enough grass and they just have a bit to munch on when they are in. Bales are £4.50 each... so around £35 a month. :)
 
ive just changed feeds in the hope it will save me some money, one now has just fibrebeet and yeasac. and my riding horse is trying baileys number 6 which includes everything i was feeding seperately in the hope it will work out cheaper. so £12 a week for fibre beet and £15 a week for number 6 . haylage is in with the livery :)
 
I have the hardest keeper ever. Between hay, alfalfa cubes and concentrates, she eats around 300€ every month... and is still thin. How I envy people who have air ferns!
 
Hideous amounts.....

Hard feed: £120 approx
Supps: £60 approx
Hay: £40 summer and more like £80 winter.

And that's probably on the *light* side of what it truly is as there's always odds and sods extra on top. But I don't mind, he's a big rangey horse who is working hard and he looks super :)
 
In summer I get thru 8bales of hay (we cut our own) grass and a bag of safe and sound - between one cob, one sec a and 2 Shetlands. A month

In winter about 24 bales of hay 2 bags of slobbermash and a bag of safe and sound in a month.

The cob drops weight like anything in the winter so needs hard feed to keep him looking not poor. The other 3 live off fresh air
 
Summer £47 per week not including carrots, hay we have made off our big field, but will be buying in this winter as hay crop very light.
Winter it goes up by an extra £23 per week still not including carrots as I do like to buy between 3-5 bags per week, I have 4 horses and 1 small pony.
Hay still cost us to have made but varies each year.
 
A £10 sack of fast fibre lasts about 4 months and a £25 sack of linseed lasts 6 months, so that's roughly £6.50 per month plus tesco value table salt (36p per kg) and a mineral supplement.
 
could people please put hight and what work they do with horses on this thread for some reason my last horse was costing £90 a month for feed and £50hay she was competed once a week lesson once a week and and hacked out twice a week also she was 16hh
 
Haven't wintered with Boyo yet, but for our last boy, a 17hh so-so doer, it was £20 every 2-3 weeks (Shared round of haylage), and about £30 a month in hard feed and supplements.

Summer the odd small bale of hay every couple of weeks, and just chaff and supplements for token feeds, so about £15 a month.

Happy hackers :)
 
Hard feed: £95
Supplements: £25
Hay: roughly £40 in summer and £80 in winter

It's not money I resent spending though, Fig works his socks off for me and looks great :)
 
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Hideous amounts.....

Hard feed: £120 approx
Supps: £60 approx
Hay: £40 summer and more like £80 winter.

And that's probably on the *light* side of what it truly is as there's always odds and sods extra on top. But I don't mind, he's a big rangey horse who is working hard and he looks super :)
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Gryfiss mine is 16.3hh TB, competing PSG dressage and schooling GP :)
 
AandK said:
A lot!! I have two horses, 16yo TB who is not a good doer, and a 23yo who is an average doer. Last winter I was spending £60-70 a month on hard feed and £90 a month on hay.. Hoping to buy big bale haylage this winter to save a bit, and also so I can give them more.

ETA: In the summer they don't have hay (May ish to Oct) but feed bill is still £50-60 as TB is eventing/competing so still needs plenty of feed. 23yo gets a token feed as she is prone to getting a bit tubby int the summer if the grass is good.
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My TB is 16.3hh, he does Intro eventing. Generally worked 4x a week, for approx 1hr a session. He is fed Rowan and Barbury Ready Mash Extra. He has been on this about 2/3 months now and looks amazing (came out of winter looking v poor so had to switch his feed, was on Pure Condition before). It's £13.50 a bag, he was going through 3 bags a month but I have just cut it down a bit as he's starting to get a bit of a belly :)
 
shmoo said:
Just hard feed?

Summer - one bag of happy hoof is lasting a month for my two - its on special offer at the local feed shop and £9 a bag, then garlic at £5 again for a month and glucosamine at £19 a tub which is still going so probably 2 months for that? Total say £22 a month - or £11 each.

At the height of last winter they both had a full bag of cubes each a week - D&H 16+ & Saracen show pencils, shared herb chaff 1-2 a month, alpha-beet 2 a month.

No glucosamine as a maintenace dose is in the D&H 16+, but they did have micronised linseed.

All that comes in at around £130 a month for two or £65 each. There was a carry over on the chaff but that is a low cost feed.

Obviously autumn and spring are somewhere in the middle of all that. My TB lost too much weight last winter for comfort. So i'll also be buying her pretty much anything I can this year to ensure that doesnt happen again.

Plus hay, hay and more hay ! :D
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Gryfiss - One is a 15yo 15.3hh Ex-racer in light work around 1.5-2 hrs hack twice sometimes 3 times a week. The other is a 19yo 15.2hh Tb/Connemara, in work 5 times a week mixture hacking/schooling. Longer faster rides than my TB.
:p
 
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