How much does winter cost you for livery?

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Stupidly decided to start doing the figures for winter and had three heart attacks. Tia will be in at night for the first time in 2 years (yard rules/new yard) and I'm looking at 180pm livery alone as I'll have to pay for bringing in/turning out due to my shifts
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Currently paying 80pm, what's the cost for everyone else compared to summer?
 
K & I will be out 24/7 this winter (for the first time!)

I'm looking forward to no mucking out!!

They are in a 5 acre field so there should be enough grass to keep them going until the following spring but if I needed to buy some hay it would be around £12 for a large round bale.

No straw to buy so that will save me a fortune in money and in physical activity!!

Will probably spend money on buying them a extra few rugs each, so I can keep swapping them to dry out.

So it won't cost much more than what I'm paying now - £15pw each (£120 pm altogether)
 
Summer costs me about £55pw (DIY) and I have part livery in winter costing £90pw.

He has the same amount of hard feed all year, eats less haylage in summer, uses less bedding as is out overnight and of course I do the mucking out in summer.
 
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oh no! There must be someone worser off that me surely?! Should of bought a pretty goldfish instead
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much better and easier to keep! plus you can always flush it down the toilet when you dont want it anymore
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(only jokin!!)
 
I pay the same base rate in winter as in summer, however in winter haylage is included, as is turning out and bringing in, but not rug changes. In summer we have to pay 50p a net for hay. So in winter it's £125/month, plus bedding.
 
Last year we bought hay and straw extra so it went from £20pw (nothing) to that + whatever hay/straw cost at the time (about an extra £12 pw I guess). But YO is changing things and thinking of doing a one price for all so have no idea what that will cost. My old yard it was £25 pw all year round and that included hay/ haylage which tbh was pretty reasonable.
 
£11 a day for full livery- mucked out properly, put on walker, rug change, water,hay,feed,straw (includes feed and hay and possibly straw). then i pay £25 twice/three times a week for my instructor to ride him....it can get expensive
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but i do him at weekends so ends up about £55 a week just for the livery....
this is full livery and is done very well..by lovely people who look after him well
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they also clean,clip, generaly keep him looking good at an extra cost, but tbh its worth paying as it is done very well and is not that expanisve
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thankfully in the summer we ay £30pm per horse for all 5 horses.
in the winter we keep 2 at the summer yard for £30pm, including hay. and the other 2 go down and sit in a field for less than that for the whole winter being given hay and food as required and brining in as required. (they are polo ponies so have th whole winter off)
writing this all down makes me see how blumming confusing this is!
but this winter its all going to change again! 1 horse at the winter yard, 3 sitting in a field having the winter off and not sure whats happening to our retired, partially lame one..
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My actual livery bill goes up from £80 to £112 - £8 a week for as much haylage as I want. Other costs however......! I am doing a diary this year and recording everything I spend on my boy(except fuel as it's just too hard to work out when I use my car for all sorts of things) from livery and feed to shoes, lessons, competitions etc. I'm doing less than I normaly would, as he's currently lame, but vet's bills aside (he's insured and I add the insurance to my monthly costs) Winter seems to cost me about £280 on average and so far, since he's been out this summer has cost me about £130 a month as he's not going anywhere or doing anything and is not on any feed as a result. I am literally just paying livery, insurance and shoes at the moment. I would have thought you could add at least another £50 to that when he's sound though.
 
I'm very, very lucky, both of mine live out all winter on good grazing so all they need is a feed every day, they don't need hay.
During that bad cold spell last winter I did give them a bit of hay but only one of them wanted it (Hera who's 29), Maddie a 17 year old anglo arab preferred to dig for grass. I only saw her go for the hay once, I think we got through 6 bales in total.
So apart from the £65 each per month rent I pay I just have to find enough money to feed them from September to around April. The rest of the time they just eat grass, I'm lucky enough to have low maintenace horses.
 
The costs are the same for the basic livery summer or winter, i do DIY all year round, if i do stable then i have shavings on top, plus winter includes lots more hay and feed, so i have to realistically say up to 300p/m in winter, but this does include everything.
 
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