What is the yearly cost of owning a horse in Northern CA?
Boarding out can run anywhere from $100.00/mo to $1,000.00/mo depending upon the facility. IF you live in a populated city like San Francisco or Los Angeles, boarding close to home will more than likely run on the higher end. This provides stalls, cleaning, bedding and hay twice a day. The lower end, is probably out in the rual areas and can be with hay or without (You’d have to go out twice a day and feed your horse (s). I suggest that you call around to the boarding stables in your area and get rates and facilities (Does it have an arena, round pen, hot walker, wash rack, etc.). The costs of shavings vary from place to place. In LA right now, a 5 cubic yard bag of shavings runs $4.00 from the shavings company and can run as high as $7.00 in a tack store. You also need sand, decomposed granite and sweet lime to keep your stalls bedded correctly. The sand and dg you’ll have to call and get pricing on. Then there’s the additional costs: Hay in CA right now is running $17.95/bale for 3 s
