What does your horse cost you a month ?

£120 DIY Livery, includes unlimited hay and straw (£1440 a year)
Barefoot so £20 every 3 months (£80 a year)
Competitions £102 a month (£1224 a year)
Fuel to get to yard £15 a month (£180 a year)
Lorry mot, tax, insurance £721 a year
Feeds approx £55 a month (£660 a year)
Vaccinations £75 a year
BSJA Membership £235 a year
Hunting approx 20 times - £1225 a year
Oh and insurance at £38 a month so £456,

so £6295 a year for the one x
 
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mine is pretty much the same all year round.

£179.50 for assisted DIY
£40 haylage
£40 bedding
£20 feed and supplements

£60 every 6 weeks for shoes

My dad pays for the insurance so dont have to worry about that and the yard is only 2 miles from home so dont really worry about how much petrol im using
 
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About £380 per month.

Livery is £150 which includes hay and straw but I have him on wood pellets/shavings which cost me about £15-20 per month so that's £170.

Extras as he is on 7 day Turnout or BI £65 per month

Feed- £11 per month

Shoes £40 per month (£81 every 8 weeks)

Insurance £40 per month.

I also try and have fortnightly lessons (used to be weekly but just can't afford that atm!) which are £60 a month.


But there is ALWAYS something else, rugs, tack etc.
 
Most months mine seems to work out around £600 for one horse

Per month:-
Rent £130
Shavings £60
Hay £60
Insurance £25
Feed £10
Shoes £80 (every 6 weeks)
Lessons £120
Entry fees £100-£150
 
£80 livery - incl haylage and straw
£10 Hifi
£60 shoes (ok not technically every month but every 6 weeks)
£20 Sundries
£20 Insurance

= £190 Min

On top of that then i have the usual annual stuff like jabs / rugs / repairs / teeth etc.
 
£20 per week livery (nice cosy stable and 6acres shared with 2 friends out allday winter and 24x7 summer) less if i muck out some of the full liverys.
£2.50 a bale of hay home made and good bales usually go through 2 a week
£1.50 bale straw my horse is a super pooper so about 2 bales a week
Unmollased chop, micronized linseed, carrots , fibre cubes (for treat ball) and supplements around £60
Farrier every 8 to 10 weeks (awsome feet and barefoot) £15
Annual booster is £50 ish coz of call out fees
Equine dentist (assuming nothing mroe than check up and good rasp all round) - £35
Insuance £32/month
so around £200 ish a month on average, i dont drink much dont smoke and will go without treats for me to buy him pretty new blankeys :-) he is spoilt but when i think the average person going out drinking on a weekend prob sepnds £50 on beer and taxis i think my £50 a week is very well spent
 
Kept at home so no livery
hay - nothing as we make our own and what we sell covers the cost of what I use (string, diesel, fertiliser, weedkiller etc.)
Straw - nothing lovely nextdoor farmer gives us all we can use in return of OH helping in harvest
Feed - 2 sacks of speedibeet a year £25 - lots of grass and in light work/ companion
mineral/ vit licks - 4 a year at £20 each
Shoes/ trim - £60 every 7 weeks for 1 and £20 every 10 weeks for the other
Vaccs - £30 each a year - vet does free call out on Mondays
Insurance - £60 a year - public liability only
Teeth - £30 each a year

So in total I think £850 ish for the year for two - (or £35 each a month) pretty happy with that.

PS I guess I should include the mortgage really but hey ho that doesn't really feel like horsey costs!!
 
Probably about £200 a month. He's on part livery, and its just gone up as the price of hay and straw seems to be rocketing! But my bill will go down again as soon as they are back out 24/7. He only gets fed in winter, and only one feed a day so cost of feed is low. No supplements and no shoes. Costs £20 for a trim. Cant remember the insurance per month but it will be around £30. We don't compete and rarely have lessons so don't need to worry about that. My last yard was cheaper, but just doesn't compare to where he is now, so I ain't moving unless we are forced to leave!
 
- £281.66 for part livery which includes hay.
- £25(ish) for wood pellets a month. 1 bag last between a week - week and half.
- £15 on hard feed as she only has chaff and youngstock mix which lasts about a month.

= £321.66 minimum

Then there are the usual farrier (but she's bare foot at the moment), vet, dentist, physio. Her upkeep will go up next year when she is brought back in to work as a 4year old.

I've never worked it out properly but now I have, and I've realised I spend £3,300 on livery a year it's a bit scary!
 
Well I know this is going to hurt.... newly aquired mare on a lovely yard...so here goes

DIY Livery: £130 pcm
Livery services: average to be about £50 pcm
Hay/haylage/straw in winter months : £74 pcm

Farrier every 6 wks £60 full set

Feed: £25 ish every 2/3 wks

Horsey shopping... whatever I want to spend/need to get at that time really hate to think about this part too much as it would really hurt.

I don't think what I spend is too bad considering the yard the help and advice I receive with the great facilities I can use with kind friendly staff on hand.
 
Horse on DIY, out 8am - 2.30pm ish in winter.

Monthly:
Livery - £125 (Haylage inc)
Trailer storage - £10
Bedding - £30
Feed - £30 (ish)
Farrier (every 5-6 wks) - £65

Plus extras - competing, vets, diesel etc - dread to think!!
 
One thoroughbred is -

£80 livery & bedding
Around £15 a month hay
Feed is about £10 a month
Insurance is £40
And shoes is about £28 a month. (only has fronts every 6-7 weeks).

And that's about it I think? But then of course he gets many other goodies...
 
I pay £42 a week for two horses DIY (Turned out 24/7) and we buy big bale haylage at £35 a bale (although thats split between 3 horses, so i pay £23 and friend who owns the 3rd horse pays £12), including feeds, farrier, vaccinations, worm egg counts, worming, EDT, rug washing, supplements, all totted up for £52 weeks and divided by 12 months comes to £321 per month for 2 horses... which is actually a bit less then i thought... bonus!! There is obviously other costs like saddle fittings/back man but those costs are so variable its difficult to include them...
 
I wish mine cost as little as some of yours!!
I pay £440 for full livery PCM.
The farrier is £70 for a full set (luckily I get 7-8 weeks out of my mare! :) )
Then it's just wormers and vaccinations when due and anything else that pops up!
Oh and my petrol has doubled now I am driving back and forth, luckily she is close to home!
 
The 3 of them
No livery
Haylage has been about £200 a month but will come down now to about £100 a month (cheaper, better supplier)
Straw - £15 a month
Feed - works out at about £60 per month including all supplements etc
Shoeing - works out at about £90 for all shoes/trims
Insurance- £40 (just 1 insured at mo)
Lessons & competing - between £75- £200 per month

vaccs, worming etc works out over the year about £300-£400
 
£370 per month- full livery (mon-friday)
£45 per month- insurance
£100- vets (for vet bills)
£15- every 6 weeks for trim

Luckily my mare is very easy/cheap to keep :) ...full livery is obviously a little more expensive but that's my choice.
 
I'm in the south east, and for two I pay just under £400 pcm for full livery which includes everything but my barefoot diet feed, so coolstance copra, linseed, magnesium, salt and pro balance, I'd guess at around £20 a month for both on those, no Farrier as we're self trimming, but still vaccinations and wormers so £10 a month each on those and insurance for the pair at £60 per month.

I put aside £1k each month to cover them and anything left over from that is saved as emergency vet fee money (covers excess etc).

I'd actually prefer to do mine as diys but no nice yards near home and all 3 of us love it where we are, plus I have two lovely sharers who help with costs :)
 
I added up (as best I could) what I thought was every penny spent over the last 12 months and it came to about £450 a month and this was on DIY.

Eeeeeek :eek:
 
Rio and taz are around about the same so i will just do one :)


Livery (as of the 25/12/12) - £130pcm
hay - £90 pcm
bedding- £24.90 pcm
A&P calm and condition - £10 pcm
A&P fast fibre - £8 pcm
Topsepec cool balencer - £23 pcm
top chop lite - £10 pcm
trims - £10 pcm
Vaccinations - £67 per year

£311.48 pcm each so for the both of them - £622.96

Rio has insurance on top of that which comes to £355.68 all together.... now i shall go and cry :o
 
For 2 at this time of year with them being in more...here goes...

280 livery (2 stables & a field)
5 trailer
25 straw
50 Hay
25 feed
100 insurance
40 comps
85 shoes (£170 / 8 weeks)
= £615 OMG!!
 
Full livery £440
Bedding £40
Shoes 6 weeks £89
Insurance £90 a month
Feed + supplements £60
Lessons £200 +

Then your normal bits and bobs, wormer, vac etc

So about £900 - £1000 a month I waste on him not include extra fuel etc to get to things.

And the little turd bucked me off today grrrrrrr.
 
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Too scary to think about and mine is on working livery! Think I want to move somewhere else in the country and get a v well paid p/t job! Between full livery, vets bills and shopping trips for things he 'needs' it gets frightening.....
 
Livery £80 pcm
Hay £45 pm
Hard feed £15 pm
Farrier £30 pm
Insurance £17 pm
Supplements £20 pm

In summer considerably cheaper....less food!

£207 per month or thereabouts!
 
Lots of people not being very honest with themselves, I see :D

Livery £273
Shoes approx £50
BHS membership £5
Insurance £30
Weekly lessons £80
Vet / physio / saddler / wormer etc probably about £20 per month average
RC membership / competing about £15 per month on average

Which is already about £470 per month, plus probably another fifty quid a month on supplements and random bits from the tackshop, so easily £500+ a month. That doesn't include the increased costs of running and insuring a 4 x 4 for towing, or diesel, although I do try to cycle to the yard as much as possible in a futile attempt to keep the costs down. Once you add on the significant one-off costs (clippers, BP, new skull cap, new saddle) the "one-off" costs probably add about another £75 a month to date, although that will drop the longer I own him - I hope! I've also got about another £200 per month paying off a personal loan on the 4x4 and trailer - if I didn't have a horse the car would be a £600 rust bucket job, so technically I ought to count that as well.
 
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