Livery prices....?

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Just wondering, how much do people pay and what do you get for it?

The prices at my current yard have gone up so much that I have looked around and it is amazing the differences in prices. I am moving this weekend :D

Where I am currently (new prices):
£65 per week. Haylage, grazing and a stable only. Free access to 2 menages, £5 per 1/2 hr to use the 'best' one. No hard feed. No bedding. Additional charges for turn outs (£2), feeding, bringing in(£5 for farrier / vet, £2 to put in stable), changing rugs (£1). Very nice facilities. Good hacking after 20 mins road work.

Moving to:
£50 per week. Full livery. Haylage, feed, bedding. Bring in and turn out - daily and for vets / farrier. Daily feeds. Muck out 7 days. One menage. Hacking with no roadwork. Facilities not as plush.

It feels like my current place are pricing themselves out of the market....?
 
I pay £25 a week, and get a stable, Turnout for as long as I want, free access to the sandschool, free access to an excercise field, transport to local shows, farriers and hay/straw arranged for me (I pay for it though obviously, Hay they get in for £3 a bale and straw is £1.70) and support at any time (I'm a first time owner). Also if I'm ill or anything they will look after him for me free of charge :) Plus he's only 10 mins walk away :) I don't have to be there at any specific times, and can spendas long as I like there. Plus I'm the only livery, so there's no other people there to judge :P Which I would be worried about on a bigger yard :(
 
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Good luck with the move, I have given up with Livery Yards and moved mine 2weeks ago to a 6 acre field.

I have been at one very good yard ( and was going to move back if the field had fallen through ) - £23 a week DIY including hanging haynet and giving feed in the morning, excellent facilities and 'add ons' were £1 each. Hay / haylage / straw / shavings were a very reasonable price and most of all a fantastic atmoshere.
 
OMG the first one sounds ridiculous!!!! It’s £40 a week DIY at mine including unlimited bedding and hayledge and quite good but not amazing facilities.
 
Wow £50 pw for full livery?! Lucky lucky you! Full around us (Berkshire) is at least £140 a week. I pay £55 pw for livery, hay and bring in. Not fair :(
 
That does seem like an enourmous amount to be honest for only what seems DIY!! Thats just crazy money and I certainly couldn't afford that either I'd want part at least for that price with extra's like mucking out etc...

Your new place sounds much more ideal and better on the pocket..
 
I have to agree, those prices are rather quite high!
My yard is in quite an expensive part of the city (Sheffield) Our assisted DIY has just gone up to £47 pw (used to be £45) Everyone gets stable, turnout, use of menage, Haylage, Straw & we feed, change rugs, pick feet and turnout 5 days per week :)
 
I pay 180pcm for just a stable, AMAZING turnout, and use of facilities (outdoor school, huge jumping paddock, solarium, horse walker).
I also get him turned out for free in the mornings but thats only because I loan him off the owner of the yard and she very kindly said she would do it.
I do admit this is pretty expensive, but it's the cheapest in our area, and you couldn't get a nicer bunch of people :)

xx
 
those two prices are total extreme opposites!

the first is extortionate, the second a complete bargain!!

I pay £75pw for full livery excluding exercise (lunging/hacking is £3.50 per session) and supplements or alternative hard feed. this is in wiltshire (hampshire border)
 
I was on one yard which was £25 p/w and this included bedding (unlimited straw), hard feed and unlimited hay, mucking out on days I wasn't up, turn out/in, rug change, use of facilities (xc course, indoor/outdoor arena, fantastic hacking.
Basically, if you were up, great you sorted your horse, if you weren't, then your horse was fully taken care of.
 
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I was on one yard which was £25 p/w and this included bedding (unlimited straw), hard feed and unlimited hay, mucking out on days I wasn't up, turn out/in, rug change, use of facilities (xc course, indoor/outdoor arena, fantastic hacking.
Basically, if you were up, great you sorted your horse, if you weren't, then your horse was fully taken care of.
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What a bargain!
 
£45 a week including hay/haylege and shavings or straw - also fed and put out in a morning

indoor/outdoor/xc jumps/off road hacking/jump field and all year turnout :)


just down the road theres the same facilities on full livery for £95 a week :o
 
I wish I was back in England :( There's no such thing as DIY in this part of America. The cheapest livery stable I've found is 1400 dollars a month, including unlimited hay, individual turnout, free use of an indoor, outdoor and XC field. The swish facilities, which include Grand Prix jumping fields, cost 3000 dollars a month!
 
The first yard is overpriced for DIY but the second is amazingly underpriced for full livery - how do they make any profit? Whereabouts are you?

I pay £500 pcm for good facilities (£115.38 per week)
5 miles from where I live
Individual turn-out
Lovely large school that doesn't flood and remained fairly rideable except on the really coldest days
Individual storage
Heated rug and tack rooms
Unbeatable hacking
Nice people
I still have to poo pick my individual paddock (its a quirk of the yard that I can't change)

Cheapest I could find within a 15 minute journey and that has a school

£90 a week
5 miles from where I live
Nice yard owner and yard has reputation for being friendly
School small and in very poor condition
Good grazing
Barbed wire fencing (its rented and farmer won’t allow here to change)
Excellent hacking
Might have gone here but for barbed wire.
 
GrumpyMare said:
I pay £25 a week, and get a stable, Turnout for as long as I want, free access to the sandschool, free access to an excercise field, transport to local shows, farriers and hay/straw arranged for me (I pay for it though obviously, Hay they get in for £3 a bale and straw is £1.70) and support at any time (I'm a first time owner). Also if I'm ill or anything they will look after him for me free of charge :) Plus he's only 10 mins walk away :) I don't have to be there at any specific times, and can spendas long as I like there. Plus I'm the only livery, so there's no other people there to judge :P Which I would be worried about on a bigger yard :(
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Forgot to add in I get my own lockable tack room and area to store my hay and straw :)
 
We have good stables, lots of storage space, manege which is about to have lights installed, toilet, kitchen, tack room, all year turnout and enough grazing, automatic water in stables and fields (unless frozen!), trailer and lorry parking...

£100 pcm for DIY (or £23 per week :) )
Services covered by a livery for £1.50 turn out or bring in, or £10 for both and full muck out :D

Should add we are on the Herts/Beds border near Luton.
 
round me DIY 40-50/week inc hay and bedding use of outdoor school etc, part - ( full care no exercise ) is very rarely less than 100/week . I'm on part as above and although is more than my last yard I am so much happier with the care he gets than I was. Is not the smartest, hay is limited but my boy is a VERY good doer and he has treatballs with hay replacement cubes (which I buy) to play with, all day turnout all year round and love fuss and cuddles when I can't be there - the last you cannot put a price on !
 
Hi :)

You know what I pay but I'll post anyway....

I pay £60/a month for a stable, 24/7 all year turnout (usually in about 4 acres with 3 other geldings), use of a small school (but the surface is rubbish and prone to flooding/freezing etc). We have a shared tack room, water and electric, hacking is fine but involves varying degrees of hacking on the A60 which can get busy and has alot of heavy vehicles.

Ours is very much DIY, the YO has very little involvement in the yard.
 
I'm on DIY. Paying ₤25 per week, which includes stable, use of school, hayledge. Turning out is ₤1, rug change and feeding is ₤1 each time, although I normally do these most days myself so it's free. Straw is ₤2.50 per small bale, usually 1-2 per week... I work shifts so my bill varies week to week but is normally ₤28 to ₤35.
 
I think this just shows how much prices vary throughout the country - but the OP's examples are just mad! I would snap up that second one!

Here in the (expensive!) SE I pay £180 pcm for living out. He has ad lib hay and 2 feeds a day. He's brought in for me (has use of stable during the day, which I am not expected to muck out) and taken back out if I'm not around (rugs on and off), brought in for farrier, vet etc and will be ridden/schooled when I can't get there - which I think is invaluable. YO looks upon it as a challenge to get all her horses in top condition and doing what their owners want! She also is a font of information for the novice owner and always pleased to help (she told me that was her intention to set up the yard for 'beginners'). It is really friendly and everyone willing to help/give advice/lend stuff (except for the odd gold plated wheelbarrow! lol!)

There is an indoor school which you can use if no lessons are going on, but no outdoor school. Really good hacking without road use and more if you want it down quiet roads. I think this would be the perfect yard if there was an outdoor school for the summer! There are other places round about that you could hack to if you wanted to use bigger/better/outdoor schools.

I don't think that's bad at all for round here?
 
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I've just moved back to a private yard that will be costing me £100 a month. That's totally diy although there are 2 other girls there that will chuck mine in / out if I'm stuck. That's for my stable, amazing grazing (40 acres for 7 horses!) and a full size rubber dressage arena we can use whenever at no cost. Hay is grown on site for £3 a bale - compared to the £6.50 local feedmerchants are charging.

I moved from a yard with Free use of good facilities but limited grazing due to the number of horses which is £40 a week total diy (nothing included at all - just stable and grazing)

For the first time in a good while I may actually have some spare money!
 
my yard is £51 a week. this includes stable, haylage, straw, turnout mon-fri, own tackroom. yard has a nice 20x40m arena and can turnout all year round. i think its pricey but about average for my area. currently debating a switch of yards onto full livery
 
Where I am I pay £27 a week, this includes lovely hacking (which I have yet to explore), free use of 2 maneges, space in tackroom, container for hay/bedding. Field, stable.
They do have another manege which is pay per use, and assistance which is also paid for.
I'm on DIY.
 
Ours is £37 DIY including morning turnout, haylage, stable and grazing. Grazing is ok. There is a small arena which is junk (freezes/ floods) and alright hacking but alot of it is road work. Must buy their shavings @ £6.50 per bale. I've been thinking about moving but when I add in the fuel to other places it makes it alot dearer when its all added in. Same yard does full livery for £55 but there is no bedding (boxes are rubber matting), won't touch rugs, won't give feed or morning hay and no hard feed is included. Be interested in what everyone thinks of this value-wise??
 
I used to pay £40 a week for grass livery for 2 youngsters, which included hay, feeding them twice a day ( I provided the feed) and farrier/vet if needed.

I now am at a show jumping yard on the isle of Wight and full livery per horse is £100 including stable, turnout, feed, hay, clipping, riding, farrier/vet visits, riding, bathing and tack cleaning, use of school and shows.
Only draw back is when they are away at shows, they are left out in the field.

I think DIY is about £20 depending on where you go.
 
wow that first one sounds ridiculous!!
Im paying £130 a month for DIY which includes stable, own tack and feed rooms, own fields to do what you want with, ad-lib hay and straw, miles and miles of off-road hacking with XC jumps, use of 2 arenas and SJs. love it :)
 
We pay £60 full livery. Indoor school, bedding, feeding, ad lib organic haylage, turning out/ bringing in, rugs changed. Only thing I pay for is hard feed and Cappy's supplements. Also get advice/ help whenever needed from kind and friendly YO and her OH. Excellent hacking straight from the drive. Very little road work, no busy roads.Held for farrier and vet if we can't get there due to work. No extra charges for anything.

We even get free free-range eggs and a cup of tea by the Aga when we need a warm up. Would not move or really change anything.
FDC
 
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Red Nose Fany please pm me! I really need to find organic haylage for my horse. Also where are you? That is really good value for full livery!
 
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