YO/Liverys does this sound resonable/would you do it?

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Hi everyone we currently have a yard with 20 stables 11 are full with full liveries and 4 full with our own horses we are really struggling to fill the last few, i was thinking of offering part livery with the following:
stable,grazing everyday,feed will feed to,haylage and turn out n bring in for £45/£50?
We currently do full at £65, my worry the yard has really nice liveries with no bitching:O and i would hate for this to start,just wondering what everyone thinks and is the price realistic?thanks :)
 
When I was at my last yard, I was on part livery & it included the following: T/O with rug change, B/I, Morning Feed, & hay turnout everyday (but in winter small 'sick paddocks' for 2 hours & I paid £55-£60 per week so yeh seams pretty reasonable to me..
 
I have a DIY livery. Its not a professional yard, just me and my cob and I live on-site 24/7. Location (east) Devon. My livery pays £60 per calendar month. For this she gets 3 acres of good grazing, sub divided if she wants, with no other horses turned out with hers. Mains water/electric & good-sized small yard with plenty of room for visiting farriers/vets etc to park; own loose-box. She provides her own feed/fodder & bedding. Hacking OK'ish, could be better but could be worse. Livery has own secure tack-room & room to store fodder. No sandschool here but one available to hire 5 mins away.

I don't do anything to the horses - its in the agreement that liveries are solely responsible for doing their own. Tho' I'd notify the owner if anything looked wrong.

Hope this helps.
 
I offer that at £45, but they have to pay extra for/provide for their own haylage, bedding and hard feed...

Depends also on whereabouts in the country you are as imagine down south that is what some people pay for just pure DIY.
 
martlin said:
TBH I don't know how you manage to offer full livery for £65 and make any money...
£45/£50 I assume is without mucking out or bedding? - in that case it should be doable.
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I agree totally, what I will say about part-livery which includes a skip out, is that it''s open to abuse, people will leave their beds annd each day you find it harder to skip out.

also, how must time difference is there between a skip out and muck out?

I don't do part anymore, diy with services
 
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I've just opened my yard, only do full and part livery, both include turnout, fetching in etc, all hay, bedding and feed, mucking put daily. Full is seven days a week, £90 a week and part is mon - fri, diy at weekends £70 a week. At the minute I only have two part liveries, really nice people, nice horses etc.

I have advertised online and locally and have had a lot of interest but not many viewings, was starting to wonder if prices were too high and if I should take on diys etc. Then I saw mesage on fb that one of my liveries had wrote to a friend. She was praising the yard to the moon and back, and when I stood back and looked I realised I actually have something special and by waiting for stables to fill (which I don't doubt that they will given time) I will get a better set of liveries that are more likely to stay here long term rather than selling myself short and filling the yard full of people that are going to stay until something cheaper comes up.

If it was me I'd stick to what you're doing and wait. I'm sure they'll fill up
 
kayleighn said:
I have advertised online and locally and have had a lot of interest but not many viewings, was starting to wonder if prices were too high and if I should take on diys etc. Then I saw mesage on fb that one of my liveries had wrote to a friend. She was praising the yard to the moon and back, and when I stood back and looked I realised I actually have something special and by waiting for stables to fill (which I don't doubt that they will given time) I will get a better set of liveries that are more likely to stay here long term rather than selling myself short and filling the yard full of people that are going to stay until something cheaper comes up.

If it was me I'd stick to what you're doing and wait. I'm sure they'll fill up
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I echo this, all you can do is look at what else is around you, what they have and at what price.

Assuming you think you have it right, you just have to wait for the full liveries to fill up, it says something that DIY-ers move more often than full-ers!

It is a waiting game assuming to have something good to offer!
 
I'm on part livery - £35 week.
Includes adlib hay/haylage. Feed in morning (I buy feed), rug change, turnout, bring in 5 days per week. YO also makes sure they have hay and water when they come in.
 
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