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What Are Your Boarding Costs?

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#1 ·
Hiya! I'm just interested in comparing boarding costs.

I already know that my boarding is ridiculously cheap... And I mean ridiculously. I pay $1000 once a year and it includes:

-24/7 Pasture board in the summertime.
-Stall/Pasture board in the wintertime. (Outdoors unless it's bad weather.)
-Worming.
-Access to miles of trails/outdoor arena/round pen/etc.
-Free rides on BO's horses for trail rides.
-Yearly shot. (The name of the shot is slipping my mind for some reason...)
-One daily hay feed
-BO is ridiculously helpful and has already repaired my saddle (replaced nylon off-billets with leather that he bought out of his own pocket) for no charge and will be trimming my mares hooves for free. I offered to pay but he refused.

My BO doesn't really make money off his "horse business", which is why he has things so cheap. He loves horses and any money he brings in is from lessons and birthday parties/trail rides. We're also kind of in the boonies and horse owners are hard to come by in my province.

In my old province, board was usually around $350-$450 a month and didn't include as much as I'm getting here.

Just wondering what other people pay vs what you get back? I'm super curious.
 
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#40 ·
Board at my barn is $250. It includes:

House Grain/Hay
Supplements (I provide, but they don't charge extra to give them)
Feeding/watering
Full use of indoor/outdoor
Storage cubby/tack room space
24/7 Turnout, but they do have their own stall and come in for feeding/during bad weather.
Holding for vet/farrier/chiro
Blanketing/fly mask
Etc

I have a deal worked out where I groom their four Australian Shepherds for a discount! :)
 
#41 ·
Hm... $285 mo. here

Barn supplied Hay 3x a day/Watering
BO Feeds my bagged grain and supplements
BO Provides/Feeds Beat pulp though ($9 extra a month so I pay $294)
Large paddock to himself with loafing shed in middle
I have to clean, turn out/in myself (but there are pastures avail)/ blanket/fly stuff myself
Box stalls avail. for emergency only. $15/day you provide bedding and clean
2 tack rooms
Large outdoor arena, groomed regularly, jumps avail.
Driving track
Access to trails
Outside trainers allowed on site with proper proof of insurance.
 
#42 ·
I am in Calgary, AB, and currently pay $475 per month for paddock board. Includes
- a paddock with shelter, auto waterer and 3x daily feeding.
- very good quality hay
- beet pulp and oats if needed (which I don't), or feeding of owner-provided feed
- heated barn to groom and tack up, tack locker
- heated indoor arena, outdoor arena, round pen and grass jumping course, lots of ditch riding and a few trails
- things like holding for farrier/vet, giving medications etc are included, but I do try to come out for that whenever I can
- reliable and friendly staff and great people (some kids, but mostly adult riders)

Lessons are extra, but there are three good instructors to chooae from.

The big price jump here is between places that have an indoor arena and those who don't. You can get basic pasture board for as little as $100 a month here in summer (more in winter when horses need hay, which is usually a free-for-all round bale). But given that the weather here is so unreliable (it's early September and already snowing :P ), it's hard to maintain regular riding without an indoor arena.
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#43 ·
$300/mo here for pasture board, $425 for stall board.

Pasture board includes:
- Feeding/watering
- Grain/hay supplied by barn, fed 2x day
- Supplements supplied by owner (me), but given to horse at no extra charge
- Pasture includes shelter (not that the horses ever use it...)
- Use of entire facility
- Decent sized tack locker
- Access to wash rack and hot/cold water

Blanketing, holding for farrier, etc. available for extra fee.
 
#44 · (Edited)
I'm currently paying $475 for full-care stall:
-60' Round Pen (the rails are so high on it my pony can just walk out of it though, LOL)
-60'x100' Jumping Arena
-Half Size Dressage Arena
-There are lights... but only half of them work
-Nearly 100 Acres of Pasture (soon to be cut back to a measly 10 acres)
-Very locker, access to tackroom, and a dirty kitchen haha
-Two wash racks, stocks, a nice indoor tacking area with cross ties

I pay about $100 extra a month because they don't provide proper bedding and thus I go get it and put it in myself, and I buy hay and alfalfa because their hay makes my boy sick.

TL;DR I'm overpaying for a lot of ****e I don't use or ****e that isn't done properly because it's the only barn in my area without a short novel of rules.
I miss my old selfcare facilities for $125... *le sob*
 
#45 ·
At my new barn I will be paying $450 a month. Stall with lots of bedding and a run, hay 3x a day, grain 2x (local mill grain included), stalls cleaned twice a day. Horses are turned out three times a week for about 6 hours. 150 by 300 outdoor, 90 by 200 indoor, 70 by 130 indoor, lots of jumps, and limited trails. You also are required to be in training, and they sign you up for and make all arrangements for your shows.
 
#47 ·
I think I will be calling the authorities on the jerk behind you. Shooting onto Your property is most likely a big no no . wait until you hear him shooting and call on him, someone is shooting on your property.
Oh, I have. I've called multiple times, especially since it's a residential as well as agricultural area, but they never do anything about it. I actually busted him one morning trying to shoot Turkey Vultures! They're protected, but still, he didn't care.

He did back off for a while when he saw me coming out my back door, gun in hand, apparently he's not game enough to shoot at people or animals when they can shoot back.

I'm hoping he'll move soon as he's rarely home now, if he does I'm considering buying the property and demolishing his house to make more space for animals, LOL.
 
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