People who are liveries or Yard Owners?

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How much do you expect to be provided for/cleared up after/helped as part of your livery package?
Obviously stable and field are included, but what would you expect service wise for £30 per week?
(I will bump if I don't get responses, so be loves and type a reply, good guys xx)
 
For just £30/wk I would just expect the basics, like you said field, stable, fencing maintained and muck heap available nearby and possibly use of a tack room.
I'm lucky I pay £25/wk and my YO/friend do each other favours and one of feeds/turns out in a morning and the other brings in/feeds on a night. We muck out our own, except for holidays when we do each others.
 
I pay £35 per week for a stable and 2 seperate acres. I do all work myself and that is fine with me. I certainly wouldn't expect extras for that price.


I think for £30 p/w you should just provide the stable/field and necessary field/fence maintenance.

:)
 
In Hertfordshire £30 a week would be grass livery, and no services provided at all. You would probably be expected to poo pick the field with the other liveries sharing the field once a week.
The yard owner would maintain fencing, and field management (ie topping and fertilising).
 
I think it would depend whereabouts in the country . I come from the North but now live in the south. Having liveried in both, i think the south is far dearer and for £30 a week would probably only get a stable and a field, with anything else costing more. not saying thats everywhere down here, just my personal experience. when I lived North, £30 would prob include my hay and use of school. Ive never had to pay for extras like turnout or bring in as I have always been DIY and we all tended to help each other out as and when required.
 
I pay £35 during the summer when horse out all day. His hard feed is included in this and he is fed by YO everyday, so checked on, but thats it, no extra services.
 
For £25 a week I get field, stable, use of 20 x 60 outdoor, use of small indoor, OK hacking, hay and bedding on site for (compulsory!) purchase, much heap maintained, fencing maintained, auto water troughs in the field, trailer storage

Any extras we do as favours/swaps or pay for from lady that does ad hoc services
 
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Dailey checks on horses and the water.

Fields to be well maintained...fencing, posts, gates that shut and lock properly, weed control, pipes that don't freeze during winter etc.

Access to running cold water for bathing/hosing down etc

Muck heap and disposal

Worming plan that all liveries adhere to.

Fields to be poo picked (but not by YO, possibly everyone to chip in)

Fire protection.

Notice board ...always handy

Basic yard security (lockable out buildings, good lighting, padlocks, warning signs, CCTV etc

Friendly, helpful and approachable YO :D

Hay to be provided in the fields during winter, be at cost to owner or yard owner but the flexibility must be there if the grazing is poor.
 
I don't pay £30 a week but it's not far off, and for that I get field which is fertilised etc and has fencing maintained, stable with light and use of power socket, feed room space, rug storage and secure room to store saddles/bridles etc. Also unlimited unrestricted use of school and showjumps. I wouldn't expect to receive anything more than that for £30pw.

Edited - just remembered we have automatic troughs in field, late night checks, running water, worming/shoeing/vaccination routine controlled by yard manager, muck heap removal and feed ordering done as well. But wouldn't expect any of the management issues to be done for me. It just happens that they are.
 
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Going by what I have paid in the past, and what I have been offered;

£15/week - I would expect stable, turnout, muckheap removal, tackroom, yard and field maintenance.

£20/week - I would expect stable, turnout, muckheap removal, school, jumps, tackroom, yard and field maintenance, space in a barn for hay/shavings.

£25/week - all of the above, plus a bigger tackroom, an area for storing/drying rugs, and decent off road hacking - indoor school or outdoor school, parking for lorries and trailers.

£30/week - all of the above, plus ad-lib hay/haylage, indoor school and outdoor school

£40/week - all of the above, plus x-country jumps, horsewalker, lunge pit, ample off road riding, multiple schooling areas, on site shows and clinics.

OH in process of setting up a livery yard, and he wants to charge £15/week, to include internal stables, rug room, tack room, tea room, indoor arena and ample off road hacking!
 
I pay around £30 DIY - stable and livery, unlimited use of the school.

Large tack room with storage box(s) for keeping feed and the odd rug, and tea making facillities. Toilet. Barn for the storage of shavings.

Fields are managed, rotated, harrowed and rolled. Muck heap removed daily (in the winter) when needed in the summer.

YO is a great person who is always happy to chat and dispense help and advice when needed.

All services such as turn out / in are charged though, and hay is on top.
 
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For £30 a week, not a lot! I would expect that to cover my field and stable rent plus use of the arena etc if there is one. I pay £130 a month for DIY in summer; that includes my stable, field and either a BI or TO mon-fri.

Yard is a lovely big American barn with big stables, nice big arena with full set of SJs and arena XC fences. Paddocks are well maintained, P&R fencing, YO chooses turnout groups carefully and manages the grazing/paddocks.

We do our own poo picking and ragwort pulling though YO arranges for fields to be fertilised, rolled etc if/when needed. All fields and stables have automatic water. We aren't currently charged for keeping lorries/trailers on the yard but don't know if that will always be the case. Also have a tack room (which no one uses thanks to the number of break-ins locally), tea room, shower and toilet. YO deals with the muck heap.

In winter I pay £220 a month which includes TO every morning, BI at night and mucking out mon-fri. Weekends are either DIY or pay for extra services, plus we pay £2 a month each for use of arena lights once the nights draw in.
 
Nothing.
I am on diy and appreciate my horse is kept at my yos home - i respect tehir home and always make sure i clean up after myself and my horse.
I appreciate my horse can stay and is looked after by my yo - ie - he rotates and sorts fields out
I just know the yard is their home so do really respect it as such xxx
 
We used to do DIY for £30 that included a large stable, year round turnout, haylage, access to schooling area in summer with WH/XC/SJ/dressage markers, and a tack locker and storage. We let them park trailers for that too. Obviously the stables, yards and fencing was maintained for that.
 
I pay £25 a week for field, stable, water and electric! YO maintains fences etc but is total Diy! Most yards that have a school are £30 for diy! Any services bring in, put out, muck out are usually charges separately if you are on a yard that offers assistance.
 
On the yard that I work at (which is also a riding school) most of our non full liveries expect.....
Bring in and turn out (especially if they manage to squeeze back 5 mins before we finish!) Fields are about half a mile walk from yard to field and back!
Tack cleaned
Stables tidied (when they say they're coming at 11 and turn up at 4 not always easy on busy day!)
rug storage up to 9 per horse!
feed storage (even when basic pony nuts are included in price and not a single one of their horses need feeding!)
us to run around feeding various supplements daily to horses that come in once a week

when their horses poo on the yard we've just spend an hour sweeping (not very big yard but not a brilliant surface!!) I at least expect the offer to pick it up (or just do it!!!) rather than ringing or texting me to say the yard is messy and think this is funny!

Use of school whenever there is no lessons

many many more things I can't think of right now!!

I honestly don't mind doing this for the full liveries as they pay for it! But people paying £20 a week?!?! They act like they own the place!!
 
I pay £22.50 per stable a week, and for that I get 12x12 stable in a barn, grazing in a small herd (7 horses, two of which are mine), use of outdoor and (small) indoor school, jumping paddock in the summer, electric, tack/feed room, water, and access to off-road hacking. I am INCREDIBLY lucky. The yard also holds an in-house show every summer, and an in-house dressage series over the winter.

The previous yard I was at I paid £125 a month for stable, grazing, use of outdoor school, and access to off-road grazing. In the winter you also had bring-in & turn-out in the week, and haylage included.
 
I pay £43 per week. That includes daily grazing, stable at night every night, mucking out, water, feed, hay, turn out, bringing in, use of an outdoor arena and use of a small indoor arena.

Although I have to pay extra for vet for vaccinations and farrier and dentist etc, it's all taken care of as and when it needs doing.

They also provide a riding service if you go on holiday, again at an extra cost.
 
For £30 I would expect a decent sized & watertight stable, daily turnout on well maintained grazing, use of a floodlit menage & reasonable facilities (loo, mains electricity/water, parking, tea making, that sort of thing) plus storage for tack, feed, rugs and general horsey stuff. I would also expect the yard manager to be available to give advice, act as umpire between warring liveries if necessary etc :o I wouldn't expect hay & straw to be included but I would expect it to be available from the yard owner for a reasonable price, or for barn storage to be available for liveries to store their own. I wouldn't expect lorry/trailer parking to be included either.

I think most DIY yards around here are around £25 for the above but if the yard had really nice facilities, good grazing, friendly liveries, knowledgeable but pleasant staff and was well located for hacking, I think people would pay a bit more :)
 
I'm on small livery yard, two other owners. I pay £30 per week diy. I get own paddock use of secure tack room/hay storage, hot water and standard outdoor arena. Anything else paid for, don't know how much as I share with one of the other liveries for holidays etc. I do know that my boy will be looked after, at a cost, if I can't cope for what ever the reason.

This suits me as no interference at all.

Jane
 
I'm a YO: I offer DIY, they pay £15 per week per horse, for that they get own stable/storage area; all year turnout (daytime only in winter); mains electric & water; fair-sized enclosed yard; hacking OK'ish - could be better but could be a helluva lot worse. I'm here all the time on-site, BUT its strictly DIY: I don't deal with/handle anyone elses horses apart from my own. No sandschool and no off-road riding, but sandschool available to hire 5 mins hack away.
 
At my old yard it was £30 per week, you got stable and grass, use of the school.
They were good yard owners and maintained the place well. The only hardship was that you had to take water out to your field in containers if you had an individual paddock.
 
Ok so if you had nicely timber lined stable (14ft x 14ft), secure tack/feed area, access to good grazing, well drained sand school with lights, ad lib hay and straw included (3 bales per week based on rubber matting), field well fenced with electric fence and post and rail, would £30 a week be a reasonable price?
Not relevant atm but theres a horsewalker nearly completed and hacking is superb.
Also what would you expect to pay for a mare with foal at foot at above yard (obviously turn out is seperate field).
 
For just under £30 a week, I get stable and grazing, maintenance (of sorts), plus in the winter turnout and bring in is included in that and haylage. In the summer hay is extra and nothing included - if you need horse brought in or turned out it's extra. Fields are geldings all in together in one big field, mares all in together in another. Feed room and tack room, sand arena with lights (poor surface), great hacking off the back of the yard onto a bridleway and nearby. Parking for lorries/trailers is extra too.
 
For that in watford I would get a stable, field which is maintained and the fencing maintained and use of a muckheap - as well as all electrics, water etc included and shared space for storage of feed and bedding as well as a tack room shared. We also have a floodlit menage - which you have to pay £1 for use of the floodlights for an hour, but menage is also harrowed and maintained. We have to keep our areas clean and tidy as well as poo pick the fields weekly and the yard managers are not expected to sweep up after us.

However in leics I would expect everything included hay, straw etc and feed possibly, the yard kept neat, the schools maintained and the fields maintained as well - seeing as you can get 5 day full livery there for £40 including all year round turnout and a horsewalker (as well as feed and bedding)!!
 
We pay £30 per week for one of ours. We get a field, (shared with one other pony) a field shelter and the fencing is maintained. We also get a free haynet everyday included in this price. This price also includes use of a fairly decent sized outdoor school (although it doesn't have any lights and does flood during the winter) but we don't need to use the school as our little pony is retired. We are responsible for everything else (feeding, poo picking, cleaning the water trough, etc.)
 
For £40 per week I get my own decent sized stable with lights, 24/7 turnout in a big paddock with 3 other mares and rotation of paddocks, (paddocks are harrowed, we muck out stables), use of floodlit outdoor arena, horsewalker and x country jumps, secure tack room, feed area, rug room and as much haylage and straw as we want. And YO is on site with decent hacking in area.

It's fairly expensive compared to my previous yards but I like all the extras, I like how friendly and non-judgemental it is, and I really like knowing that I don't have to worry about feeding my girly extra in the winter for the sake of a few £££s that I may not have - this way I *know* how much money I need to set aside every month.

As I mentioned, we are expected to muck out and put water in our stable, and we're also expected to clean up after our horse if they poo in the yard, horsewalker or arena, but I would do that anyway even without the strict YO - common courtesy!
 
I'm £30 p/w DIY.

For that I get 24/7 grazing (year round) which is well managed/rotated. Turn out monday - friday if they are kept in. Wknds are DIY.
Own stable in American barn type system (although I winter him out)
Use of tack room.
Own shed for storage of feed/rugs etc.
Outdoor floodlit school and small indoor school.
Good hacking and selection of fields to ride in once haylage has been cut.
XC course on site (but need to hire)
Haylage provided on site at extra cost.
Lessons provided on site at extra cost.
Free trailer parking.
Toilet and 'day room' with kettle/microwave etc.
 
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