appy
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Post by appy on Dec 19, 2010 21:14:36 GMT 1
Hi all
If you run a livery yard, I wonder if I could pick your brains - what do you budget per horse for your part liveries in terms of hay in the winter? Do you set a £ or do you assume x bales per horse per day/week/month?
Just wondering how you set your budget across the year...... Am going through a budgeting exercise for a potential opportunity.
Thanks very much for any help you can give!
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Post by june on Dec 19, 2010 22:04:41 GMT 1
We assume half a bale a day per horse throughout winter.
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tobyh
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Post by tobyh on Dec 20, 2010 1:06:51 GMT 1
A bale a day per horse or pony, that way I always have enough to cover ad lib hay all year round. So 1 horse 365 bales per year x £3 so £91.25 per month, straw the same 1 bale a day as some liveries want 24/7 turnout in summer others want their horses in at night etc etc.
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Post by jen1 on Dec 20, 2010 12:19:39 GMT 1
id assume 1 full bale of hay perday, we make our own haylage and it takes 8 horses 1 and a half days to eat a big round bale,
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Amanda Seater
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Post by Amanda Seater on Dec 20, 2010 16:52:37 GMT 1
yup to be safe a bale a day for horses, half for anything under 14.2hh
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Post by lisap on Dec 21, 2010 11:07:14 GMT 1
We budget 2 bales of hay per horse over a period of 18 weeks and annualise the cost in everyone's monthly rent.
Although we must seem extremely stingy in comparison with everyone who budgets a bale a day, our horses are all on the fat side, (I'm being tactful - some of them are elephants!) and none of them are hungry. This is also due to the fact that we have well drained winter grazing with a large amount of longish grass. Our hay is also absolute top quality, which means none gets wasted.
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Amanda Seater
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Post by Amanda Seater on Dec 21, 2010 13:22:31 GMT 1
oh btw - my hay budget isn't for all year - it is for 6 months - this leaves a bit over if someone has to be on yard/box rest etc in the summer.
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appy
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Post by appy on Dec 21, 2010 13:30:35 GMT 1
LisaP, can I ask a dumb question - is that 2 bales per day over an 18 week period, ie 5 months?
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Post by june on Dec 21, 2010 19:47:53 GMT 1
Thinking about it, it is quite hard to work out hay in terms of bales. I've been using hay from two sources this winter and one source makes much bigger bales than the other. They are almost twice the size of the other ones. There's no way any of ours - 15.2ish - would eat a bale of that a day and we do feed hay ad lib all winter including in the fields.
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Post by lisap on Dec 22, 2010 0:13:08 GMT 1
Goodness, they would be elephantine if they got 2 bales per day! No, each horse is budgeted for 2 bales per week over an 18 week period.
However, all the horses get what they need rather than what is budgeted, which sometimes means that we have to make a one off extra charge for hay at the end of winter.
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