What's everyone paying for DIY livery

[MiJodsR2BlinkinTite]

Just a question really. Putting the feelers out.

Wondering what people would pay for DIY livery comprising sole use of 4 acres. Own loose-box (two available). Own tack-room. Owner provides all their own hay and "does" their own horse therefore no other livery services provided. Room for fodder/feed storage. Parking for transport available. Sharing yard with owner who lives on site. Plenty of room not a pokey yard. Mains water, electric. Professional security system. Good access. SW England. Good venues within easy'ish striking distance. No arena on-site but several available within hacking distance locally. Hacking mainly circular routes, mainly roadwork.

 

[Pointless1]

I'm looking for something similar but not in your area unfortunately. I'd be interested to know what sort of price too.
My main priority would be good safe hacking even more important if no school.

 

[SEL]

I looked at a sole use yard with 3 stables, 5 acres and a nice small arena and that worked out at £45 per horse per week (South East)

 

[Horses_Rule]

I pay £45 a week but that includes ad lib hay or haylage and ad lib straw (any other bedding you have to supply and pay for yourself). Turnout is good plenty of acreage for grazing and we swap fields for winter/ spring and summer / autumn. We have an indoor school which isn’t huge but have access to excellent hacking on and off road

 

[Gingerwitch]

See I would love the sole use of 4 acres and a stable but I assume this means pony will be on its own ? I possibly think this could have done issues for both yard owner and livery is you need rather chilled ponies as if one goes out at night and other in tbe day you have effectively got two horses being kept on their own. Maybe you need to be more dpecific with the yard routine. You may also end up with someone whom trashes the 4 acres over winter and then goes.

 

[milliepops]

it's not really sole use if the owner is on site and sharing, is it?
to me sole use means it's your place, effectively, and that would attract me more because of being able to suit myself completely.
this sounds more like normal DIY but with quite a bit of grazing?
No idea on the price sorry, DIY round me is between £20 and 50 pw, on the lower side for a place with no arena.

 

[PSD]

DIY in my area is average £20-£25 a week for a basic yard with turnout and a school. The yard I’m on is £16 a week, plus haylage bedding etc we have everything on site, a walker, fantastic turnout and hacking, large outdoor and it’s round the corner from me

 

[Afon_34]

DIY in my area is average £20-£25 a week for a basic yard with turnout and a school. The yard I’m on is £16 a week, plus haylage bedding etc we have everything on site, a walker, fantastic turnout and hacking, large outdoor and it’s round the corner from me

Where are you?!

 

[dorsetladette]

Grass livery round here is between £60 and £100 a month depending on the quality and facilities. But I can't say its much more to have a stable included. Say £100-£120 a month maybe.

PSD - I have no idea how your YO makes any money on £16 a week. Do you have to buy hay etc from the YO?

 

[PSD]

Where are you?!

greater Manchester.

 

[ThreeWBs]

I pay £25 per week, per horse for a private yard (I'm the only one on it with my 2 horses!) I have an american barn with indoor stabling, full internal tack room, full rug, feed, bedding and hay storage, a floodlit 20x40 outdoor and 30 acres of good grazing on flat, well draining, sandy soil.

I have run of the place, so I can decide if I want other people/horses at the yard or not and I can change fields whenever I like - it comes in handy when picking the best field to shelter the horses from the weather.

To top it off, I have fantastic hacking too!

It's horsey heaven!

 

[BallyRoanBaubles]

I pay £138 PCM for DIY livery, use of floodlit school tack room feed room etc. Nothing else such as bedding or hay included. Other places close by with better facilities for the same cost but I like the easy going nature of this yard so I've stayed put. It would be useful if there was a YM who you could pay to do services, but we work that out between us when needed.

 

[holeymoley]

I would pay about £35/£40 per week for that up here so I’d add on a bit more for the south of England. I pay £44 per week for assisted diy- turn out 7 days and bring in 5 days per week.

 

[jnb]

A friend pays£150/month for sole use yard no anything bar water & electric.....If it's DIY livery shared with the owner then £25/week is reasonable. That's the going rate for DIY Midlands rural with no school, more if there is a school.

 

[dixie]

I had a sole use yard just outside Plymouth. It had 3 stables, another large stable used as a barn/feed room, 3 acres. Mains water and generator.
No school, but goodish hacking and enough room to park . Total sole use, we could do what we liked with it - had responsiblity for rolling/harrowing moving muck heap and dealing with fencing etc. We paid £300 per month.

 

[ForeverBroke_]

I pay £25 per week, per horse for a private yard (I'm the only one on it with my 2 horses!) I have an american barn with indoor stabling, full internal tack room, full rug, feed, bedding and hay storage, a floodlit 20x40 outdoor and 30 acres of good grazing on flat, well draining, sandy soil.

I have run of the place, so I can decide if I want other people/horses at the yard or not and I can change fields whenever I like - it comes in handy when picking the best field to shelter the horses from the weather.

To top it off, I have fantastic hacking too!

It's horsey heaven!

Wow! Wish I could find similar. Literally sounds like the dream!

 

[Tiddlypom]

The hacking would put me off much more than the lack of an arena, sorry OP, and that would keep the price down. You’ve posted before about your roadwork hacking.

I don’t know what would be a fair price.

 

[Nasicus]

I'm in Devon, a friend and I rent a sole use yard, 8 acres, 2 regular stables, 2 pony sized stables, a small haybarn. Mains water, no electric. No school, hacking is okay, mainly roadwork but a few places to get off the road at least for a moment. Good equestrian venue 2.6 miles up the road. Parking area for transport (if we had it lol). Responsible for muck removal, harrowing, rolling and general field maintenance. LO sorts the hedges.

We pay £330pcm between us, or individually £165 each for 4 acres and 2 stables and shared space in the barn, or £20.60 per horse per week (2 horses each). And we're pleased as punch at that price!

 

[SussexbytheXmasTree]

The hacking would put me off much more than the lack of an arena, sorry OP, and that would keep the price down. You’ve posted before about your roadwork hacking.

I don’t know what would be a fair price.

That would be my view too but maybe if your area is generally lacking in hacking then it may be less of an issue. Also it depends on what else is available in the area, if there is not much competition then you may get more than you might otherwise.

I pay 175pcm per horse and have two allocated paddocks each for my horses works out about an acre per horse. However we have a 30x60 school and amazing hacking. No forage provided but all main maintenance done.

 

[Billyandme]

South Worcestershire and was paying 245 quid a calendar month for stable, Paddock, hay, manege and lunge pen. No services.

 

[chaps89]

£25 per week stable and grazing, £15 per week grazing, plus £5 per week for the lorry.
I have 1 stable, oodles of storage and an acre and a half to do as I wish with.
Suburban road hacking and no arena.
It's cheap as chips for round here (south east)

 

[SEL]

£25 per week stable and grazing, £15 per week grazing, plus £5 per week for the lorry.
I have 1 stable, oodles of storage and an acre and a half to do as I wish with.
Suburban road hacking and no arena.
It's cheap as chips for round here (south east)

That's REALLY cheap for down here!!!

 

[chaps89]

Yep, I'd usually expect to pay that for small field and stable for 1, not 2 and my lorry parking!
It is completely DIY though so any field maintenance is paid by us/done by us, we share the cost of the muck heap removal, I had to pay extra to the water bill when I was cold hosing twice a day etc.
And if you add in the cost of using an external freelancer vs on site staff, and school hire and boxing to hacking etc then overall it doesn't work out much different, but I'm happy this way and can do things as I please.
I miss having good hacking, that's about the only downside (a big upside is being 3 miles from home too, we were 28 miles from home before - did have the most amazing hacking though)
My absolute ideal would be to find something completely sole use or shared with 1 other like minded person (like OPs set up) and with good hacking but nothing ever comes up and I'm not going to whinge about what I have now, that's for sure!

 

[Chinchilla]

Not sure if it counts as DIY livery or rented grazing but pay £250 pcm for just under 5 acres (think it's 4.7) with running water and 4 stables sole use. Have to do all maintenance though which adds ££ and if we want to park trailer on there it's £30 a month more (sold the trailer though and solved that!)

Price is for the land rather than per horse so I think it would actually count as renting grazing/land....?

 

[Myloubylou]

A small yard came up for rent in my village, £50 per week for 2 acres, 2 stables plus tack room storage but no arena. Hacking is ok. I’ve always hankered for horses to be a home but being near doesn’t some how cut it as even sole use is someone else’s place

 

[Beachbabe]

2 acres split into two fields, 2 stables, one large and matted, the other small and uneven floor, no services, two extra boxes for hay, bedding and tack etc, no room for big bales of anything, school with decent surface but not lit, ab fab hacking with no roadwork unless I want to for their feet, grazing is overgrazed, neighbours and landlady incredibly nosey, very ladies who lunch area, unless my scruffy self who comes and goes at odd hours other than Fridays, no parking for transport, owner on site but no locking security. Pay £145 for each of them.

 

[racebuddy]

40 a week all in bedding / hay / indoor outdoor off road hacking all year turnout

 

[Summit]

£75/month. Includes summer and winter paddocks, stable, tack room and hay barn. Working farm so no facilities but plenty of hacking. Just 3 of us so nice and quiet

 

[Dexter]

£105 a month in east midlands. Yard over the road is £110. Seems to be the going rate round here

 

[Beachbabe]

£75/month. Includes summer and winter paddocks, stable, tack room and hay barn. Working farm so no facilities but plenty of hacking. Just 3 of us so nice and quiet

Where are you? That’s so cheap!