Your yard costs!

[Matchbox Milo]

I was wondering if you guys could give me a hand?
If you could share your yard costs with me that would be great :]
I'm going to be stabling one small pony.
I would just like to know the monthly stable rent and any additional costs you may have. (Bedding - is it supplied etc).

I know it's different in every area, I would just like a basic idea.
DIY and part livery are what I'm mainly looking at due to expense but i'm interested in full too if possible.
Anyone in the Rayleigh or surrounding area would be extra helpful too!

Thank you :cool:

[sadiesparkle]

At our yard it's £48 per week inclusive of as much hay, straw and feed as you want. If you are on shavings, you get one bale per week at that rate. Also includes unlimited use of all facilities - 3 schools, horse walker, wash room and they even have onsite hacking.

On top of that you have your regular costs though - shoes, lessons, worming, vet, insurance etc.

xxx

[Starla_LaLa]

Hi, Im not near your area but I keep my horses on DIY at a private yard in Essex. They both live out, so no stable but I have a field shelter and acres of grazing, a flood lit school, x country course and miles of off road hacking.
I pay £25 p/w per horse.
Previous to this, both my horses were stabled at a DIY yard, where i payed £30 p/w per horse for a stable/field each. The yard had a menage and semi decent hacking. When my horses were stabled I was paying around £300 a month for livery, bedding and feed. I used shavings which were around £8 a bale, and they both had hard feed all winter. There are then things like shoeing and worming to facter in as and when they are needed.
Hope that helps slightly?

[Matchbox Milo]

At our yard it's £48 per week inclusive of as much hay, straw and feed as you want. If you are on shavings, you get one bale per week at that rate. Also includes unlimited use of all facilities - 3 schools, horse walker, wash room and they even have onsite hacking.

On top of that you have your regular costs though - shoes, lessons, worming, vet, insurance etc.

xxx


Hm that sounds really good, the fact that you can take as much hay , straw and feed and what have you. Sounds nice. Yeah, I know about additional costs. I've not had a horse for two years now, so i'm looking to get back into it now I'm settled in my job etc. I'm only looking for a shetland or project pony - not too fussed about the riding side anymore, I just miss the horse environment and having one to care for and put my trust in. thank you :)


Edit: Starla Lala : thank you, that is helpful. I guess i could consider grass livery as long as there is shelter. I just worry they'd freeze :P

[Starla_LaLa]

OHHH, i forgot about hay. £3 a bale... I dont even want to THINK about how much hay i feed over winter. it may make me cry...

[*LiSa*]

when i had a horse it was £21 a week then £1 per hour fot the lighting for the school, then £30 for a big bale of hay which never lasted long, £8 for shaving, £1.50 per turn out when i couldn't get there and then his hard food..i ended up paying nearly £50 a week sometimes with out putting money aside for shoes, clipping, worming, rugs etc.

[popularfurball]

I have been trying to work out the costs too... I worked it out for about £67 a week I think

£15 p/w stable/grazing/use of school 780
£16 p/w shavings (two bales a week, she will be in nights, out days) 832
£10 per week hay/lage 520
£60 per year worming
£50 per year vaccs (hoping to split vet call out charges - our vet charges about £35 for the vacc)
£300 per year rugs (bigger allowance due to needing fully operative sweet itch hoodies, turnouts etc will just buy cheaper on ebay although she winters mainly rugless I think)
£20 per month bits and pieces
£40 every 6 weeks for shoes (fronts only) and a trim 360
£70 per year for teeth
£20 per month insurance

If she needs a feed in winter, then she will only be on a small amount of happy hoof, although Im hoping she wont really need feeds as she will have turnout and decent ad lib haylage (hardy little welshie :) . Im not sure if this is realistic, but Im hoping Ive pretty much billed for everything - apart from unplanned stuff like vets fees.

I have also generally over estimated (will really use one, possibley one and a half bales of shavings a week, and they are usually 6-7 a bale, not £8. Rugs I wont spend that much, but need to allow incase I have too. Haylage will be less in summer as will be in bales of hay £3.50 a go, winter is unlimited haylage for £10 per week. Shoeing will also be £30 if I change yard.

[Matchbox Milo]

when i had a horse it was £21 a week then £1 per hour fot the lighting for the school, then £30 for a big bale of hay which never lasted long, £8 for shaving, £1.50 per turn out when i couldn't get there and then his hard food..i ended up paying nearly £50 a week sometimes with out putting money aside for shoes, clipping, worming, rugs etc.

Ahh, see, that's one problem I have.
Some yards have a time where horses have to be brought in from the field by don't they?
I finish work at six so unless I can take it in turns with someone else (I put theirs out in the morning for example),
I will probably have to pay for that too.

edit: popularfurball: that's really, helpful, thanks. I guess i'm going to have to look about a lot more.

[TEmily]

My friend who has a yard charges £45 pw (though thinking of putting it up to £50), for stable and grazing, all straw, haylage and feed. In addition, she turns out/brings in your horse, AND feeds in morning and evening along with all hers on yard. I think this works really well because it means you just need to go once a day, at whatever time you want, to do mucking out and don't need to work round meal times/turnouts.

Not much in way of facilities though - a good set of showjumps in paddock but they go away for the winter, and a sandy schooling paddock but its slightly sloped and too slippy if rain has been excessively heavy. And winter turnout is only for a couple of hours a day. Summer you can either live out or have around 7hrs turnout a day.

The only slight downside is that you do kind of have to slot into the Y/O's routine - e.g. your horse gets introduced to a particluar turnout group (split mares/geldings/youngsters/ponies etc) and you can't put your horse out if it is not your group's turn. So depends how much independence you want really.

[jsr]

I pay £20 a week. For that I get indoor and outdoor school, grazing, stable and my horse bought in mon-fri in the afternoons. I pay extra £5 a week for hay in the winter (buy my own small bales in summer cos he comes in only for a couple of hours then). Grazing is appauling at ours but they are allowed out 24/7 which is important for me but I have the stable if I need it. :D

[Laura83]

£265 per month for full grass livery.

I have no stable, but prefer 24/7 turnout all year round anyway. Feed and hay is included. Tack is cleaned weekly, my pone is brought in for the farrier, chiro, physio, vet, dentist, saddler etc. YM keeps record of everything for me, my pony automatically appears on the list for the farrier or dentist when she's due for example. If I want the chiro or physio the date is written on the board and I just stick her name on the list and leave payment in my pigeon hole. Someone else does all the arranging :D

Farrier is £23 for a trim every 6 weeks.
Dentist is £38 every 6 months or thereabouts (however long he tells us to wait between visits)
Chiro is £30 every couple of months but if there is nothing needing doing she doesn't take payment.
Physio is £78 every couple of months.
Saddler tends to be very variable but about £35-40 normally for minor adjustments.

Those are roughly my (regular) costs, if I evened it all out over a year I probably spend on average £300 a month. We share callouts for vaccinations, saddler etc. advantages of having a yard full of horses all done by the same professional is that costs are significantly reduced!

[Flony_Pony]

I pay £160 a month for assisted DIY

They turnout and bring in for you in the winter and will do one of the above in the summer (depending if you want your horse in or out) for example mind get brought in for me in the mornings.

We have a school, jump field, all year part day turnout, and a lovely yard owner......

[HJ]

I get a good deal

Mine 17.50 a week so £70.00 a month

For that I get, an American barn stable, 24/7 T/O if wanted.
A paddock to ride in, on site tea room and toilet, mains electric and water too


The girls bring him in every morning and sometimes T/O in the afternoon if there's are turned out before I get there.

I do have to pay for hay and straw and we all supply our own feed.

[ladyluxor]

i pay £20 a week for my field, That include water.They take the poo away etc.
We have put our own field shelter up and that saves us the cost of £5 a wk for them putting one up for us.
I then just get the straw and hay as and when need it from the farmer.

So it is more in the winter.
That field is big enough to have 3 big horses or 2 big horses and 2 small. so i dnt have to pay that per horse.

[beating_hooves]

Yard has big Indoor & outdoor manege, indoor wash area, and good size stables and good hacking.

£100 p/w for full livery. Includes all bedding/feed/forage etc.

£70 p/w for DIY includes bedding and forage but not hard feed. And obviously you've got to see to the horse yourself :)

[huskyfinn]

£52.pw for assisted livery, that includes bedding and hay (as much as we need/want) turn out, morning feed (or bring in and night feed if easier for you) rug change, night time check, someone on site at all times, all year round grazing (but in each night).

or i can keep 3 ponies for £40 pw diy livery (stable and field), bedding is £3.00 per bale of straw or £7.50 for shavings. hay is £1.25 per bale or we all chip in as a yard and put £10 each per week and that gives us as much straw and hay as we want.

for the ponies it costs me £50 every 6 weeks for feet trimming (that's for all 3 of them not each), they use one tube of wormer between them which costs about £15, insurance is just the annual membership with the BHS as they are non rideable but it covers me for public liability etc.

so all in all my 3 ponies cost me less than my one big horse does! :eek: but he's my riding horse and needs a different 'lifestyle' to the ponies! :D

[Harlequin32]

Having just read your whats the smallest post it might be worth considering that some yards do special rates for ponies?- Mine does as we have some little stables to small for a big horse so they are cheaper to under 14hh owners!
Worth asking maybe? oh and you will be able to buy gorgeous little patterned pony rugs! I'm jealous and may have to buy a pony too:D

[Matchbox Milo]

Having just read your whats the smallest post it might be worth considering that some yards do special rates for ponies?- Mine does as we have some little stables to small for a big horse so they are cheaper to under 14hh owners!
Worth asking maybe? oh and you will be able to buy gorgeous little patterned pony rugs! I'm jealous and may have to buy a pony too:D


yes, that is very true!


thank you every body for replying - you are all so lovely! :)

[acw295]

For £16 pw DIY I get:

Stable, storage, option of 24/7 turnout all year round in large group, small sand school, jumping paddock with some small SJ and XC fences. Cheap hay and straw grown onsite, good off road hacking, good security and lovely people.

Only been there 6 weeks but LOVE it :D:D

[Matchbox Milo]

For £16 pw DIY I get:

Stable, storage, option of 24/7 turnout all year round in large group, small sand school, jumping paddock with some small SJ and XC fences. Cheap hay and straw grown onsite, good off road hacking, good security and lovely people.

Only been there 6 weeks but LOVE it :D:D

Sounds smashing.. Think I ought to move to a different area! :p

[acw295]

It was very hard to find around here - 24/7 turnout very rare indeed. This yard doesn't advertise, was a word of mouth discovery. It is very basic but perfect for my Molly :)

Sounds smashing.. Think I ought to move to a different area! :p

[cookster1975]

I pay £20 p.w. for D.I.Y. Livery. Ours are stabled at night in winter and out all the time in summer.

We have electric and water but no school.

I did think about listing all costs but started to and got too scared!! I like to live in complete denial!;):D

[ponyzrule]

I'm in west yorkshire
I pay £26 a week, for use of 2 arenas, stable, grazing, xc course, jumping paddock, loose schooling/lunging arena, turnout paddocks, + more!

In Summer:
Hay is £3.75 per bale
Straw is £3.00 per bale
You have to buy your own shavings and hayledge in

In Winter:
Hay is £12 a week to get as much as you want
Straw is £10 a week to get as much as you want
Hayledge is £14 a week to get as much as you want
You have to buy your own shavings in

[ferna]

I pay £18 per week stable grazing all hay all year round, tack room, rug barn, and feed barn, wash down stable too, but no menage however we are on a bridle path. DIY, but we all tend to help each other out when those dreaded winter months appear!!!