Working livery...some questions

madhector

madhector

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Ok, the situation is:

My friend is bringing her cob over for the summer, as she is fed up keeping her on her own, with no one to give her advice, and no company. Come september she will be back at uni and she cant bear to go back to a lonely field with no stable and no support, so she was beginning to think she couldnt cope, we had a long chat and I came up with the idea of putting the mare on working livery. This way she would have a much less stressful winter, with more time to study and more time to ride. She would also have company and instruction, and loads of people to help out if she has a problem (She has quite a low confidence level and finds it helpful to have someone reassure her that she is doing the right thing) She only rides maybe 2/3 times a week in term time so thought working livery would suit her well.

My questions are, how much would she be likely to pay per week? And how much do they do, how much does she have to do? Not had any experience if working livery before so cant be much help to her.

The cob is very quiet, easy and would make a perfect riding school horse, and could do with the extra exersize

Your thoughts please guys
 
We charge £48 per week for working livery. This includes the horses hard feed and hay, catch and turn out but not bedding, shoes, vets bills or insurance. We ask the owner to bring us a list at the start of each week stating when they are here to ride the horse and we try our best to work round their shedule.
The horses do a max of 2 hrs per day , sometimes they do not work at all. I only allow people who are up to a standard to ride the working liveries.
 
At our yard it's about £50 a week. They get used one hour a day in the week and 2 hours at the weekend. You can ride whenever he is not being used and it is possible to book him out for a day occasionally if you want to go somewhere.
 
One place (I live in N.West) asks for 3 hours per day! Others though 2 hours per day and charge about £30 per week which includes everything except shoeing, insurance and vets fees.One place is flexible and you pay according to how much you will allow the horse to be used.It can work very well.
 
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