Full livery, no school would you or not? Price related

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Would you consider being on full livery but not have a school to use on site but one to hire 10 mins hack away on country not busy roads. Small private yard with no other liveries. Charging £450 per calendar month.
Everything included, feed, hay, rug changes, bedding, turnout -bringing in. 7 days a week. 14x14 indoor stables. On the Berks/Hants border.
 
Will you have to pay extra for hiring the arena or have the yard come to an arrangement with the owner of the arena? If you have to pay extra then probably not. But depends on what your doing with your horse - i.e. if it's a hack or a hunter then a school isn't essential.
 
It depends how important your schooling is to you. If the riding location is good and you are happy and the other horses in the yard are well cared for then you have to weigh it up. Personally I wouldn't that is alot of money for no school facility and with late dark nights your hacking to the school is a no no !

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There is a yard near me which constantly and rapidly changes hands. People constantly rent it, try and run a full livery yard from it and can't. The trouble is, most people want full ivery because they are busy working full-time. If they are busy working full-time they can't then hack 20 minutes in the pitch black of night to use a nearby school.
 
No. For that I would expect facilities - at least a large floodlit outdoor all weather.

I was paying that for a competition yard in Herts - complete with indoor, outdoor, walker, on site hacking, mud free AYTO, huge indoor stables with auto waterer, and forest hacking on doorstep.
 
Personally no especially if I had to HIRE the other school! Then again as already said above by others depends on how important schooling is to you or maybe you work shifts so don't have to ride in the evening, then again a school is always useful for lunging, e.g. friends horse is just coming back into work and needs lunging in a pessoa, she couldn't do it unless she had a manage with lighting. Seems V expensive with incomplete facilities, only my opinion though!!
 
Gosh that is awfully expensive for the facilities and extras included.
I am on a yard in Staffs that does part livery ( mon to fri) and that is only £45 a week and it even has a school and nearby access to bridleways too.
 
NO !!!!!!!!!!
And as far as I can tell its not Full livery as they are not riding so for part livery that is about average for that area but all the other places would have a school !
 
Grrr this really is a bugbear of mine....

You're not being offered full livery. Full livery means exercise is included. You are being offered part livery.

As for whether I'd pay that without the use of a school, then I wouldn't.
 
It must be the area as there are 2 others within 15 mins and both have outdoor schools and are run as livery yards so lots of other people and very busy.
One charges £450 part livery (5 days a week, weekends you do it) and only oncludes one bag of shavings a week, more is extra and £540 full livery the other charges £525 part livery and £715 full.
Thanks for your replies though.
 
Definately NOT!!!
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V expensive as far as full livery goes even with a school. As said most people who have horses on full livery ride at night so would be paying that and only being able to ride at weekends. Not sure what the point would be. Sorry!!
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Would prob need to reduce price substantially to get people, as so many other liveries around with good facilities.
 
NO! Where i work we charge £350 for part livery which is everything apart from riding, grooming and tack cleaning. we have 3 schools, 1 is indoors, direct forest hacking, canter track, lunge pen and walker.
 
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