Recent content by atropa

I echo what others have said, please do not attempt to buy your own in your current circumstances without the financial backing of your parents. It's hard to explain just how expensive horses can be, and it's such a responsibility to take on. You sound very sensible and mature, I think you'd do...

What a lovely update, I can feel your pride through your post. Beautiful girl too!

Currently 13 miles (25-30 mins) on DIY but the facilities are really, really worth it. Have previously kept them at home but moved them further away for better hacking and grazing. Wouldn't go further than 30 mins away though on DIY, as a previous poster said the time twice a day adds up...

Yes this would be my preference ideally however I'm not sure it would be worth any of the freelancers time to come 7x a week just for turnout? Although I could be wrong! I've never had to use a freelance groom before, will send a few messages tonight to see if there is potential there.There's...

Yes, the school is floodlit. I have been given a list of the freelancers they use, I think I could probably pay for turnout and muck out 3x/week in winter for the same base price as liverying at yard A. I think if i really couldnt get to the yard due to snow or bad weather they would put hay...

Yes, yard A is significantly more expensive - more than double the weekly livery price of yard B, although includes unlimited hay in that price. I thought that might have been normal/expected due to the inclusion of an indoor school though - they seem very few and far between in this area!

Thank you all, some things I hadn't considered and some I had already worried about. Tbh yards in the area are quite few/far between so 20 minutes is about the average commute to one for me, 30 minutes I do wonder if that is too far to go twice a day every day? Yard A I believe it would be max...

Sorry, it's yet another yard post but I am really stuck! I need to move my 3 horses due to moving home, have had my name on wait list for yard A for some time with no luck so found yard B which I thought would be suitable, at the same time as yard A unexpectedly opened up space for me. Yard A...

It's a tricky one. I don't mind hacking in company but I'm another who has big horses who like to march forward, one in particular I have spent a lot of time getting forward as she was quite nappy with me when I first got her..it is surprisingly difficult to find hacking partners who go at the...

Go up as normal as if to turn out. Fill and hang a big net of hay for each. Top up water buckets. Skip out thoroughly, rake beds back tidily and change rugs if needed. After work, go back up and turn out in school or in field if weather has improve for an hour. Muck out properly, scrub water...

Sorry to butt in but may I ask how you muck out a combo of sawdust with shavings on top and keep the layers? I'm thinking about moving to this for one of my mares but I do a full muck out everyday so assume it would just get mixed in together?

33 and 22, 16 and 15. Really would like to be adding something much younger as well at this stage but can't afford it atm :\

YES!!! Oh my goodness, thank you so much! I could not for the life of me think of the name and I was second guessing myself.

Thank you, I'm slightly unclear on what you are saying, apologies - are you saying that Viovet now owns the small independent company I think I remember making grooming boxes? Or that Viovet now own Imperial Riding? Because I'm about 90% sure it's not Imperial Riding who make the boxes I'm...

Apologies for a very bizarre one! A few years ago I used to drool over these beautifully coloured, blingy metal grooming boxes. They looked a bit like those now offered by HKM and Imperial Riding (see attached), however I'm sure that the website was a small company which dealt almost...