Working Livery: Price - how does this compare?

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As title really.

Charges for working livery at a yard are as follows:- Winter months £50 per calender month which includes all bedding/hay & feed. Shoes extra (not sure if the yard pay anything towards shoeing though, would need to clarify). At this particular yard the horses have virtually no turn-out during the winter months; in the summer they do and the cost drops to £25 p.c.m.

I've no idea how this compares. The "working livery" would consist of the horse being used in the riding school run by the yard for no more than two sessions per day, for lessons/hacking etc.

Thoughts/observations please? Thanks.
 
Sounds a good price to me! Our working livery is free and includes everything including shoeing and worming. I'd definitely clarify for the shoeing as if they are riding him 2 hours a day, 7 days a week why should you pay for shoeing? Whereas if they were using him once per week then of course you wouldn't expect them to pay the farrier.
 
When I looked at working livery the price was £150 pcm for horse and £100 for pony PCM. They used them for up to 2 hrs a day and very limited turnout in winter. Didn't take it up as thought it was a lot of money! Found better DIY instead :)
 
unbalanced said:
Seems incredibly cheap to me. Around where I am from working livery would be nearly £100 a week: http://www.trentpark.com/livery-services.html
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Bloody hell, you could get good part livery for that, inc. bedding, hay(lage), feed, mucking out 7 days a week, t/o and b/i. All you'd have to do is ride and then you don't have the worry of other people riding your horse.
 
broke_but_happy said:
Bloody hell, you could get good part livery for that, inc. bedding, hay(lage), feed, mucking out 7 days a week, t/o and b/i. All you'd have to do is ride and then you don't have the worry of other people riding your horse.
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To be honest it wouldn't be my first choice of yard either, but I am a DIYer by nature anyway. People do pay it though - they have quite a few working liveries!!!
 
Sorry to resurrect this again: but as OP I need advice!

Further to my OP, I was misinformed re. the pricing.

Now, I understand that the cost for the winter months is £45 per WEEK for working livery - (the horse is being used in a riding school), not monthly! And this doesn't cover shoeing or "extra's".

This covers basic hay/haylage and bedding, but NOT hard feed or any "extra's" like supplements, vets, shoeing etc, but as I'm not riding the horse at the mo, currently YO is supplying hard feed and I think will be covering shoeing as they're getting sole use of the horse.

Turnout is extremely limited to e.g. a morning or afternoon per week.

Opinions appreciated ..........
 
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Do you struggle with time? Again my livery is £30 a week DIY with stable and AYTO (24/7 in summer). ETA: I noticed you're not riding your horse at the moment but would it hurt him/her to have the winter off?
 
Sounds like a great business idea- free horse for the riding school, not even having to pay hard feed or shoeing (which I presume your horse needs when in work) and charge 45 quid a week for the priviledge! Sorry but those are not terms I'd personally agree to unless it is the best thing for you and your horse (ie. horse needs to be kept in work and you don't have time to ride or look after him and can't afford full or schooling livery). Otherwise as already said just turn him away for winter. Robbin' beggars!
 
Imo its expensive but not ridiculously so, I doubt you could get DIY any cheaper (not where i live anyway) and then you'd need to factor in the cost of twice daily travel there, collecting feed, bedding, hay, organsising your own farrier etc. which if you're short of time may not be ideal? I think if your YO would split the costs of shoeing with you when you start riding again its maybe not such a bad deal?

I'm all for keeping horses as naturally as possible, out 24/7 ideally, but sometimes you need to also prioritise for yourself and if this arrangement suits you for the time being then stick with it. :)
 
£30
A week here in winter, with turnout can drop to £25 a week in summer when they live out.

This includes all care bedding etc.
Shoes etc extra.

So £50 a month seems very cheap to me!
 
I pay barely more than that for assisted DIY!!! And you could get full livering including all hardfeed and everything bar exercise for £75 p/w here!!
 
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