is £50 per week for diy a lot?

I pay £23 per week in Summer and £30 per week in Winter (winter includes unlimited haylage) and we have a menage, 18 acres between 7 horses but do have to buy own bedding and bring in/turn out ourselves. Summer they can live out 24/7 too. I think it is rather high.
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It sounds very pricey to me. You would still need to buy extra bedding and hay I would have thought. Our local yard is £15 per week, including stable and turnout use of outdoor and indoor school and cross country course, but no food or bedding.
 
If they turn your horse out for you then its a bargain but if they dont its not great but I have paid alot more for - I used to pay £40 for stable turnout and hay, £10 for 2 bags of shavings and £20 for arena so that was £70 per week DIY - Thats a bloody rip off - not there now tho
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our yard offers DIY with full use of gallops, indoor, outdoor, jumps, XC, straw (6 bales per week) and ad-lib hay/haylage £130 a month for a horse, less for a pony. Is cheaper if you dont use certain facilities.
 
Sounds like a premium price for very basic facilities - whereabouts are you? Is it the only livery yard in the area?

Dare I ask how much they charge for full/part livery?
 
YES!!

Thats £216.66 a month
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I pay £300 a month for TWO horses! They have an individual turnout paddock each, includes as much haylage as they want, parking for lorry, all off road hacking, use of floodlite school 24/7, YO on hand to help. I buy my own bedding in which costs me an extra £25 a month for them combined.
 
Given that hay is going to be £3.50 - £4 per bale

Working on 1/2 bale per horse per day = £12.25

Straw - also going to be hard to find and may be more expensive shavings. Lets say £1 per day = £7

So we are up to £20 costs - then there is public liability, water, (rates if large), electricity, use of facilities. Being mean say £10 per week

So that's £30 costs and then you need to make a profit - otherwise why bother? So technically everyone ought to be paying £50 for DIY if all forage and bedding included

Horses are weird as people don't seem to realise what things cost

Incidentially hard feed will go above £8 per bag soon - so everything is going to get more expensive!!
 
I pay £25 a week for stable and field, two arenas one with showjumps one for schooling. We are currently having a gallop installed.
Our haylage is £9 for the month as much as they can eat...
 
I pay £55 a week for assisted DIY which includes 5 day a week turnout. No feed, bedding or muck heap removal. It depends where you are in the country and the facilities you require
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I pay £200 a month for part livery which includes turnout, bring in, feet picked out, horsey fed, held for farrier/vet etc. and use of a fab school. Ok I do have to pay for hay/straw but that is about £50 a month. I am in Essex and that's usually quite expensive.
 
At my old yard, it was £500 a month.. however this was a full livery.. they groomed, mucked out, turned out and exersized if you wanted =]
Plus you got use of the gallop track and 2 outdoor schools and a jump paddock as well as a couple of fields =]
And there was some ex sj guy come once a week and do lessons for £30 p/h.
So not bad..x
 
I pay £36 a week for DIY includes stable/grazing/school/off road hacking (and hopefully floodlights by winter) and I think that is a lot, but its the going rate in that particular area, as the hacking is really good and completely off road, in the otherwise very busy south coast.

Really does depend on location. I could pay less for the same facilities near to my home, but lose the hacking and have to do road work. I pay the premium for the off road hacking.
 
At my old yard I used to pay £500 a month.
This was on ful livery with use of two sandschools and gallop track when not being used for lessons.. and turning out, feed, bedding, mucking outt ect.
I thought this was quiet good, What do you think?
..my dad payed for it :P
 
We pay £45 a week for stable/individual turnout, turn out or bring in every day, mucking out every day, hay and one bale of shavings included.
I think it's a bargain - oh and we have a sand/rubber floodlit menage and a 7 acre field which we can hack around or gallop on!
 
I pay £45 a week for stable 12 months and turnout 10 months of the year. Storage of tack and feed. All haylage included. A 40x20 sand school and also an indoor, floodlit school where liveries schooling etc have priority over people giving lessons. Superb hacking, and very friendly people. There is no mud - anywhere. To me that is worth it. There is cheaper DIY in my area, but not as convenient or with the facilities.
I personally can't think of anything worse, than being on my own.
 
My yard in Northants charge £55 for assisted DIY, I think this includes a turn out or bring in, straw and hay, all hard feed and rugs changed. I pay £78 a week for part which is everything but exercising. The facilities include a good menage, sj field and some xc fences, the hacking is great as well. There is an extra charge of just over £5 a week for lorry parking which drives me insane!!!!!
 
It does sound a bit pricey, but them I pay £45 a week not including bedding and actually feel it is good value for what I get and where it is so it does depend. Mine does includes haylage and a morning feed and turnout so I only go up once a day though.
 
I think £40 is probably more realistic as the top limit, but do bear in mind hay is going to be mega expensive this year, straw may be worse and the feed will also go sky high..
I can hear numerous tractors as i type incluidng ours, hardly anyone has got their hay in and the time is short to get crops (that's those that have actually grown) in as well.
A typical example of how the weather is going to affect us all are frozen peas.
Not only can they not get on the wet ground to harvest the damned things haven't even grown into plants!
i would try and negotiate but you may find in the end it isn't that bad..
 
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