How much do you pay for board?

[SabreBaby]

I pay $280 a month, which includes: Stall, Lot (1 Acre), and Pasture (70 Acres) rotation as requested. When horse is in a lot or stalled: hay and feed 2x a day. Full use of water for bathing, tack room (I can use the owner's tack if I want to try something new), feed room (I can feed my horse if I'm there), grooming supplies (shampoos, fly sprays, etc.), access to their pasture for trails, access to their arena (round-pen or barrel pattern), access to the loft for foal watch or whatnot. I also get free trailering to shows that they attend. I ride with the owner's daughter, and the owner's are close friends. This is in Georgia, btw.

[tehryn0]

I'm a working student at the barn where I keep my horse, and I pay $85 a month for him.
When she uses my horse for lessons in addition to my working, I pay $40.
He's a fully outdoor horse year round.

[elrohwen]

I'm in Connecticut and the going rate is $1,000-1,500 per month. This includes all feeding, watering, blankets, turnout, etc, but typically not any grooming or exercise.

And this is why I don't own a horse

ETA: I rent a small townhouse for $1600 a month, just to show you what housing prices are.

[LiveToJump]

Originally Posted by elrohwen

I'm in Connecticut and the going rate is $1,000-1,500 per month. This includes all feeding, watering, blankets, turnout, etc, but typically not any grooming or exercise.

And this is why I don't own a horse

ETA: I rent a small townhouse for $1600 a month, just to show you what housing prices are.

WOW! That is super expensive!
Remind me never to move to CT.

I'm so sorry!

[HorseOfCourse]

I have all of my horses at home [thank goodness because I have 13 pasture-animals] but sometimes I will take one or two of my horses to be trained which is $500 a month and includes:

• Comfortable 10' x 12' box stalls with rubber mats
  Pine shavings used for bedding
  Stalls cleaned daily
  Horses fed twice daily - Nutrena Feeds
  Individualized feeding program
  Regular farrier, worming and vaccination program
  Blanketing available
  
• Owners live on premises
  

• Boarder amenities will include:
  Indoor arena
  Outside riding areas
  Courtesy trailer parking
  Tack room
  Lounge/Meeting room (under construction)
  On site riding instruction and training
  Close proximity to the Tippecanoe River State Park
  
• The coffee and hot chocolate are always on!

[taken straight from her website, lol]
Also, if you're boarding out there she offers free lessons and just boarding with no training is only $250. My trainer will also trailer my horse to shows or to and from my house. Even if I'm not there when she has to pick up or drop off a horse, we trust her anough to go amongst all of our animals and do what needs to be done.

[Woodland1]

Wow, reading these posts confirms what I already knew-- CT is ridiculous. We live in CT (unfortunately) and pay $350/mo which is by far the rock bottom cheapest. This is for a small dirt turn-out, outdoor stall and sand ring (outdoor). No trails, no pasture. About a decade ago I had my horse brought down to NC where I was living for a few years and for $150/mo he got his own indoor stall in a newer barn on the farm, "herd" turn out with many horses all day on more acreage than any place we've been at up in New England-- woods, creek, sand beach, rolling fields of grass pasture all in one and best of all, he got to be a HORSE. There were multiple outdoor rings, all feed included, trails galore and friendly down to earth people. Not a day goes by I don't think about that place and wish we could be back there.

[TwendeHaraka]

I'm moving Twende on the 30th to somewhere less expensive and closer, and it's going to be $250 a month. They offer turnout five days a week, have an indoor and outdoor, feed and water and give any supplements I may need, and whatever else that I'll find out soon enough. I'm cleaning his stall and saving $25 a month.

[SFMoneyMarket]

I'm in CT too, it's true prices can be ridiculous, but if you look around there are some great deals.

I do self-care board. My horse has a stall, gets fed and turned out in the morning. I must provide his food, hay, and shavings and I clean his stall and feed him in the pm, as well as bring him in at night. It's a lot of work but I enjoy it, and we've also got an indoor arena, outdoor arena, 80 acres of pasture, and a 200 mile state park right next door where we trail ride. All that, and it only costs me $300 a month plus the cost of hay, shavings and grain, which doesn't add up too much.

However, I've seen some places around here for like $1800 monthly! Yea, I wish I had that kind of money!

[paintluver]

I pay $175 a month for 2 horses. (They are the only 2 there)
It includes
3 stalls (All the barn has)
14 acre pasture
Water
little mini arena that I want to re-do
ummm, yeah, we are working on it! We just rent the pasture and the barn basically so we are working on how we want to make it!

[MTcowgirl]

WOW. I think that almost every one who posted should move to Montana! I pay less than most of you for my house rent. It's a 2bd and I pay $430. How do you guys afford paying that much for board?

Mine cost me $30/mo per head plus hay, farrier, etc.
And I have a hard time coming up with the $ for that! lol

PS My horses are outside horses only... I don't think it's natural to put a horse inside a building to live. I also don't believe in blankets. But my horses do have a lean-to for cover.