How much do you pay for livery? Just being nosy!

£135 per month for DIY.
All year turn out in large groups.
Excellent off road hacking - yard had direct access to various forestry, farmland, commons and downs.
Outdoor sandschool
Large stables
Friendly Yard Manager who is happy to help if you need it but happy to let you get on wwith things yoirself as long as you are following the yard rules.
 
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Shrike Thelwell that's a great price where are you based? I pay 40 a week for a field turn out 24/7 365 has the use of a school and hay included. Then rent a field for two of my retired mares which is 100 pcm. So quiet expensive compared to lots on here. Based in notts.
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Hi,

I'm in North Nottm, The livery is based on the size of my pony who's 14hh, two inches taller and the fees go up by about £50. Max price is about £300 for 17hh plus.
 
Oh my I'm so jealous of you all!!!
I am Surrey Sussex border.

For basic DIY stable, paddock and water. The cheapest I can get is £140pcm. If you add in a school you are looking at £170 - £300 PCM. yes that's right £300pcm for DIY! That's on a yard with poorly maintained fields and its a riding school so packed with kids and no tie up spaces and the menage floods.
 
24/7 grazing summer and winter
3 x stables for horses and/or storage
ad lib hay and straw
running water
electricity
field maintainance (fencing, harrowing/rolling ect..)
good hacking
Sometimes shared vet call-out fees/farrier and share some feed costs too!
Free trailer parking

I pay.... £0 No, not kept at home, but yes family related. I work on the farm on my days off in lue of the horses keep. I feel very lucky.
 
I'm in Gloucestershire and I pay £120 a month. I get a
stable
tack room shared with 4 others
running water
turnout with 3-6 other horses
non-floodlit school

i have to pay the owner separately for all my hay and straw.
 
£40 a week diy

Large stable
Water & Electric
Morning Feeds and nets/water topped up if needed
Floodlite All Weather Outdoor Arena
Tack Room (shared)
Store Room (shared no mroe than 3)
Big Barn to dry rugs
Hose Pipe for washing
24/7 summer turnout
Daylight Winter turnout
Haylage in winter
Hay in Summer
All post and rail

Owner lives on site
 
Full livery and prices just got whacked up to £355 a month so I may have to move :(

Great facilites too - an indoor school, outdoor and grass jumping arenas, dressage arena, xc course, horse walker, good instruction - but there comes a time when you have to think of what you could be doing with the money you are spending on expensive livery - like a holiday in Florida that I want to have this year for the kids - compare that to £120 DIY at a previous yard and its kind hard to not want to go back to that :(
 
Approx £100 per month for full livery including shoeing. I literally could turn up and have my horse ready at the mounting block if I was so inclined.

Downside is living so damn far away....
 
Mine is around about £160 per week for four stables.

Auto drinkers
Rubber Matting
Quiet paddocks
Outdoor School
Tack room shared with one other person
Free turnout
Free rug changes
Free morning feeds
Miles and miles of quiet hacking
Field to gallop in during the summer
Washbox
Haylage
Shavings
Free lessons/help

Sounds a lot but it was costing £110 per week on my last yard just for two with half of what I get now!
 
I have one horse on DIY livery and I pay £31 per week :)
This is for:
Large stable
Use of floodlit school
All year turnout
Small field groups of 2-3 horses
Haylage
Running water
Good quality grazing
Good hacking
 
approx £218-£225 per month DIY for fabby indoor barn style 45 horse yard, ad lib yard hay/haylage, indoor horse walker and washroom, big stables, 65m x 45m approx outdoor menage, small indoor lunging school, post and rail fencing and trailer parking, tea/coffee facilities, microwave, fridge freezer, and inside toilet and changing room in the West Midlands. Does include one turn out or bring in weekdays, at other times this is chargeable as is application of boots on/off, and feet picked out/legs washed. Friend turns out everyday so we get free bring in, and we share weekends when its not free at all. You can have individual electric fence paddocks, on a kind of help yourself basis. I am lucky enough to have a post and rail paddock for my horse as he goes through electric.
 
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£61 a week for assisted DIY with as much hay and straw as we want
large floodlit outdoor
floodlit indoor school
competitions and clincs on site
jumping field in summer
super turnout fields well maintained
choice of individual or herd turnout
great hacking on site
very friendly
shavings to buy on site
staff never forget anything and always help out if you're stuck
free lorry parking
24/7 turnout in summer
Adults only
can use any instructor or farrier
No silly rules, as long as you're sensible - which we all are!

Best yard I've ever been on :)
 
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Got 2 horses on 2 yards, one a mid sized diy livery yard, one a farm yard

Farm yard
£60 per month for use of stable and fields all year round grazing
Must buy in your own hay and straw
None of the troughs in the fields work anymore so you need to bring water from the stable
Place is kind of falling apart but we do what we can to make it clean and safe for the horses
Hacking not great due to ever encroaching housing estate
but the grazing is magnificent, the stables large and airy with plenty of storage space
and there is no one else there but us and our friend!

DIY Stable
£120 per month
stable and field with all year round turnout, grazing is ok, better than many yards of this type I have seen.
School with all weather surface
XC and sj fields in spring/summer
miles of off road hacking and access to Ridgeway
good quality haylage and straw provided between Nov-May
repairs/muck heaps managed by yard, very nice indeed
 
I pay £19 per week for DIY livery on a small yard (8 horses), very private (only 2 other liverys), and noone interfering!
I get included;
stable
2 paddocks ( I can do with them what I want, can switch when I want or split them up)
feed room/tack room
water
electric
trailor parking
huge hay barn
30x30 outdoor school- with very poor drainage


At my old yard I paid £25 per week. Bigger yard (20 stables)
I got included;
Stable
3 paddocks to swich between
35x65 outdoor school with 5 jumps
60 acres if open fields to ride in
feed room
shared tack room
shared rug room
wash box
horse walker (extra £5 if I used it more than 3 times a week)
trailor parking
morning & evening hay/feed put in (aslong as I left it ready)

:)
 
£15 a week, stable, all year turnout, rug room,tack room, large hay barn,ind.store rooms,sand school. We buy our straw for £1 50 bale, and buy in bulk our own hay. Been here for 27 years so a bit spoilt really.
 
I was paying £160 pm (which has gone up to £180pm)in Shepperton for:
a stable
grazing with one other horse (they don't go out in very bad weather)
school with flood lights
tack room/storage for hay and feed
We need to get in our own hay/bedding/feed, maintain our own fields (fencing, poo picking, ragworting etc. YO harrows the field)
Very limited hacking (We're on a busy road)

The plus side is I live 5 minutes away, the downsides-poor grazing
 
I pay £65 p/w for full livery, for this my mare gets daily turn out in a field of 7 mares/geldings. Haylage, 1 hard feed a day, straw bedding. No fancy bits like automatic drinkers, rubber matting, heating, etc! There are tea/coffee making facilities but no kitchen area, changing area, no rug room or tack room. We have a small field to school in but it can be very muddy and is quite uneven. There is a larger field to hack around in as there is very little off road hacking. It is a small yard with 2 other liveries who pay £40 p/w for DIY which includes straw and haylage, sometimes the YM will bring in for them.
 
OK if you can believe it I pay. £9.00 a day = stable, turn out ( summer only) hayledge, straw. We have no menage.

Anything else is extra. Turn out/ bring in and that is only Mon-Fri. No extras at weekend. :eek:
 
sounds very reasonable to me, pay £35 for stable, school, ind turnout summer and winter, tea room, toilet, lorry parking, hay/straw/feed on site, excellent helpful knowledgable owners, personal storage area, and locked tack room, great hacking, cross country field - been on lots of yards and this is the best by far! Oh and most of the other liveries are good fun and easy to get on with.
 
I pay £121 per month and that is for;

12x12 brick stable
Tackroom
feed room & hay barn
Tea room & toilets
indoor school with lights
fab hacking
parking for lorry
summer & winter paddocks
only 9 stables in the block with owners living on site
have to buy hay seperate which is £5 a bale
 
£10 each a week. Includes:
- year round grazing
- stable
- paved yard/ tie up area.
- running water & electric
- no lockable tackroom but plenty of indoor storage space.
- toilet
- haybarn
- hay produced on site at £3 a bale, straw at £2.
- no school but enough land to ride in fields for most of the year.
- small fat paddock.
- lovely (non horsey) owners who live on site
- buildings/fence etc all well maintained, not a ramshackle place like you'd expect at that price.
 
the place im at now~ £25 per week includes: stable, grazing, use of jumping arena and use of schooling arena. £10 extra for hay. £1 for help filling up haynets or water and turning them out. £5 for mucking out.
where im going~£16 per week grazing, stabling and use of arena
 
In the hampshire area full livery can be £550, but that does include everything! Part livery is usually around £300+ I have found, but most places have very good facilities.
 
I pay £20 per week, and that includes:

Field
Stable
Tack/feed room
Water and eletricity
Use of round pen
Owner lives on site along with 2 of the other liverys ( they have 2 flats they rent out )
Have to buy our own bedding and hay ( although hay is made on site)

Only downside is we have a school but it needs alot of work to be usable.
 
£140 per calendar month = for 2 ponies. = £20 a month for stable (this is optional) and livery should be £70 per horse, but because I have 2, it's £60 per horse).

Ponies have own paddock - rotated so they have grass (or no grass depending on ponies needs).
Hay is excluded BUT when needed, YO puts it in field for me. - £25 per bale.
One stable per month.
use of large outdoor arena with floodlights.
Competitions most weekends onsite.
Reasonable sized Cubby Hole for storage. (one per pony).
fab hacking.
electric/water (water is strategically placed so all I need to do is take hose to water buckets and fill every 2nd day).
use of Show Jumps/ XC course.
Toilet
Owner onsite. - very helpful YO.
trailer parking free
space for feed
 
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our yard we pay £30 a week and we have large stables,private tack room,plenty of grazing and choose how we have horses turned out also haylege in the field provided by YO when it runs out,2 arenas 1 flat 1 jumping,2 large fields we can use the edges of to gallop,all our hay and bedding is included in price and we can have as much as we want.
 
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