surprise foal livery charges?

[shella]

I had a surprise foal 4 weeks ago and I was paying £80 a month for grass livery + stable for my mare. Does anyone know when you usually start paying for a foal ? Is it usually cheaper than for two horses? I need as much info as poss. I do not want to mention it at my yard yet as for the past two weeks my mare and foal have lived in due to my foal being lamed severely by the crap fencing.

 

[Fahrenheit]

Well we didn't charge for the foal until it was weaned when we were a livery yard but as a stud we charge and extra £7 per week for foals at foot on the livery of the mare.

 

[shella]

sorry to be thick I'm learning as I go .How old are the foals when they are weaned?

 

[amzy]

I didn't have to pay any extra until the foal was weaned at approx 7 months old.

 

[Fahrenheit]

weaning is 5 to 6 months average for most breeders.

 

[snurse]

I start paying when foal is weaned, usually 6 months, give or take..

 

[Bex7]

Weaning at my old yard which is usually 6 months or thereabouts.

 

[brackenhappy]

paid for my foal when she was weaned, i weaned her around the 8 months age!! due to no where to put her!! so wearned her gradually!

 

[Tia]

I don't, and most places don't, charge for foals at foot. I only start to charge for foals at weaning time and it is approximately half the price of a full grown horse.

 

[brackenhappy]

god tia you are kind!!!

i had to pay full price for my last foal as soon as she was weaned!!

think if bracken is in foal gonna ship her out to you!! will save me in the long run!!!!!

yard i'm on now is the same as last yard exept the foals when weaned are turned out 24/7 together in the 'winter grazing' fields (they are away from the yard) so is cheaper as you dont have a stable!! only prob i have is i want my foal to have a stable so it gets some maners unlike some of the youngsters there that havent been in a stable since they where weaned and now try to escape over the doors!!!!!