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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2014 14:00:32 GMT -5
sorry! Didn't mean to put mine at the top!!! Sorry kwmartin! I am still learning the admin tools. I was trying to put my post on the bottom. I keep my horse costs very low. We raise our own hay. That means we bale the grassy water ways between the corn and bean fields. The only cost is twine and fuel. If i run out, ( like this year, I think I'll run out due to the cold weather), I just buy some from the neighbors or horse friends. None of them charge a lot. I might pay $2-$3 for a 40 lb small square, or $75-$100 for a two ton round bale. I imagine I will need the equivalent of one round bale before winter is over. We always feed the mini hay year round, but it takes her a week to eat a whole small square, so that's pretty cheap! I rarely grain any of the horses. I keep some on hand for treats, mostly. My DH is a nutritionist and he believes horses do best on good grass hay, and sometimes a bit of alfalfa thrown in. I've gone with this for almost 20 years and it's been perfect for us. I de-worm three times per year, at $3.00 per tube of Ivermectin. I have ponies and horses so I end up spending $48 per year on that. I used to have the vet out each spring for vaccinations and coggins tests, which are required in my state to show or go to any advertised event with your horse. Now....to be really honest...I don't vaccinate the horses that never leave here. If someone gets a cut we give them a tetanus, and if I know I'll be taking one off the farm, I vaccinate. My vet thinks this is a good protocol as well. He's always super impressed when he comes here as my horses are so healthy. Farrier costs: $35 per horse for the barefoot trimmer ( so far I've only used him for Angel, but I'd like to also use him for Gracie.) Regular Farrier: $20 per horse In the past, I boarded a horse or two in the winter so we could ride in an indoor, take lessons, etc. I don't do that anymore, but at the time I paid...get ready for it....$50 per horse per month for pasture board, and $25 per lesson! When my daughter started taking more advanced Dressage lessons I paid $75 per lesson. That was ten years ago, and I'm sure I was given a good deal. I think outdoor board here is $150 per month, and lessons start at $35.00. I no longer own a trailer, so I pretty much ride on my farm. My good friend trailers me when necessary, and I just pay for fuel. It's not very often, though. Just a guess at what I spent last year: Hay: $200.00 Vet: $300.00 ( due to a sick horse) De worming: $48 Farrier: Approx. $400 Grain: $25.00 Hauling: $100 Total= $1,073.00 This is for two horses, two ponies, and one mini. This doesn't include any time I buy tack, etc., but I generally sell what I don't use and buy what I will use.
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Post by Kirk Martin on Feb 11, 2014 20:22:02 GMT -5
I accidentally hijacked the February riding thread asking about costs to keep a horse. It seemed important enough to deserve it's own thread. Feel free to post what it costs for you to keep horses in your area (it would be nice if you identify where you live), and how you try to keep the costs reasonable. Lets hear those great ideas!
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Post by MaryS on Feb 11, 2014 21:48:24 GMT -5
Country living outside fort worth texas
Coggins - $25 Rabies - $15 7 way vaccine - $25
Farrier - $30 per horse, but I trim my own and do about 1-2 trims with the farrier, as long as he says their feet look good before he trims
No board, live on 80 acres. Board varies between 50-100; self care only.
No grain, just alfalfa hay. I buy 3 string bales, they're slightly bigger than 2 strings, but I get about twice the distance with them. $20 a bale, lasts me a month because of pasture. Round bales coastal are about 70-90, unless you buy bulk and have delivered from far away. Feed varies but between 15-20 a bag.
Total: $ 500 both horses.
Not realistic, I've known people that spend thousands. If you don't have pasture big enough to supply forage, you have to buy or supplement with feed/hay. Board fees if you don't own the property.
Gotta research costs around you to get a realistic budget.
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Post by horsespoiler on Feb 11, 2014 23:21:28 GMT -5
I wish I could find $3.00 hay that was any good. We pay $6-8 for approx 55lb grass hay depending on where we get it. This year we switched to pelleted timothy and orchard grass at $12.99 for a 50lb bag and a local made all pellet horse feed at $16.99 for 50lbs. They are also on the pasture but it is only busy work really at this point. They will be shut off of most of it in the next few days before it starts growing again. If we had the equipment we could probably get enough off our fields for most of the year. We will get some hay to fill hay bag slow feeders and hang them well separated on the fence. Winnie gets MSM/Glucosamin at about $15 a month (local company) Sage gets Remission at about $23 a month to combat laminitis issues Hoof trims $20 each (we do some work ourselves too) Vaccines $50 approx + farm call ($65) if the vet does them. We do them ourselves sometimes. Wormer is $6-20 depending on type used Teeth about $100+ (we rotate who gets it each year) We have our own truck and trailer so we can haul to the vet if we need or want to but if you can get enough people for vaccines the farm call is split. Around this area boarding is $350 for full care, feed included, indoor arena $150 for self care, your feed, arena may be outdoor $200 paddock with cover, feed and clean provided, indoor and outdoor arena $90 pasture board with hay , this place had both indoor and outdoor arena $650 board with training, full care, lesson for owner lessons run from $25 to $60 The place closest to us has a JL trainer and offers everything except self care. We have 3 horses and I'm glad we don't need to board, they cost enough at home.
We live in southern Oregon. I moved this from the riding thread.
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Post by ghostrider on Feb 11, 2014 23:51:05 GMT -5
Cost... I buy about $500 a year in hay, buy 40 lbs of sweet feed a week, worm 3 times per year, trim and/or shoe about 8 times per horse per year and do vaccines every spring.
per horse I'd say the basics run just under $1,150 per year. But the boys are on apx 10 acres of grass since some of the place is wooded, my farrier charges me $35 to shoe and $13 to trim, I paid $3 a bale for hay and the boys are not boarded. I know I've got it a lot better than a lot of other horse owners. Thank the Lord for those blessings.
Moved my post to here... Kw as for the vet thing..I have a savings account and keep $1000 in it. I figure if I need more I can come up with it but a vet bill has never been more than a couple hundred. KNOCK ON WOOD
When I got Buddy he had a tooth bud, it's where the tooth sinks into the jaw and is a hard lump under the jaw. To have it removed the vet just sedates him, cuts a slit and removes it then stitches it up. It's all cosmetic but I didn't like it and had it removed. It was the biggest vet bill I had, I can't remember how much exactly but I know it was under $200.
Buddy went to the vet a year ago October for a swollen jaw. While there the vet examined him, sedated him, did a sheath cleaning since I hadn't done his fall one yet and then did a float on the teeth just in case that was the cause. She had a mechanical one which I loved, they work so much better than a file. They charged me $102.
I love my vets.
Round bales here can run as cheap as 26 for a 1600-1800 lb bale. I pay $35 for mine delivered. It's grown a mile from me so is the same grass they graze on all summer. I buy Timothy for $4 a 70 lbs square bale and 60lb-70lb bales of Alfalfa for $6.00 a bale. I just like having different hay to add to the grass mix when the winter is really cold. Don't know why since they've got 24-7 access to the round bales.
I can say that as of 6 years ago in Wy I bought mostly alfalfa because that's what everyone has. You're lucky to get grass or a mix. Alfalfa was $175 per ton and we bought about 8-9 tons per year and I paid $125 for grass but had to drive 60 miles to go load the 5 tons I bought each year. I had 5 horses.
My immunizations were $19 for the 5 way shots and $475 for the potomac, west nile and there was one other?? can't remember now what it was but we don't do rabies there. Here we don't do Potomac but we do rabies.
We did have our own horse property (in WY you can have an unlimited amount of horses on an acre in most places) built a large run in when we moved there and paid almost $3000 at auction for the panels to fence them in. Fencing is expensive no matter what type.
Before we bought our own place we had corrals a couple miles from the house in what is much like a trailer park. You own the barn, auto waterers or tanks and panels but pay rent for the spaces. It ran something like $25 per horse space, a 3 horse corral was $75 and our 2 horse across the dirt path was $50 per month but everyone had their own electric meters and were billed from the electric company. When you sold your barn they had to be pre-approved by the land owner. IMO Wy was a lot cheaper than those I knew in more easterly areas. MO is cheaper than WY by a LOT.
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Post by Kirk Martin on Feb 12, 2014 8:35:23 GMT -5
In the 2 1/2 years I've been around my friend's 9 horses... I've seen one horse have an itch and rub it's eyeball on a fence post (a few thousand dollar bill there but she's fine thank goodness), another horse wanted to go visit a stallion and only half-way jumped a wire fence and then got scared sliced her armpit trying to escape, and a different horse backed up to a high-tensile wire fence and miraculously put his leg through one of the wires then sat down. Thank goodness he sat there patiently (or in shock) for me to get wire-cutters to get him free. Fortunately, he was fine too. Then there was the time I came to feed and a baby foal was sitting next to mom from the horse a vet had said wasn't pregnant a week prior. There's a reason my friend has several vets phone numbers listed in her feed room! Ghostrider, I've never heard of a land-owner allowing multiple barns to be built on their property and rented out but it's an interesting idea. I've never heard of anything like that in Eastern Maryland. Here it's 2 acres for first horse and 1 acre for additional horses.
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Post by ghostrider on Feb 12, 2014 11:44:50 GMT -5
Here's a photo of our two horse corral, our three horse was across the dirt track and a photo of the community when we rode there last Aug. The City of Green River has the same thing. They're called the "city corrals." Only you pay less and get a smaller corral per horse. When we lived there the waiting list to get in to a City Corral was long. Ours were much nicer and we also had people trying to get in. We sold our two horse for $4500 when we moved out and I can't remember what the 3 horse went for but it was more.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2014 11:52:41 GMT -5
Awesome idea. I moved it out of Training and into General. This will be such a helpful Thread!
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Post by vsolubo on Feb 12, 2014 13:45:12 GMT -5
It's hard to keep costs down when you don't own any property. Board is $100/month per horse, so right now $200/month total. That is really cheap around here, most boarding stables charge anywhere from $175/month to $250/month for pasture board around here & 1 of the reasons I choose to board here rather than an actual boarding stable. Spring & fall shots will run about $100/horse each time. Barefoot trimmer, $35/horse every 6 weeks; but sometimes I trim my own to save. I buy a bag of rolled oats & alfalfa pellets every 3 or 4 months as mine just get them as treats (Bear gets more, but still not that much). I feed corn oil, which is fairly cheap, & a joint supplement (not cheap) every time I feed them & Marie gets a calming supplement whenever I work her (also fairly cheap).
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Post by cyndi on Feb 12, 2014 19:06:15 GMT -5
I was at a co-op barn for a couple of months last year. It was only $100 per month, but we had to provide our own hay. Hay around here is about $6 per bale (I'm guessing about 45 pound bales) for plain grass hay. We spent almost three years at a barn and paid only $200 per month. The horses had a huge pasture and were brought in at night during the winter and if the weather was bad in the summer. There was restricted riding areas, though. Footing was a real problem. The road was about the best place to ride, but Fanny and I were nowhere ready for that. I spend the most I ever have for boarding now, at $400 per month. The price always skyrockets if you want an indoor arena...but I sure am glad to have it. Trimmer charges $30, which is the least I think I've ever spent! Vaccines usually cost around $100, and that includes the barn fee. I just have the basic vaccines done because we don't go to competitions and such. A couple of years ago I had her teeth floated and everything, and I don't think the total bill was more than $300. Or maybe I'm thinking about the bloodwork we had done when she was laminitic. If I used a pelleted feed, the one I would use cost around $29 and it lasts about 55 days. I have Fanny on some supplements right now, and probably have a couple hundred dollars worth at home. I won't be replenishing most of those when they run out. Because Fanny can't have grain, I mix her supplements with moistened hay cubes. A huge bag of hay cubes costs about $22 and it does me probably six months because I only use a small amount each time. Now...if you start factoring in tack, that sends the cost of owning a horse through the roof!!! Especially if you like to buy saddles like Nana does!! LOL!! I think any of us in here can kind of get carried away in a tack store
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Post by ghostrider on Feb 13, 2014 0:30:59 GMT -5
Yeah Tack is addicting! There's the Tucker for Buddy's fat months and the Colorado for Buddy's thinner months (haven't seen those for a year or two! Then there's the Wintec that he hasn't grown into and the one that is too small, the Texas and won't ever fit him because it's a Semi QH tree. And then Boomer's which is a Synthetic although the TX would probably fit him unless it's too long. But no matter what saddle you buy you can't sell them. LOL
Then there's the headstall and who doesn't get tired of their head stall before it ever comes close to wearing out? and the dozen different colored and texured saddle blankets and pads...
Hmmm I think I screwed up...you said keep it cheap.
But three things I always keep on hand are 1. Banomine 2.Bute 3.Antihistamine those three things are a must in a medicine cabinet. I think they all run about $35 wouldn't you say nana?
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Post by appytrails on Feb 13, 2014 14:03:39 GMT -5
I board my horses.
$225 per horse includes grain & hay $50 per horse for barefoot trimmer every 4-6 weeks $300 for both for spring shots from vet. About $125 for fall shots. That's without Coggins. Try to worm every 3-4 months, rotate wormers think year's worth of wormer is $70 for both through Internet Have my own truck and trailer so have all those costs, don't know monthly costs, outside of payments, for each. On just the basic costs, I spend about $315 per horse per month. Guess the old saying that I'd be driving a Ferrari if I didn't have horses is true. ;-p I'd rather have the horses.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2014 14:40:17 GMT -5
I think Denise has got a tack shop in her shed. I can just see it in her. I think if she and I lived by each other we'd be in trouble. I agree...I get tired of stuff. I like to accessorize my horses.
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Post by ghostrider on Feb 13, 2014 16:55:07 GMT -5
nana I have stuff in the walk in tack compartment of the trailer, the tack shed, the barn but a LOT of it is hanging in my bedroom or in the trunk. Remember I did my room in horse theme? makes the saddles and bridles etc.. look right at home. I've got two sets of new oxbow stirrups hanging on a hook, saddle bags hanging on the curtain rod, my Colorado saddle and a bridle on a stand, wall mounted wooden hooks with new bridles and halters hanging by the door..If I ever re-do my room I'm going to have to buy more trunks for tack storage. We could live next to each other cause we're both hoarders...no worry. LOL
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Post by Kirk Martin on Feb 13, 2014 17:40:04 GMT -5
I understand buying tack.... I bought a Courbette Trenck-D saddle, leathers and irons and I don't even own a horse...(yet!)
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