What does everyone pay?????

[vicster]

Ok so what do people pay roughly on a weekly basis for DIY Livery?

 

[johnsongreyhorse]

Put other as I PAY £18 for DIY, thats for use of stable, grazing and school, don't get turnout or any extras

 

[icemaiden113]

Lucky enough to have horse at home now but ued to pay £30 pw DIY including unlimited straw and hay and haylage at extra £5 pw!

 

[vicster]

That's a very good price - bargain i say

 

[vicster]

Must be so nice to have them at home - you lucky monkey lol,

 

[frannieuk]

I pay £260 a month for 2 horses, but its more like rent than DIY - get 3 looseboxes, tackroom, floodlit menage (although surface isn't great) and 2 small paddocks (grazing v poor but being improved this year).

I love being by myself down there, no bitchiness or opinionated people interfering etc etc. Horses are loads happier too.

 

[KatB]

£25 a week for T/o, stable and school use. Thats it.

 

[vicster]

Sounds lovely - not overly expensive either really is it!!

 

[vicster]

We pay £40 DIY but includes hay and feed, and we get all of our haynets etc made up for us and our horses brought in are extras by the lady up the road lol - includes nice rubber school and very good grazing.

 

[Heidi1]

£25 for t/o (all year) and use of nice big outdoor school......... do have field for just my horses too.

 

[Vindaloo]

I pay £80 pw but that includes full livery Mon to Fri and includes all hay, feed and bedding. Also LOADS of grazing p & R plus a horse walker and floodlit rubber manage. Lovely and quiet with good hacking.

Reckon it's a fair price and the horse is happy in a big rubber floored foaling box with auto waterer!

I'm a bit spoilt. Mind you I have NO MONEY....

 

[vicster]

Sounds spectacular - jealous now lol not a bad price for what you get - bedding alone can cost a fortune every week can't it? x

 

[miamibear]

I pay £30 per week DIY thats for straw, hay, stable and daily turnout and feeding on a morning.Use of outdoor school too. Yo lives on site too and is always there to lend a hand with anything, plus has a trailer for emergencies and to tag along with if they are going somewhere!

It drops to £25 if you arent using the straw and buying your own shavings in, this is what i do.

Only down falls are the hacking is pretty dire, all road work on busy country roads and no off road hacking only one track that is a dead end.

Plus school is outdoor so gets frozen in winter.

Only get a couple of hours turnout a day too because the ground is clay and gets chewed up but that suits me fine because mine is stood waiting to come in after a leg strech!

 

[Enfys]

I used to pay 26 pounds (no pound sign

) a month, DIY (AND I built my own stable!!!!), no extras, although we did have a good arena. No extras included no electricity and when it was cold, or dry or too wet, no running water either because the river the hose pipe was sunk in had rozen/dried up/washed the pipe away! I don't miss that.

Today I have no horses, tomorrow I have 4 coming, none earning their keep, although we are swapping board for lessons with the one boarder, reckon that's a fair swap instead of $35 a lesson otherwise.

 

[vicster]

Awe an indoor pony - ours are pretty like that too - they can manage a fews hours but then are desperate to come back in lol. Our smallest hack around us is 1 hour and 20 mins so quite long if you were just looking for something short hehe

 

[vicster]

So your going from nice and realxing to manic then - god help you lol. A fair swap i would say

x

 

[miamibear]

Yeah he loved being out in summer, if we put hay in the field then he would stay out but he gets hungry and wants to come back in to his hay net!! Hes a greedy pig!

I wouldnt mind long hacks if they were off road, we have a circuit we can do in about 1hr 15 and another in 1hr 30 but thats it, no shorter hacks unless you want to go somewhere and turn round in the road, which i have discovered is not good!

I would just love some off road hacking but it just makes sponsored rides even more special!

Would love my own transport too but will continue to work on OH one day mayeb if hell freezes over or i win the lottery - both equally as likely!!

 

[lillie]

i put £20-30 as by the time you've included hay & straw its about that but the base rate is £15pw including day turnout Nov-end of Dec & April to May, limited turnout out Jan to end of March & 24/7 turnout May/June till end of Oct. we have a floodlit school & XC course & fields to ride through from March/April until Dec.

we pay extra for Hay/Straw as & when we need it, like i brought 4 hay bales (£2.50 each) last week but as he only ate through one i didnt order any more this week. & he goes through 1 - 2 bales of straw a week @ £1.50 a bale.

but its closer than my last place so we count the straw as what we used to spend on more fuel a week

the riding isnt as good as old place but, atleast i have a school that i can ride in during the week which will help when he's limited turnout

my last place you payed £60 a month for 24/7 turnout May-Oct & weather permitting day turnout from Oct- end of May & a tiny school that was unsuitable for anything over 13Hh & no lighting. Then from Oct you had to pay £40 extra a month (£100 total) for hay, your horse had to be in from then. at new place i payed £65 for October & £82 for November which is a saving of £53 for Oct & Nov which i dont think is too bad!

 

[vicster]

Same as ours they only want to come in because they know there is nice hay waiting for them. Well my horse is not too good in traffic although he has got a lot better so some off road rides for me would be brilliant but that is never going to happen lol.

God why is everythign always money all the time lol x

 

[vicster]

No not too bad at all - sounds like you are getting good rates for you hay and straw too which is good

 

[miamibear]

Totally agree, round us we have one livery yard who charges £50 per week DIY, no feeds dropped in, no turnout for you (but you get allday turnout on better land) but they have off road hacking down the road and a massive indoor school.

£50 per week DIY is a bit steep for me though!! Again all about money

If i win the lottery im going to set up a cheap livery yard with great facilities and ask all my friends if they want their horses to come and live there!

xx

 

[vicster]

£50 is a little steep - i would do the same get a huge house with loads of land and big stables with an indoor and an outdoor school with help at hand - i can only dream lol x

 

[miamibear]

Me too good friday afternoon thinking and it is the euromillions tonight!!!!!!!!!

 

[vicster]

I know - all we can do is hope - ooh and keep fingers and toes crossed hehe and god would i have a party if i won

 

[Vindaloo]

That's what I thought. Initially went DIY but it worked out more expensive and my job is just way too demanding to be able to do it myself.

 

[vicster]

It's nice to have the help though - and not worry about the extras on top isn't it

 

[TequilaMist]

£25 per week,straw included,hay/haylage split among liveries works out great I was £16 last month for 2 in stable!YO(farmer) grows his own tho.,use of basic partly lit sand paddock and jumping field and jumps til weather gets really bad.Totally DIY.

 

[evsj]

I pay 40 quid per week which includes stable, grazing and all-horse-can-eat hay. in the summer it seemed to be good value - 2 outdoor schools, covered yard, farm riding. But now it's darker/worse weather I'm not so sure. Arenas only lit down one end - loads of dark shadows/impossible to jump in after dark, hay is hit and miss quality, stables leak - badly- and farm too soggy to ride around. Seriously thinking of moving on.

 

[Weezy]

£25 per week for stable/field/straw/outdoor school/private hacking around a small farm

 

[Ash the arab]

I pay £10 p/w BARGAIN!!
I get loads of grazing (small group of 4 horses), stable and riding around farm land. We don't have a school but an excellent well drained field that never floods or freezes!!
We only have 10 horses altogether at the yard.