How much does your horse cost you?

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I am *sure* that this is a thread that keeps resurrecting but I haven't got time to search through the archives, sorry! :p

How much does your horse cost per month?

Does it live in/out/both?
Full/part/DIY livery?
Do you compete?
Do you put any money away for emergancies and if so, how much?
How much for feed and what is it?
Hay/haylage? On straw or shavings?

Etc etc!

Sorry for being nosey but I am doing a little research :D

Jenbleep xx
 
Bloody loads! Mustn't count or tally up.. I have a weak disposition and may cry...

Nah, not really :D it is lots but I don't really care :)

About £100 a month on average.
 
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Too much!!!

I have 2 out at grass and not in work.
I budget £150 pcm for each of these to include grass, hay, wormer, trims, insurance

I then at the moment am allowing myself a couple of years of splashing out - and am running a competition horse on a comprehensive part livery, nice yard, lots of training/competing, running a lorry etc. I allow £1000 pcm. Extortionate I appreciate and unsustainable long term, but its really a case of have a go while I can.
 
Mine is at home, out at the moment but in overnight in winter.
Just hacking
I am terrible at saving so no, plus no insurance however we have a farm account at the vets and my FiL gives me credit (touch wood, nowt but jabs this year)
Feed is hi fi and fast fibre £20 a months, supplements probs £30 a month.
On haylage- 3 bales this winter at £30 each
On straw- free.
He is barefoot so cheap to maintain. All in all he is cheap to keep and that is the way I like it!
 
Livery 90 pcm
Hay 11 pw
Shavings 7.50 pw
Feed 10 pm
Shoes 30 pm
Insurance 15 pm
Bring in monday- fri 7.50 pw
Supplement 25 pm

£239 in winter monthly
This is diy livery

Less in summer as 24/7 turnout so no hay or bedding
 
I pay £175 a month for full (retirement) livery.

+ £10 every 8 weeks in winter for trim or £35 every 6 weeks in summer. So about £200 a month.
 
I try really hard not to think about it, but they do spend an awful lot of money. My exotic holidays - or in fact any holidays have ceased to exist since I bought a horse or 2, 3 , 4 ............
Mine are at home, but I rent my farm, so....... if I lived in a normal house my rent would probably be a minimum of £400 per month less.
Summer is obviously free :D
Winter is £45 every 10 days for hay
++++++ all the usual, shoes, vaccines, rugs, bedding etc etc.
The trick is to not add it all up then you'll never know
 
jenbleep said:
How much does your horse cost per month?

Does it live in/out/both?
Full/part/DIY livery?
Do you compete?
Do you put any money away for emergancies and if so, how much?
How much for feed and what is it?
Hay/haylage? On straw or shavings?

Etc etc!

Sorry for being nosey but I am doing a little research :D

Jenbleep xx
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not sure about per month.... but about £3000 per year... this is what I budgeted for in September....
£250 in haylage
nothing on livery (they live at home)
£485 (£56 every 6 weeks) on shoes/farrier
£450 in hard feed (fast fibre, linseed meal, alfa oil)
£500 in bedding
£200 towards vet bills (only jabs, and a tube of sedalin, the rest is put away "in case")
£600 for hunting subs
£150 in hunting day money
£450 in fuel for hunting

in actual fact the feed has cost me slightly more than that as we've had to feed more and for longer, but I've used less bedding as they didn't come in until nearly the end of November...
 
Forgot to answer questions...

Does it live in/out/both? Both
Full/part/DIY livery? DIY £130pm
Do you compete? Yes, quite a lot
Do you put any money away for emergancies and if so, how much? No - oops!
How much for feed and what is it? Alfa a chaff £12 baileys lo cal £26 topspec condition cubes £12
Hay/haylage? On straw or shavings? £30pm on haylage, £18pm shavings

Goodbye money :(
 
Ok bare with me, thinking aloud:

Field: £500 per year for roughly 2 acres give or take
Hay: £40 per bale (delivery £10) lasts about 2-3weeks so (if i were to feed all through summer which is unlikely but no idea how to work it out :o) about £640 per year
Insurance: (changed recently due to change in circumstances but will bump it up again soon) £25 per month so £300 per year
Trims: Free as OH is a farrier and my lad is unshod
Wormer: (depending on which used and if we didn't worm count which we plan on doing from now on) about £30 a pop so £120 per year.
Forgot to add vaccinations: Flu and tetanus (sp?) £35 per year no call out fee (love my vet!)

I'm having a brain fart and can't think of anything else atm but I must have missed something out....

Anyway all in all as long as nothing changes and there's no injuries/illness etc

*drum roll*

£1595 per year..... pretty reasonable really especially as some of those fees are divided between two! :D
I was paying waaay more at the yard he was on working livery at.

He lives in a field out 24/7
He's not fed hard feed
We don't compete
I don't put money aside atm but I will as soon as I get a job again, it used to be between £10-£20 a week
He has hay as our last haylage was abominable!
 
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How much does your horse cost per month?

Does it live in/out/both? Lives out 24/7
Full/part/DIY livery? DIY
Do you compete? No
Do you put any money away for emergancies and if so, how much? None
How much for feed and what is it? Around £25 a month for a bag of value chaff, nuts and speedi beet.
Hay/haylage? Hay £35 a month
On straw or shavings? Neither

Livery is £60
Insurance is £23
Hay is £35
Feed is £25
Farrier works out £7
Wormer £7
Vaccs £12.50

So in total £169.50 a month for the basics.

Wow i wish i hadn't done that.
 
Mine are pretty good - if I exclude the mortgage on the smallholding

Livery - none as at home
Hay - none as we sell spare hay which covers the cost of making our own
Insurance - £60 a year for third party (don't trust vets fees insurance co's as far as I could throw them!)
Feed - big sacks of formula4feet - £70 lasts easily 3 months, usually 3 sacks of speedibeet over the winter (this year the companion has cost me a fortune in linseed, barley, oats, Alfa A etc )
Vaccs - £30 each a year (free call outs)
Wormers - £20 each a year
Worm counts - £7 three times a year each
Dentish - £35 a year each
Trims - Currently the big boy is on hols as I'm pregnant so barefoot - £20 every 10 weeks - £100 a year each.
 
About £500 a month, without counting the extra costs of running a 4x4 or the car loan I used to buy it. If you included those, more like £750! Part livery, shod, in at night all year round, local riding club competing and weekly lessons.
 
ah pressed post too early !

So about £800 a year for two - probably add on another £200 this year for companions hard feed, and more when shod.

At £7.70 a week each a bargin!
 
i did calculate it the other day! although my livery costs have gone down. costs nearly £5000 a year to keep two of them. they are both shod on all 4, which is my biggest cost as £130 every 6 weeks to do them. i now pay £80 a month rent for the land, there are 3 of us and we then split extra maintanence between us like when fields need spraying. hay and straw i have spent about £400-500 over the autum and winter as been coming in lots because of bad weather. but in the summer they live out. not sure on hard feed, £40 a month max in the winter, less in the summer

boy used to be on full livery when i was at school and that was £650 a month! and my girl when i had her nearer london before i moved was £140 a month just for a tiny field diy. shows how much prices vary and how much cheaper when you have less facilities and diy
 
How much does your horse cost per month?

Does it live in/out/both? Both
Full/part/DIY livery? At my own yard
Do you compete? not at the moment, but yes in general
Do you put any money away for emergancies and if so, how much? No, I have a credit card with a decent credit limit ;)
How much for feed and what is it? Pure Feeds feed £40 pcm per horse
Hay/haylage? On straw or shavings? Hay/haylage £45 pcm per horse, Laysoft bedding £26 pcm

The above are averaged costs per horse, I have 5 of my own, mixture of living out or both, 2 are broodmares, the other 3 are in work.
 
I'm in West Sussex & own a 14hh New Forest

DIY livery - £130 a month.
Assisted livery - varies from £0-£100 depending on time of year.
Hay - in the winter approx £24 every 4-6 weeks. About half that cost in the Spring/Summer.
Insurance - £30 a month.
Hard feed - Dengie Good Doer (approx £12) lasts about 4 months, high fibre nuts at approx £7 a month & Fast Fibre (about £10 bag & lasts about 6-8 weeks) at this time of year.
Barefoot trim - every 7 weeks at £45.

We don't compete at the moment - but have regular Parelli lessons (£30 an hour - approx every 2-3 weeks) & would like to do a few clinics in the furure and maybe some Le Trec.

I save in the Spring/Summer but don't manage to save so much in the winter :(
 
£120 livery
£100 hay&straw (That was last month when he couldn't go out much due to the bl**dy weather...)
£30 insurance
£60 shoes every 6 weeks (so £40 a month)
£20 feed (ish - share with another livery)

So £310 pcm, but should be less from now on - at least until November!

Quite scary!
 
Averaged per month (I have a spreadsheet which I tweak constantly but nothing ever goes down :( )

Livery 150
Insurance 66 (v expensive from Petplan)
Shoeing 66 (special)
Hay 48 ( av 12 bales pm over winter)
Feed 25 (Hi-fi lite & Hi-fibre cubes)
Bedding 61 (Shavings)
Supplements - 60 (Cortaflex liq, buteless, Relaxme)
Friend to do Mon-fri 216
Worming 7.08
Teeth 4.2
Plus physio and vets bills over the year

Easily £750 :eek: and I don't have a horsebox anymore and rarely have lessons or compete.
 
Yikes .... Too much!

I own two horses both on full livery. Livery costs are around £800 a month for both. Both are only shod on the front so that's £90 every 4-5 weeks, I just spent £120 on feed and supplements for both of them, that usually lasts around 6 weeks. I'm constantly having to replace rugs etc, so I usually budget to put aside around £50 per month so I have a little savings to pay for things like replacing tack/rugs when I need to. Fortnightly lessons costs £50 a go, so that's another £100 per month. My insurance for both of them is around another £100 per month.

Then there's all the other costs which aren't monthly, so vaccines, wormer, dental costs, chiropractor, routine vet visits, entry fees, lorry repairs, tax, insurance, gas etc .... Wow it's all adds up!

To be honest, I could probably cut costs but when it comes to my horses I'm terrible for completely ignoring prices. Often I find myself just sticking everything on my credit card and worrying about it at the end of the month! :D
 
Mines on 5 day p/l which is meant to include everything but I buy him special hard feed on top. I'm paying for someone to jump him and compete him at the moment as I'm pregnant. Also then there's shoeing, the back man is coming tomorrow ect.
SO
At the moment he's costing me between £600-£700 pcm which for one horse is slightly ridiculous but hey ho!
Normally I budget around £500 pcm.
I'd like to spend less but I like spoiling him and it's so nice having someone else muck him out during the week :p.
 
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