3 horses, own land but still at livery - help please :)

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The situation is this:
TB is a wimp and needs stabling in the winter, she is on DIY livery which is £60 PW plus hay costs, turn out is daily and in over night throughout the year - mucking out every day. Facilities on yard are fab, as are the people. YO is lovely, everything great. So whats the problem i here you ask??
Well its this:
Currently TB is off work and is going to be for the next few months due to muscular probs in her back. So shes just out in the field during the day and in at night. £60+ i dont mind paying but seems alot whilst i cannot use the facilities.
Now, i have 3 acres down the road and 2 other horses (natives) who live out 24/7. They have winter grazing which i rent for £15 PW and during the summer they come back to my field which is 3 acres till about November/december. My field has no facilities so means i have to lug water down everyday in containers, but that said that's all i do - no other costs atall. The cob is starting her education this year and will be mainly light hacking from the field - no problem.
My OH is always moaning about my livery costs for the TB and wants me to move her with the ponies this summer (even though i pay and we are not struggling for cash)- now we have applied for and almost guaranteed to have planning permission for a house on our field - all good, and OH says he will put in for 3 stables also as soon as the other has been approved.
So plans are:
Plan 1
Move the TB and the ponies to our field - obviously the section where house will be (by the gate) will be fenced off properly when the time comes - hoping mid summer. Stables have a good chance of being erected (if granted) before the winter comes so the TB can be stabled. (livery yard is hacking distance so can be hired any time for schooling) with stables the field can be managed better therefore they can stay there years round. Also 3 horses would be good together as when i ride one the other wont be alone.
Downside is if stables are not up by winter will be stuck if livery yard gets full again
Plan 2
Tb moves out with ponies on our land and i speak to YO to see if i can pay small amount to HOLD my stable for the summer so its ready for winter if i need it again - downside is if we get permission will have been paying for a stable for nout. (OH wont like this plan!!)
Plan 3
Keep TB on livery (move ponies as planned) and wait until stables are erected before moving TB?
Downside is the OH moaning about livery costs!! oh and summer mucking out! :D (i don't mind really)

So what do you think? what would you do?

Think i would feel a bit cheeky about asking for stable to be kept open for me? or is it just me??
Thanks guys :)
 
I'd move all of them to your field, section it off well with electric fencing to graze it properly. Buy either a movable field shelter or stables and your tb will be fine well rugged if nescesary, buy a water tanker that has a tap that you can put on a trailer and fill it up at your house, best of luck :) x
 
Move TB to field. If no stables by winter maybe you can erect a temporary shelter. If not, put up some big fence panels to provide shelter from the weather, and maybe put some matting down in the area. With decent rugs it's entirely possible, especially if you could manage some hard standing that you could use to put hay out.
Re your stable, I think you'd be a bit cheeky, but no harm in asking! I guess it would depend on whether the YO thinks they could fill your stable with a fully paid up livery.
 
I'd take him to the field and hope for the stables to be up :) maybe you could get a field shelter if stables aren't ready? Might be worth speaking to YO though. Ours lets people 'reserve' stables for a very small sum and some for nothing (usually if its a couple of weeks or they've got another horse there already)
 
Bloody hells bells!!! £60 per week DIY????
Is that stable coated in gold leaf? (TBH I'd want more than gold leaf for that per week!)
Sorry, i'm with your other half, move the TB. What you are saving you could buy a shelter AND leave them ALL out with hay ad lib for that!
£60 a week?????
Crumbs......
 
£60 is alot especially with not using the facilities! :(

Water tanker with tap sounds a good idea - although planning to have the connection done as soon as poss with the planning etc.
I suppose its the *hot shower* room, fab meange and all the other luxuries i will miss on the yard! although rumour has it that its going to be extra for straw soon too and a few of the freebies we have also.

The £60 can be put toward field facilities too and a shed to put my stuff - i have collected a vast amount of rugs/tack bits and bobs for TB so would def need storage!

thanks for ideas - keep them coming :)
 
Sanolly said:
Are you sure it's £60a week? That's nearly as much as I pay for 2! And my yard is expensive for the area.
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Yep, then its 6p per £ of hay - also get turn out OR bring in everyday, straw, wash room, menage with SJs, rug washing facilities, indoor stabling, individual turn out, solarium.........and lots other perks :)
 
You're very lucky having your own land! :)
I would move the horse down to the field and put up a shelter temp till you get sorted. the saving on the livery charge would more than pay for a shelter!
 
If this IS a real post then i would move the TB to your own land, seems rather daft paying for livery if you have land of your own! You don't NEED facilities and a horse doesn't NEED a stable (sure it's nice to have some). I would move her and save you £60/wk to put towards getting a water supply put in and maybe a field shelter.
 
ladyt25 said:
If this IS a real post then i would move the TB to your own land, seems rather daft paying for livery if you have land of your own! You don't NEED facilities and a horse doesn't NEED a stable (sure it's nice to have some). I would move her and save you £60/wk to put towards getting a water supply put in and maybe a field shelter.
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It does seem to make sense now i have re-read over my post, guess its just the fab facilities etc that have pulled me in!

As mentioned before - no troll :)
 
Hi, I also think you should move TB with the ponies to your own land. If no stables by the winter then surely someone could build a shelter for you? I asked a local man who used to be a joiner to build me a mobile field shelter. It cost me £500 and is worth it's weight in gold! But it doesn't even need to cost you that much if you had a permanent shelter built, as you wouldn't need metal skids on it for towing.
 
Could you maybe get a field shelter (possibly one with a door to give you the option of keeping her in) and move your TB to your field? You won't need planning permission for a portable field shelter and it could be a useful thing to have, at least as a temporary measure until you have got stables.
 
Thank for all your responses :)

Have decided to take a risk and hand in my notice for livery, move them all and *hopefully* get some stables/shelter up this summer.

Thanks again, its good to have people help me mull it over :)

Over and out, lucky7
 
Just to let you know that when we got our arab x show pony (19 years young), we had a stable all ready and offered him the choice of in or out with his NF field mate. We were told he was used to his creature comforts and wanted to come in at 4 every day winter or summer. However given the choice (put in stable for his feed), he was desperate to get back out with his mate despite their only being trees for shelter, so he was simply rugged up, fed well and he survived. He did grow a far superior winter coat last year though.
 
I would move the TB and as others have suggested buy a mobile field shelter. I use one as a stable in the winter and it is great! Just just have a stall guard across the front which I have extended to keep my cob in. Works a treat!
 
I cannot believe that someone with 3 acres of land would consider keeping a horse at livery...I would give anything to have my own land. You have no idea how lucky you are!
I have two TBs who I would love to have living out 24/7 365 and they would also love to live out permanently - unfortunately we have to bring in at night over winter. TBs will live out quite happily with enough rugs on. I can't think of anything better than having my own land.
 
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