Is £100 or so enough money to look after a horse per month?

You might just about get away with it in summer, but you'll be lucky in winter.

Farrier visits every 6 - 8 weeks will easily set you back £50 a time at least.

Hay's at least £4 a bale for anything worth feeding. The grass in winter can get so bad you're pretty much feeding solely hay even if your horse is out 24/7.

Not sure on price of bedding as my horse is out 24/7 but you're going to be getting through a fair bit of that a week.

Wormer's about £15 a pop.

Feed can set you back a fair bit depending on what you're feeding.

Then you've got unexpected costs. You can guarantee at some point your horse will give you a nasty surprise, be it a big rip in their rug meaning it'll need replacing, sudden vet's call out cost, head collar breaks. All of those will come up and suddenly cost you a bomb.

If you set yourself that tight of a budget, then you will come into trouble. You may not spend any extra money, but you need it available should you need it.

No chance - It can cost £100 per week just for (full) livery at some yards. Bedding/feed and hay is likely to cost about £20 a week depending on if the horse lives in/out etc, and farriers cost about £60 every 6-8 weeks, and wormer is about £15 every three months.

I would recommend getting a job that pays relatively well, saving up at least a grand in case of vets bills or other things you need to get you started, then writing down everything that you will need in a month (remembering that you will always need some aside for emergencies) with the amount it will cost, adding it all up, and dividing it by four to see how much you are looking at a week, and then seeing how it's going time/funds-wise then :)

Sounds like it could be a high maintenance horse - to all the people saying a straight 'no' - I keep two natives on my own land, and their maintenance costs for the last year probably total no more than £100. But it does vary enormously. If the horse is shod, is stabled every night and eats lots, you could be looking at £100 a week, never mind a month. Do a bit of asking around at your yard, and see how much they charge for hay if they sell it, if use of the facilities is extra, and if they have any suggestions for keeping costs down. Alternatively, sad though it is, look for a horse with more basic needs. Many native breeds can go months between farrier visits, live out all year unrugged and do well off of very little grass. Good luck to you and well done for thinking it through so carefully!

And Sazzy - depends if they're shod. If your farrier is charging 50 quid for a bit of a rasp and trim, change farriers! Mine never tops £20.

Good for the sake of the horse let's seem on the future. When you're in excessive college and having buddies and after institution events how will you carve out time to your horse? When you go to institution are you going to sell your horse? It appears a long way away however six or seven years is not that lengthy. At eleven, except the labor legal guidelines are way more at ease there than they're in the U.S., you cannot do whatever as opposed to below the table odd jobs to make cash until you're 14 or 15. In case your mum and dad offer you an allowance you could shop that and try to find additional chores to do for them or do for your neighbors for some extra cash. Alas at your age having to go to institution still i don't see a variety of possibilities so that you can save enough cash to even get a low-priced horse. Right here $1000 (practically 1500 pounds) is as little as which you can assume to pay for a decent back yard horse that is sound.

No, £150 per month is not enough to keep a horse if you'll be paying for everything. I have two horses and one is on full livery which costs £70 a week, not including four bales of hay a week (£20) and a bag of feed (£40 per bag) which I buy once a month. Then there are shavings which are £20 per bag from my local pet shop, and I buy that every two weeks. So one of my horses alone costs me £110 a week. My other horse is on part livery which is £50 a week and has the same hay, feed and bedding as my other horse. So that one costs me £100 a week. My sister's horse is on DIY which is £25 a week and has the same hay as mine. Her horse isn't on hard feed and has a straw bed, which is £45 for a large bale of great quality straw, and she gets it once a month. So her horse costs around £56 a week. I suggest you look into this more before you take on this horse. Oh and don't forget if your horse gets injured, where will the money for vet bills come from? How will you pay for your horse's feet to be trimmed and shod? When this £100 runs out, how will you be able to keep your horse on £12.50 a week? Will you get a job? How will you then be able to fit that around your horse (and school if you haven't left yet)? You can't take this horse on without having enough money. It wouldn't be fair on the horse. Also if you do get the horse but fail to care for it properly because you can't afford it, the owner will probably remove it from your care, and you'll be left without the horse you fell in love with. Please seriously look into it more before you get the horse.

Do you mean £100 ontop of essentials? E.G stabling & field. Many liverys include hay/ straw. What made you decide on pellets? You have to think of farrier also a full set can cost well over £50, wormer, vaccs, insurance, teeth. It all adds up, and if it falls on the same month, you'll struggle. I think your horse would be going without some things. I pay £100 a month and that covers his feed and hes a VERY good doer as in has very basic food and small amounts of hay due to him gaining weight easily, I don't pay rent as hes at my parents yard, im very lucky but I dont think

If on full loan where you pay for everything yourself then NO WAY! Unless you miss loads of the important stuff out which would be cruel! They cost roughly £70 per week with all the right care and needs £100 per MONTH is barely anything! Horses are expensive animals and deserve high quality items, food etc!-sorry!

No it isn't. When a horse is in your care you can't just think about normal expenses(which that probably wouldn't cover to begin with). You also need money saved up in case something happens. Horses like to get into trouble and so you need some vet money saved up. To top it off you also need to get regular vet checks and farrier to come out regularly.

NO! I budget 260 USD per horse every month (that's 160 GBP). That's in addition to my income tax check which gets spent on them directly every year for dentist / vet / new items and the fact that my Christmas wish list is 100% horse related items. I also have an emergency credit card which is set aside for things like Vet Bills. (Each of my horses has at least one vet emergency per year).

Sorry But No where near would the money be anothe I have a 12.3hh and she costs nearly £230 a month