How much do you spend a month?

[GinaB]

I was wondering if some people could give me a break down of what they spend on their horses and when it is bought? Whether monthly weekly, etc especially those in DIY livery. I'm hoping to get a horse possibly sometime next year (if I feel ready, as my OH has offered to buy me one!!) but I want to know what kind of money I should be putting away for it.
Thank you!

 

[CJ1]

on DIY per month
livery - £150
hay/hayledge - £35
bedding - £22
feed - £20
shoes - £50
insurance - £15
wormer - £8
shows/daysout/lessons - £50

 

[Loupride]

Too much

 

[magic104]

Rent 17pw
Haylage works out at about 7.50pw
Feed 10.00pw
Lesson 20.00pw
Shoes 5.80pw
Bedding 6.95pw
Insurance 6.75pw
Vets 2.00pw
Dentist 1.35pw
Mot 1.55pw
The above is per horse and does not include tack etc

 

[Baileysno1]

Hi - Basically I spend allot!!!

£145 a month DIY Livery (£33.50 a week inc Trailer parking)
£49.50 10 bales haylege
£15 Hay
£40 8 Shavings
£55 Hard Feed
£40 Lessons

Insurance for horse and trailer is about £75 but my parents pay as they effectively own both. The farrier is £50 every 6 weeks and boosters are about £70 including the call out annually. We worked out that my horse costs more than my OH's morgage and if I lived alone I simply could not afford it. I guess this could be done allot cheaper if you look for a fairly good dooer who'll live on hay and a little hard feed you could make savings, a yard like mine who allows the horses out 24 7 in the summer is worth finding as I saved loads. Plus if you want to be out competing this makes it expensive too in the summer we show locally and entry fees are £7 - £9 per class plus diesel,food. .................

 

[riotgirl]

Field rent - £30 per month (have own stable and small paddock as well so no livery costs).

Hay - approx £15 per month (buy in bulk during the summer so works out cheaper)

Shavings - approx £15 per month

Shoes - £40 every 8 weeks (fronts only)

Feed - £10 per month (v good doer so only gets basics!)

Insurance - £50 yearly (have BHS Gold membership which gives me free public liability but not vet).

wormer - about £5 per month

Tuition - free from my lovely neigbour!

My old girl who is retired costs about £50 per month to keep.

I've never really worked it out before, and looking at this I am plesantly surprised! It helps that I have my horses at home and I have a Native who lives on fresh air and is very hardy.

 

[SummerStorm]

All these are per month...

DIY Livery - £100

Trailer parking - £10

Hay/feed - £25

Shavings - £15

Shoes -£55 every 6 weeks

Competing costs - £35

Plus insurance which I can't remember how much it costs, sorry

 

[Pasha]

I agree - it's alot!!!

Per month he roughly costs:
DIY livery £110
Feed (incl supplements) £70
Bedding £48
Haylage £25
Shoeing (every 6 weeks) £55
Wormer £12
Lessons £80
So that's a total of £400 before insurance, working out annual injections into that, competitions, equipment etc and all the little extras he gets every pay day!!

He's worth it though x

 

[Tempi]

you really want to know how much i spend a month???!!!! (i hope you are sitting down!!) Il do it just for Bloss as you are only getting one horse:

Dressage Mix £15.00
Alfa-Original £7.00
Global Herbs Skratch £30.00
Global Herbs Zephyr £40.00
Sunflower Seeds £10.00
D&H Breathe Free £20.00
Corta-Flx £30.00
Scats light fibre nuts £12.00
Insurance £40.00
Shavings £25.00
Stabling/haylage/field £160.00
Shoes £75.00

That little lot is £464 a month! Then there is this lot scattered around the year:

Injections - yearly £80.00

Clipping - 2/3 times £60.00 a time for sedation

Wormer - every 3 months £12.00

Saddles stuffed - twice £80.00

Physio - twice £80.00

Teeth - yearly £45.00

 

[WelshRareBit]

Livery - £28 a month
Feed - £10 ISH a month
Shoes - £50 per set every 8 weeks
Insurance - £10 per month
Hay - Not a lot, about £5-£10 a month!

Then there's occasional cost, feed supplement/wormer/teeth/saddle fitter/rugs etc - so i would put down about £150 safe for these costs!
xx

 

[riotgirl]

P_G, if you want some D&H Breathe free that has only been used twice then PM me. My Welshie hates it so I've had to go back to the NAF stuff and it seems a shame to chuck it. I can stick it in a jiffy back to make it easier to post!

 

[Christmas_Kate]

Right, my pound sign doesnt work!! lol so bear with me

On DIY, I pay 7 a month for a bag of hi fi, 7 every 2 months for his multi vitamin, 20 for feet every 8 weeks or so, wormer at 12 a time.

luckily little man doesnt really trash stuff so his things last well. I'd say he's cost me about 300 quid to keep this year, including tack etc.

 

[Super_Kat]

For DIY Livery (which includes a stable, occasional turnout, 1 bale of flax a week, feed - basic cool mix, alfa-a and hi fi - and use of facilities when they're not booked - we usually get to use the schools for a few hours in the evenings and hardly ever at weekends) = Just shy of £400 p/m for 2 horses
Shoes = £122.20 for 2 bog standard sets
Teeth = £30 per horse

etc etc

 

[Taboo1968]

Far too much would be my answer..... I dont really know.... we just do it and pay it when it needs paying

Livery is £278.00 per fortnight ( I have got 7 on livery though!)

Feed is approx £140 per month, but I feed 8 and charge the owner for it.

My farrier bill could pay a mortgage.

My worming costs are astronomical.

hay is approx £40 per fortnight

Then on top of all that is insurance for horses and lorry, competition fees, running the lorry etc etc

In fact I have just come to the conclusion that I could be driving round in a really nice brand new car if I didn't have to pay all that out! But then again I would be very bored!

 

[jennystreek]

All i know is that my 2 horses on DIY cost me £850 a month:

£200 livery
£100 insurance
£150 food and bedding
£100 shoes
£120 lessons
£200 show entries and diesel

Could have a nice house for that amount!!!

 

[ladylisa]

I have it a little easier as mine lives out all year round.
This is based on 1 horse
field rent - £40 month
Hay - £7.50 week
feed - £8.00 week
shoes - £50 every 6 week
wormer £7.00
insurance - £30 month
injections -£40 yearly
dentist - £25 yearly
back looked at - £20 yearly but more if something needs doing to it.
I dont have lessons at the monent but if i did they would be £20 weekly
there is a shelter for the horse but not used at the monent but a bale of shavings is £4.50 a time.
my horse isnt clipped this year as i fractured my wrist so thought i would leave it this year.
there is also endless tack to buy and rugs, entry frees etc etc

 

[loopeepee]

Per month, just for my horse :

£80 DIY livery
£56 haylage
£15 food - mine is on cheapo nuts, mollichaff and sugar beet (mum and I take it in turns, so I have also got to buy cool mix as well as the other pony goes on that) This lot lasts two weeks.
£28 walker
£30 shavings
£55 every 6 weeks for farrier

Plus hunting costs on top of this, petrol for car and tailer, veterinary costs etc etc.

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

I pay my stabling bills weekly, I like to con myself it's not costing me as much as it really does.

I am on DIY, I fetch my own feed, hay, shavings etc to keep costs down.

As for the rest I don't really know & I don't want to know. I'd have to have a pill reasdy to put under my tongue if I totalled it up.

 

[Tierra]

The more I read these posts, the more I realise DIY really isnt that cheap these days.

I'll give a different persepective since mine is on full livery. Also, for the sake of a good price comparison - the yard has indoor and outdoor school, lunging arena, all year turnout, is soon to have a jumping arena and has a grand prix dressage rider on site for schooling and lessons.

I pay around £450 per month all inclusive.. Thats feed (which you get a choice of... they basically buy in whatever you want and this includes my horse being on cortaflex), haylage, bedding (shavings and my horse usually has 2 / 3 bales a week), all mucking out, all turning out, all fetching in, tack cleaning and grooming. They also arrange all vet visits, all farrier visits and all chiropractor / physio and dentist visits. They also fetch in and hold horses for these people with no additional charge.

Additional charges I accumulate are the farrier, who is charging £65 per set but he's an excellent remedial farrier and makes his own shoes as opposed to buying them in.

Worming is £10 per time and everyone on the yard is on the same rota.

Show preparation (which I dont use) is charged at £6.50 per time. Although general maintenance such as pulling manes, trimming (where required) is included in the livery.

Lessons with the onsite trainer are £25 per 40 minutes (roughly) which works out as a £10 reduction from non-livery prices. YO also has a horse box and will accompany you to shows, take the horses places etc.

The facilities are excellent... the YO has a huuuge amount of equipment that we can borrow if we wish... theres a washing machine on site and they automatically wash any boots, numnahs, thin rugs that they found hung around.

I know you specifically asked for people who were on DIY livery - but given the amount some people pay for DIY, then full livery hardly works out more expensive (and you should also factor in the petrol used going to the yard multiple times a day..) If you're a novice rider or a new horse owner, its always worth considering full livery at least until you're more settled anyway

 

[nomini]

DIY livery - £90 a month (inc. stable and grazing - will be £100/month from Jan)
Hay - Approx £33/month (12 bales - 3/wk)
Straw - Approx £15/month (12 bales - 3/wk)
Farrier - £55/6wks
Feed - Approx £35/month

 

[pottamus]

I spend not a lot compared to some of you!!!
Per month...
Field Rent - £46.00
Hay - £25
Feed - £4.00 (2 handfuls chaff, carrots and supplement)
Shavings - £24
Shoes - £50
Wormer - £10
Ins - £30
So a total of £189 per month...which sounds a lot when put all together!!!

 

[the watcher]

A quick mental add up comes to £250 for each of mine a month..I have 3, and I haven't factored in the petrol, time and sheer exhaustion of being DIY. It would be more but they are all natives or native crosses therefore their feed requirement is not too heavy (and the hay is included in the livery, hurrah)

I buy shavings (8-10), some kind of Dengie alfalfa product (4-5 bags), speedibeet (2-3 bags), hard feed (1-2 bags), pink powder x 2, Magic x 2 every month plus insurance...these quantities are for 3

wormer quarterly, 3x half sets of shoes every 6-8 weeks

annually jabs/teeth then there are the other incidentals..rug cleaning and repairs, clipper blade sharpening, replacing broken tack or changing saddles with fitness and season (I gave up with this and have 2 for each horse), trailer servicing

On reflection I don't know why I do it, it never pays to add it all up, without horses I could have a life! (and holidays)

 

[Malibu]

golly i dont think my calculator could show that many figures!!! faaar to much money and we keep ours at home!

 

[Mid]

Okay... We don't have a horsie yet, but we've chosen the yard and worked out the prices!

On DIY per month:
livery - £80 (full turnout, all year round)
hay/hayledge - £35
feed - £10
shoes - £50 (generally, in winter should be less, as not so much riding))
insurance - £15
wormer - £8

That's nearly £200 a month for two horses (we'll half-share - buy one get one free!)