anyone else feel glad they're on the yard they are?

Aww that's nice! I'm glad I'm on my yard - I'll be going round for Christmas breakfast and helping with the liveries horses who aren't coming up. We all muck in to help each other which means we don't have to pay for 'extras' which is nice :)
 
Not as lucky as you getting free livery for Xmas (jealous!) but I have the most wonderful yard with a great YO and lovely liveries with no bitchness. Absolutely wonderful and wouldnt move yards for the world! :)
 
I love my yard too - although no free week.

But it's friendly and helpful. There are only a couple of liveries and the YO and YM.

AND it's next door to my house!
 
We might not get the free week, but I love the yard im on i never want to move the people are fantastic and without them three months ago i dont know how i would have coped (sp) its taken a long time to find it but now im at my perfect yard.
 
No no no , you can't post happy I love my yard posts . Thats not fair to the people who have their horses at home and miss out on all the fun . I only feel smug when I read unhappy yard stories , now I just feel lonely
 
i rent my own land and i love it, wouldnt go back to a livery even for a free week!! Means i can have my sheep and my birds and also have four horses to play with. I don't have to worry about being told to keep the horses in and can manage my horses and land how i want without being told what to do (by yard owner or other liveries). Think i wasnt blessed with the good livery experiences you are all having!
 
I love my yard, or more specifically, I love my yard owners. The girls at the yard are great, most of them anyway but my yard owners are fabulous.

Have owned the farm for the last 50 years and the owner is a no frills, say it like it is kind of guy who I really respect. His wife is the mainstay of the family and is lovely and their two sons are lovely too. One seems to take the running of the yard on board and nothing is too much trouble.

For the last 4 years we have got a weeks rent free as a Christmas pressy and a sack of carrots for the horses.

There are no rules as such but we all respect each other and each others belongings and things tick over nicely.

It is very rare anyone leaves but if there is a whiff of they might we all quake in our boots as it would only take one not so nice person to spoil things.
 
I feel glad because it's beautiful and reasonable and the people are nice but the ice situation does worry me, were it not for the ice it would be perfect.
 
Yep, I love my yard and will never move again, YO's are brilliant, have seen and heard it all over the years so are well aware of what goes on. I was an instructress there for YO when it was a riding school over 30 years ago and we have been firm friends ever since. The yard is old and currently waiting for rebuilding but I love every single part of it and will miss it when the new one goes up, it is all very nostalgic for me and I am aware of that every time I pull onto the yard.
 
Yep! LOVE my yard, everyone is so friendly and suportive. The YO has worked really hard to get the right mix of people and there is no bitching or backstabbing.
Don't get a free week though - that's a lovely idea!
 
Sophie_Bailey said:
i rent my own land and i love it, wouldnt go back to a livery even for a free week!! Means i can have my sheep and my birds and also have four horses to play with. I don't have to worry about being told to keep the horses in and can manage my horses and land how i want without being told what to do (by yard owner or other liveries). Think i wasnt blessed with the good livery experiences you are all having!
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I moved in March from a small livery yard which was just me and the owner and occasionally another livery - it was ok. Now moved to renting 2 stables and land on my own and love it. Although I miss having a school the freedom of having your own space is great. The people who own the land are really nice, although I didn't have a bad livery experience I wouldn't want to go back to livery. It is so nice being able to manage the land and horses as I wish and not have anything else to think about.
 
Me! I love my yard :) I get there very early morning (5.30-5.45 ish) and YO has been known to get up and turn out another horse so my girly has a friend and isn't all on her own :) (normally there's another couple of liveries there early, but there's the odd day when they're not)

AND YO this morning went out at stupid o clock to get some horrendously expensive grit to put outside my stable (near the tap, so gets wet and then freezes), so my horse could go out.

AND I asked to put her on full livery on Sunday (just need a day off, all these early mornings catching up with me!). I said I wouldn't need it if it snows because she'll stay in and I can't afford to pay for an extra skip out in the evening. So she kindly said she'd chuck it all in as one and I wouldn't have to pay for the extra. It's her "bad weather" policy. So I can have a lie in after our works Xmas do on Saturday, then finish my Xmas baking in the afternoon :)

AND, for the first time in nearly 15 years, my horse is actually holding her weight over the winter. She's not being fed anything different, she's not eating masses of hay. She's just happy. And she has grass in her field. She loves it at this yard, so pleased we moved there :D
 
Yes I'm grateful for being on what I think is a good yard, we have an easy going YO, no rules as sush, just common sense and adults only, have a field to my self, it a pleasant place to be.

Just wish we had a bigger school...ok ok I'll shut up, can't have everything can we. :D
 
Despite my whinge yesterday, I have to say I do really like the yard I'm on. It is a big yard (about 40 horses) with amazing facilities, huge stables and always lots going on (which my horse loves because he's in a lot). The staff are mostly cheerful, friendly and really helpful wherever possible and the owner of the land is constantly making improvements - this year he post-and-rail fenced every single paddock, with proper gates and not a strand of wire or tape in sight. It is amazing what a difference to the appearance of the yard it makes.
His next project is an off-road track from the back fields to one of the really gorgeous hacks in the area, so you don't have to go on the roads at all. This involves liaising with neighbouring landowners, so we really appreciate he is kind of going 'above and beyond' for us.

Part and full livery are not cheap, but the DIY option is on a par with other, less well-equipped yards in the area, and definitely affordable. :)
 
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