What does your horse cost you per month?

I'm in the south East. I own a native, who is hardy & doesn't have endless rugs or sets of matchy, matchy stuff - so cheap on the extra's.

DIY livery -£110 per calendar month.
Assistance - in the summer £0, in the winter about £60-80 as winter grazing is limited to 8 hours turn out a day, which means I can't bring in as I'm at work so pay YM to.
Feed - approx £14. One bag of Allen & Page Fast Fibre, I think is £10. A bag of Dengie Happy Hoof lasts about 3 months and is about £13 I think.
Hay - In winter, about £24. In summer, much less.
Straw - £12 a month.
Vitamins & Supplements - £9 a bag of magnesium is about £8 and lasts 4 months. GP supplement is £14 & lasts 2 months.
Insurance - £30 a month.
Feet - £22.50 as it's £45 every 8 weeks.
Lessons - £50.

In the winter, about £250-£300. In the summer, about £150-£200.

I try not to think about it too often :D
 
Not sure I really want to do this but...
£178 DIY Livery per month
£30 Haylage
£50 approx bedding (too much I know but he is very wet!)
£50 Insurance per month
£78 Shoes per month (he is remedially shod behind and is done every 4 weeks as he wears them down fairly quickly when we are Hunting)
Hard Feed -
£11 - chaff
£15 - conditioning cubes
£25 - feed balancer
Cortaflex - 3 months supply at £46 so about £15 per month

Not adding it up as daren't! However, it's got to be cheaper than what I was paying last year - £415 for part livery and I was still buying feed and extra bedding on top of that!! Will never do that again - I'm a complete DIY convert!

Not including Hunting caps in winter and any competitions/fun rides in summer.
 
New Zealand

Grazing out 24 /7 - $20 week
Trimming $70 mth
Supplement $8 week
Feed - Chaff $30 Osts $30
Hay - $10 bale approx 30 bales per horse per year
Lessons - $40 -$100 lesson depending on instructor
Chiro - $120 as needed
Teeth - $120 year
Worming $76 year
 
Too much.

DIY Livery: £100pcm (then i pay friends if i cant get down, we help each other out though)
Feed:£70 pcm (is ulcer prone)
Bedding I use verdo pellets so works out at approx £250 a year, he does now stay out a lot though.
Insurance £40 pcm
Hay: up to £70 pcm
Shoes £70 every 7 weeks (6 in summer)
dentist, £35 every year, saddler £35 ever 6 months, yearly injections and any vets fee's in between (get good insurance, will be worth it)
I have lessons every week too, i have my normal instructor £25 an hour every week (jumping, flat and xc) and a dressage specialist £40 for 45 mins once a month.
He gets nice tack, my birthday and xmas presents are all for him :)
 
Livery - £60
Hay - £30
Insurance - £30

£120 a month.
Trims are very far and few between as we do alot of roadwork and when the farrier comes down to shoe the others he looks at hers for free.
She has a stable which i open september - march and bed with 5 bags of shavings, these can last a whole year.
Im trying to too feed too many anymore but a bag of hifi lite is about £9 or less, lasts over a month.
 
I refuse to add it all, ignorance really is bliss :)

Although I almost had a heart attack when I saw someone paid £390 for DIY. Took me. A while to realise it was for 3, stupid moment.

Anyway I keep mine for less than some but she still costs a considerable amount, but if I work it out I may cry as I realised could have been half way to a house deposit by now...

Plus what I tell oh she costs and what she actually costs may vary a bit, I get away with bending the truth because I haven't sat and worked it all out :D not that it's any of his business or that he's expected to contribute, so not that it matters :)
 
90 per month for stable and grazing
21 p/m for shavings
approx 20 p/m for hay
farrier every 8-10 weeks = £40
insurance p/m 30
feed every 3 months approx £30
*** Roughly £200 per month****
 
4yr old 17hh RID Winter/Summer
Livery £50 (at my sister house)
Haylage £50/£35
Straw £15
Solution Mash £31/15.50
Alafa A oil £13.50/6.75
Chaff £4.50
Conditioning Cubes £9/0
Insurance £34
Shoes £24 (£35 every 6 weeks)
£231/184.75


15yr old id x
Livery £50 (at my sister house)
Haylage £50/35
Straw £15
Solution Mash £31/15.50
Alafa A oil £13.50/6.75
Chaff £4.50
Conditioning Cubes £9/0
Joint supplement £11
Shoes £43.30(£65 every 6 weeks)
Total 218.30/166.05
 
On a monthly basis I pay:

£370- 5 day part livery.
£45- Insurance.
£60- Farrier (every 7 weeks).
£20- Extra shavings per month.
£50- Lessons (starting next month)

That's what I budget for, but always seem to spend much more depending on what T needs- saddler, physio, when I compete etc.
 
What's really scary is adding up how much just running my lorry and lessons/comps cost... I have approx 2 lessons a month and compete about 2 x a month also and I reckon it's around the £300 mark! That's probably as much as it costs to keep a standard DIY horse in total. Kinda wish I hadn't added it up now!
 
At my current yard I pay:

Field and stable PCM - £151.66
I buy my own hay and bedding.
Hay - £30/£40 depending on bale size.
Bedding - £6.77 a bale

Yard includes 20 x 40 indoor school. Its very expensive compared to other yards I have been too!
 
Livery (based in 5 weeks)
£90 for 32 weeks £95 for 20 weeks
Hay/straw included in price
Farrier (every 8 weeks £25) so (£12.50)
Feed £12 per bag so about £6 per month (conditioning fibre minimal rashions)
£20 away per month for annual jags/treatments
(Insurance paid by owner)
Fuel costs minimal as walk most days
£5 per week towards monthly lesson (40 per month)

So all in all

Summer £168.50. Winter £173.50

But lesson money (if I'm struggling) gets forgotten about and this month with Xmas buying (and having to get a new washing machine and tumble dryer as mine blew up!) my £20 contingency fund money did too!

forgot to say we have a 20 x 40 outdoor with jumps and miles and miles and miles of off road hacking
 
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