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Veteran
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Location: Tennessee | Just for the heck of it I put the pencil to paper and figured up exactly what each horse cost us monthly on feed, hay, and supplements alone. The grand total.....$148.50 per horse! Just curious if anyone else has done this and what you are paying???
Our feed is $12.75 bag
Hay $5.50 per bale
Plus we are starting all of our own personal horses on Forco
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Location: Desert Land | $5.50 a bale???? 
I wish! |
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 490
| About $60.00 a head per month |
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Rad Dork
Posts: 5218
Location: Oklahoma | Three bags of feed a month = $69 BlueBonnet Intensify Omega Force $23/bag
Eight bags/bales of hay a month = $112 Standlee Alfalfa/Timothy Cubes $14/bag
THE Blend = $60
ETA: My hay costs will go down pretty soon once my dad bales some square bales up. Will be MUCH cheaper than the Standlee. Not as good of quality, but it's still good quality hay.
$241/month or $8.03/day
Edited by Longneck 2014-07-21 11:26 AM
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 330
| In the summer - nothing.
They are on pasture 24/7. If I added in a ration balancer for vitamins/minerals, I'd be looking at:
$24.00 / bag - lasts 2 horses 25 days. So, $24/25 = $0.96 per day for TWO horses, so about $0.48 per day per horse
In the winter, the same, because I get my hay for "free" - we do our own. Neither horse is on a grain concentrate.
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 Shelter Dog Lover
Posts: 10277
| About $175/month for 4 head - beet bulp, very little in the spring and summer, renew gold, fast track, vitamins and minerals, horses have 100 acres of good grazing. |
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 I Chore in Chucks
Posts: 2882
Location: MD | 2 horses on TC Complete, free choice meadow grass/orchard grass and pasture 16 hours of the day.
2 bags of TC a month at $34 a bag= $68/month
when I broke down my hay it averages to $4.10/day= $123/month
So it equals out to average $191 per month for my horses. The grain stays the same, but the hay is what changes. The summer is half that and I tack on that half to the winter months. :)
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 Swiffer PIcker Upper
Posts: 4015
Location: Four Corners Colorado | 120 small 3 string bales at $17 each and 4 ton bales a month at $260 each. SO WAY WAY TOOO MUCH! I think I need to sell some horses!
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Regular
Posts: 56
| Having a horse in Florida is very expensive since we have no pasture, so what I pay per horse might make all of feel extremely grateful:
Whole Oats $15.00 per bag (4 bags per month)
Alfalfa $19 per pale (5 bales per month)
Vitamin/Mineral $20.00 (per horse per month)
For a grand total of $175.00 PER HORSE |
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 Serious Snap Trapper
Posts: 4275
Location: In The Snow, AZ | Were at $17/bale, 5 bales a month per horse. Gelding is on a bagged grain, $20/bag, 4 bags a month. Two are on THE muscle mass. Not sure how that averages out so I won't include it. But, gelding costs approx. $165/month. Mare and new pony approx. $85-90/month each. Horses aren't cheap.... |
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 IMA No Hair Style Gal
Posts: 2594
| Four bags of Triple Crown Complete at $20.65/bag
15 bales of hay at $3.00/bale
1 bag of rice bran $23.95 (split between three horses)
5 month supply of lysine $24.95 (for only one horse)
Grain $82.60
Hay $45.00
Rice Bran ~$10.00
I could also add bedding in there. I buy the pelleted bags and lets say in a month where the horses are up a lot I would use 8 bags at $4.95/bag. Total $39.60
Overall total cost to feed/bed the horses: $177.20 with the cost of lysine every 5 months.
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | I feel less bad about boarding now. Especially since I only have one horse.
My board is somewhat more expensive than other barns in the area (365/month), but they feed a locally milled textured feed (not sweet), GOOD alfalfa hay, and the horses are turned out on awesome grass for 10 hours a day. They pick the matted stalls daily, have great footing in the indoor and outdoor arenas, and bed the stalls super deep.
They also have jumps and a small cross-country course for the english riders (in the large 8 acre pasture). I have a place to set up my barrels in the outdoor.
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 Balance Beam and more...
Posts: 11511
Location: 31 lengths farms | I think I just became more depressed...if that is possible....
My little mare with kidney stones-$9.66 a day(including her herbs which is essential in my opinion)
Head shaker mare-7.33 (also includes her herbs which I could do without but she'd be un-ridable)
My gelding- 7.33 ( I chose to give him the herbs for kidney also as they were all on the same diet).
so a total of 24.32 a day...$729.60 a month...about a third of my take home. |
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Posts: 602
| 5 bales of alf/mix per month at $18.50=$92.50
Oral Joint supplement $1 per dayx30= $30
Safe Choice grain 2 bags at $25= $50
Total: $172 per month
add shoes every 8 weeks at $90
Total: $217per month
Its sad.... I miss paying $5-8 per bale and $40 for shoes
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 507
Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | It costs me $3.76 per day per horse for 30 days. That is supplement, grain, hay and pasture rent. |
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| I'm going to live in denial. I don't want to know!
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Veteran
Posts: 154
Location: Tennessee | On average we will say it cost $150 per month to feed a horse grain, hay, etc. That is $1800 per year in just feeding one horse! I guess it rings true.... If you want to make a million in the horse industry you have to start with 2 million! |
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| Well all my horses are on pasture, it takes one ish salt / mineral block per month. Big pasture is 7 horses at $6.
My broodmare is separate and she gets one sumplment at $1. 20 and say $.50 per day of barley (our own) so her month total is $33
If you figure grass consumption at $60 month or head on high side (double what we pay for cow calf pair grass) my total per most expensive horse is
Pasture - $60
Salt - $ 1. 50
Grain/sumplment - $33
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$94.50 per month * I did not add sale her $6 block has been there months and has a ton left it would be pennies
Ive never acatualy added it all up before, I use ths grain that's pretty much leftovers from the feed lot and dont have to pay pasture rent Im sure blessed and lucky.
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Extreme Veteran
Posts: 520
| Probably around $15 a month in the summer per horse, we don't feed hay in the summer unless we are camping. In the winter around $75-135 depending on the hay, we haven't bought any yet this year but just based on browsing CL ads. |
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Veteran
Posts: 276
| And all of the above is why I get so angry with people in my area who think we charge too much for training. Almost a quarter of it is just feed, which they would be spending anyway!!! |
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Balance Beam and more...
Posts: 11511
Location: 31 lengths farms | I'm totally depressed, thinking what could I have done on that much money a month, but then realize I'd be in a freaking mental institute if not for my horses.... |
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Veteran
Posts: 154
Location: Tennessee | SpaceCowboy - 2014-07-21 4:11 PM
And all of the above is why I get so angry with people in my area who think we charge too much for training. Almost a quarter of it is just feed, which they would be spending anyway!!!
Couldn't agree with you more! People just don't get it. We tried to allow people to bring their own hay and feed and charge a little less but then people thought their horses could go a whole month on one bag of feed and 4 bales of hay.... Needless to say we no longer offer that option! |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
Posts: 64864
Location: In the Hills of Texas | I could feed 4 horses back in 1996 with what it takes to feed one now. |
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Meanest Teacher!!!
Posts: 8555
Location: sunny california | my retired horse is about $75 month. my barrel horse is about $120. this is just for hay. I don't need a lot of other stuff as the hay is nice, and neither are hard keepers. The extras that the barrel horse gets when he is getting rode depends on time of year. I like to do the loading dose of adequan before the season starts, and manintence depends on the schedule. I guess it averages to $200 month for the barrel horse. not including vet/worming/shots/farrier |
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 I Am Always Right
Posts: 4264
Location: stray dump capital of the world | I figure it runs me @120 per month without supplements as they are diverse for the horses that need them. I own 10 horses and board one for a friend. Once you start adding in the farrier, yearly shots, deworming and unexpected vet bills, it is quite costly. I work for their happiness. Ha-ha!!! However, they make me pretty happy as well. |
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The Advice Guru
Posts: 6419
| And what is even more depressing is the things that haven't been included
Farrier every 4-6 weeks
Worming every 3 months
Teeth every 6-12 months
Vaccinations for those who vaccinate (my vet said it costs him 0.40/vaccine quite the mark up)
Then the emergency vet bills
Tack
Hauling, etc
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I Am Always Right
Posts: 4264
Location: stray dump capital of the world | cheryl makofka - 2014-07-21 6:04 PM And what is even more depressing is the things that haven't been included Farrier every 4-6 weeks Worming every 3 months Teeth every 6-12 months Vaccinations for those who vaccinate (my vet said it costs him 0.40/vaccine quite the mark up) Then the emergency vet bills Tack Hauling, etc
Exactly!!!  |
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 Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | My horse is a really easy keeper, between hay and grain I'm going to say around $40. But I pay for pasture nearly year round as my "board" (I board with friends and pay for all expenses myself...they just throw my mare hay and make sure she has water when they are out checking on and feeding their horses). So I probably have enough it a little better because I have good friends but average pasture board around here is $50 a month. So I figure my average expenses for 1 horse (vet, worming, farrier, feed, board, etc.) is around $120 a month...provided there is nothing major goes wrong. Just upkeep...but did I mention my horse is a really easy keeper. Doesn't take much to keep her going. |
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  Making the post season
Posts: 7288
Location: your guess is as good as mine | Nevertooold - 2014-07-21 3:37 PM I could feed 4 horses back in 1996 with what it takes to feed one now.
I was cleaning out a box full of papers and came across a bill from the feed mill I used to buy my grain mix from. Date on the bill was 10/1998...price for 16% custom mix was - $5.65 per 50# bag. I sure miss those days...  |
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How much does it cost you to feed your horses each month?