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Curious as to how much you would expect to receive for doing these jobs?

Mucking out a horse , pony & Shetland. Making up haynets & feeds, and either turning out or bringing in.

What would you wreckon daily?

I'm 21
 
People who do this at our yard charge between £10 and £20 a day to look after a horse. (Different people doing the work).

That would include poo picking, rug changing, mucking out, feeding, hay etc, everything apart from riding.
 
Thanks, I think it's about £16 per day I'll be getting and that's a few £ towards diesel aswell.

Shetlands stables about half the size but she's just as messy as the others!
 
I am just setting up to be a freelance groom/yard worker starting properly next year when my youngest will be in school full time. Knowing what to charge for what is a problem I am trying to work out, I am not going into it to be a primary wage earner, just want to make enough to run the little car I will need to do it (live in small village and not enough horses in the village to make it work) and then enough to pay for the children's out of school activities and maybe if possible some extra cash to put towards family treats.
At the moment I pick up bits and bobs of work in the village, the main one I am doing is poo picking one large field with two horses, half a large field with 2 horses (only one of the horses belong to the person I am working for hence half the field) and then a small starvation paddock and stable belonging to a Shetland and a donkey. It takes me about 45 mins a day (I am an expert poo picker and mucker outer lol!) and I am paid £6 per day, this probably equates to a little over min wage and seems reasonable to me.
When I go into business properly I need to work out how much to charge, an hourly rate or a per horse rate. if I went for hourly I think I would go for min wage or a per horse rate (poo pick paddock, muck out, feed x 2, rug change/check, hoof pick and turn out/bring in) of maybe £10 a day and maybe £12.50 a day if you want the horse groomed. I don't know if that rate is too much or too little though, I don't want my rates to be too high so no one will use me or too low for me to be able to make it work.
I will be mainly focusing on people who need help when they are away, a busy time at work of through the winter when they may not have the time in daylight hours to do the stable jobs and ride. The prices mentioned here seem quite high, I would be worried I wouldn't get enough business if I wan't affordable, I guess I need to work out how much the car will take to run and then work out how much I would need to earn a week to pay for that and then add what kind of money I would like to end up with after tax etc deductions, hummm, can anyone help me with a business plan!!
 
It depends where you are and how close livery's live to the yard. Last year a woman charged £2 to turnout or bring in but full livery was £7 it would cost most people at least double that in fuel to get to the yard so she turned out the whole yard most days which was a good earner (22 horses in 2 hours) if you can do the same kind of thing it will work well in your favour
 
I am in Oxfordshire. There is a large yard just under 3 miles away (small distance in our rural area lol!) that I am going to put allot of focus on (and I am good friends with and already do some work of the RI who gives lessons to liverys there who will give me a great reference, she says she would employ me full time at the riding school if they could afford me lol!) but we also have a large number of people who keep there horses at home and they are my real focus as it is much harder to get help when needed when you keep at home.
 
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