Livery Fees

[Appaloosa]

Hi there people.

I am just interested in the prices that other people are paying for their livery. If you wouldn't mind putting down where abouts you come from, what you pay and what you get for the money I'd be really grateful. The only thing is I may be moving up country soon and am wondering if there are any changes in price.

I pay £22.50 a week, for showjumping field, all you can eat/sleep hay and straw, use of sandschool and farmland to ride on, a nice sized stable and a six acre field shared with on other horse.

I also pay £42 for a full set of shoes - what do you guys pay?

X - A - X

[maverick927]

I pay £30 for a set of shoes (N. Ireland). the price of livery is the same as you get for the facilites you have. the more facilities you want, the more expensive it gets.

[Showjumper]

I pay £55 a month for Doll which includes a stable, and year round grazing. There's a field we can ride in, and lots of hacking within a 2 minute walk. She doesn't get shoes and her feet trim is £15 every 10 weeks. I have to buy hay off the yard (they're organic so strict!) and Dolly's bedded on shavings in winter.

[jovi_y2k2]

I pay £40.60 a week for part livery which includes all hay, feed, straw bedding, turnout during day all year round and he is looked after for me during the week. Also includes use of menage and showjumps. feed supplements wormers and shoes r all extra costs its £48 for a set of shoes every 8weeks I'm from south yorkshire

[annamica]

I live in Kent where I pay £120 per week which includes Hay (all he can eat), stable, straw, feed, his own field, one lunge a week and 2 x 1 hour lessons for me a week (had to include the lessons and the lunge as they are part of the deal!) this also includes equilibra(sp?) too!! He is also looked after for me all week - only ever muck out my own stable on saturday - however most of the time I get there and the yard owner has done it for me anyway :D

The farrier charges £48 for a set of shoes (£53 with road nails).

[Sarah]

hee hee, make sure you are sitting down to read this!

i pay £6 a week per horse for grazing in a 4 acre field. We also have a 20x60 sand and rubber school, great hacking. If we want hay, it is £1 a bale (grown on the farm) and straw (if your hrose is in which costs £2 per night) is 70p a bale.

Shoeing costs me £34 (with one road nail per shoe).

I like living in Somerset!

bye!

[AJB]

Hi im in North East Surrey and pay approx £88 per month(ours is done on a daily rate) which includes my stable, grazing, use of covered sandschool and nothing else. I pay £58 a set of shoes including road nails. :)

[vickie]

i pay £16.50 a week in the summer, this includes t/o and use of a stable if required. in the winter it is £25.50 which includes feeding on a morning, and as much haylage and straw as you need, and t/o during the day. rug changes, turning out and even mucking out can be arranged for between 80p and £2 a day depending on what you want. facilites wise we have an indoor, an outdoor getting built this summer, 100 acres of fields to ride in and some off road hacking. i am in cleveland.

[Miriam]

I am in Chester le Street and on a farm. Our price depends on the size of the horse as it includes hay. Rhi is 14.1hh and I pay £70 (that is £10 for hay). We have the use of a paddock to ride in on a Tuesday, Thursday and weekend as it is also used as a starvation paddock until the menage is completed. We also have the use of two other small fields until poss. the end of the month along with a very small sand paddock. We can also ride around the fields. We also have a facility (a hose pipe) to wash our horses. We are not restricted in anything we wish to do and do not have any curfews (as I have heard about with other yards). Our field is shared with the gelding although there is a seperate field for mares and foals. We also have a starvation paddock. We slo have a fair sized stables.

We hold a meeting every year to see how many horses are requiring the use of the starvation paddocks and any other business we wish to discuss.

[liz--y]

i have a a yard, 3 stables and 6 acres i pay £200 a month for however many horses i have there

used to pay £11 a week for stable all year round turn out, own tack room, 24hr supervision and grass school
hay is £2.50 a bale
straw £1.70 a bale
hayledge £5
shavings you buy in

[sallym]

I'm in West Sussex. I pay £300 every 4 weeks for full livery which includes dedicated stable, turnout in starvation field (or other fields with grass is she was not so fat!), grooming, exercising, tack cleaning, rugging - everything really. I pay £30 a month extra for shavings and £52 every 8 weeks for the farrier. I buy my own wormers.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

SallyM

[bexj]

Gosh - doesn't it vary wildly. I am on the edge of Leeds and pay £25 per week for 24 hour grazing,stable, use of outdoor menage and small indoor menage.

In the winter when we will probably have her on part livery, it is £42 per week including straw, unlimited hay and daily turnout. Most of the yards are this price round us.

I just paid £47 for a new set of shoes, but as I won't be using that farrier again, I'm not sure how much other people charge!

[Kezzabelle]

I live in Glasgow and for Cleo im paying £25 a week which includes her box, grazing, use of an out door school. Its £7 a week for straw - as much as you like and £7 a week for hay - as much as you like. Its £40 for a full set of shoes.

Kez xx

[helen03]

jesus christ some of the prices are sky high!
i pay £15 a week for my stable and field , the fields are rotated every 2-3 months so there is always good quality grass (we have 4 different fields a year), we also have a sand school and a jumping field.we can ride in some fields as we please.we have to buy our hay and straw from the yard (grown and cut here) for £1.50 straw and £2 hay.We all buy our own food seperately as all our horses have different needs.and in the winter we pay £7 a week for as much haylage as we want.we also have our own seperate 'bays' for storing personal stuff seperate from other peoples, and a comunal tack room if we wish to use it as well.

[helen03]

oh yeah and £36 for a set of shoes (although my horse has special heel raiser shoes for a tendon injury , that are an extra £10) and this si in cornwall.

[Sarah B]

Gosh - the prices do vary don't they. I live in Oxfordshire near the Ridgeway and the Berkshire downs. I pay £55 for shoeing (no road studs - just normal shoeing) and £85 a week for full livery - including hay and straw - which the farmer grows himself.
Last winter the bedding was changed to shavings - so I pay extra every month for shavings!

The full livery includes 2 schooling sessions for the horse. We have access to a very small covered school and occassional use of a paddock for outdoor schooling with some jumps.

The farm used to be a milk farm and the fields have been planted with the wrong type of grass and too much clover (which the horses refuse to eat)!! My horse is also in the starvation paddock a lot as the grass is so rich that he has a big fat belly! Unfortunately, the electric fence is not very high, and when he gets too hungry - he jumps out into a grassy paddock - or the open field next to the paddock! Also, the ground is clay and chalk, which means that it turns into a slippery boggy mess as soon as it rains, and back to concrete hard mud shortly after it stops raining!!

There also seems to be a problem convincing the farmer that a horse is not a cow - and therefore has different requirements!

Unfortunately, around here this is the lower end of the pricing for full livery - and because of my job, I can't commit to being there for him every morning and afternoon!

I think I'll move to somewhere cheaper - maybe with Sarah in Somerset!!!:D

[Esther.D]

This isn't totally relevant to what you were asking ...but I'll tell you anyway!:D

We keep ours out all year round on 60-100 acres of moorland (an extra field is opened up in winter to make the 100 acres) with 200 of the farmer's sheep and a few cattle. There is natural water in the field all year round and natural shelter composed of rocks, little valleys and stone walls. We have no access to stabling.

We have access to about 4 miles of private gated and fenced farm tracks which have no traffic apart from the odd tractor or quad bike.

This costs us £150 a month in total for 6 equines - 1 16.2hh, 1 13.2hh and 4 shetlands. It works out at approx £40 for the 16.2hh, £30 for the 13.2hh and £20 each for the shetlands per month.

We buy all our own feed but the rent includes the farmer checking them everyday when he checks his stock and feeding them for us in the winter.
Not bad service for £150 for 6 horses!:D

It costs us £100 for all of them to be trimmed + farriers travelling expenses (he lives 40 miles away!). So this equals about £16.50 per horse for trimming, including the travelling. He is also a very good farrier - hence we kept him after we moved.

[Sarah]

Sarah B,

I forgot to add that since I moved down to Somerset, my 10 mile journey into work in the centre of Taunton at rush hour takes me 20 mins...

When are you moving down?

bye!

[Sarah B]

Arrrgggghhh! My 55 mile drive to work in Bristol takes me just over an hour - on a good day and it once took nearly 3 hrs!!!!!

I don't want to move closer cos I will only be here for 2-3 years (already been here nearly 1 year) and I could not face moving out of my house and trying to find new place for horse!!



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[HairyCob]

I too live in Somerset........ and I love it too! ( Hi Sarah!)

I pay £14 per week for american barn style stabling and grazing which totals around 15 acres. We have to strip graze because the grazing is so good! In winter I pay cost for shavings or straw and hay and haylage..... last winter it was £1.20 bale for hay, £2.50 bale for haylage ( lovely stuff too- I would have eaten it myself!!;) ) shavings are around £5 a bale, and straw not much more than £1...can't bed H.C. on straw though cause he eats it!
Farrier comes when called and charges £12 for a trim, £30 for a front set and back trim and £40 for a full set. Road nails at a pound each!

We have use of a starvation area if necesary, a field for winter turnout (24hrs 7 days a week if we want it), a field to ride in and excellent hacking on our doorstep...... beach, woods, moor, bridleways, quiet country lanes.
We also look after the horses on a rota system, so each owner has to go down two or three times a week and check water in summer, fill buckets and hang hay nets in winter either morning or evening depending on which shift they are on- obviously everyone is welcome to go down at any other time they want to, but it is lovely on a cold winter's morning to know that someone you trust implicitly is sorting your horse out for you and you can stay in bed!!
My god I'm lucky!;) :D

Anyone fancy Somerset? Actually, no, don't you all come down here, pushing our prices up!!! LOL!!:D

H.C's Mum!

[helen03]

yeah we also have a rota system, 2 of the girls do morning turn outs and me an d another girl do bedding down and bring in's.it makes it a lot easier knowing you don't have to be there all the time especially with work and the prices of full or part livery!you gotta trust that the others will do it though!

[Waikato Valuta]

what are road nails?

I adgist at two different places

First is a 6acre feild with good trails but also alot of roads to cross it is $95 a month 38pounds or 54euro

The other place has a slanted menage(means the horses run down one side) and private paddocks feed twice a day but i pay for feed. there are no trails except on friday when the ragers are at home. it costs $137 a month 54pounds or 78 euro

[Secret Trick]

I'm from NZ but thought I'd add my info in anyway!! And I've even gone to the trouble of converting it to pounds, like Waikato Valuta lol

For my grazing, I pay 35 pounds ($100) a month, this includes the use of paddocks (organised by the owner), an indoor arena, yards, stall if needed. Not to mention all the free help and advice I get!! For a trim I pay 7 pounds ($20).

[annamica]

Waikato Valuta - road nails are tungsten tipped nails that give you grip on slippery roads. But they re more expensive than normal nails

[Old but trying!]

I am in Berkshire. We pay £23 per week for full grass livery, no stable, no place to store tack. In winter hay will be extra. There is an indoor school which can be used if not booked already and country hacking but some quite busy roads. Full livery is £70, feed extra. £45 for the farrier every 6 weeks. £35 for the physio and £20 for the dentist.

I am amazed at the difference in prices. It is very difficult finding a yard that you feel will look after your horse and provide the facilities that you want. As someone said there seems to be more horses than liveries spaces available. I havent found many choices round here so unless you have your own land it seems that you have to make a compromise somewhere.

[welshie girl]

I pay £55 per week for full livery, this includes all food and bedding, I have the full use of 2 sand schools, 1 indoor school, x-c course, jumping field and hacking fields and discounted lessons

[tbone]

I pay $100 - $175 dollars around that range It comes with 3 outdoor arenas loads of trails to hack on to.Tbone also gets shoed for free since he is a school horse.He does live out in a pasture though.I don't know how many pounds that is?

[Cheko]

I have a 12.3hh pony and he's kept at grass livery, although at the moment he is in some of the time as he's getting too fat. He costs me £77 a month inc. hay and straw. I have a young girl looking after him during the week and she gets to ride him. I couldn't possibly manage without her. I work miles away from where I live so cant get to the stables every day as I leave at 6.15am each morning and get home at 6.30 pm in the evening if I'm lucky! I see him every weekend and every day when I'm on holiday from work.

[CT]

Hi

And I thought London was expensive!

I pay £350pm for half livery in London. This includes 2 lots of shavings per week, all feeds, turn out and bring in, use of an indoor school, outdoor school and jumping field. Full livery is £650 per month!!

Farrier £55 every 6 weeks.

Somerset sounds lovely..................

CT

[baileys]

hiya!
Im lucky enough to have a small yard. For livery i charge

DIY; £15 pr wk for stable + grazing (£10 for just grass in the summer), it includes a bale of straw a week during the winter.

Full; is £50 pr wk which includes hay/straw/feed/worming and care.

We have forest and mountain riding and are 2 miles from the beach. We use a caravan for a tack room at the moment! and we have a 20 X 40 sandschool (or will have next week - its on the brink of being finished!)
I sell small bale haylage at £5 a bale and this year we'll hay hay too which will be £2 a bale, if they need extra straw it would be £1.50 pr bale.

I'm in Pembs, in West Wales :cool:

[baileys]

oh and a full set is £40 - £47 around here
to trim its £10 - £15

[Evol_or_revert]

Im in New Zealand, I pay, $15 a week per horse, for a tiny paddock and a bit of land to ride on.

Shoes are $60 - $75

[alexa]

I do not live in England and pay in Euros. I pay 470 euros per month - this is a bit more than the other people at my place because my horse is on shavings as he is allergic to dust and straw makes him cough. This includes a big stable, daily turnout, food. I pay my own hay again because of his allergy I get special dust free hay, otherwise the hay is made there and is really good and included int he price. The facilities are good, 3 round pens, 1 big outside school, 1 big outside jumping school. I training track for racing. Nearby forest for riding out and relaxing in. Knowledgable grooms who live on site so someone is always there which is good for security also. Shoeing is about 65 euros for a complete new set, this is regular shoeing for a horse with no special problems. I am not sure of the euro / pound exchange so can't turn it into pounds.

[HAYLEY GITTOES]

I pay £20.00 a week for my rent which i have one stable, nice size field, tack room, I think i pay a little bit to much, but my horse loves it here, the owner is great and the security couldn't get any better.

My shoes cost me £52.00 every 6-8 weeks (they have just gone up £2.00)

[Jakes Mum]

I am on a lovely friendly little DIY yard where there are 10 horses in total. I pay £17.50 per week for stable and grazing, which also includes unlimited straw. We have permanent electric fencing round all the fields, a winter turn out field which never gets muddy :D , a starvation paddock, a full sized floodlit sandschool and a paddock set up with at least 10 jumps in it and plenty of off road hacking and fields to ride in if required. The tack room is connected to an alarm system. Hay is provided at £3/bale or you can bring your own. The owner of the yard will turn out or bring in if ever needed. My boy is barefoot so I only have a trim to pay for at £15 (although I do pay the farrier £20 because he is worth it ;) )

[HAYLEY GITTOES]

I pay £20.00 a week for a stable and field, which i think is quite expensive but i like it there and Molly loves it there, and the security couldn't be better.