Please tell me have I misjudged this?

[SussexbytheXmasTree]

There’s a yard - not covered apart from an overhang but there are stables. Yes a horse could be box rested. Hacking is good and a nice arena. It’s £325 per month including the services as mentioned.

Have you made it clear that stables are available if needed? Is there a tying up / tacking up area allocated?

Much as I love the idea of all year 24/7 turnout I would be anxious as a horse owner if I didn’t have assured availability of a stable / barn if needed. Remember these people don’t know you and have probably been promised things by previous YO that didn’t materialise. However I do think the price is fair for what you are offering You would be unlikely to get it for less around here.

As a comparison though I’m paying £550 pcm for the part-livery I’ve just moved to.The horses have to be out 24/7 as long as possible in summer but do come in at night in the winter. We have a 20x60 school and direct access to miles of off-road hacking.

Stabled at night all year around here is more of the £750-£800 pcm.

 

[Goldenstar]

OP should not be costing in her time at less than £15 per hour .She needs to work out the hours she needs to per day to manage and do the work with the clients horses that’s the time it takes to check them etc and then the time she spends doing jobs every day . Then it’s those hours divided by 6 then that figure minus a third ( because two of the horses are hers) that’s will get her to calculating her labour costs per horse per day .
She should be able to cost something for the cost of infrastructure the buildings the land etc .If the place was rented then this would essential if owned then you really need a return on that or you not running a buisness .
Then she needs to cost the maintence costs, the fencing ,maintaining the fields maintaining the buildings and hard standings she should remove a third as third of these cost attribute to her horses .
Then utilitiy costs and the rates if paid .
Then insurance .
There will be other things my list is not exhaustive .
This will give an idea of to what extent she is supporting her own horses or if she is simply subsiding others .

 

[Palindrome]

It's not expensive for the Oxford area. Part livery with a stable there used to be 550 pm and that was over 5 years ago.
It's not grass livery though as the horses are being checked twice a day with services, I would call it part livery with full time turnout.

 

[splashgirl45]

I haven't caught up on all the replies yet but I like to bounce right in.

There would be a place to saddle and bridle, though, wouldn't there? Where I agisted my horse, we had what us Australians call a yard - a fenced off area for tying up one's horse to saddle and bridle or to feed said horse.

ETA: I just noticed that misread your reply
plus I quoted instead of editing

I assume you are not in the UK, i would want somewhere out of the rain to take rug off, groom and tack up, tying up outside would not be something i would want to do in our winter or quite often our summer as well