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**Maisey**

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Hi all,

Struggling to decide on livery prices with partner who is non horsey!!

How much would you be willing to pay/currently pay for livery. Yard has large barn stables and a far from perfect but usable indoor school with ample grazing and secure tack rooms. No one lives on site but early morning and late night checks done.

Offering DIY and assisted.

Any answers appreciated :)
 
There is brilliant hacking straight from yard with no busy roads to go down and I would offer part and Diy, living on site is something we are working on as I know it is preferred :(
 
Where in the country are you? as that will effect the price too. If it helps I pay £145 pcm for a large airy loose box in an american barn, 1 and a half acre paddock, good outdoor school, some off road hacking, owner on site.
 
I'm in n.ireland pay I £135 per month winter 24/7 grass turnout large round bales put out as required. £100 24/7 summer grass turnout (all small herds) always stable available if needed and small daily/weekly cost. full use of indoor, 2 outdoors (1 for jumping 1 for flat work) walker, beach is 20 min hack, quiet hacking onsite shows, massive x country course used by eventing Ireland with fences from logs up to 2*. Part DIY livery is £165 pcm inc Haylage. Owners on site, also riding school so plenty of activity. horses checked numerous times daily. Shaving on site is wanted & used if horse boxes etc.
 
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As people have mentioned it will differ depending on location but where I am (north east england) I pay £25 pw for a large stable in an American barn 24/7 turnout in summer if wanted, they can still be stabled at night if preffered but the majority are out there is daily turnout all winter. There is an outdoor school and a xcountry course on site along with miles of off-road hacking, owners live on site :)
 
Completely depends on where you are in the country - where I am (SW London/Surrey) that would probably be about £130 a month for (complete) DIY but I can imagine it being far less elsewhere due to more competition from other yards. Where I am I pay £195 a month for DIY; we have a good indoor school and an outdoor school though, and great security.
 
My horses are on livery, and live out (with stables). They are about a ten minute walk away from the yard. Having someone on site or not wouldnt bother me. My horses arent within sight or hearing of yard owner's house anyway.

I get better reassurance from the additional checking done by the other 4 liveries I share a field with coming down at a wide range of times.
 
I'm in Surrey which is a notoriously expensive area to keep horses. I pay £250 a month for assisted grass livery (Pony lives out but gets brought in in the morning for a check over, feed, feet pick out and rug change when needed but is my responsibility in the evenings). Yard has a great 20x60 school but very little hacking and some useful facilities like a rug drying room, highly secure tack room, owner living on site etc.

I used to live in Essex and paid £260 a month for part livery with a stables, hay, straw bedding, hard feed, great grazing (Although not 24/7 and turnout not always possible when weather was really foul), a nice 20x40 school and some of the best hacking I've ever seen/known.

Location and facilities are really everything when it comes to livery yards.
 
I generally expect to pay £25 p/w for DIY good facilities which includes stables and yard in good repair, plenty of grazing, secure fencing, a well surfaced school with decent hacking, electricity, running water and owners on site. For above average facilities, I'd pay more.

I've been on 2 yards with indoor schools and both were unuseable because they were poorly surfaced and too small. Not having owners on site is a non starter for me. They do late night checks and listen out for unusual sounds. Farmers and stud owners are often up and about in the early hours of the morning too which has been invaluable when horses have been cast or colicking.
 
MerrySherryRider said:
I generally expect to pay £25 p/w for DIY good facilities which includes stables and yard in good repair, plenty of grazing, secure fencing, a well surfaced school with decent hacking, electricity, running water and owners on site. For above average facilities, I'd pay more.

I've been on 2 yards with indoor schools and both were unuseable because they were poorly surfaced and too small. Not having owners on site is a non starter for me. They do late night checks and listen out for unusual sounds. Farmers and stud owners are often up and about in the early hours of the morning too which has been invaluable when horses have been cast or colicking.
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All of this, couldn't have said it better! I could not consider something which didn't have owners on site. I couldn't sleep at night if I knew that there wasn't someone to contact me if there was an emergency.
 
I pay 25 a week, includes feed and t/o in the morning, 2 outdoor schools and lunge pen. Locked and alarmed tack room, owners live on site with cctv and alarms.
 
Anything from £25 a week and up.
You could make it more abs include checks or do a pay as you go checking service.

Look at how much other yards are charging in your local area.
Then compare, maybe undercut to start with.
 
Stable and grazing. 24 hr turnout if wanted. Good grazing, post and rail, decent stables, ample storage, reasonable hacking and small but not very good school
£15 per week
 
we pay for stable, grazing and wormer with a outdoor school, lunge pen (mahoosvie and the best ever) small xc jumps round the farm fields and decent turnout 24/7 in summer and in at night in winter and if bad weather either restricted turnout or fields shut down for a few days/weeks about £128 a month. hay and bedding on top and billed as we use it.
owners live on site and have night checks.
alarms on main yard, electric gate locks down at 9:30pm and opens at 6am.
 
Oh my god, you guys get/expect it cheap!!!

I do DIY livery, and I pay £50 a week in NE Scotland! It includes my haylage, field and stable, and use of the 25x 50 indoor, 20x40 all weather outdoor, galloping fields, wash bay and full canteen.

I know for a fact my YO (a farmer, non horsy) struggles to make ends meet with that, and land here is dirt cheap - how on earth does £25 a week for the same work??
 
khalswitz said:
Oh my god, you guys get/expect it cheap!!!

I do DIY livery, and I pay £50 a week in NE Scotland! It includes my haylage, field and stable, and use of the 25x 50 indoor, 20x40 all weather outdoor, galloping fields, wash bay and full canteen.

I know for a fact my YO (a farmer, non horsy) struggles to make ends meet with that, and land here is dirt cheap - how on earth does £25 a week for the same work??
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if you add up one of mine for all cost monthly it comes to £200 give for take for what I put plus hay and bedding......also our yard is vat reg too and they make and deliver hay and straw to local yards too so that can play a part. we have a wash box, tea room as well and they are going to make the school bigger this winter.
 
I pay £45 a week, decent sized stable in american barn, haylage and straw bedding included, turnout and a really good outdoor school which has 8ft fence so feels really secure, on site living. We aslso have wash bays, swimming pool (equine) and spa (equine)
 
Slightlyconfused said:
if you add up one of mine for all cost monthly it comes to £200 give for take for what I put plus hay and bedding......also our yard is vat reg too and they make and deliver hay and straw to local yards too so that can play a part. we have a wash box, tea room as well and they are going to make the school bigger this winter.
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I'm £217 plus all my bedding and hard feed on top of that... How is up here so expensive when land is so cheap?
 
khalswitz said:
I'm £217 plus all my bedding and hard feed on top of that... How is up here so expensive when land is so cheap?
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I have no idea...I always thought that Scotland was supposed to be cheaper, especially as I'm on the Beds/Herts and Bucks boarders and prices are high round here.
 
I'm in Bedfordshire/Bucks border and pay thirty pounds a week per horse (2) for large stables in american barn with automatic water feeders, secure tack room, cctv and owners on site, individual turnout (24/7 during summer) and outdoor sand school (unlit). We do have fantastic hacking within a few steps of the yard. Feed and forage, wormers etc are brought in by each individual livery and not included in the price. Hth. xx
 
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Tash88 said:
Completely depends on where you are in the country - where I am (SW London/Surrey) that would probably be about £130 a month for (complete) DIY but I can imagine it being far less elsewhere due to more competition from other yards. Where I am I pay £195 a month for DIY; we have a good indoor school and an outdoor school though, and great security.
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Tash888. Where are you. PM if your prefer - thanks
 
Carrots&Mints said:
I pay £45 a week, decent sized stable in american barn, haylage and straw bedding included, turnout and a really good outdoor school which has 8ft fence so feels really secure, on site living. We aslso have wash bays, swimming pool (equine) and spa (equine)
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I want to stable my horses here!
 
I definitely think it is worth considering part/full livery for some DIY'ers. I used to be DIY £25/wk for stable and another £12.50 for haylage, horses fed in am and that was it. I had a messy one and was spending between £14 and £21 a week (2/3 bales) on bedding, plus feed. Only an outdoor, with badly maintained surface, and turnout had to be done by owner in daylight which I couldn't do in winter as I start work so early. Ended up having to trade and swop endless favours with others to get a chance to get my horse out.
I now pay £70/week for livery which includes all bedding, feed, haylage, turnout, bring in- at a yard with an indoor, massive outdoor, gallops, xc course, swimming pool, 2 x walkers, etc etc. On his days off I can go and faff about with him, or he can just chill in the field and I don't need to bother. Its fab.
Sometimes DIY is definitely not cheaper and when you add in the price of going to do your horse on their days off, it all adds up...
 
My yard in S. Wales (entirely DIY) is £25 per week for stable, 24/7 (very good) grazing in summer and daily turnout in winter - whatever the weather. We have an outdoor floodlit school, free trailer parking and ok hacking (about as good as you'll get in our area). We buy haylage from the yard (£2 a day for as much as we want) in the winter and can buy hay by the small bale if we want it all year round. We sort bedding ourselves as we all bed down on different bedding. YO lives on site but works full time so doesn't offer any services and isn't there 24/7. I don't think it would bother me if you weren't living onsite as long as your security is good.
 
My livery is exceptionally cheap because we have little grazing and have to supplement with hay all year round.(This is fine for my native ponies and id rather add hay than have to worry about muzzling) I pay £60 a month for a field, split into 3, (for 2 ponies) a stable with rubber matting, water on site, sand school, brilliant off road hacking straight off the yard, local show on the doorstep, hay barn with storage for about 100 small bales, secure tack room and owner lives on site. T

Next door has the same poor grazing, only a small grass schooling area, similar stables and the same hacking, owner doesn't live on site, and they charge £27.50 a week for DIY. Needless to say they have only had 2 liveries all year, both of which have now gone.

I haven't read all the replies, but you really do need to be realistic about what you have and what you charge.
 
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