Livery advice

[pinky1401]

Hi

I recently posted in the lounge bit about price for DIY Livery I had decided that I would charge £100 per horse for field, stable, electricity, water, rubber matted stables and being in the middle of brilliant bridleways.

I then had an idea about doing assisted livery. I don't have a school but the yard is floodlit and has a large concrete area for washing off and bit car parking area too.

I've seen an advert for assisted livery for £45 a week but they do have a school. What sort of price would you pay. I was thinking that I would feed and turnout the horses in the morning OR bring them in, wash their feet off, change rugs in the evening.

What do you all think? I haven't included hay/straw in that price but I could if you thought it was worth it.

 

[klara]

I've always boarded my horses in gloucestershire and this is what i've paid for livery ...

Where I am now we get our own field [or we can choose to share one of the larger ones with some of the other liveries], stable, water, electricity, our own little tack room for feed/tack ect. and hay [we also have pretty good hacking]. There's also a large field set aside for riding in, as well as parking and use of a barn to store our shaving/straw in and we only pay £16 a week.

My previous yard had stable, water, electricity, hay, straw, a place to store tack ect., lots of parking, use of a full set of jumps, cross-country course, as well as use of an indoor and outdoor school [both were properly lit] and fields to ride in and group turnout. and this was £45 a week for DIY or £85 a week for part/assisted livery [which included everything but them riding the horse]

Hope that gives you some idea

 

[Rockchick]

I am on a yard in Doncaster (South Yorkshire) who offer part and full livery (and also "sales" livery)

Part is basically full livery 5 days a week and DIY at weekends, Full is 7 day full livery

Included in all packages is turnout (and any rug changes), muck out, bed down, bring in (and rug changes), feeds given (am and pm), grooming / feet done/legs washed (if needed), unlimited shavings, forage and ALL feed. We have 22 acres of all year round grazing split into HUGE paddocks and horses turned out in small groups (yard takes 12 horses) we have a 60x40 floodlit all weather menage, full course of showjumps, access to miles and miles of off road hacking, local riding clubs nearby, secure yard - key fob entry, CCTV, owner on site at all times, fully concreted and maintained yard and plenty of parking.

Part livery is £70 per week and Full is £90 per week


hope this helps

 

[cazzaroogie]

Hi I do assisted livery and charge £50 per week mon-fri we have a school though. My price includes feeding and turning out am and just letting in pm- I charge extra for putting to bed as such.

I am in Hartley Wintney hampshire and have found most people just want diy even though assisted works out at £10 a day and you only need to come up once and petrol etc is saved.I have had a spare stable for the last few months!!! I havent changed my prices in the 6 years I have been running my yard.

I wouldnt do a price to include bedding as prices tend to fluctuate and you could end up doing yourself out of pocket.

 

[pinky1401]

Hi Cazzaroogie

Thanks for your advice, do you think I would be better off doing part livery then instead. I only have two stables and basically I need to get the most I can out of them as I have been made redundant and it will be my income.

I just don't really know what to do! We have talked about building a school but it wouldn't be instant only in a year or so...