Mucking out charge??

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I'm looking to do some mucking out and general yard chores for a small price - the only problem is I dont know what to charge! :o

I was thinking about £5 per day to include muck out, haynet prep and water refilled. Anything extra such as poo picking, yard sweeping £1 on top? Would you charge the £5 for X amount of horses or £5 per horse? I know that may sound really cheap for X amount but I only want a small charge as the experience is far more important for me.

Let me as I have not idea of what I asking for really :o
 
If these are horses on a yard that you are already at then I would say £7 per day is a fair price for muck out, haynet, water.

Have a look at my recent thread which is titled 'unreasonable?' I wanted someone to come in and JUST muck out and bring her in from the field and because it would be someone having to come to my yard the price would have been £15. There was a lot of info on there about what should be charged etc.

If you were on my yard I would be snapping your hand off! I think £5 is too cheap though. Mind you, at that rate you may get more stables to do and it might make you better off overall.....
 
my yard (which is very cheap for livery) charge £10 to muck out if that helps you! there was a post up recently title "unreasonable" that looked at how much to pay someone to muck out and do some small jobs... that might help you see how much people pay and what else to keep in mind when setting your price
 
If you have to travel then you need to factor this in, and most freelance grooms around me charge about £10-15ph to come to you. However, if it is at your yard then I would say £4-5 is more than reasonable per horse.
 
I charge £5 per stable if Im doing it as a favour although if Im doing it for the livery yard the YO gets a cut so I get £3 of that, fair enough, some stables take two minutes, some take half hour so it evens out. £1 for turn out or catch and an extra £5 for poo picking and I dont really charge for doing feeds and haynets if Im doing stable as well. Dont sell yourself short because you'll soon get fed up of it if you're making hardly anything and working your wotsits off!
 
Thanks for all your help at the moment - I think I will definetely put the price up to about £10 now? I just dont want to rip people off but if that is the going price for just one stable then why not?! ;) Lol
 
I use to charge £15 to muck out 3 horses and 1 Shetland, feed them, turn out, change rugs where necessary, do hay + water.
In all fairness it only use to take me about 1hr and I had to drive past there house on way to do my own so wasn't out of the way as such, I often thought about putting the price up but then they had to sell up as couldn't afford to run the house, and I have too much of a conscience to take any more money off them knowing they were already struggling and I classed them more as friends really!
 
I'm in the same boat, my ponies are at home, but I have a friends horse as part livery; She is due an operation soon and will be out of action for 6 weeks at least so he will be a full livery.

I told her I would charge her £65 a week which she looked slighlty horrified! ( she pays £33 part livery atm, I bring in/feed, turn out and poo pick all week, straw included ) I felt mean, but I know that most people charge about £70+ for full livery, friend or not, I'm not a charity!

Between five and ten pounds sounds reasonable, so go for £7.50 :)
 
On our yard if the yo has to muck out, bring n and hay it's £5 per horse per day short term.

Tbh we tend to help each other in our barn so money never changes hands:D
 
£5 per horse sounds about right. I wouldn't pay any more than that. Muck out, fill a bucket & a haynet probably takes 30-45 min (if that)if u balance that up against hourly rate they works out about right.
 
My yard does not offer any services so I pay a friend on my yard £6 for muck out and turn-out, wash buckets and stick my hay in soak. At the moment though I'm paying her£10 per day Mon-fri for the above plus bring in, feed and put to bed plus poo-picking a couple of times a week. I do it all at weekends. This is now a regular arrangement due to my work commitments. The fact that this is now a regualar and guaranteed income for her is why poo-picking is also done but she does not do this for ad-hoc services. I think ad-hoc payments could be differently charged to longer term regular arrangments. Also if I had to pay someone especially to come to the yard I would expect to pay more. It would probably be cheaper for me if I was on part-livery but I would have to move and I don't really want to.
 
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