What do you spend on...?

[Jayde]

What do you spend on the following per week / month during winter?
Hay
Straw/bedding
Food

 

[Chico Mio]

Ooh, did this the other day...can I remember.....

I have two geldings, 15.2 and 16.hh, both stabled overnight and if the weather is really bad.

Per month food:

3 sacks oats @ €7.00 21.00
1/4 sack beet @ €10.00 2.50
2l cider vinegar 2.00
2l oil 2.00

2 round bale Hay @ 15€ 30.00

Plus ad lib hay in field free from friend

So feed = about 60€


Bedding

Rubber Mats - given to me for nothing by ex dairy farm

Shavings free from local sawmill

 

[marmalade76]

Hay - nothing - OH makes between 2500 and 3000 bales a year.
Straw - nothing - OH grows wheat too.
Feed - About £10 a week.

 

[savannahmelody]

Hay and straw delivered every 2 weeks at 24.50 a time for 10 hay and 4 straw.
Feed about 20.00 every 6 weeks
I have 2 section a's

 

[pottamus]

Hay - about 10 - 15 small bales per month at 2.00 per bale, bedding is the occasional top up of shavings - perhaps 1 bale per month as he only uses stable as a field shelter and food - 1 bag Dengie every 3 months and about £15 per month on supplements.

 

[vetsbestfriend]

For a 16h1 TBxID and 16h3 TB, during winter they go out at 7 and come in at 1 providing not absolutely chucking it down with rain.

Hay - use a large roudn bale every 10 days or so at £25 a bale.
Shavings - 3 a week at £5.29.
Food - weekly half a bag of Dengie good doer, about £5.00. 2 bags of high fibre cubes, about £11.00, 1 sack of carrots £1.50, sugar beet, about £1.50 a week. Plus supplements.

Also have small pile of haylage in field each day between mid December and mid March when not much grass to eat.

No wonder I am a pauper at the end of winter!

 

[golddustsara]

For a good doer connie that lives out:

£40 on ad lib hay
£20 on feed
£10 on supplements

 

[Toast]

This is only on Harvey..

Feed
1 stud balancer @ £13
half a bag of Graze on @ £8 = £4
1 sugarbeet @ £7.50

Haylage
Ad lib from a big round bale that i split between myself and my two sisters which works out at about £24 per month

Bedding
Usually id get shavings and limit myself to 1 bale a week
so..
4 x shavings @ 7.25 = £29

x

 

[spacefaer]

Haylage - one big round bale every 5 days @£18 each = £108 (£21.60 per horse a month)
Feed approx one bag mix per horse per week @£8.29 so £33.16 per horse/month plus Just Grass - 1 bag a fortnight, approx £16/month
Bedding - approx two bags/shavings from local joiner £2.50 ie £5/horse/month
plus 2 bales straw @£2.50 - ie £5/horse/month

Total
£67.96 approx per horse per month exc supplements

 

[SonnysHumanSlave]

Im paying £70 a week, thats part livery during week, and DIY at weekends, food, bed, etc all included.

Im am paying way way way way too much for my 14.2hh coloured cob!!

This price will go up to £125 when my new 11.2hh pony comes next week.... looks like the move to DIY is really going to happen now i have the time to DI Myself!

 

[zoon]

When I was on DIY (now on full livery) I used -

Half a bale of aubiose per week @ £8.65 per bale so about £4.35 per week on bedding (seriously the most economical bedding I've found) At the yard I'm on now they use a cardboard bedding and he's going through 2 bales a week and it still summer!

5 bales of hay a week @ 2.85 a bale so £14.25

A £12.85 bag of feed lasted me 10 days so thats £9 per week

So thats £110.40 per month not including supplements.

 

[Marymary]

Hay, Haylage, Straw and Shavings approx £700

Not dared work out the hard feed as the OH is prowling!!

 

[lilym]

I have worked out what I spend between oct - march in total!!
bedding = straw around £90 depending on how many and how long they are in!
hay = all 3 have add- lib £200 more if very cold....
food = being native require very little!! = £100 if that...

so not bad really!