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 Cute Little Imp
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Location: N Texas | Looking for opinions on if this is the norm. Let's say you take a horse to a trainer to ride for 4 or 5 days as a quick refresher. They charge $25 per ride, and you provide your own feed and hay (horse will be staying at trainer's instead of being hauled in every day). They also charge an extra $5 per day to pay someone else to feed the horse.
So, you pay $25 per ride, provide your own feed and hay AND pay someone else to feed the horse while it's there. Has anyone else done this or heard of it? (paying an extra fee because the trainer pays someone else to feed the horse).
If this trainer has a horse on a monthly basis, the fee is included in the monthly rate, but I think you still have to supply your own feed. Not sure about hay. |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | My trainer is $200 a week last time I checked, actually it may have jumped to $250. |
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Cute Little Imp
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Location: N Texas | casualdust07 - 2014-09-05 9:11 AM
My trainer is $200 a week last time I checked, actually it may have jumped to $250.
Does that include feed, hay, and feeding? Or is all that extra? |
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 A Gopher's Worst Nightmare
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Location: Southern Oregon | I personally choose to take care any and all horses that come in under my care. I want to KNOW what they are eating and how much. With that being said though if the trainer is having an outside person feed for them and they pay them, then yes it would be an extra fee. Just as a farrier would be an extra fee. |
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Location: Texas | Gunner11 - 2014-09-05 9:13 AM
casualdust07 - 2014-09-05 9:11 AM
My trainer is $200 a week last time I checked, actually it may have jumped to $250.
Does that include feed, hay, and feeding? Or is all that extra?
Hay only, I supply feed. the charge for board/care is included, she doesn't itemize anything. |
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| So, basically you're paying $30 a day, and providing your own feed.
Sounds reasonable to me. You'd probably spend more than that in time and fuel hauling the horse in every day.
Around here its $250 a week; if you're only leaving your horse there for 4-5 days, that's only costing you $150 plus feed. |
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