How much do you pay for DIY livery?

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I know where I am now is pretty cheap but was looking at the notice board yesterday and it's gone up to anywhere between £120-£160 PCM in my area :eek:
And a lot of the lower end prices didn't even have a school/decent turnout ..

So how much do you pay for DIY?
 
£162 a month.
Plus I have to buy my hay and bedding front the yard at £6.30 for a small bale of hay and £8.60 for miscanthus bedding.

Moving to a part livery yard next week with everything included and won't cost me much more!
 
I pay £65 a month for great turnout and a stable, my stable is not as good as some of the others on the yard and they are charged £80 a month. We have a sand school and fairly good hacking. Farmer supplies haylage and straw (£30 & £15 a month) if we want it or can source own.
 
I pay £25 p/w or £108 monthly. That's on yards with good facilities and turnout. Have paid £10 for grass livery with basic, but good facilities, ie, running water, electricity, stables, barns for shelter but only a grass school.

For ore than £25 a week, I'd expect at least an indoor and outdoor menage with extremely good surfaces, hot water wash box, proper XC course, good stables and guaranteed good turnout etc .
 
I pay £65 a month for grass livery, use of a school, excellent hacking and exceptional YO!

Its a small place and I feel very lucky :O0
 
I pay £190 per month, but then the facilities are great - large indoor and outdoor schools, large stables, year round turnout and 24/7 in summer if desired etc. And I am in SW London so there aren't many yards to choose from. I used to pay £120 over the road but it was much more basic - no running water, inadequate school, generally a bit run down.
 
hmmm, I think I am paying too much!

I just moved to a DIY place on the weekend...it is £200 month (no diy assistance at all) - I get a 11x11 stable, and an entire field with lots of grazing, and excellent quality fencing. There is a 20x40 outdoor school, but it is difficult to use it because it is really unlevel - built on a slope! There is also a small indoor 20x40 which I haven't tried yet. No hay or bedding included at all. I pay an extra £20/month to keep my trailer there (which I find expensive). So, it's £220/month total. The yard owner is an absolute star. So, running water, a secure alarmed tack room, a wash bay, electricity are included, plus the loo is kept stocked with towels, loo roll, hand wash etc. Oh, and there is also some gorgeous hacking about 10 yards away - you can ride for miles in The New Forest :)

I had no idea how much diy cost, so I thought it was reasonable :rolleyes:
 
£120 stable, grass, school, lunge pen, jump feild and 200 acres to hack on.....hay is £4.50 and shavings £6.95 (straw£2,25) which we get from yard.
 
£85 pcm for large airy american barn stables, turnout, floodlit arena with good surface and good hacking.


In the winter we pay for ad lib hay, haylage and straw and the price depends on the size of your horse. In the summer (6 months) when most people turn out 24/7 we buy small bales. Makes it much more cost efficient!
 
The decent, well maintained DIY yards around me are a minimum of £40 per week with nothing else included.
You can get cheaper but need to compromise on one or all of the following: maintenance/school surface/fencing.

There is one local yard that is £70 a week nothing extra. Very smart looking but not massively flexible for DIY, even I wince at that price!!
 
i pay £17 a week for which i get a stable and my own grazing to sub divide and graze as i wish

ive just struck a deal for a second horse for a combined £30 per week.

id love to have a school to use tho, i just have a sectioned off part of my field. I guess its a constant comprimise as The next nearest yards to me with a school are around £30/35 per week per horse, but then dont offer 24/7 turnout if wanted.
 
I pay £110 PCM for a huge stable, rubber matting, automatic water feeder, own paddock, that is rotated. Lovely huge school, xc jumps and show jumps. walker, excellent off road hacking, my own locked tack room. On a very small yard. For an extra £40 PCM YO brings in and feeds/Hays and changes rugs. Pay £30 PCM for unlimited hay and buy shavings. It is a lovely yard, oh and trailer/lorry parking is free.Only thing i have to get in is feed which is no problem.
 
I pay £150 for stable and grazing, but in summer horses can live out.
Stable is huge 15x13.5 light and airy, my paddock is big too with excellent permanent electric fencing, also have quality winter t/o and little paddocks if weather terrible.

Hay £3.50 bale good quality too
Straw £1.50 bale also good quality

Use of an arena, fab hacking off road aswell as road hacking if we want it.
Secure well laid out tack room, storage areas.
YO and other liveries are all FAB :D :D :D
I actually really love my yard.
 
£15 pw for grass livery. If they are stabled it is £35 with all hay and straw included. Great hacking and a school, good grazing etc
 
I pay £120 (on a 4 week month) for two horses … £15 per week per horse and that includes good sized stables in an American style barn, large kitchen with storage, all year turn out (day and night), no ménage but use the one on the yard behind us … wonderful YO who we never see but is always ‘there if needed'. Yard backs onto a main road but brilliant hacking 5 mins away :D
 
£170/month - airy stable with rubber matting (floor and walls), locked alarmed tack room with individual tack cupboards (also locked), toilet, fridge, tea/coffee facilities, locked alarmed feed/hay barn, locked rug drying room, 40 x 60 all weather arena (floodlit) with dressage markers, full set of jumps and covered gallery, year-round turnout with 24/7 available in summer, superb hacking (no roadwork at all - miles of fields and woodland).

Oh - we're in North Hampshire - close to the Berkshire border, about 20 minutes from Reading.

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Does seem to depend where you live with price. I am down south and not a lot of cheap DIY round by me.
I used to pay £35 a week with no extras except a school but it was the best of a bad bunch and the YO was lovely.
I now own my own yard and did advertise livery but was so put off by the attitude of people that turned up to enquire i am now keeping it to myself ;)
 
I'm about to move onto assisted DIY, £280 per month including all hay or haylage, feed and bedding, full services 3 days a week and either a lesson or schooling for your horse on those 3 days. Lovely indoor stables with CCTV, great turnout and 2 30x60 floodlit schools, Olympic outdoor arena, an indoor school and lots of shows onsite
 
£25/week/horse for my yard - 2 stables, 12x24 storage, field shelter on the yard which is also storage really, 20x40 school and 3 1/2 acres, running water, and electric on a generator. The YO is WONDERFUL, she's so helpful and anything I need she's onto before I've even mentioned it!

And the best thing? It's just me there!
 
Feeling a bit hard done by here!:( I thought we lived in a cheap area, certainly cheap for houses etc. But paying £120 a month for stable and turnout, not secure tack room, arena, loo. There is a five mile farm ride with jumps. We have to carry water to the field (share with two others) and poo pick every day (our choice) and we all have to help level the arena by hand every so often, even though it is a farm with lots of machinery. We have to sort out the fencing if there is a problem too. Not much storage for bedding and forage so will have to buy as we need, expensive. (Some stables have their own storage area at the back of the stable)

Turning out/bringing in and rug change is extra.
 
£35 a week for stable/24/7 turnout in good weather. There are services as required, 30acres on site hacking and other nice hacking up the lane.
 
catwithclaws said:
I'm about to move onto assisted DIY, £280 per month including all hay or haylage, feed and bedding, full services 3 days a week and either a lesson or schooling for your horse on those 3 days. Lovely indoor stables with CCTV, great turnout and 2 30x60 floodlit schools, Olympic outdoor arena, an indoor school and lots of shows onsite
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@catwithclaws - where is this place? It sounds fab!

This thread is making me see I'm paying more than everyone else! When I think about it, I actually get two stables and a field for £200/month (+20 for trailer parking). One stable is purely for storage. There must be about 40 stables in total, but only about 8 horses /owners. So, most boxes are empty. It used to be a full livery yard, then they got tired of the hassle, and made it diy only, and they only let in people that they like ;) - as such, everyone gets on really well, the other liveries are fab (so far!) - really nice people, everyone has been very helpful.
I also get unlimited fresh air included :) it's peaceful, quiet and tranquil, and right in the middle of The New Forest.
If I were to add to my numbers, and get another horse, even if they shared one stable (time-sharing) and one field - it would still be £200 extra. It is £200/month per horse, even if they just live out at grass.
 
£37.50 per month on a yard with an excellent outdoor school with a good selection of poles and jumps etc (pay on meter for floodlights in winter). Individual turnout and hay included. Also includes three bakes of straw. Hacking is ok.
 
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