How much would you willing to pay for full livery

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What would you be willing to pay on full livery with these things below
(1)indoor stabling
(2) indoor sand school
(3) barn storage / large hay barn
(4) toilet
(5) kitchen area
(6) 9 acres of post and rail fencing
(7) Secure tack room
(8) off road hacking

Services given
Feeding morning and night
Turning out and bring I'n
Mucking out or skip out
Change of rugs
Grooming
Tacking up if owner is riding
Or exercise given either ridden or lunged
 
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Full livery around here (includes riding, tack cleaning, preparing for show/hunting, all daily care) is approx £150 but I think location is key. For that I would expect my horse to be ridden by an experienced rider who could improve him.

Nine acres of grazing would conern me unless there were only 5 or so horses on the yard. I would also prefer a waxed surface or sand and rubber school. Use of show jumps would also be necessary.
 
Depends where you are. In northumberland i paid 200 for this with olympic sized indoor school and hacking straight out onto miles of fab hacking with xcountry trails. In surrey my v nice livery yard with all you listed but more turnout is just under 600. So location location location location!
 
Depends how many horses share that 9 acres, and if there was guaranteed all year turnout.

If there was enough grass to sustain my horse 24/7 in the summer, and daytime turnout in winter, then £150 per week for all the above AND feed/forage and bedding included.
 
How large is the indoor school and is the surface sand and rubber or just sand? Does the full livery include feed/bedding/haylage and if yes would it be straw or shavings and to what value would the feed be? Is it 7 day or 5 day and does it include exercise? What other optional services would be avaliable and by full livery do you include riding or do you mean more part livery so no riding? Does it include everything you would expect in full livery such as your horse being groomed daily, tack being cleaned daily etc? Also whereabouts in the country as that makes a huge difference (in leics I could get full livery with everything for £120 a week, where I am now in herts I wouldnt be able to for less than £180 a week and that would be on a yard that is no where near as nice!)

If normal "full livery" with exercise and care of horse/equipment and the tack room secure to insurance standards with competant staff/people caring for your horse and those facilities you could probably charge a fair price :)
 
Sorry - thats part Livery. Full hunting livery in northumberland was (i think) about 300 and in surrey not offered at my yard but would think about 750. In Richmond where i live is over 1000 a month with no turnout!!
 
maggie123 said:
Sorry - thats part Livery. Full hunting livery in northumberland was...
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The key here is the word "hunting". Hunting, schooling, breaking, sales, competition, etc, livery all include work. Full livery, at least as far as I've ever known, only includes exercise in so far as the horse leaves its stable at least once a day. Normally this is by turnout, but otherwise could be horse-walker, quick lunge or turnout in arena. No standard full livery around here (Cheshire) includes riding.

Full livery is around £90 - £100 a week.
Competition/Schooling livery is £150 upwards.
 
I pay £110 in Hampshire, which includes all feed, bedding, hay etc, turnout, mucking out, excellent rubber school (40x20). Freebies include little niceties like washing the tail, polishing hooves, grooming. But I pay extra for horsewalker, any exercise, mane/tail pulling, clipping.
It probably ends up more like £160 a week, but it's a lovely, friendly yard, with first-rate care and fab hacking.
I used to be in a part DIY yard (I paid to get horse "done" during the week, except for exercise, but had to do weekends myself) and it ended up being a similar cost once I'd sourced all the hay, bedding, feed and paid for the week's turnout and mucking out. False ecomony and not as much love for the horses!
 
depends on your definition of full livery. full livery to me is all daily care, including thorough grooming and feet oiled. exercising 4 to 5 times a week, daily turnout,tack cleaning. quality feed, according to type, ad lib hay/haylage and a full deep clean bed with banks.
 
My girl is on full livery at this yard www.beaverhall.co.uk and they do a fantastic job. Includes horsewalker but exercise/schooling is extra and provided by a professional rider.

Full livery seems to vary from yard to yard although this one certainly suits me and my girl :)
 
i pay £130 a week for my boy at ingliston.
that includes:
feed
hay/hayledge
turnout
grooming
tack clean
mucking out and shavings

the girls will exercise him if necessary.
 
wow... just read this thread out of interest but now realise i am a pauper.
What jobs do you all do to afford this kind of money?
Am i the only pauper?
At £150 and above i want my horse all tacked up and shining like a new penny on demand with a little bow in his tail for good measure!!!!
 
I'd class that as part livery and around here that's about £85-£95PW.
We pay £140 for full livery with a professional event rider which includes schooling, preparing for and competing atshows.it also includes clipping, mane and tail pulling too.
 
around here it is £80-100/week for full livery (no riding) including all hay/bedding/hard feed.

all you have to do is turn up and ride.
 
Currently £98 a week.Includes 4 bales of bedding a month (extra if you wan tmore) all feed/hay/haylage.exercise, tack cleaning,holding forvet etc.Wormers extra.Yard decent but not luxurious.Outdoor school.Will probably have to go up soon.Much murmuring about this but I would rather it go up a little and standards maintained.
 
I pay £76 per week for - turnout, muck out, brought in, adlib hay, bedding, all hard feed, farrier arranged and held for farrier and held for vet. They will groom and tack up if I am running late for a lesson at no additional costs. Facilities we have indoor school, outdoor school, full set of showjumps, cross country course, miles of off road hacking including all weather tracks around the farm :) and well maintained grazing :)
 
holy ****!
is that all you guys pay?
i know i can't make a comparison as i'm in france,
but at my yard i pay 400 Pounds per month
and the facilities are:
off road hacking
6 electric fenced paddocks (on rotational)
indoor stabling with head out
feed morning, lunch and night
haylage in the morning and night
mucking out.
and a outdoor arena 80 x 30

count yourselves lucky, all of you!!
 
jcwh said:
holy ****!
is that all you guys pay?
i know i can't make a comparison as i'm in france,
but at my yard i pay 400 Pounds per month
and the facilities are:
off road hacking
6 electric fenced paddocks (on rotational)
indoor stabling with head out
feed morning, lunch and night
haylage in the morning and night
mucking out.
and a outdoor arena 80 x 30

count yourselves lucky, all of you!!
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i think they all pay that a week :O
 
I pay £485 per calender month. I would class it as part livery as includes everything bar riding/grooming/tack cleaning. The yard where I am (Sussex) has two schools, 550 acres of off road riding, all year turnout and is fairly small. They charge £670 per month for competition livery which obviously includes riding.
 
eahotson said:
Currently £98 a week.Includes 4 bales of bedding a month (extra if you wan tmore) all feed/hay/haylage.exercise, tack cleaning,holding forvet etc.Wormers extra.Yard decent but not luxurious.Outdoor school.Will probably have to go up soon.Much murmuring about this but I would rather it go up a little and standards maintained.
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4 bags of bedding a month! Hell I use that in a week. :o
 
you don't even want to know what that would be in London...
Lee valley is £720 per month i think, not sure what that includes,
Mote end closer to the £1000 mark when you include all the extras they charge for
and then if you start looking at full livery at wimbledon village stables, hyde park, properly central places etc... you're heading up towards £2000 for proper 'full' livery.
eeeek!
 
Hollysmum said:
I pay £76 per week for - turnout, muck out, brought in, adlib hay, bedding, all hard feed, farrier arranged and held for farrier and held for vet. They will groom and tack up if I am running late for a lesson at no additional costs. Facilities we have indoor school, outdoor school, full set of showjumps, cross country course, miles of off road hacking including all weather tracks around the farm :) and well maintained grazing :)
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Blimey, after business rates, insurance, electricity and water charges how do they make a profit on £76 a week?
 
At work we charge £95p/w in winter which includes turn out, bring in, rug changes, muck out in morning, skipped out throughout day, ad lib haylage, as much bedding as necessary, feeds x2, tack cleaned everyday it's used, oiled regularly, clipping, grooming, prep for hunting, tail trims, mane pulling, exercise when owners want it, most choose to do their own, same as tacking up. Our facilites aren't excellent to be fair, we have a 40x20 indoor school, field with jumps only available when weather permits, few jumps kept in school.

However our hacking is fantastic, relaxed environment at yard. We are a riding school as well so does limit liveries use of school but they all know the score and understand! We're very clear about it when people inquire about livery!
 
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