What do you pay for DIY? (Scotland particularly!)

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Hello everyone!

I've not been on a livery yard for several years, now due to circumstances I need to be on livery and have found a nice yard locally.

HOWEVER I have nothing to compare the price to.

So wondering what you pay for DIY (mine will be with a stable, all year turnout on reasonable field, school, all hay included) I know iv not given much detail but just interested to see what people are paying in general. Especially in east/Central Scotland.

Thanks in advance :) xxx

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I'm SW, currently I just rent a field but my little local livery yard charges £25 a week for stable, turnout (big fields but very limited if the weather is at all wet/snowy/frosty), hay/haylage and bedding (sawdust). No schooling facilities but reasonable hacking.
 
I'm in NE Scotland, we don't have completely DIY options on our yard with a stable, only part assisted, that's £55 per week inc all straw, hay, ins/outs, topping up hay/water if required and changing rugs if required 5days a week, it's DIY at weekends.

This is with really quite good facilities, horse shower, kitchen, outdoor arena with plenty of jumps, tack room, feed room and 'stuff' room. Grazing is really good (often too good) in summer and the YO puts out feeders with hay in the winter, fields also get rested and rotated.
 
I pay £25 pw and that includes all year turn out, stable, floodlit sandschool, good hacking and summer jump paddock with xc and sj fences.
 
in East Lothian recently you could pay anything from £25pw with few facilities, may not include bedding/forage up to £50pw usually with some sort of school, straw bedding and hay included. Where I am atm (South Lanarkshire), it seems to average £30pw but don't know what they're like.
 
Local yard to me is top end I think but for £55 for DIY but that includes adlib hay/straw, individual turnout with summer and winter grazing. Lovely stables in newish building with use of 20x40 indoor and 40x50 outdoor. You have a private lockable cupboard to store your stuff BUT you are required to poo pick your field.

They do grass livery in the summer
 
I'm central/ east Scotland. £20pw DIY, year round turnout and stable. Mon-Fri am turnout included and we all take turns at weekends. Outdoor arena with loads of jumps & poles (YO competes BS) plus unlimited off road hacking in the forest that the yard backs onto. YO buys shavings in bulk and liveries buy from her. Big new hayshed and hay is delivered, unloaded and stacked for £4.50 a bale. Geldings only and 2 big fields that are well managed, rested and rotated.

Not been an easy find; this is yard no 7 since moving area and getting my gelding in august 2010. Won't be moving again!

ETA when I was on livery providing haylage it was £40pw, another yard included haylage and shavings and it was £57.50 pw IIRC. Most DIY in my area is £25-30pw excluding hay/ bedding/ assistance if that helps at all.
 
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I'm west coast of Scotland where livery seems particularly expensive! £32 pw diy. Not including hay or bedding. Turnout Mon -Fri is included and have excellent grazing indoor and outdoor school and reasonable hacking.
 
I'm in the south! I pay £15 a week per pony for all year turnout and use of stable. There's nowhere to keep tack and hay is extra but very cheap, YO is ex farmer so he's happy to do fencing and drive his tractor into the field with big round bales if needed. The average for DIY around here is normally £25 but that would be on yards with walkers and a school, mine is just field and stable
 
I pay £15 a week. Big American barn type stables with floodlit indoor school in the same barn. Solarium, hose, tack room, all year turnout in a massive field and the best part is its a private stables within a woman's property, so no other liveries bustling about to annoy me or stick their nose in. After reading so many horror stories about livery yards - and witnessing it first hand - I'm very lucky to essentially be left to do my own thing!
 
I pay £25 p/w for stable, big field (that my 2 share) and indoor school. They feed everything in the morning free of charge,turn in or out is £1 and a full livery day is £6! I pay an extra £14 for their hay as its gorgeous stuff and they charge £4 a bale
 
saddlesore said:
I'm west coast of Scotland where livery seems particularly expensive! £32 pw diy. Not including hay or bedding. Turnout Mon -Fri is included and have excellent grazing indoor and outdoor school and reasonable hacking.
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This! Seem to pay through the roof here. Currently on part DIY which is DIY but with turn out 7 days per week and bring in 5 days per week and this is £40.

Have been on places with strict DIY purely stable and field at £30 and another at £40 and that one had the cheek to charge £25 extra per month for muck heap removal!
 
Have paid anywhere from £35/week to £45/week depending on facilities and what was included. Higher end included minimal sawdust bed and adlib hay/lage - but very good school and hacking, individual turn out. No services

Lower end usually nothing included, mixed herds.
 
£38 per week for stable, all year round 24/7 grazing in small groups (I have 4 so my field is just my horses), haylage, use of indoor and outdoor schools, small xc course, jumping paddock and half decent hacking. YO checks horses in field daily and lorry is parked onsite for free. In Midlothian. Been here 8 years and really enjoy it, and more importantly the horses are all settled and happy. Would love a wee private yard but they're rare as rocking horse poo around here!
 
I'm not quite Scotland but close, I pay £48pw for a top class yard, which includes bedding, stable, good turnout either individual or small groups, big floodlit outdoor with jumps, 2 mile track with xc jumps, horse shower and solarium, heated tea room/rug room etc. also YO will turn out/bring out if required for no extra cost, and did everyone's horses on Christmas Day which was nice.
 
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