How much do your horses cost you per month???

[BB2008]

Trying to research really. I guess my horses cost me about £220 per month each, providing no huge vet bills or anything going wrong (touch wood!!)!!! Thats £160 on DIY livery each month (Hay, feed and shavings included) £40 farrier and insurance. How much do yours cost?

 

[Nickijem]

Oooh now let me see ....
£30 livery
£60 haylage
£30 feed
£20 bedding
£25 insurance
£30ish shoes (£50 every 7weeks)

So £195 so that's about £200 including wormers plus any extras like tack, equipment etc.

That's the winter total, I can take off haylage and bedding in summer so I suppose that's not too bad.

ETS that is for one horse - couldn't possibly afford more than one!

 

[Blizzard]

Beau about £300, Lance about £150, that is without rugs, vet, worming, equipment, tack etc.

 

[mossy]

i've got far to many at the moment so i'm not even going to go there, better off not knowing. . . . What is it they say ignorance is bliss!!!!

 

[xtiffx]

Too flipping much!!!!!!

 

[hotellie]

far too much and dont want to think about it!

 

[Luckylocalian]

Livery about £180, insurance £45, feed £50, hay £50ish, shavings £100 (can you believe that!!!), shoes £60, paying someone to help me with him around £150-200, lessons £120, petrol to get to yard £120, that's not including clipping, rugs, wormers, show entry fees, maintaining 4x4 and trailer, vets bills, treats, saddlery, back check, teeth, innoculations....... makes me want to cry sometimes! Average £700 a month??

 

[Ottinmeg]

now that i have 3 and just had to put one on full livery mon to fri im not even going to attempt to work out how much they cost!

 

[Persephone]

DIY Livery £ 60
Shoes £ 70 (every 4 weeks)
Insurance £ 70
Feed/Hay £ dunno!
Bedding £ 30
Lessons £ 300ish
+ incidentals

 

[georgiegirl2]

as others have said i woulodnt dare to think how much they cost me per month!

i'll make a start......

2 horses rent £15 a week so £120 for that

£40 for having them fetched in on an afternoon

£120 for having them both shod

£40 on haylage

£25-£30 on straw

about £30 on lessons

and god knows how much on insurance, hard feed and paying off credit card for new albion saddle

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!

now i know why my friends can afford not to live at home, go out every weekend and spend a bootload on clothes!!!

 

[elles]

I have just one horse who costs me the same as keeping about 3 others if I didn't live in London and keep him in Surrey!!!

I once made the mistake of adding it all up and nearly died - it would be cheaper to get him a mortgage!!

 

[Donkeymad]

About £2 per week each, that includes farrier, worming, feed.

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

about 220 a month for mine too, that is without any unexpected vets bills though

 

[__Annie__]

About £250 - £300 per month

 

[mpicton101]

About £50 per month, he lives with me at work! I just pay for shoes and his extras.

 

[happihorse]

Both of mine are kept at home so luckily, I don't have any livery bills!

Competition horse per month:
- bedding at £50
- haylage at £100 (

)
- feed at £50
- farrier at £40 (average)
- worming at £20 (average)
- lessons at £50
- competitions at £60
- insurance at £17
So a grand total of £387

plus all the little extras!

Companion pony (only in at night in winter) per month:
- bedding at £4 (winter only)
- hay at £8 (winter only)
- farrier at £1 (average for year)
- worming at £13 (average for year)
So a grand total of £26

 

[YorksG]

I daren't begin to work it out! It will be less this winter for the three as the old girl went at the end of October, but I would willingly pay the same as last year if she had been fit to get through another winter.

 

[Baggybreeches]

*brings head out of sand* Far too much! (and mine are at home, not livery!) *buries head back in sand*

 

[madmav]

How do any of you afford to live?! I so want to have my own horse, but so can't afford one. It is just the moist ridiculously expensive thing to do in the world - v sad

 

[Baggybreeches]

By not having a social life unless its free parties!! That is why I am on here now!

Also I am not the extravagant type of owner, my horses share tack, I dont have yard stuff and show stuff I have one set that gets cleaned for shows!
It doesnt have to be that expensive, and in real terms you could keep an average horse at livery for the cost of 30 fags a day and plenty of folk can afford that!

 

[star]

full grass livery at £150 a month plus £17 for farrier trim every few months and £30 for a bag of TopSpec every few months, plus £11.50 for insurance each month. Works out well under £200 a month. On proper grass livery I can keep him for less than £100 a month.

 

[Chunky_Monkey]

Mine must be the easiest calculation of them all.....£290 per month for full livery, which includes all feed, hay, shavings, mucking out, turn out/rug change/bring in, annual vaccines, foot trimming, worming and dentist. So nothing else to buy (apart from unexpected vets bills, lessons - when I have some - and tack as and when I need it!)