How much do you spend on hay and bedding?

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Interested to hear how much you spend on hay and straw/bedding per week. I'm pricing hay and straw on my livery yard on an ad-lib per week basis, so at the moment for hay it's about £12 per week, straw is about £4 a week - for as much as you want. Would be interested to hear whether this is reasonable or not! The hay is great quality, plastic wrapped and not dusty at all.
 
That sounds pretty reasonable.

I'm not on a yard and my horses live out 24/7 so I don't need straw but at the moment I am paying £7 a bale for small bale hay off local feed merchant. It's pricey but very good quality. All the farmers seem to only have big bales of hay and haylage and at the mo I haven't got the means to transport or store them. :(
 
I'm on Full livery at the mo so dont pay for it but at my last yard, between 2 horses I was getting through a large round of haylage in just under 2 weeks at £40.00 and 6 small bales of straw at £1.50 per bale.

Dont know if that helps?! :)

what you are offering sounds very reasonable to me
 
tobiano1984 said:
Interested to hear how much you spend on hay and straw/bedding per week. I'm pricing hay and straw on my livery yard on an ad-lib per week basis, so at the moment for hay it's about £12 per week, straw is about £4 a week - for as much as you want. Would be interested to hear whether this is reasonable or not! The hay is great quality, plastic wrapped and not dusty at all.
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I'd have thought that was reasonable, too.

I'm new to DIY but a few weeks in, I reckon I'm paying (I buy from my YO) about £25-30 a month for straw (I do use a lot!) and about £25-40 a month for hay. It's good quality though.
 
I have had 2 horses in almost full time and they are on shavings. The bale costs £6 and I have been using 2 per week for one horse and 1 per week for the other.

we have haylage which is e large square wrapped in pale green? They cost £27 and I have been using one every 8-9 days.

So for 2 horses it has been costing me approx £45 per week.
 
I use 3 small hay & 3 small straw a week Dec to march when they're in & about 3 hay a week Nov & April while they're out. From this I usually have enough left that I only use 5 or 6 during summer for the odd time they might be in for long enough to get hay. That's between a 14.2 & an 11.1. Costs me £15 a week but only cos farmer makes his own for us v cheap, so price not comparative really.
 
Those prices for hay would be outrageous for my boy! He onpg gets through one bale of hay and a quarter bale of straw (because he's a fatty so straw has fewer calories) the hay is 4 pounds a bale. The straw 3.50 a bale. So 12 a week is nearly my monthly of 19.50! I use shavings for bedding so I'm guessing your straw prices are fair. My boy is 13.3hh and a native.
 
I pay £50 a month for stabling, hay & straw. They also get brought in at night!

But.. I do bring on his horses, sell them and help out alot!
 
I have two big ISHs, and use one bale of hay a day at £5 (they are on hard standing and have a net out there too as well as at night in the stables) and I use about 3/4 of a bale a day of straw, which is £3/bale. My mare wouldn't use more than a bale a week of straw, but my filthy gelding uses more, so it depends on your horse...

So for my two I spend £35/wk on hay (£17.50 each) and £15 on straw (£7.50 each)..

Shavings added a fortune onto the bills when they were on that! When we were on haylage we paid £25 for a big bale that lasted over a week..
 
I pay £6 for a small bale of hay, get through 1 1/2- 2 bales a week.
And £7.80 for a bale of shavings, generally use 1 bale per week
 
I rent my own yard so for bedding my shavings are £7.70 a bale and I use a bale a week, I have big square haylage delivered at £35 a bale which lasts about 2 and a half weeks at the moment as coblet is in at night, wouldn't last that long in warmer weather though
 
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