DivaPonies25
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Last May, we had to leave our livery yard in Bromham [YO died, Land owner wanted us gone - property development etc etc]
We all found new homes, and off we went [unwillingly for the most part]
Me, my mum, and another mother and daughter, have ended up with a livery yard, made for us.
I say made for us, but we did everything.
We're renting 11.8 acres of grazing, an old cow barn, and hard-standing, for £115 per month
We had to pay and put our own stables up, measure out and fence our own paddocks, pay to have lights put in the stables and we also pay for water on a meter.
The grazing was okay in the summer, we have massive fields, but this first winter has been an eye opener - the mud. Oh my god, the mud. We have clay, and it is horrific.
I think we are paying an awful lot of money for not a lot.
Yes, we have grazing. That's pretty much it.
Yes, it's a beautiful area, but we can't ride on it.
We don't have a school, only the spare grazing which hasn't been fenced as there are only 6 horses here.
We've been told we can't have more than 8 horses on the land, because of the grazing. Which is fine, at the moment.
Recently - this weekend just gone, one of the girls who had her pony with us, left. She gave us two days notice, and expected one of the other liveries to buy her stable off of her.
She's wanting £950 for it.
I can't see us ever getting anyone new to come to the yard, buy the stable, take over a flipping muddy field, and then pay electric, water and then the £115 livery on top.
With no school, we think we're pretty much doomed
Thoughts?
Ideas?
[We did this because we were desperate with no where else to go, turned away from several livery yards because we have mares and wanted individual turnout and because mine is an Arab youngster, I didn't want to be on a huge busy yard]
It's got access to bridleways, but they don't really go anywhere, and in the winter the tracks are all ploughed. And of course, with the clay, that's not great
TIA x
We all found new homes, and off we went [unwillingly for the most part]
Me, my mum, and another mother and daughter, have ended up with a livery yard, made for us.
I say made for us, but we did everything.
We're renting 11.8 acres of grazing, an old cow barn, and hard-standing, for £115 per month
We had to pay and put our own stables up, measure out and fence our own paddocks, pay to have lights put in the stables and we also pay for water on a meter.
The grazing was okay in the summer, we have massive fields, but this first winter has been an eye opener - the mud. Oh my god, the mud. We have clay, and it is horrific.
I think we are paying an awful lot of money for not a lot.
Yes, we have grazing. That's pretty much it.
Yes, it's a beautiful area, but we can't ride on it.
We don't have a school, only the spare grazing which hasn't been fenced as there are only 6 horses here.
We've been told we can't have more than 8 horses on the land, because of the grazing. Which is fine, at the moment.
Recently - this weekend just gone, one of the girls who had her pony with us, left. She gave us two days notice, and expected one of the other liveries to buy her stable off of her.
She's wanting £950 for it.
I can't see us ever getting anyone new to come to the yard, buy the stable, take over a flipping muddy field, and then pay electric, water and then the £115 livery on top.
With no school, we think we're pretty much doomed
Thoughts?
Ideas?
[We did this because we were desperate with no where else to go, turned away from several livery yards because we have mares and wanted individual turnout and because mine is an Arab youngster, I didn't want to be on a huge busy yard]
It's got access to bridleways, but they don't really go anywhere, and in the winter the tracks are all ploughed. And of course, with the clay, that's not great
TIA x