how much is your livery

I pay a kings ransom of £195 per week for full livery (but entirely worth every hard earned penny) which includes:
Stabling in very larger brick stables with extremely high ceilings
Unlimited bedding
Turnout in a large private fields (min 6 hrs in summer and 4 hrs in winter) with bringing in and turning out on demand daily dependent on when each livery is planning to ride/arrive
Two large arenas (one indoor and one outdoor)
On site instructor and access to very experienced knowledgeable staff
On site clinics
Worming
Vet on call and regular farrier, Physio, saddle fitter, etc.
4 hard feeds per day (breakfast, lunch, dinner and a late supper)
All ad lib hay/haylage
Secure alarmed tack/tea room with full kitchen, toilet, storage facilities, tea and biscuits/pastries and other goodies included
YO and YM both live on site
Small yard (9 horses) with friendly liveries
Child free zone
Dog friendly
Free trailer parking
Cleaning of all tack after each use
Washing of rugs, saddle pads, bandages
Access to over 1000 acres of gallops and open fields plus around 50 different hacking trails (mostly off road)
Grooming twice daily and feet picked out
Fields poo picked daily (plus harrowing and both manages given daily maintenance and levelling)
Stable floors washed and disinfected each morning
Rugging and unrugging
Mucking out and regular skipping out
Jumps available in both indoor and outdoor
Regular dressage comps on site
Adlib lessons whilst out hacking
Very quiet and friendly yard
Close to X/C training
Private property and available spaces are invite only
*exercising e.g. Riding, lunging, free schooling is extra
 
I pay £52 a month for a stable and shared field (3 horses in). I buy my own hay and straw through winter... It's £80 through winter if you want haylage of the YO but my little man gets the runs with haylage!

It's not bad, we have a school and a secure place for feed/tack.... And I never see anyone :D PERFECT!
 
£150 for DIY livery - no assistance or consumables.
Large stable, large individual paddock, large 30x60 badly maintained school. Good storage so can bulk buy hay and bedding. Incredible hacking.
Hay - 100 bales has lasted me nearly a year at £4 a bale so approx. £35 a month.
Bedding - shavings - my biggest expense as horse is a pooer, stirrer and a digger at least £65 a month.
Feed - chaff & hi-fibre nuts £30
Comes to about £280 a month but then I spend another £50 a week for someone to do my horse Mon-fri so that adds at least £200 a month. I could get a 7 day part-livery for this but would have to move and I don't want to as the yards offering this have various limitations which I'm not happy with or are too far away. Also my horse is happy and settled where I am.

This does not include supplements, shoeing, insurance, vets fees etc.
 
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I pay £217 pcm for mine, grass livery with a stable if I want it (I only use it on v cold/wet/field flooded conditions, as my boys PSSM gets worse when he's in at night). It includes my haylage, hard feed, and YO does morning feeds and rugs plus looks after him full time when I'm away for that too. Have use of a floodlit sand school and jumps, miles of brilliant hacking over 30 miles of uninhabited hills (snow gated in the high places in winter though). Plus there are only five horses, so no fighting over facilities ever...
 
Elvis said:
Unfortunately in the very expensive SE (Surrey/Hampshire)
But it's probably the cheapest in the area.
It's £75/week for part livery (DIY at the weekends)

Includes;
2 hard feeds a day
Turnout- All year
Large stable
Muck out
Rug change
Attendance for vets/farrier etc
Unlimited hay/haylage
Unlimited straw
1 Olympic sized outdoor arena
Full set of showjumps
XC course (only to be used during lessons)
Good hacking
Instructors on site.

The amount of hay and straw my boy gets through I doubt they make any money on him.
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Hi Elvis, can I ask where you are? PM if you'd prefer
Thanks :)
 
I pay £80 per month in Essex for:
12x12 stable in 3 box yard with hard standing.
3 acres of fields and is split up and shared with one other horse.
Indivdual tack room
Storage for hay and straw.
Out 24/7 from April to November, then out for 12hrs a day in winter and stabled at night.

No menage or very good hacking, but can ride in fields. The YO is great as is the other livery. I'd rather have limited riding over great turnout
 
I pay 350€ for part livery

This includes:
3mx3m stable (standard size in France)
2 feeds plus unlimited hay,
unlimited straw bedding,
muck out 2x per day,
TO/BI,
outdoor 20x40 (which is getting extended to 40x60)
free lights,
lots of jumps (though some multi jumps and poles are mine, I allow everyone free access to them)
paired or individual paddocks,
all year TO (min 4 hours winter, over night in summer (can have 24/7 T/O during summer if requested))
Fields poo picked
Individual storage locker.
Good hacking - but all involves some roadwork, though mostly on village roads
Various visiting instructors, no issues with bringing your own freelance in

I choose to pay extra for wood pellet bedding rather than straw, which I buy and store myself. I love my yard, I can be as hands on as I want, so I usually do my own evening muck out and t/o. But I know that if I can't leave work until late for whatver reason my two are looked after.
 
I am amazed by how much the cost of livery varies from yard to yard and county to county. I can only assume that the yards that are offering it very cheaply are maybe cutting corners like no liability insurance, or paying business rates or payment only in cash and therefore not declared? How do you do it so cheaply? I would think that anything less than £25-30 per week for D.I.Y. For example Is impossible to make any profit on if you are doing it fairly and legally? If you are all doing it right and making it pay, how the heck are you doing it? I would dearly love to know!!
 
WinkingWillow said:
I am amazed by how much the cost of livery varies from yard to yard and county to county. I can only assume that the yards that are offering it very cheaply are maybe cutting corners like no liability insurance, or paying business rates or payment only in cash and therefore not declared? How do you do it so cheaply? I would think that anything less than £25-30 per week for D.I.Y. For example Is impossible to make any profit on if you are doing it fairly and legally? If you are all doing it right and making it pay, how the heck are you doing it? I would dearly love to know!!
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I know a YO who has all the insurance, pays all the tax, but charges very cheaply - she also runs a sheep farm on the land, so had already purchased and paid of the land as part of the farm business, and runs the livery through the farm business so manages to make savings/get subsidies (I'm not a farmer so don't ask me what exactly). She charges all inclusive for haylage, straw/shavings and hardfeed because she can bulk buy with the farm stocks. The land management as well is covered by both farm and livery. So works pretty well for her.

Other YOs I know charge very little for standard livery, but then charge for all the extras, like t/o / bring in, rug changes, holding for vet or farrier, all bedding/hay/haylage/hard feed to be supplied by client, charge for use of school/indoor/jumps/xc course/lessons. So sometimes a very cheap livery can be done if the client is canny, but if not the bill racks up pretty quick!
 
I pay £35 pw for DIY on the Derbys/Notts boarder

- Large stables
- Rug room
- x2 tack room with individual lockable tack lockers
- Wash room
- Solarium
- Covered horse walker
- 30x60 indoor arena with seating and cafe
- 20x40 floodlit outdoor arena
- 1/2 mile surfaced hacking track
- Post and rail fencing
- Feed room with individual feed cupboards
- CCTV and alarmed, someone also lives on site

Extras are; £30 per month for unlimited haylage. £10 per month for horsebox storage.
I also pay a girl on the yard to do turn out and whatever else I need doing which varies in cost depending on what I need doing.
 
Christ... I feel like our place is daylight robbery compared to some of the deals on here :\

£140pcm base DIY. No extras, nothing included.
Hay & shavings must be bought from the yard. £40pcm hay, shavings £7.50 a bale.
We have 2 schools, good turnout, safe fields etc, but not much more. Must be stabled at night Oct-Apr.
 
Our yard is quite expensive -
£65 per week for part livery (stable, turn out, bring in)
£80 per week for full livery
(Stable, muck out, water, hay, turn out and in)
We all have access to hacking, small outdoor and fields to ride in.
 
I'm in central Scotland and pay £30 per week DIY.

Includes -

-Stable,
- Field with electric fencing for paddock,
- tack room with storage
-hay storage
- trailer parking
- rubber arena with jumps
- miles/hours hacking
 
I pay £25 per week, so £100 paid 4 weekly, which includes a field, stable, grass schooling area, just got a new tack room and will have lights off a generator in the winter. Not great facilities and would like to have a proper school but it will do for now as there's nothing round our way!
 
I pay £100 p/m for each horse.

This includes all year group turnout, stable, feed room, tack room, hay/straw store, school, round pen and miles of off road hacking. YM sources hay, bedding and feed for us if wanted extras like turnout, bring in, holding for farrier is FOC.

The YM, people and horses are all fab - I love my yard!
 
I pay £515 per calendar month which includes everything bar grooming and riding. There are two schools plus 500 acres of off road riding. All year turnout although in at night and max 4 (usually two though) per paddock. I'm in the south east.
 
I keep my horse at university with me at Hartpury College which is fab, it's £67.50 a week, including unlimited hay/haylage and up to 5 bales of bedding a week, limited to no turnout though, but access to all arenas, hacking track, walkers etc. And access to Hartpury Therapy Centre (not incl in price)

Very strict rules too :P
 
£25 a week for:
18x12 stable (largest one on yard, others range from 14x14 to 10x12, all same price allocated according to horse's size)
24 hr grazing in summer, daily turnout in winter, ok hacking.
Use of 20x40m floodlit (a bit heath robinson so not good enough for jumping) school.
Unlimited haylage £14 a week in winter.
Some extras available as and when, but I never use them - turnout/bring in/checked on or fed in field in summer £1.50 a day, full livery (holiday cover & basic needs only) £10 a day.

Lovely YO, great friends and easy, laid back atmosphere - priceless.
 
I pay £150 a month for my own field that has a shelter that can be used as 2 stables if needs be and a container for storage. I have 2 ponies in this field. We have great hacking on the open forest with no roadwork and access to a little grass school.
 
First place was a farm, cows and sheep with decent sized stables. Your own turnout patch for 1-3 horses to do what you like with. All year turnout daytime only in the winter. A small makeshift arena, some fields to ride in and decent hacking. Some services offered by a third party. £60pcm may-sept and then £100pcm oct-apr incl hay and straw
All of mine have been DIY places up with no real setup for assistance so they were happy for friends to get together and help each other out.

Livery yard with floodlit arena, XC course, secure storage and tack rooms. £15pw + Hay/straw purchased from them as order by liveries n a Monday. Restricted t/o in winter 1/2days or whole days according to plan from yo. Not brill hacking unless you got out for a good couple of hours

Previous farm flood lit arena, 24/7 AY TO. Excellent hacking round fields and out and about. Tack and storage areas £20pw. Hay/straw purchased ad lib for £10pw for both winter only
 
£68 per week part livery, for stable, fab herd turnout every day, bedding, hay, hard feed, all vet / farrier attends, muck out, turn out and bring in, trailer parking, basic medical care when needed (cleaning wounds, etc all done as standard).
 
jumpingjoy said:
hey, just out of interest how much is your livery a week and what does it include ? stable, turnout, arena, hay, haylage etc thanks :)
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£25 per week for stable (12x12 with auto water drinkers), arena, turnout (24/7 summer and day turnout in winter), decent hacking.
Haylage is bought seperate at around £14 per week.
Straw is around £5 per week.
 
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