Reschooling services - current price?

[Ambers Mum]

I have started taking on ponies for reschooling and problem ponies are my main aim. We offer a one to one service, with the pony being sent to our yard for a couple of months or so (depending on how bad the issues are).

We include everything (have done this years ago but I know prices etc will be completely different now), full livery or at grass, ridden 5 out of 7 days, feed, feet, worming etc. We do anything from ponies like Peter who need to see the world and bombproofign to backing nervous ponies and getting them desensitised for life in the big world thats out there.

We are currently not charging as such but thats because we want to get back into it again and I don't like charging friends anyway (I know I should lol) because in a way they are doing me a favor by letting me work with Tori and teaching her how to work with ponies who aren't as easy as mine or the ones she will encounter at college.

Obviously it will vary to cover out goings but how much would you pay?

For every extra horse/pony, I have to pay £40 ground rent per month regardless of whether they are out or stabled, plus bedding if stabled, feed and hay (£22 a large round bale if needed), if they want to use my farrier a trim is £22, £67 full set, £37 fronts, We do all the care (well I do) and Tori rides everyday schooling and taking out on hacks with quiet ponies for bombproofing etc.

So based on that how much would you charge a week? If theres anything I have missed let me know. Its been so long I think I used to charge £70 pwk but that was at my old yard which had a small menage and cost me £450 a month plus electricity and water, which are all in at this place.

[Ambers Mum]

oh yes we will only do one pony at a time so it really will be all about the one pony.

[angietoots]

Not got a clue what you should be charging! But for one to one service like you described I'd happily pay £70 or even a bit more - it is a short term thing I suppose, not like paying really high just for livery. I haven't got a clue what others charge though.

Bit of a pointless post really..... where are you based, do you want to do Milo? ;) (I'm not sure if I'm going to send him away or not yet)

[Ambers Mum]

would have loved to have done him but we are in the West Midlands/Warwickshire! Darn it all the cute ones are miles away lol

[angietoots]

:lol: that might be a bit far to travel! He's a sweetie really, a dope on a rope mostly! I think I will be just working with him myself, with an instructor at the school once I'm fit - I think it is less about "reschooling" and more about proper, consistent practice I think - and I think my riding is as much to blame as he is to be honest, so working with an instructor, both of us together will inprove us both I think.

I also think his saddle did play a contributory part as the saddler suggested was possible - my neighbour came to show my hubby how to lunge, and I've been watching him be lunged now, and he canters lovely (no saddle and sack of tatties on top with dodgy balance creating pressure points), although head still very high a lot of the time - but that can be worked on, at first in lunge (when I can do it), then in back to basics schooling I think, I'm willing to learn with an instructor, once I've got my confidence back.

Sorry to hijack your thread, just ignore my ramblings!! lol

[Lorraine]

Full livery schooling/re-schooling round here costs between £125 - £150 per week and I wouldn't have thought prices would be much different in Warwickshire/Midlands.

Maybe charge a little less if the horse/pony is on grass 24/7.

Feed, hay, bedding is usually included but farrier is charged extra at cost.

[Ambers Mum]

Thanks Lorraine! Thats a good help x

[eeek]

No idea about ponies but round here decent trotting trainers charge about £100/week. You'd think ponies ought to be cheaper because they're less likely to kill you, but trotting people are poorer than your average horse owner.

[TedMonkey]

About £120/week here with full livery.

[Horse Mad Mum]

prices up here are £120 a week Mandi XXX

[jojonono]

We pay £85 for full livery (one training session included) and an extra £10 per hour for any other schooling we want :)

[Rolo2010]

Full livery in Newcastle is £70 so by the time you add on for work then i guess you could up that no problem

[micki]

If it is any help to you i have just paid to have Charlie worked on. It cost me £30 a session and the bloke rode him 4 times and i know have a different horse as he now behaves. I didn't have livery to pay as i just took him round as the person who schooled him is in the same village as me.

[Ambers Mum]

Thanks everyone...

Peter is our first training livery, his owner pays his rent for the yard and we decided to let him live out as he is a bit hyper when in, so for £40 a month we are bombproofing, schooling and taking him to a couple of shows but we have agreed its a 'training loan' rather than livery lol....got to start making some money out of retraining soon though