i need some help, quick! :-S

[lucym]

how much would you charge for full livery, per day?
mucking out, feeding, turnout, bring in, rugs etc?

ive been asked to help a new livery at the yard on the days she is working, but it seems the price i have quoted is too much

ideas needed please

 

[JoBo]

Well I use to pay £100 per week, so just over £14 per day, but this was a few years ago now.

 

[Eira]

My YM charges £10 per day

 

[Bosworth]

it depends, is she currently on livery - if yes - what does she have included. dose she provide feed, bedding etc. So what would you be expected to do?

 

[katie_southwest]

Id be happy to pay someone £10 a day.
For muck out,feed,turn out,rugs,bring in in evening. Considering your not actually suppose to be doing it mate are you, if yard doesnt do full livery and she needs it maybe she should look for somewhere that does as she cant always rely on you. 4 days is a lot to commit to, what if you need to change your plans one day shed be stuck then

 

[lucym]

yes she'll be on livery but with nothing included, we as liveries provide our own bedding etc
so she'll be paying her livery on top of what she pays me
i would have to do full livery as if the horse was mine, excluding riding
t/o and bring in, change rugs, feed, haynets, muckout
so per day, what do you think?

 

[Llwyncwn]

I charge £5 per day for 'full service' which is :

Feed
Change jarmies
Turn out
Full muck out
Hay nets
Water
Bring in
Feed
Change jarmies
Hug and bedtime story

This is on top of their £15 diy, haylage and bedding, they provide their own feed.

Mind you, this is Wales and prices tend to be much cheaper hear.

 

[LCobby]

If youa re already at the yard, then at least no travel costs
£10 would be cheaper than a freelance groom going there to do it twice a day.
ANd do you really want to do it and be glad of the money, or is it something that you'd rather not have to fit in?
Evertying that menas she does not have to go to yard at all would be a tenner,
If you could do it in half an hour am and same pm, then perhaps 6-8 pounds,

 

[Dressagebabe]

Hiya!

I charge £3.50/£5.00 muck out £1.50/£2.00 turn out or bring in £1.00/£1.50 making up feed £1.00/£1.50 rug change Week days/week ends. This is purely for the chores they pay my DIY livery and supply their own straw/hay/feed.

A lot of people expect hard work for nothing and getting horses in, in the rain for £1.50 isn't much in my eyes!!

 

[Weezy]

I give my friend £10 a day to muck out, turn out, bring in, feed, do waters, take full care whilst I am away.

 

[jen1]

Yard I am at charges #8 (pound sign not working??) anyway then #1 for each rug change so that would be #10 per day.

I got into the trap last year of helping someone out when she was working, and she would help me back when I was, it started off OK but then she started taking the micky and I ended up doing more and more work then she would phone me at 3 in the afternoon just as I was in the middle of the school run, so she knew I was busy and had my mind on getting the kids, to ask me to bring her horse in as she was either busy or in the middle of something (she wasn't working she was doing up her house) she knew I would be at the yard to bring in my horse. Then this became an almost every day occurance, bearing in mind she is single with no ties and I am a single mum with 2 young children who I have to take to the yard each day!

Thankfully she has sold the horse and is no longer at the yard, it all ended up in a huge row one day when I couldn't do her horse and she had got to expect it! She wouldn't pay for the YO to do it as she was too tight! In future I would always ask for some sort of payment as I have found out the hard way that doing favours often just doesn't work. Make sure you do get paid and you don't end up doing extras which will eat into your time then you will begin to resent it.