How much do you spend on your horse?

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Each month?

I'm weighing up going on full livery over the winter
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£400 a month!! mostly because their shoes and hay are so incredibly expensive!! plus all their supplements ! And that is before Ive even started on lessons!
 
That's very cheap for full livery.
It's £80 a week on our yard, not including bedding or wormer. I don't want to think about how much I spend each month...
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Too much!
£130 on livery
£34 on insurance
£30 on haylage
£25 on shavings
£40 on feed
£72 on farrier every 5 weeks
Couple of lessons £70
Comps £40

So over £400
 
I spend an average of £75 per month not including lessons or my riding clothes. If I had to pay for everything (I'm lucky enough that the owner has been helping out) then I would be looking at £150 per month doing it on the cheap!
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right for DIY on my horse its 120 a month rent
at the mo she lives out but once back in..
2-3 bales hay a week at 2.50
2 straw at £1
Shoes every 5 weeks £65
Feed a month inc supps £40ish
Lessons 2 a month £50 for both

thats the def a month then wormers between 9-20 depends which one, maybe a rug here and there.

O did i also mention a have a pony on Diy else where 80 a month, shoes 6 weeks 40, feed 20 a month, hay 12 a month straw 12 a month,

so im looking if average it abit about 430 a month for 2
 
At that price I would go full livery.
Last year my average livery bill for the winter months was £250 on assisted DIY! That included livery £25 week, adlib haylege £10 week, turnout/bring in £2 per time and shavings at £4.75 a bale.
At £60 week your monthly bill will be £257 - £7 more than mine for assisted DIY and I'm doing most of the work - that doesnt even include wormer!
Do it! Think of all the quality time you can spend with neddy.
 
Per month (this is what I think I'll be paying in winter):

£80 DIY livery (includes straw)
£8 to have my poo picking done
£30 ish on hay? am guessing this as this is my first winter with ponio
£10 on feed
£20 ish on shoes (fronts shod every 6 weeks ish)
£16 ish for fetching in


that makes £164. eek. was thinking it was less than that...
 
Full livery near me is silly money like £80 a week! I did look in to it but I have a good job where I don't have to get up at silly hour to do my horse, in work for 8 and back to the horse by 5, home by 7pm
 
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At that price I would go full livery.
Last year my average livery bill for the winter months was £250 on assisted DIY! That included livery £25 week, adlib haylege £10 week, turnout/bring in £2 per time and shavings at £4.75 a bale.
At £60 week your monthly bill will be £257 - £7 more than mine for assisted DIY and I'm doing most of the work - that doesnt even include wormer!
Do it! Think of all the quality time you can spend with neddy.

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I'm thinking that. My last hrose ate his own bodyweight a day in haylage I'm sure!

She'll also book farrier/vet/dentist/back people and be present during the appointment so I don't have to be there if I can't make it.

So it's £240 a month and really I would only have to ride.
 
I'm paying 260 per week just in training fees for two horses.... I'm not even going to mention what I spend on the other 6 horses! Yes I do have two jobs to finance them & still live at home with my parents at the age of 29!
 
Averaged across the year madam costs me about £170-£180/month:

DIY livery is £60pm and Insurance is £30pm across the year and now shoes are £58 for a full set (but we've only just had a full set on!)

Then there's wormers, vets bills etc that I put into the monthly budget so really the other expenses come down to feed and bedding - this summer (so from about may until now) she's only cost me about £30-£40 on hay, feed, shavings and straw (yes I use both).

In the winter she can cost me that in a month!
 
At the moment I pay about £415 a month and that's part livery, if I go to full livery Mon-Fri it will be £460 a month - eek that's £5520 a year without any incidentals or vets bills!
 
Go full livery hon, me thinks the hay and hayledge is going to be expensive on the yard this year.
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Plus you only have to ride and you can do that whenever you like (as in when the school is nice and free!)
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Rach does full livery there and I do have to say that Mulc looks great over the winter and he is 19 yr oldTB. £60 is good value

It definately isn't worth it in the summer though.
 
Is he really 19
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I'm impressed!

I'm only planning full over the winter so I can ride right after work, and you're right, I don't want to have to worry about all the auxiliaries building up in cost.
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I'm moving next saturday hopefully, will you still be around?
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Monthly 'budget':
Livery £60
Farrier £30
EDT £4
Annual vax £5
Worming £7
Insurance £35
Haylage £40
Shavings £30
Blue Chip £40
Dengie £10
Herbs £5
Hormonise £18
Fly Spray £3

That tots up to £261 a month and then there's the sundries, grooming kit top ups, rugs,my kit , diesel to and from yard ....
 
i started to run a spreadsheet for my horse costs then quickly stopped, its to worrying. altho i did tell him this morning im never going to have any spare money, which i always had, now ive got him and wished he would stop wiggling around whilst i applied some v expensive cream on this morning to avoid me wasting yet more money!!
 
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