Please could you tell me how much your horse costs you per month?

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I know this has been done before, but I would like an accurate picture of the average costs in today's economic climate, as I know feed etc has gone up.

Could you maybe post it something like this?

Livery: £
Hay/Haylage:
Hard feed:
Suppliments:
Feet: (I guess should be per visit, so 6 weekly or whatever):
Worming: (per dose)
Other consumables:

Many many thanks, hot chocolate and dunkin' donuts (the amazing 1 calorie, no carb/fat/gluten/dairy but still tastes awesome kind!) to all who do :D
 
I sold my horse early this year but the costs were:
Livery - £33
Hayage - £8
Hard feed -£5
Bedding - £7
Shoeing £45 every 5 weeks
From April to Oct he lived out 24/7 and in at night in the winter.
He wasnt on any suppliments, and I paid to have him brought in at night which was £1.50
 
Livery: £108.33 per month
Hay/Haylage: £25.00 (For a large square bale - in winter lasts 5-6 weeks)
Hard feed: £25.00 (Again only in the winter - lasts same time period)
Suppliments: £5 Garlic only
Feet: (I guess should be per visit, so 6 weekly or whatever): £65.00 every 10 weeks
Worming: (per dose) £20.00 - three times a year...i think?
Other consumables:
Insurance £53.00 per month - he is covered up to the eyeballs to be fair :D
Vaccinations: £60.00 per year
Clipping: £0.00 - OH bought me clippers for birthday :D
Don't forget cost of clothes for you - cant avoid ruining them no matter how hard you try! :)
Rugs
Bedding: £7.80 per bale and in winter he goes through a bale a week :(:eek:

No wonder i have no money! :eek:

How come you ask?
 
Depends on the size of the horse, and how good/bad a doer he/she is.

Shoeing £75 full set
Wormer - you can look up those prices on 't internet.
Insurance - depends on the value of the horse. Basic £1000 value no vet fees is about £10pcm, £2000 value with vets fees and rider cover about £35pcm

Med doer pony living out:
Livery £100 pcm incl hay
Hard feed £14 pcm
Supps £40 pcm (only 'cause both my ponies need something)
= £154

Good doer pony living in:
Livery £120 pcm
Haylage £30
Hard feed (chaff) £10
Supp (vit and min) £15
Shavings - £10 (v v cheap from local wood carving place, dust free)
= £185

Poor doer horse living in
£120 stable
£35 hard feed
£10 yeast supplement
£60 haylage
£20 shavings (same supplier as above but she uses way more than the pony!)
= £245 but she's unshod which helps so only wormer on top of that, and annual vaccs
 
Horsey 1

Grass livery: £60 per month
Feet: £Nil I trim them myself

Horsey 2

Grass livery: £60 per month
Feet: £Nil I trim them myself

Horsey 3

Grass livery: £60 per month
Feet: £Nil I trim them myself
Seaweed, Rosehips, Biotin + Limestone, Spearmint: £15 per month
Insurance: £30 per month

This is current, although in the winter it will soon change as I spend 'X' amount per day on hay.
 
Livery: £ 220
Hay/Haylage: £40
Hard feed: £20
Suppliments: nil
Feet: (I guess should be per visit, so 6 weekly or whatever): £35 per visit 5-6 weeks
Worming: (per dose) £13
shavings: £34
Other consumables: varies wildly!!!
 
Livery: £75 per month
Hay/Haylage: £0
Hard feed:£0
Suppliments:£0
Feet: £33 every 8 weeks
Worming: £9
Other consumables: £10 carrots per month
 
Did a breakdown a few weeks ago of monthly costs to keep my daughters 16.3 TB mare, almost wish I hadn't, came in at £350 a calendar month, that is without any lessons, clinics, xc schooling or competing.
 
Livery: I keep my horse at home so nothing
Hay/Haylage: I pay £35 for a 6 foot bale...lasts a few weeks atm whilst there is still lots of grass.
Hard feed: He only gets chaff atm and thats £6 per bag which lasts ages
Suppliments:£10 a month for his biotin, and a few pounds for garlic (lasts ages)
Feet:£60 every 7 weeks
Worming: (per dose) cant remember tbh...£20 ish a time??
Other consumables: around £20 a month for straw.
Insurance: £30 per month

Then theres back man, jabs, dentist but thats yearly rather than monthly.

Tack shop: lets not go there lol

I hope this helps! :)
 
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I've only just sold my horse but looking for another, I pay/paid:
Livery: £250 (full livery, includes hay/haylage, feed, wormer)
Farrier: £65 every 8weeks
Vets: hopefully not a lot!... vaccinations once a year shared vet with yard roughly £35.
Dentist: £40 a year
Lessons/Competitions: £30 a month
Hope this helps!
 
Mine costs me:

Livery £75 p/m (grass livery)
Haylage £35 p/m (winter only)
Shoes £55 (8wks)
Insurance £20p/m
Worming £5p/m (roughly as I use Intelligent Worming)
Vaccinations £70 annually (approx)
Hard feed £10p/m (winter only)
Extras = skies the limit!
 
Livery: £115
Hay/Haylage: winter free, summer 75p per day so for 30 days would be £22.50
Hard feed: A bag costing me £9 lasts me 6 months (good doer) so £1.50 per month
Suppliments: breathing one: £18
Feet: (I guess should be per visit, so 6 weekly or whatever): £65 per 6 weeks so c.£40 per month
Worming: (per dose): worm counts every 3 months + tapeworm 2x a year + winter doses of Equest = c.£6
Other consumables: Bedding: c.£18 p.m.,
fly spray/mane & tail shine/treats c. £3 p.m av across year.
Is rug cleaning/reproofing classified as a consumable?
Physio check ups? Teeth? I include these in my monthly budget for my horse averaged across the year.
 
Don't know how you lot manage on so little money spent....

DIY Livery - £121 per month
Shoes - £70 every 5 weeks
Insurance - £46 per month (horse, trailer, saddle)
Haylage (Horsehage) - £84
Bedding (Aubiose) - £38
Feed - £25
Supplements/Medication - £35 (COPD/RAO horse)

Oh dear - £100 a week without .....lessons/entry fees/diesel/riding club membership/BSJA membership/saddler purchases (rugs, numnahs, boots etc etc) - aaaaarrrggghh!!!

He wears Prada, I wear Primark.

No wonder I have no money.
 
What I've spent on my horse this month is shocking! :o

Livery - £495
Shoeing (refits) £67
Physio - £55
Insurance £55
Shiatsu - £30 (back and SI probs hence physio aswell)
Saddler - £23.50
Dentist - £45 and sedation £57.50 (extra work to get to problem area doesnt usally need sedation)
Supplements and Fungatrol Shampoo - £37.50
Lesson £30
Fuel to get to yard £60

I think I need a drink ..........:(
 
livery: £90 diy
hay: £28
feet: £15 every 8 weeks so works out £7.50 a month
worming: £14 every 12 weeks so works out around £5
feed: she only has a handful so a £9 bag lasts at least two month so £5 p/m
insurance: £30
bedding: £20 p/m
extras: my main extra is her medication (she has cushings) which is £45 for 100 tablets and she has one tablet a day

so roughly £45 a week covers her but she is a cob and a good doer and is elderly so semi retired
think im gona ditch the insurance when up for renewal as they wont cover her for things she already had which or lami and colic. which are very common so think im going to put the insurance money in a savings account and become a bhs member for public liability
 
Livery: £130.00 per month
Hay/Haylage: £20 approx sometimes more a week- a lot more in winter!
Bedding: £56 approx a month on shavings as eats all the straw (literally the whole bed even with a bale of hay in there!)
Hard feed: £50 approx a month
Suppliments: £5 for garlic and about £70 every 2 months for farriers formula (needs it for a yr)
Feet: £70 every 6 weeks!! I think thats a rip off hate Watford prices!
Worming:£20.00 every 3 months
Insurance £100 a month covered for everything
Vaccinations: £60.00 approx including callout
Clipping: £30 or I do it myself with my clippers
Then there is all the broken headcollars, new tack and rugs he seems to be constantly needing, plaiting bands and lots and lots of other small things that make me wonder sometimes why I have a horse!!
 
Horse No 1 thats in ISH:

Livery £25 p/w so £100 if 4 week month
Hay £24 a month
Straw £25 a month
Shoes £60 every 6 weeks
Feed £10 a month
Insurance £35

Extras for him:
Jabs £30
Teeth £30
Worming £20 every 3 months

No 2 - Shetland who lives out 24/7:
Livery: £5 a week £20 a month if 4 week month
No feed as he lives on fresh air! Little fatty, typical shetland.

Extas for him:
Jabs £30
Teeth £30
Feet just a trim £15
Worming every 3 months £20

Cost of getting to yard £0 really as its 2min walk
Lessons are £20 p/hour
If im not available bring in turn/out is £1.50 including feeding which I will have made up and change of rug and removing boots
Full muck out and bedding down, turn out/bring in if im not well or not there £5.00 a day
Clipping is £20 for them to do ISH

Thats without your general wear and tear on rugs- replacing them, tack, boots, vets call outs etc

Hope this helps

Lozhug
 
too much :D

£180 livery (includes everything)....
£50 every 8(yeah omg) weeks shoes...

shes not vaccinated and wormers i dont count...

thats about it really....although next year she will be getting vaccinated as i want to do BD.... (back end of next year)!
 
if i didnt have my four horses id be living in a mansion with hair n nail reatments every week, holidays at least 3 times a year and a nanny, as it is im lucky if i shave my legs once a week holidays r a thing of the past and every penny i spend on shoes is their shoes lol, so they cost me an awful lot haha but i would nt have it any other way lol x
 
Thank you all very much. I'm suprised (pleasantly - I think!) that prices haven't gone up too much since I was last thinking about this.

The reason I ask is that I have finished a loan/share, and am costing out owning my own. Its been 10 years since I owned my own, and its high time I rectified that! :)
 
Monthly:

Livery: Home (DIY) £200, University (part) £312
Hay: Included in both livery packages
Straw: Included in both livery packages
Extras: Home (eg staff turning out etc) £20, Uni varies from £12-100 during holidays when I go home.
Feed: £2 (1 bag happy hoof lasts 3/4 months)
Supplements: £40 ish NAF Superflex every two months
Insurance: about £50
Shoeing: Home £60, Uni £65 every 6 weeks
Petrol consumption: Home £80 at least (visiting everyday), Uni £30-40 (only go 2-3 times a week)

Yearly:
Vaccinations £30 often plus £30 call out fee
Horse transport from home to uni £300 a year
Rug cleaning - about £40 for my big 4 rugs, light rugs are washed at home
Teeth £30 plus £30 call out fee (now only needed every 2 years woopee)
Vet bills: this year have totalled about £1800 for treatment of athritis.
Worming: about £40-50 a year

I don't buy anything uneccessary. Rugs/boots/headcollars are only replaced if they become unuseable, and I don't follow equine fads and fashion.
 
I try not to think about it and if OH asks theyre really cheap ;)

Livery for two including haylage - approx £270 per month
Farrier - £40 every 10 weeks (2 trims)
Feed - about £15 per momths
Supplements - dont ask...
Insurance - £34 for horse, pony not insured atm :o
Extras - lets just file this under the DADT policy.... ;)
 
i'm £80/month diy livery.
feet trimmed every 8 weeks £20
insurance £20/month
wormer £10 a go
vets - as required
hard feed in summer £10/week
winter hardfeed, bedding, hay totalled £600 for winter last year
rugs £50 so far this year
not including clothes or petrol
 
Really interesting post! I pay £60 full livery which includes everything appart from supplements. I have often wondered if i should cut costs and go back to DIY, but i have just read though all of your comments with my calculator and i dont think i would save much at all!
 
I am at a pretty cheap livery yard so makes life easier with two neddies. Based on main horse each month as other much cheaper!

Livery: £48
Hay/Haylage:20
Hard feed:15
Suppliments:10
Feet: (I guess should be per visit, so 6 weekly or whatever):25(trim every 6 wks)
Worming: (per dose)15 (3 monthly)
Other consumables:
Competitions/ hiring venues: 20
Lesson: 30
Insurance: 80 (horse, trailer &tack)
4x4: 200 (average over year not including fuel)
vets : 100 (minimum) a year

Sure there is more but can't think
 
Oh god, since he's been diagnosed with his degenerative bone problems I may have the most expensive hack in the world...

Livery: £500 per month (we live near London)
Hay/Haylage: included in livery
Hard feed: included in livery
Suppliments: £30 maybe more? (Farriers formula, ExtraFlex HA, Carron Oil, daily Bute)
Feet: £145 every 5 weeks (he has Navicular, and uses Equipak)
Worming: £10 - £20
Other consumables: ongoing veterinaly treatments, Tildren, Shockwave and Intra-Articular injections work out at £4k a year. Insurance is currently covering these, but after 12 months I will have to pay myself for these ongoing treatments...

He's unsellable, and he's 9 years old, so what can I do, but keep him and keep him comfortable? Sending him to a retirement home who would not keep up his treatments would be cruel, and PTS is unbearable for me to even contemplate. I also have to give up my love of competing, and I was going to get a second horse, until it became apparant how much all his treatments add up to.
 
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