does any liverys have no winter turnout

I have no winter turnout & seem to manage. We used to have turnout a few years ago but the fields just get poached - at least this way they are saved for the summer.
 
No winter turnout at the yard I'm at either.
I like it, I hate having to deal with muddy horses! They get used to it and cope well enough.
People just have to work them enough!!
 
Oh that's completely different in my eyes. If you have a baby then they need to be out as you can't 'work' them. But then you could suffer taking a baby to a not very good yard that turns out all year round because you wouldn't need the facilities!
 
I have no winter turnout and I hate it - as do my horses, which is why I'm moving yards to a place that has winter turnout and a horse walker
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I think horses can adapt to no turnout if there really is no alternative but physically and mentally they've evolved to be in almost constant motion. Standing in a stable for 22 or 23 hours every day is not conducive to a healthy physiology - making tendons and ligaments weaker (and therefore the animal more prone to injury when it does work), muscles less toned, digestive and lymphatic systems have to work harder and the lack of environmental stimulus produced bored or depressed animals.

I feel guilty every day on my present yard that my two can't get out in the field and I'm counting the days until we move.
 
I run a livery and offer turnout all year round. Walkways and gateways are very muddy but the fields themselves are not to bad.

I could not imagine not offering turnout and wouldn't run a livery unless I could. Its vital in my eyes however horrid it is dealing with muddy me and horses!

I know come the spring with a little work the fields will be back to there lovely selves!
 
Exactly Watakerfuffle! Our YO is the same as yours, and thankfully never ever closes the fields off, no matter how extreme the weather or the ground. If people choose to leave their horses in then it is up to them of course, but most of us turn out whatever the weather is doing.
 
Agree totally with you, Watakerfuffle and ISH Mad!! Thank goodness our YO thinks as I do, daily turnout for health and happiness! Fields recover, stressed horses are a much greater problem. Some horses seem to manage which amazes me, I wouldn't ever judge other owners' decisions, just I've never had a horse that is happy standing in.
 
I travel 30 miles to have 4 days a week turnout in winter. They cope ok on the other three days but they are put in the school - without that I would suffer as one is young and one is old and staying in until I got up in the evening would be unfair.

Yes there is tonnes of mud - so I cover them in pig oil and grin and bear it.

Personally I would rather have a filthy horse than one that was stabled all the time - mud easily cleans off with a bit of elbow grease.
 
We dont and like supercat, i dont mind really. Ive seen the state of the paddocks and for at least two of them, he'd literally be knee deep (or more) in thick mud.

Mine goes on the walker and out in the indoor school and hes fine. Not saying id not prefer lovely dry all year turnout but hey
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Sorry am sure couldnt cope if we didnt have winter turnout, especially as work full time and family life plus trying to work both horses every night would be a nightmare. Am at quite a large livery yard and our fields are regularly rotated so yes fields do get trashed in winter but its amazing how quick they recover once spring arrives.
 
nope.... no turn out here..... well unless I want them standing upto their knees in mud in the little winter paddocks that are only any good for about an hours leg streach and a roll. So unsurprisingly I choose not to, rather like my TB's to keep their shoes on!
 
We have no field turnout, I turnout for a bit in the large sandschool but all he does is have a roll and wait to be bought in.

To be honest by the time they come in for winter he is doing the same in his field anyway. Bit of a pain if you lack time or the weather is bad and you don't fancy riding, but it's ok.
 
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