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

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I'm at a livery yard in Devon with ten other horses. I pay 78 quid a month and included in that price I get:
a stable
running water and electricity
a barn for storage of hay
a tack room (shared with one other person)
a feed area
an extra storage room for rugs
a school
a winter field (shared with one other horse)
a summer field (shared with one other horse)
A kitchen area
A toilet

The owner lives on site and everything is alarmed and floodlit so we can school in the winter.
 
think i do extreamly my boy is kept at the house i rent he has stable lighting hot and cold water fields (lots of) hay and staw and i pay 40.00 per month all in
 
I have two horses on a 6 box yard. Pay £15 per horse per week. Includes use of sand school. 24/7 summer grazing. Electric. Morning feeds. We source our own hay and shavings. Owner on site and cctv. Pay extra £3 per week for trailer parking.
 
£35 per week for stable, own field, floodlit school and lunge ring, tea room, toilets, tack room, hay store etc, fantastic hacking and a lovely helpful yard owner - is used to pay less than this elsewhere but being treated like a customer (instead of a pain in the ****) and having fab facilities is well worth it. :-)
 
I pay $50 per horse for a paddock, a stable, use of outdoor yard and a tack/feed room per week. $50 is about £26.

No arena or jumps or really anywhere to ride - have to ride in the paddock.
 
About 30 horses, in North Bucks. I pay 72 quid a month:

Big stable (approx 10ft x 20ft)
Running water and electricity, auto troughs in all fields
Hardcore in gateways
Allocated space in barn for storage of hay, straw, feed etc
Shared tack room
Small (15x30ish) floodlit sand school
Field for schooling and jumping in summer, small range of basic XC and Showjumps
Kitchen area
Toilet
Hay, Straw and Haylage grown onsite, £3 hay, £2 straw delivered to your storage area 6 days a week
24/7 365 herd turnout (if you want)
The owner lives on site, is working farm, alarmed yard
Access to large bridleway network with no roadwork (unless you want to)
Lorry/trailer storage for £5 per month extra

Average in area is £25pw, so we are cheap and have better turnout. Downside is our school is crap. But I still like it
 
acw295- Sounds great for the price. I was chatting to someone the other day and we were saying unless you have your own place or are willing to pay huge amounts of money then you have to compromise somewhere. No where is perfect. The one thing about our place is the lack of grass, I'd like more but then I might have a laminitic horse on my hands because she is out 24/7 from april to december. I kind of think it could be worse. At least I can feed more hay or hard feed if Bella needs it but if a livery for example, doesn't have a school then there's not much you can do about that. I hope that makes sense. Lol!
 
£82 per month for 12x12 brick stable, feed room, tack room, toilet, elec/water, turnout daily (24/7 in summer if wanted). No school but there is one across the road which is available for use for £5 per hour (it's not a livery yard it's a dealer/trainer's yard and he rarely uses it so pretty much free all the time). Hacking isn't great but it does the job!
 
God mine seems really expensive now lol... I pay £175 p/m plus £5 per bale of hay end up paying roughly £215 this includes:
20x 60 floodlit school with very good draining and surface with mirrors
Lunging school
Winter field
Summer field
(with post ad rail and electric fencing)
Floodlit yard
Electric/ Water
Several wash down areas
Jump field (with lots of sjs)
Good hacking with xc course opposite
Brick stable (12x14)
Own large feed room, tack room and rug room (alarmed and locked)
Toilet and Kitchen area
Whole place is alarmed too.
 
Am jealous! I pay £170 per month DIY for that I get -
12x12 ft stable
Ad lib hay through the winter but have to buy own in summer
24 hr turn out in summer but in by 2pm all winter and kept in if very wet.
Use of 20x60 outdoor & 20-40 indoor school when not used by riding school
Fantastic hacking including use of 200 acres (round the edges) farm land
Small tack room

I also have to say that they are extremely helpful if I have a problem with my lorry but there are over 100 horses in the main yard, so always busy. The DIY consists of about 20 horses and don't get the best grazing. Having said that both mine seem very happy and chilled.
 
£15 per week for the stable & facilities, i supply my own haylege/shaving/feed
Total per week £35 for everything!!

Large Stable
water/electric
tackroom
feedroom
Large indoor school
Outdoor school
24/7 summer grazing
unlimited winter turnout in bark surface paddocks (grass t/o weather dependant)
summer x country course
fed in the morning
good hacking
international sized indoor arena with loads of comps all year round 5 min drive away
20mins to beach & forests
owner lives on site & all liveries very friendly
 
25 pounds a week at current yard for stable, grazing, great hacking hot and cold water, tack room etc etc but mo school sadly, so I'm moving in Feb to a yard with 30x40 outdoor and 20x40 indoor and gallops, American barn stabling, club room with kitchen and shower room- this will be 35 a week.
 
You lucky people!! :O

I pay £90pcm-livery yard with 14 other horses.

-decent size barn stable
-space on rug rack for three rugs
-water & elec
-space in feed room
-space in hay barn
-rubber & sand school which gets quite wet and we're not allowed to jump in it!
-sand roundpen
-gelding & mares turnouts, not ideal but its the way things are done, always plenty of grass.
-sick paddock for the lame ones!
-Lovely people, tends to be very little politics.
-Grass area in summer for jumping in
-Space in field for trailer if required
-Hacking 10mins away on busy main road

I do like it here, and the owners live on site so really good security.
All owners are lovely & variety of different people doing different things.
We do have horrendous mud, the boys field in particular is that sticky clay 'pull your welly off' sort!

:)
 
Misog2000 said:
£35 per week for stable, own field, floodlit school and lunge ring, tea room, toilets, tack room, hay store etc, fantastic hacking and a lovely helpful yard owner - is used to pay less than this elsewhere but being treated like a customer (instead of a pain in the ****) and having fab facilities is well worth it. :-)
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same as this ^^

(except no lunge ring)

but we have a field we can ride in :) :)

amazing yard am on :)
 
It sounds like I pay quite a lot for DIY, but then my yard is in a reasonably expensive area with few yards (SW London/Surrey), so there is little need for competitive pricing. I pay £190 a month for DIY livery and the YO gets our hay, bedding and feed for us, my weekly bill for that is usually about £25 in the winter. The facilities are excellent though, I used to pay £120 a month at a yard over the road, which was very basic. At my yard we have:
Large stables
Large indoor school
Medium-sized outdoor school (generally for lunging but ok for riding)
Good hacking, with some roadwork
Electricity and water
Good security
Our own tack rooms at the back of our stable
24/7 turnout in the summer, daily turnout in the winter, until around 4pm. Good fields with electric/post and rail fencing
Sick paddock

The yard is so well organised and I can't fault it, there are quite a few rules but they are easy to stick to and make sense when there are 50+ horses!
 
I pay £100 per month per stable for DIY and that includes:

XL stables in a large open barn (25 horses in total on the yard)
Electricity and water (troughs in fields)
Max three horses per field - different fields in the winter
Hardcore at gateways
All electric fencing
Optional 24/7 turnout in winter
Large menage that never floods :)
Shared tackroom
Shared feed/storage room
Good hacking but you do have to go on the lanes
Yard talks from vets and events organised
Summer jumping field

I source my own shavings and a large rectangle bale of hay is £30 so I dont think thats too bad!

My horses are really settled and the people are great.

There are a few yards in the area but they don't do DIY and with two to pay for there is no chance of part livery for me :eek:
 
I was paying £50 for a stable, arenas with no lights and haylage ... now im paying £25 for stable, haylage, arena with lights and bedding. Its not as well maintained as the previous yard but at least I can ride now that we have lights :D
 
£435 a month + bedding which works out about £40

Large stable,
Good fields well maintained and not crowded
20x64 mirrored indoor
20x60 mirrored outdoor
Large square outdoor jumping school complete with jumps
Round pen
Very neat and tidy
Horses standard of care second to none
Knowledgeable friendly yard owner
Only about 10 liveries so schools always free.
 
claribella said:
acw295- Sounds great for the price. I was chatting to someone the other day and we were saying unless you have your own place or are willing to pay huge amounts of money then you have to compromise somewhere. No where is perfect. The one thing about our place is the lack of grass, I'd like more but then I might have a laminitic horse on my hands because she is out 24/7 from april to december. I kind of think it could be worse. At least I can feed more hay or hard feed if Bella needs it but if a livery for example, doesn't have a school then there's not much you can do about that. I hope that makes sense. Lol!
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Yes there's always a compromise! We don't have enough grass in winter (too much in summer!) and can't hay fields unless it snows so although we have 24/7 365 turnout in practice we prety much all bring in Dec-March so they can eat. School is really rubbish, slopes steeply, surface poor and membrane coming up in places. Yard need resurfacing and some of the fencing is iffy (not unsafe but not all that great). But the horses are very happy and settled, and its a nice place to be - so it makes up for the poor school, but at least we have one :)
 
Think people should put on the area they're in as well just to see which part of the UK is most expensive lol

I used to pay £112.00 per month for DIY which had
-Large stable
-Turnout in shared fields only 24hr turnout at weekends in the summer
-Floodlight school with rubbish surface
- All feed/bedding extra which you used to have to buy from the yard at expensive prices but ended up buying our own.
-YO was on the way to becoming insane annoyed everyone and ended up being the reason i left.

Now I pay £50.00 a month to rent a field from my uncle and I bought a stable so now have little yard and no hassle! Only one other horse on site so very quiet and relaxing!

I based in Suffolk near Ipswich.
 
£120 a month DIY
Large open airey stable
20x40 outdoor that doesn`t freeze or waterlog
good hacking
hot shower room with solarium
8 acre field with 2 other girls
everyday turnout in winter, 24/7 in summer
average prices for Wirral
 
I pay £60 p/w for 5 day livery

16 x 16 stable (roughly it's huge!)
Secure tack room
YO on site
YO does everything Mon-Fri
Hay included
Bedding included (shavings or straw optional which one)
2 floodlit sand and rubber schools
1 is about 20x40
Other is about 60x30
XC course with water
Farm Ride
Loads of off road hacking
24/7 Turnout I think (will hopefully be moving to yard next week!)
Competitions on site including -
Dressage
SJ
ODE's
BE event!
Working Hunter/Showing
Driving


Cant wait to go! New horse vetting Friday so fingers crossed
 
I am on part livery and I pay £76 per week which includes; Turn out, bring in, haylage, hard feed, bedding 7 days a week then they are mucked out, bedded down mon - fri (also done Sat and Sun if you won't be there at no additional cost) they also bring in for farrier or vet when required. Facilites we have are small 35 by 16 iish indoor school. Huge 35 by 60 outdoor school. Off road allweather track hacking on farm and access straight onto miles of off road hacking. We also have a small cross country course and transport is available to competitions.
 
Hi,

My boy is at full livery. So all I need do is groom, tack up and ride.

With use of two outdoor schools, horse walker, horse wash on one site and school and horse wash on the other site and set within a 600 odd acre country park.

All for £215 PCM. :D
 
I pay £117 for

12x12 Stable
Good quality grazing post and rail
Outdoor school
Wash down box
Owner lives on site always happy to help
Owner buys in all hay, haylage and bedding we purchase from her
Horsebox space
Nice hacking
24/7 Turnout
Alarmed tack room lots of storage

I live 100yrds from the yard i am based in Kent

Best yard i have been on most importantly lass is very happy i wouldnt change anything :)
 
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.
 
i pay £40 per week to include
haylage
large stable
school
hot horse shower
all year turnout
excellent yo who lives on site
 
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