If your on DIY livery... Can you help me please...

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Just wondering if anyone may be able to help me. looking at moving my horse to a very local DIY yard to try and save a bit of cash. Horses always been on full/part livery, so whilst I know what the costs are for these... As I don't buy the feed/hay not up on these costs!!!

Can you give me a rough idea of the cost you spend per week on the basics, ie feed, and straw/bedding and hay if not included within your livery.

Even better if you have a small reasonable do-er tb, as this is what mine is! Just trying to work out of the cost saving is worth the hassle of doing (I don't finish work until pretty late).

Thanks in advance :)
 
I have 2 on DIY and tend to find my bill around £420-£450 per month

I pay £170 each for DIY which includes hay during winter time (when clocks go back till clocks go forward - ish) Also £10 per month for my lorry. I then buy my own feed and bedding. Bed on rubber matting and wood pellets. Have use of indoor/outdoor school when not used by riding school and a jump paddock (not quite as posh as it may sound!)
 
For my tb mare, if I break it down a week -

2 nets a day with 2 cakes x 7 days a week = 3.5 bales a week, so lets say 4 bales maximum a week, which is £16.
Straw I go through a big bale about once every two weeks for her, big bale is 35 so thats 17.50 a week but I could easily make the bedding last longer and often do :)

I just token feed, usually pegusus chaff, apple mix and some allan & page calm and condition.
3 bags would probably last her about 6 weeks. So 8+6+12 = 26. 26/6 weeks = 4.33 a week.

Barefoot so 15 trim one every 8 weeks.

Field is free as my mums.

So for just her its about 39/40 a week :)
 
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I have a tb who is a reasonable doer, we rent or own land which I share with another lady and her horse. My tb is keep out 24/7 and is a fluffy monster ATM, holding her weight really wel, though.

I will add up the costs monthly -

Hay (ad lib round bales) - £45 a month, but that's for two horses as they share
Feed - £30
Shoes - £30 (only has fronts)
Rent - £60 (we pay for 10months of the year, 2 months free)
That's all the basics I think other than extras such as vaccinations, dentist etc..

So £165 in total a month :)
 
Most reasonable brand cubes/mixes are in the region of £10 a sack, 20kg a sack at 1 - 1.5 kg per round scoop. On the assumption 1 scoop twice daily mixed with some chaff /SB then a budget of £30-40 on hard feed PCM.

Hay prices vary hugely depending on region and the quantity you buy. £5 for a decent bale round here and you'd probably need 3 bales a week if out during day with a bit of grass in in overnight.
Bedding, again varies but there are a variety of short choppped bedding in the £6-7 bracket. Premium shavings are aroun £8. Straw bales around £3. I'd allow 2 bales a week for an average horse.
 
Ok here is the break down of my costs on the livery I'm on at the moment (soon to move to just stables and field) per week. I have a TB but a poor-doer.

£25 - Livery
£8.33 - hay (I buy a large bale which lasts me approx 3 weeks at £25 per bale)
£10 approx - feed
£40 - fuel (yard is 12 miles away and I go twice a day so 168 miles a week!)
£14.50 - 2 shavings bales

Rough total - £97.83 :O Never added it up before... eekkk... would actually be cheaper if I had her on part livery!

Then front shoes once every 8 weeks.
 
You would do better finding out exactly what quantities of feed/hay/straw your horse currently uses, & then local prices, they vary too much.
 
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You would do better finding out exactly what quantities of feed/hay/straw your horse currently uses, & then local prices, they vary too much.

I agree - I buy my hay through the summer months. Have been quoted anything up to £8 per bale. This summer I was paying £3.50 for some very nice hay. If I'd bought it from the yard it would have cost me £6.50 (a different supplier completely)
 
Rent - £23/week
Hay - 3 bales per week@£3 = £9/week
straw - 3 bales per week @£2.50 - £7.50
feed - £7.50/week (2 round scoops AlfaA and 500g Top Spec daily)

Total £42/week
 
I have a budget of £150 a month. My livery is £100 but I rarely go over budget even in the winter. She has a stable but I like her to live out so she does.
 
I am DIY and these are my costs, approximately, per month (winter):

Livery - £250 (stable plus paddock)
Hay - 12 small bales @ £6 = £72
Bedding - 6 per month @ £6.50 = £39
Feed - minimal - approx £20 per month

= £380 - £400 per month

Shoes - £80 every 6 weeks
Insurance - £42 per month

I allow £500 per month over the year and this includes teeth, vacs, saddler check, etc. etc.
 
I pay £50 a month for a large stable and own paddock. I buy my straw and hay off the farmer owner and pay £2 for straw and £4 for hay. Both are heavy so go quite a way. My monthly bill is usually about the £100 in total in the winter for my 14.3.
 
I have a tb (reasonable doer)
Livery charge = £27 per week.
Feed works out at £40 a month.
Hay is a round bale shared between 2, get as much as they want = £35 per month.
Straw is £3.50 a bale but only needed when its exeptionally cold and she comes in over night.
Barefoot so trim feet myself
only thing she really needs is a sturdy and thick rug as she livea out most of year
 
I pay 27.50 a week for livery, 3.50 a bale of hay and 6.50 a bale for shavings. My basic costs for October was £179. This was livery, hay and shavings.
I spend about 20 a month on feed and then obs all the other stuff but as far as basic DIY costs go I guess it is 200 a month.
 
£130 a month for livery, £30 every 6 weeks for a round of hay, around £50 a month on feed (depending on where I get it from!) and £8.90 a week on a bale of shavings. Wormer is £20ish for when it's time... I share the turnout/bring in with my YO. I.e, I'll turn hers out, she'll bing mine in or vice versa depending what shift I'm on and I'll have everything ready and just leave his rug in his stable. So if you could arrange something like that as you don' finish until pretty late, I assume you start late as well!:)
 
i pay £26 a week for DIY, then 2 bales of hay at £3.50, 2 bales of straw at £ 2 and then a bag of hifi £12 ish lasts me around 3 weeks.. so weekly around £40..

sh'e barefoot so £22 for a trim every 6 weeks or so..:)
 
I pay £25 livery per week which includes huge stable and personal belongings area, year round turnout and straw bedding.

Hay is £4 per bale and I probably go through 1 bale a week as there is still plenty of grass(huge field).

Probably spend about £5 per week on feed - sugar beet, chaff and balancer mix.

So all in all about £135 per month.

Although that doesn't include womers, farrier, vet etc...
 
Mine is £550 for three horses on DIY a month

18 bales of hay a month at £4:50

10 bales of shavings a month at £6:95

Livery is £120 per horse to include stable grazing, worming and full use of facilities.

And £25 for trailer parking.
 
Hay £3 a bale, I feed 10-15 a month so £30-£45. This is for 6-9kg a night (roughly ad lib but weighed and soaked).

Feed is balancer £16 (£24 every 6 weeks), chaff £3 (£10 every 3 months), high fibre nuggets £9 = £28 a month total on feed. But she doesn't get much (good doer).

Straw is £2 a bale, I use 2-3 a week so £16-£24 a month although on shavings atm so spending £56 a month (2xBedmax a week) but will go back to straw soon.

Livery is totally DIY so no services, but we help each other out (at the moment my mare is being brought in by a friend in the eves so she isn't on her own - in return I bring in/turn out for them at weekends).

Our livery is basic so only £72 a month for stable and grazing. £5 pm for lorry parking

So on straw it is £151 - £166 per month
Shavings it is £191 - £206 per month

Plus worming, supplements, farrier etc.

I do spend loads on fuel though doing 2 visits a day, every day!
 
this is for 2 tb's one of 15.3 and one of 17.3...who eat and never get fat.....
we have a cost of £70 a week for diy which is a 5min drive away..2 visits every day...but!
all feed (as many feeds as nesseccary) are included in this, and there are 15 different feeds to choose from, but yo sorts outs feeds and changes according to work load - and each horse get the correct amount for their size! no saving costs here....17.3 gets over 34pounds of feed and haylage combined
all haylage is also included. ad-lib normally 2-3 BIG haynets within 24 hours with extra on floor.
all bedding is included and you can use as many bales as nesseccary..but normally 2-3 expected per week...in the summer we use one ever 2 weeks..in the winter we can use 4 a week
summer turnout is either 24 hours or overnight.... we normally go for overnight, suits us better. winter turnout is 1/2 a day but horses suit this, dont like being out to long in the cold
yard staff will also t/o and b/i for us and put/take off horses on horsewalker for no extra charge
facilities include...gallops, jumps, 2x schools with lights, road hacking, horsewalker (cost of £5 for 45min walk) and locked tackrooms and a friendly yard!

muck removal is also included at £2 a week per horse, but trailer is emptied at least every 5 days. for parking the lorry there is no charge. lessons with trainer/yo (bd judge list 2a) are reduced to £20 for liverys.

all we do is muckout and poo pick fields in summer! and ride, groom and change rugs
also we buy supplements - but did this on part livery to.
ofcourse no other costs included here.....they go on forever!!!
 
I have a very skinny TB on very basic DIY! Costs are...

£15 per week DIY livery field + field shelter (shelter deep littered with free wood chippings from tree surgeon)

£5 per week livery extras (she is turned out on her own as only DIY on the yard so moved from her field to one with a friend who is on Full livery for the day time)

£5.00 hay 2 a week @ £2.50 a bale hay (grown on site)

Feed £17.40 per week (£69.60 per month)
She is on a Topspec feed plan (1 bag of each of these a month: Top chop alfalfa chaff £9.75, Top spec comprehensive balancer £36.95, Top spec cool cubes £12.95, Simple systems purabeet £9.95)

£13.51 Feedmark Extraflex HA (joint supplement on high dose)

£6.12 per week Insurance KBIS (£24.50 a month)

£7.08 per week Shoes (front set only at £42.50 over 6 weeks)

No travel costs as I just walk across the road! Total = £64.11 per week
 
My DIY costs are:

Livery: £150pm; new yard with good turnout, school and reasonable hacking, soon to have a walker too

Bedding: c.£34pm; stables are all rubber matted, and I deep litter (for time and my horse wee's for england!) using a combination of wood pellets (c. £5, but cheaper in bulk), and megazorb (£7), chopped rape (£7) - whatever they have in stock at whichever shop I drvie past. I normally put in c.6 bags per month

Hay: c.£30pm; £38 large round bale (from the yard) lasts months in the summer, about 5/6 weeks in winter on ad lib. The quality is average, but decent small bales have to be stored in our sheds and are about £5 round here so an awful lot more money :(

Feed: £35-50pm depending on amounts etc; Speedibeet, D&H Safe&Sound, Pro Hoof & linseed

I do regularly tot up livery when I see it advertised to work out value for money... If I had to pay for extra services, rather than being able to rely on friends when I have late or odd shifts, then it would work out significantly better value for me to be on livery...

As someone else has mentioned, I also spend a huge amount on petrol each week - but fortunately can usually manage to do home/horse/work/uni on a circuit.

For me, I will be looking out for a livery yard when I finish uni and am working full time, as I know that I will regularly be on odd and/or long shifts, but I will really miss being able to micromanage and monitor every aspect of cobby's life :rolleyes:
 
My good-doer semi-retired ISH:

Stable + Field = £30/week = £120/month
One large bale of straw = £15/month
Shoes are done every 8-10 weeks and only fronts = £30/month
Feed (one bag of alfa a oil) = £15

So he costs me on average £180 a month minus any injuries he likes to accumulate :)
 
I spend roughly

£100 livery
£40 feed
£50 hay
£40 bedding.
he's on straw and clean but does nibble it, and has a huge hay net which he doesn't finish
 
My costs:

£170/month livery - includes turnout and use of a large, all-weather, floodlit school and full set of jumps
£20/month for straw - all I can use
£55/month for hay - a huge bale lasts me about a month

Other costs, e.g., clipping in the winter, shoeing every six weeks, regular vet visits, hard feed, etc. are on top of the above.

Hope that helps.

P
 
DIY in Central Scotland.
We have brand new everything, floodlit outdoor arena, beautiful stables and yard.
£130 PCM.
Sharing a bale of hay working out at around £40 PCM. Would be the same if not sharing.
Using a bale of shavings a week working out around £30 PCM.
Feed- He's a highland *rolls eyes* - a turnip (FREE!*) Dads Garden.

In total I'm around £200-£220 per month.

At my old yard we had older stables no arena great hacking though.
£100 PCM. Inculding hay.
He was getting turned out so a bale every two weeks so £14?

£114 PCM.
 
My yard is £25 week for the stable, field, arena ect. Me and a couple of others split haylage which works out at £15 every 2 weeks, so let's say £7.50 a week. And at the moment I go through 3 small bales of straw which come to about £7. So on average about £40 without feed as I don't know the prices.
 
Thanks for the help. Briefly looked at the yard last year and it was either £20 or £25 a week Inc straw. Feed wise it would be either just cheapo pony cubes and sugarbeet, or some topspec. Which ever is cheapest! Farrier, insurance etc i already have to pay for!
 
£150 pcm livery (nice yard, good all year grazing, large school, superb hacking)
£40 hay (10 bales)
£78 shavings @£6.00 a bale (at least 12/13 per month as messy)
£30 feed approx (2 bags hi fibre) nuts, 1 Hi Fi light

Supplements on top plus services provided by a friend (yard provides none)
Due to current work committments I pay her £10 per day Mon-fri to do him inc. poo-picking. Would pay £3 to put to bed and £2 just to T/o or bring in. £6.00 muck out and turn-out.

I could probably get this cheaper by going on a yard that offers a part-livery package but hacking is second to none where I am and he is happy and settled. My friend looks after him like one of her own which I really like although he now looks for her just as much as me :( but as long as he is happy that's what counts.
 
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