What do you pay for livery?

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What do you all pay for your livery? I am on full livery and pay £450 per month. Although its worth every penny in terms of what I get, I am hoping that this is not unusual!

It would be great to hear what people pay, in total, even those on DIY as I would have thought its amounts to more or less the same thing.
 
I pay £275 assisted DIY. I get all feed, hay and haylage and straw. I muck out and either feed and turnout mine plus the yard, or bring in my own. It's pretty flexible.
 
We have 3 on DIY & our bill varies a little each month depending how much feed, hay etc we have had, but normaly is between about £380-£430 :)
 
Mine is on full livery (DIY at weekends) but I supply my own hay and bedding. In summer it works out at about £340, as my boy is turned out 24/7. In winter the costs go up to more like £500. Lovely yard though, good facilities, no bitching...
 
Full livery means different things to different people. Some think it's mucking out, rug change, turn out, bring in & all feeds & hay.

Others think it's all the above plus grooming, cleaning tack, tacking horse up ready for owner to ride when they arrive at yard & also exercising/riding/lunging several times a week.

Obviously both would demand different prices & would vary wildly again dependant on where in the country you are.

I'm on DIY at a lovely yard with only 5 horses, beautiful large stables, lovely floodlit menage which is graded at least once a day. Individual paddocks (approx 2 acres per horse). Lorry parking, loads of storage for hay & bedding, very secure alarmed tackroom & absolutely lovely yard owners who can't do enough for us. All this £25 per week & worth every penny. :)
 
I pay £10 + £2.50 for a stable although they are out 24/7 so extras are hay during winter at approx £10 a week.
Monthly costs are under £100 per horse in winter and £50 in summer.

However moving house and new yard will be charging £25 per week for DIY, plus hay and bedding costs.

From the horses point of view both yards are equally good, but for me, the facilities at the new yard are lovely. Proper schools, XC course, a shower room and solarium . Yay !
 
I pay £730 a month which includes all care including grooming, tack cleaning, rug washing and lorry parking if required (basically everything but exercise). It includes basic hard feed, hay and bedding, alhough i pay an extra £18 a month for a shavings bed (straw or deep litter shavings included). It is a lot, but we are in London and have great facilities - indoor school, two oudoor, show jumps, cross country couse, walker and reasonable amount of turnout.
 
I am on part livery - all the day to day care is taken care of, so all I have to do is ride / groom / tack clean. That comes to £420 a month and I am in Surrey.
 
I pay £90/month for DIY-stable & grazing. Great school & roundpen, trailer/lorry parking, hacking and a lovely friendly yard. Nice hay on site but is pricey. I love my yard! Cheapest around here :)
 
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