How much do you pay for grass livery?

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Just out of interest really, how much do you pay and what is included - school, storage, lorry/trailer parking? Dose the the quality of hacking and area in which you live affect the price?
 
Mine works out at £10 p/w, for 14 acres, open access barns and natural shelter. Automatic water troughs, electric, tack room, feed room, stables (extra £2.50 p/w) and hard standing on yard. Grass school in summer with jumps.
Cost of big bales of hay is split between owners as is electricity bill (about £5 a quarter.) Hay is put in every week by farmer.
Hacking is excellent, arguably the best in the county. Free storage for horse boxes. Muck heap disposed of by farmer and YM checks the horses and land 2x a day.
Its a bit shabby, but as far as the horses are concerned its 5*. Excellent value.

No reduction for ponies, but I get a discount for having three horses.
 
Options around here would range from

£10 a week for a small paddock, water, prob no leccy. All self maintained.

£17.50 a week for DIY livery set up on large yard, herd grazing, floodlit school, okay hacking, storage facilities and emergency stabling. Winter haying additional extra (compulsory).

£55 a week for grass livery. Includes 1 x hard feed a day, checking, hay. Good hacking and excellent facilities (indoor schools etc)
 
Surrey (ridiculous livery prices!) £240 a month. Includes rubber surface sand school (no lights), very good grazing, feed is included and fed once a day, hay no extra cost, rug changes done for me. Tie up area in an indoor barn on concreate. Hacking is ok, bit stoney but better once you've ridden an hour or so away
 
horserider said:
Mine works out at £10 p/w, for 14 acres, open access barns and natural shelter. Automatic water troughs, electric, tack room, feed room, stables (extra £2.50 p/w) and hard standing on yard. Grass school in summer with jumps.
Cost of big bales of hay is split between owners as is electricity bill (about £5 a quarter.) Hay is put in every week by farmer.
Hacking is excellent, arguably the best in the county. Free storage for horse boxes. Muck heap disposed of by farmer and YM checks the horses and land 2x a day.
Its a bit shabby, but as far as the horses are concerned its 5*. Excellent value.

No reduction for ponies, but I get a discount for having three horses.
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Sounds very similar to the place I'm at. My ponies have as much grazing as they need, paddocks to use in the summer to restrict grazing, streams fed by spring water (great in this freeze) aswell as automatic water troughs. Electric when I need it, loads of natural shelter, storage for hay, straw, feed, rugs (YO will not have tack left on the yard, but I wouldn't anyway), a spare stable for emergancies and parking for a lorry/trailer when I need it. It is also shabby, but the grazing is great and hacking second to none. There is no school, but three within a twenty minuet hack available for hire. YO is on site and checks them at least once a day and gives them hay in the morning if they need it. I don't have to share turnout with anyoine else unless it suits me and the other owner/s. Sometime have to share with cattle or sheep, but I have no problem at all with that.

For this, I pay £6 a week for my 14.3, plus all the hay and straw YO needs. For my sec B, YO charges nothing as she says she's so little, having her there makes no difference!

I suspect that any form of grazing is at a premium in the SE as I'm sure that demand outstrips supply. It sounds like you would pay more for grass livery there than most yards would charge for a stable + grazing round here.
 
We used to pay £35 a month for my 13"2 pony. He was turned out with one of two others in post & rail fields which got changed as when neccessary (although they were always furthest from the yard..lol) I had use of the school with lights and jumps, he could go on the walker, ad lib hay/haylage, space in the tack room, could have parked a vehicle if we had one. We were also allowed to put him in one of the spare stables on shoot days or for a couple of hours to dry off before riding, but they never had bedding, just rubber mats. Only thing we had to proivde ourselves was hard feed.
I think we had a pretty good deal tbh...
also had fantastic hacking, miles of off road riding through woods and round fields with nice grassy headlands. Also had a grass gallop and a fair few hunt jumps round the farm to play with.
 
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£15 per per week per horse on 13 acre field, £10 for ponies. Field all mine, stream for water, no facilities at all, however I do what I like and set up school in the summer etc. Works out cheaper due to the large field because no need to feed hay until maybe feb/march once all munched down.
 
£28 per week for:

Big fields with great grass, not sure the actual size but big enough for up-to 15 horses to have plenty of space for themselves.
Fields are harrowed when required
Enough land to properly rest fields
All-weather surface outdoor school
Ad-lib haylage as soon as the weather starts to turn for the worse until it shows definate signs of improving. We are also allowed a reasonable amount of hay to use in nets while we are grooming etc
They clean the water baths

In an American style barn we have;

Tackroom
Feedroom
'Stuff' room
Wash bay
Kitchen

They sort out worming and will worm all horses on the same day so a strict routine is always adhered to.
If you have a hicup through the day or are on holiday they will do your horses for no extra charge and with no complaints.
They'll bring in your horses for the farrier for no charge if you can't make it down.
They'll happily lend you a box if you need it for a back-man visit.

I love my yard! :D
 
I am in Surrey and pay £200/month for the rent of a 3.2 acre field. I've got two on the field, but would be allowed to graze three on it if I wanted. The field has water troughs, natural shelter and post and rail fencing. Direct access onto bridleways leading to excellent hacking. Instructor is 5 minute walk away and we can use her school on occasions.

Other than that it is very no-frills, no facilities and nothing included - but still works out cheaper to have 2 horses there than 1 horse on a grass livery plan at a 'proper' livery yard around here.

On the plus side I have no other people and horses to worry about!
 
sarahann1 said:
£28 per week for:

Big fields with great grass, not sure the actual size but big enough for up-to 15 horses to have plenty of space for themselves.
Fields are harrowed when required
Enough land to properly rest fields
All-weather surface outdoor school
Ad-lib haylage as soon as the weather starts to turn for the worse until it shows definate signs of improving. We are also allowed a reasonable amount of hay to use in nets while we are grooming etc
They clean the water baths

In an American style barn we have;

Tackroom
Feedroom
'Stuff' room
Wash bay
Kitchen

They sort out worming and will worm all horses on the same day so a strict routine is always adhered to.
If you have a hicup through the day or are on holiday they will do your horses for no extra charge and with no complaints.
They'll bring in your horses for the farrier for no charge if you can't make it down.
They'll happily lend you a box if you need it for a back-man visit.

I love my yard! :D
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Sounds great. :)
 
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