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Can i ask how much you all pay to keep your horses per week/month

How much does it cost you to keep your horse on full livery as well as some lessons, shoeing, worming and everything else?

So roughly, how much per week/month?

Just want to know if I'm getting a good deal. I will be on full livery ride 3 times a week with an instructor and obviously shoe and worm as necessary.

Many thanks xx
 
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I'm paying 500 for part livery (everything but grooming and exercise, I like to do that myself :), plus 65 for shoes and 35/h for lessons. I'm in London :)
 
I'm on DIY. I get field and stable only for £30 a week which also includes out-door and in-door school free of charge. There are a couple of jumps in a few of the field aswel. I provide/buy everything else on top. Full livery is available at £7 perday on top but I would still provide shavings, hay and feed. I get him trimmed every 5/6 weeks at £20 as he is barefoot.

Not sure about lessons, people tend to bring in a outside instructor to teach them and shoeing costs vary depending on farrier and also if horse wears 2/4 shoes or barefoot so would only need a trim.

I live outside Edinburgh
 
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eva said:
I'm paying 500 for part livery (everything but grooming and exercise, I like to do that myself :), plus 65 for shoes and 35/h for lessons. I'm in London :)
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500 per month i take it?
And how often do you ride a week?

sorry to be so curious, i'm looking for a horse and trying to find a good deal to keep my horse on if i get one :p
 
£20 p/w for assisted diy livery in ne scotland, this includes as much hay and straw as i want. I am lucky i found a private yard with an older couple who dont want to make anything out of it.
 
£120 per month for DIY livery inc haylege and straw in winter, use of outdoor floodlit school, free trailer parking, all year round turnout for the tb

Assisted livery is available to a point and costs per transaction e.g you can pay for a rug change, or a skip out, or a turn out separately. A full day of livery care would cost an extra £6(ish) and would include breakfast, skip out, rug change, turn out, bring in, dinner, rug change


My pony lives separately on an old farm, he has a stable with electric and running water, year round turn out and you can set up the field as suits , no assisted livery is available but my friend and I share the work between us. I pay £60 per month for that.
 
I pay £100/month for grass livery (facilities include; indoor school.outdoor school, xc field, wonderful hacking) £60 on a full set of shoes when needed. About £8 on feed a month. £25 for a private lesson every two weeks.:)
Thats about it!:D
 
I pay £65 for full livery. £50 for shoeing, not sure about the worming costs.
he is exercised when I'm busy for no extra fee, by other "clients" at the stables, but all people I know, very good riders who may be sharing one horse between 2 or 3 people.

lessons are £15 per hour for a group, and I think £20 for a private??? I get some lessons thrown in free though, as the yard changes the same rate whether you ride your own horse or one of the stable's.
There are usually trips to the beach, or a cross country course once a week, or a fortnight.

I'm in Leicestershire, very horsey area, prices can vary a lot!
 
I rent place for my 3 so its cheaper £50 a month has 2 stables and 3 fields to use with water no electricity.

Shoes every 4-5 weeks £63 a set and other 2 trims every 6-8wks at £15 each

Lessons which i would box to when were sound enough to start again - £30 hr with pro rider

Wormers - £56 each horse yr

Dentist - £42 each x2 a year

Vets - vac's £40 each plus call out

Insurance - £12 a month for one, £350 a yr for another and £300 for other one

Feed - £20 a month plus supplements which add up to around £40 a month
 
april till october
free when im at home and riding lessons from a friend so, it costs me £50 every 7 weeks for shoes and so far its cost me £10 for 3 months of feed.

novemeber till march
£50 a week working livery. so everything is done for me, shes ridden, mucked out, groomed and i get an indoor school and free use of jumps and £10 an hour lessons. also because shes quite highly strung she is only ridden by good riders in the riding school so i know she wont be spoilt and she only has to do it 3 hours a week. it would be £120 a week otherwise for the same deal. 3 hours of her being used and i get £70 saved. doesnt seem like a bad deal to me
 
I'm going tomorrow and looking forward to it :)

The place I would keep my horse on is a riding school has full livery for £92 a week including turnout, feeding, rugging, full access to schools, xc fields etc, mucking out - the lot.
Lessons vary, my pony club lessons are currently £18, but £10 with your own horse. and lessons with a senior insturctor are £26 per hour with own horse.
 
I always think these posts are quite useful, as I dont otherwise ever stop to think about what I spend....!

Monthly costs for one horse, DIY livery:

£160 - livery fee (hay and one bale of bedding inclusive)
£24 - four bales of extra bedding
£52 - insurance
£40 approx - farrier (£60-70 every 6/7 weeks)
£20 - hard feed
£50 - miscellaneous...fly spray, rugs, leadropes, hoof oil etc

Obviously this doesnt include vets costs or entry fees, but we're looking at about £340-360 for one horse, for one month...
 
There was a thread similar to this a couple of months ago and the cost of my horse a year, including hay, bedding, shoeing, comp fees, lessons tack, insurance, wormers vet fees and it cam to about £10,000 a year. So monthly he costs about 800 :o omg I didn't wanna see that!

He is out competing twice a week though and my instructor is £50 and hour sow ithout comp fees and expensive instructor it would be a lot cheaper!
 
£45 a week, for that i get;

a fantastic yard and yard owner.... indoor.outdoor.miles of off road hacking.xc course.all year turnout.,shavings(or straw).haylege and hay, really fab yard :)
 
I don't know if I want to add all this up!

Haylage (winter) £40 per week, one bale lasts around a week for the three of them,
Farrier £65 a full set every 5 weeks, pony just trimmed £20,
Feeding £70 per month including 1 bag of Topspec £30,
Bedding (winter) £35 approx per week,
Livery N/A as at home.

Not including vet bills, impromptu shopping trips for new rugs/tack, wormers, the odd lesson, transport costs etc.
 
boogles said:
WHAT! *chokes on tea* jeeeeeez lol :P
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Thats what I thought when I first heard of her, she doesn't even travel to you! But she is a fellow 1 of 6 in the country and probably the best instructor I have ever had. I don't normally use her but as I'm training for exams etc and she is an PC A test examiner and BHS examiner I feel she is the best to teach me :p I do feel I achieve more with her in an hour then I do in a couple of months with other insturctors :)
 
£30 a week DIY which includes stable, feed and turnout in the morning if hes in. YO grows own haylage so during the winter £30 a bale every 6/7 weeks (all the liveries buy a bale each and we take turns), £45 a month insurance, £60 for full set of shoes every 6 weeks, £10 per month feed in winter, £4.50 per bale of shavings, I used one every week in winter, nothing in summer cause hes out 24/7. I pay £10 for a half hour private lesson from my YO who is also a RI and will average about 3 lessons per week.

Thats not including new rugs, tack, ointments and potions and supplements and monthly spur of the moment trips to the saddlery - and I dont even want to think about how much I spend on those cause I might actually cry :D
 
I have a good deal - but I have to considering all the cr*$ I put up with!
I rent a 4 acre feild, horses live out 24/7 but do also have 2 'sheds' I can use when I do have to bring them in.
I pay £45 for 2 per month, that includes water, but the sheds has no electicity. I get hay and straw free (farmers daughter!). I have to limit my competitions, but this year alone I would have paid about £150 on shows/ jumping and ODE's. I don't normally have any lessons as my mum helps me if needed. Shoeing every 8-10 weeks at £60 per set, £20 a trim. No insurance. £30 + odd vets annual jab (only get 1 done). Wormed twice a year at whatever cost. 1 bag pony nuts every 3 weeks summer time, and 2 bags/ 3 weeks + alfa winter.
My only BIG expense is the amount of NZ rugs Meg goes through, sometimes 4 per winter!! I therefore have learnt a valuable lesson and refuse to rug her before November and strip her off early March, as this saves me at least 1 rug!!
 
I don't pay for my stables just pay the costs... We bale our own haylage so that comes in at about 400 a year (very ish)

Shoes 1 half set (I have horses with hard feet!) +trimming about 50 -60 /month

I buy shavings 100 bales at a time (cheaper in bulk) and probably do that twice a year so £450 x2 per year

Hard feed about £40 per month for 2 horses

Mucking out £10 per day about 4 days a week

wormer/ vets / grooming products etc etc variable !!

Blitz
 
Which horses are you going to see at Hazlehurst?? I was down there today! Tried Cruise, Daisy and Poppy. Let me know by PM if you want my opinions before you go!
 
just moved to a new yard -
£20 a week - DIY livery - stable/grazing/use of indoor menage
horse lives out all year - so no bedding costs
hay - aprox £6 per week - averaged out throughout yr
insurance - £32 a month
shoes - £55 every 6/7 weeks
wormer - aprox £36 a year
feed - over year about £25 a month
supplements [arthritic elederly horse] - £20 a month

That would be my baseline figure - I actually spend far far more than that:D
 
Around where I am it's about £150 - £200 per week for full livery. Plus shoes (£60 full set) and lessons (min £20 an hour)

thank god for DIY :P
 
I pay £200 per month to rent my yard with three acres, I have two hay rolls a month at £20 each from September to about March, I spend about £200 on trims and shoes for my whole herd, £70 a month on feeds, my worming costs vary. Plus all the odds and sods I also buy. My lot live out most of the year.
 
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