Does anyone have less facilities than me?????

R

RachelMcTimoney

Well-Known Member
Joined
6 September 2005
Messages
537
Location
Warks/Worcs border
www.mctimoney4animals.com
Just wondering if anyone else is roughing it this winter? This is my first winter not on a yard!

I am fed up with MUD as we have NO hard standing, we have grass mats which i am forever lifting and putting straw under due to all the wet!

No electric, No mains water. But 3 lovely stables and cosy horses though! can use school at farm 5 min hack away.

So what have you not got and how are you coping???
 
Well Jigsaw doesn't have a stable at the moment as the roof blew off today
shocked.gif
and apart from the waterlogged school and fields i am coping very well! Try to ride whenever the school is dryish and am making use of the lovely hacking we have
smile.gif
 
Up until 2 months ago I had 2 stables in the middle of a 1.5 acre field, 1 half hour road hack on the flat and no access to any sand schools, and I can't drive a lorry to get anywhere so I had to rely on my mum taking me somewhere at the weekends if she had time!!
 
I have three stables with water and electric and concrete infront of the yard.

Would do anything for the use of a school! It's a 45/50 min drive to the nearest school to hire!
 
No lighting.... Only hard standing a little corner of field by gate *ok to tie hay so when hes out his feet dry and tie up... groom etc* one stable with hard flooring, and other without, hay shed, tackroom down lane, NO LIGHING, use of school 1mile down lane *but youngester so not able atm* off road hacking for about 1 1/2 then dual carriage way then arundel park *lush* and southdowns etc...Oh and only 1acre... But just *finger corssed* buying a yard
grin.gif
Only there as its bottom of garnden!!
 
stables with conctrete, (just being put down as we speak
grin.gif
) no school, but can hack to one, lights unless someone removes the extenstion(which seems to happen fairly regularly), is a bit of a building site at the moment, hopefully by the spring it will be a nice little yard
smile.gif
 
Well I have a barn on a yard and a winter field. Summer field has a field shelter. No school, no hot water, no electric and not very good hacking.
I can use my bosses school when ever I want but have to travel there 15 mins away and I have to borrow a 4x4 to pull the trailer.
 
Have got turnout still...am one of the lucky ones I think with that. Horse gets terribly pissed off when she is kept in, she hates it, so has been out the whole time really, despite the wind.
 
ive got 7 stables and 3 horses lights water grass small sandschool you cant swing a cat in so obviously designed by a non horsey man !! and ok hacking ( not me personally.... its rented !!)
 
Well for the first few years of horse ownership, I had... a field. Literally. Open the gate, park in the top of the field (lucky we had a 4x4!), tie pony to fence. Headlights on the car if it was dark. Grab a barrow from the corner of the field and lug a bale of hay over from the hay barn. That was NOT fun, so I now have a stable on a nice tarmac'd yard, a proper mounting block (not a bank to clamber on from!), a hay barn and a hay store closer to the stables, a feed room, tack room, hay soaking baths, lots of muddy fields... and best of all, a floodlit rubber school, use included in livery bill!
smile.gif

I do feel sorry for those of you with few facilities in this horrible weather!
 
i have a 9 acre field, thats it, no running water (ponies drink from the lake), no arena (ride in the field with the other horses), no stables- starting to see a pattern.................
 
We used to have no facilities it has only been the last yr we have moved the horses we used to keep them on a farm where the stables were water tight and windproof but were ugly and built out of scraps of mud with no concrete, jus a dirt based floor! We had no electricity and a stream which we used to use as a source of water and every winter would flood lol!! and the mud used to go over wellies lol!! However lol we had some great times there we were there for 9 years!!
 
Oh yes plenty of mud and pond swamp like fields... 18 acres of them.... 5 stables... hay shed (although full of other stuff at the moment) and water free floodlit arena 45x25 BUT no off road hacking other than small woods about 6 miles away (by road).
grin.gif
 
Daytime turnout, indoor and outdoor school, water, electricity, nice cosy stable. i think im damn lucky! and outdoor school isn't flooded either =]] all of blackheath to hack on
tongue.gif

x
 
We have six acres,5 stables i dont use,i have a mobile shelter,water,very good fencing,no electric ,no school good hacking but need to use roads to get there and after share paths with walkers ,dogs ,cyclists etc.
 
Good points, a minute walk from my house, a stable, good grazing in the summer, excellent hacking. I have a field i can use in the winter, but only when it's not wet.

Not so good, No menage, no field to ride in. Oh.... and no ponio ATM!!

But I'm not complaining!!
 
Ive done the DIY and no facilities part in my teens and had enough of it. When we bought my new horse he went straight on full livery and imo its worth every penny.

Mine has a huuuge stable in a small block with two other horses and (almost) daily turnout. We have an indoor school, outdoor school and lunging arena. We have a jumping paddock thats currently out of action due to the rain but they're in the process of making a jumping school so hopefully there wont be that problem again. Thankfully, the outdoor has a fab surface and is nearly always rideable so we always get use of one of the schools...

Tack room, washing area, rug racks, area for grooming kits etc and the family who own it converted their utility area into a livery kitchen which is all warm and cosy.

The hacking is pretty good, although we're not really hacking people so its quite wasted on us :/ Hard standing all way round the yard and good grooms
laugh.gif
 
We have fields,stabling,water and electricity...but that's it.No hacking,no school and we're practically left to our own devices,which is fine if you know what you're doing,but if there's a problem you have to wait til someone appears....and as it's DIY only you sometimes don't see anyone for days at a time.

BUT,it's cheap and convenient,so it'll do for now
smile.gif
 
Very limited hard standing out the back of the house, a garage for a stable and... thats about it.

A field... no school, nowhere to school... but im just so thankful I have horses!
 
I have no elec, no water, no hard standing , no school and a big field to trapse across each day! On the plus side though, it is my field and I can do what I want with it so my horse has turnout all year round, I have a double mobile field stable to put my boy in one and hay in the other, I have no one interferring telling me how I should look after my horse...would not swap it for all the facilities in the world!
 
We have some hardstanding but not enough! We extended the stables to put on an extra box and a barn area, but OH never got round to putting some concrete in front of the new bits. So mud migrates from there all over the bits that do have concrete
mad.gif
.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top