loaning a horse?

wonderhorse11

wonderhorse11

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If you were to loan a 16.3hh gelding 2 days a week and a week end kept on full livery at a yard with good facilities inluding excellent hacks, livley yard with friendly people, horse well mannerd 6 yrs old jumps 1.20m opitunity to compete if required how much would you pay per week/month? thanks
 
Hi I would think around £280 a month if its on full livery all week. You could perhaps reduce the cost if you were to do DIY or part livery on your days :)
 
For comparison i had a 13yr old schoolmaster type on loan for 3 years on full livery at his owners yard. I was sharing him with his owner (although she never rode as she was always to busy with her others). I could ride pretty much whenever i wanted but normally was about 3 times a week.

I paid £125 loan/livery per month
50% shoes
50% back, teeth, saddle fitting
50% worming etc
 
You could either ask for payment for shoes? Or about £20-25 per week depending how much you are allowing them to treat the horse as their own! I'd expect them to pay own lessons, contribute to diesel for comps, pay own comp fees and I'd expect them to have their own rider insurance.

Unless the horse was exceptional and really going to bring me on I wouldn't pay much more than that for only a couple of days a week & little say in the horses routine!
 
With the amount of good horses for share on DIY/part i wouldnt pay much more than the fairly standard £10 per day, as I dont think it would be much advantage for the sharer to have the horse on full livery
 
sorry if i didnt mention, it would be 2/3 week days and 1 weekend day also the person could muck out/feed/haynets if they wanted the horse would however have to be brought in groomed tacked up and washed down turned out after tahnks for all the replies so far!
 
I did this. Mine was able to jump upto 120cm, all facilities on yard, rubber matting, automatic water feeders, walker, school no road hacking as miles of off road (we are on a country estate), i was happy to do morning or evening or both if they couldn't get. Could ride as many times a week as they liked, i made sure all hay/feed/bedding was supplied. Tack was all supplied as was rugs, i paid for shoeing,vets, worming, vaccinations etc. All they had to do was ride and muck out if need be. I went to shows with them. Even gave lessons if necessary and they paid £25 a week. I think they got rather a good deal to be honest.
 
Snowy1 said:
I did this. Mine was able to jump upto 120cm, all facilities on yard, rubber matting, automatic water feeders, walker, school no road hacking as miles of off road (we are on a country estate), i was happy to do morning or evening or both if they couldn't get. Could ride as many times a week as they liked, i made sure all hay/feed/bedding was supplied. Tack was all supplied as was rugs, i paid for shoeing,vets, worming, vaccinations etc. All they had to do was ride and muck out if need be. I went to shows with them. Even gave lessons if necessary and they paid £25 a week. I think they got rather a good deal to be honest.
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Where do I sign?! :D

I'd love a loan horse at the moment, but in all honesty people are asking way too much to have a horse on loan. Most of the time when i have enquired people are wanting more then it was costing to keep my horse.
 
Snowy1 said:
I did this. Mine was able to jump upto 120cm, all facilities on yard, rubber matting, automatic water feeders, walker, school no road hacking as miles of off road (we are on a country estate), i was happy to do morning or evening or both if they couldn't get. Could ride as many times a week as they liked, i made sure all hay/feed/bedding was supplied. Tack was all supplied as was rugs, i paid for shoeing,vets, worming, vaccinations etc. All they had to do was ride and muck out if need be. I went to shows with them. Even gave lessons if necessary and they paid £25 a week. I think they got rather a good deal to be honest.
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Ditto the where do I sign.
That would pay only 1/2 my weekly livery and thats on DIY box,grass and haylage only,everything else on top.
The benefit for loanee of full livery is that she doesn't have to muck out/catch etc.TBH if I put my horse on half share it would include half livery wether that be full part or diy plus half of all other costs bar insurance.
 
ok so does it sound good if i do a deal like this?

£80/90 per week
2/3 days a week
1 weekend day
will be able to bring in, tack up, groom ect
must be able to wash of after ect
can muck out do haynets + water and feed if wanted

what do you think? anything esle i should offer?
 
wonderhorse11 said:
ok so does it sound good if i do a deal like this?

£80/90 per week
2/3 days a week
1 weekend day
will be able to bring in, tack up, groom ect
must be able to wash of after ect
can muck out do haynets + water and feed if wanted

what do you think? anything esle i should offer?
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320?! A month? For 3 days a week? That's twice what I was paying for my own!!
 
wonderhorse11 said:
ok so does it sound good if i do a deal like this?

£80/90 per week
2/3 days a week
1 weekend day
will be able to bring in, tack up, groom ect
must be able to wash of after ect
can muck out do haynets + water and feed if wanted

what do you think? anything esle i should offer?
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Way too much. Also, why will they need to muck out etc if the horse is on full livery? If I was loaning a horse and paying for full loan I'd expect to not have any chores to do whatsoever.

I think you're very unlikely to get anyone wanting to loan your horse and pay £320 a month - you could easily have your own horse for less than that per month. Fair enough if you do find someone willing to pay that, but you're unlikely to! The main reason why many people do loan is because they cannot afford a horse of their own - so paying more than a horse can cost per month is absurd.

If I were to part loan a horse I wouldn't expect to be paying more than about £150 a month maybe ever so slightly more for a seriously good opportunity. The fact that the horse is on full livery is not the loanee's decision, it's yours, so thus you must be happy to compromise and not ask so much money. If you want to cut down your costs per month, take the horse off full livery.

That may sound a little blunt but I genuinely don't think you'll get many people interested when you're asking for that much!
 
Where I live the livery is expensive (£700 per month full:eek: - i don't pay that much!) people can only get £100 per month for 2 days (though they are week days) and that is for full livery and 2 school, gallops, jumping field, 2 full sets of showjumps and off road riding on your door step... if you can find someone who will pay it then go for it
 
Kiristamm said:
Where I live the livery is expensive (£700 per month full:eek: - i don't pay that much!) people can only get £100 per month for 2 days (though they are week days) and that is for full livery and 2 school, gallops, jumping field, 2 full sets of showjumps and off road riding on your door step... if you can find someone who will pay it then go for it
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yes same at my yard sort of (not £700) he is also bred from mary kings imperial cavelier large school show jumps ect good gallop area ect and its 2/3 week days and 1 weekend day + lesson once a month if wanted!
 
I think that is very expensive!

Read what i was charging and for that they got to ride unlimited, whether that be 1 day a week or 7 days a week and there was no extra charge for shoeing/worming/vaccinating/physio etc. In fact when they broke headcollars/rugs/tack i replaced it all. So other than the £25 a week and if they chose to compete they had no other expenditure.

Mine is very well bred and i paid an absolute fortune for him, but that is of no concern to anyone that chose to ride him. It was just a good opportunity. I can't see someone wanting to pay that much for something that isn't their own horse.
 
In fairness a friend of mine loans a horse 4 days a week (Inc 1 weekend day) just outside London on a full livery yard and I think pays about 300 every month plus half of shoes etc.
 
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