Has anyone been sad to leave a livery yard

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I have made the decision to leave my current livery yard due to having no turnout most of the year. Its sad as l really like the people there and wonderful facilities but my horse is not happy anymore so am moving to a small yard no facilities but all year turnout i think this will be much better for her. I am hoping to go back every fortnight for lesson with my instructor because its only up the road.

So have you been sad to leave a yard for what ever reason :(
 
When I moved from Kent to Surrey I left a full livery yard. We had such laughs there and I used to even help muck out for the fun of it! Tried two yards since and not got on with them at all, hence my pathological phobia of them, now (I left the yard in July 2000). We had pub rides, water fights, putting world to rights over tea, everything. The managers moved on a couple of years later anyway, but I was sad to leave that.
 
I was very sad to leave my first yard as the family who owned the place were lovely, I miss their kids. I left because I was moving but I also unfortunately I had a big fall out with the other livery and there wasn't really any going back from it. Little did I know the next yard would teach me an awful lot, I was then sad to leave that One after a year as I left behind a new good friend but the yard I am at now is perfect. I have help from my trainer and we are learning lots, couldn't be better.

Change is exciting remember :)
 
Yes - my last but one yard closed down - it was a real shame as everyone got on well, the stables were fab and the facilities good, the staff were excellent and the horses were treated like kings and queens - the only downside was the hacking, but the YO would drive you up to the Park whenever you wanted to go.

The YO became a very good friend, and 10 years on we are still good friends and I would trust her to do anything with my horse. I quite often ask her to have another yard, but she has a "proper job" now. LOL!

The yard I am at now is OK, and I have some good friends and the care of my horse is good but nothing special, but it's not the same and the YO is a strange one who favours the full liveries, tolerates the parts, and disdains the Assisted DIY's. She'll spend money on lighting the school so her daughter can ride after school, but won't put two extra lights up on the yard because we keep asking her to do so as you can hardly see anything in the dark and its dangerous.

I stay because it suits me, I don't see the YO very often, and the hacking is brilliant.
 
My last yard was amazing! We went through so much together after the woman who leased the place was evicted for not paying her rent, and refused to leave, blamed us liveries for allsorts of things, ripped out the partitions and burned anything and everything that could be moved. She went as far as asking her brother to use a hydraulic drill to take up the floors, but he didnt have time what with setting fire to all the stable doors and stuff. She even turned the power and water off at one point as punishment, but we all slugged through it and had a glass of champers when she left!

As the whole yard were MGA'ers we'd all be sat in tents outside the lorries late at night, one lady ran the onsite riding school and gave me SO much help and support with my riggy, tantrum-prone appy and we've had many a late night BBQ in the barn. It was the best experience of my life, but alas a change in financial circumstances meant I was faced with either selling my ponies or moving to a rented field, so I moved them. I don't regret it and am still in touch with the old place, but I miss it like mad and I love them all to death :)
 
Yes, I left a yard I was really happy on. Unfortunately my mare had very bad mud fever resulting in steroids to clear it. I was really sad to leave but I had to for my mares sake.
 
Yes and no.

I left due to relocating due to work. Was glad to leave as I hated the job i had and the general area, plus hacking was utter crap but the yard was amazing. If only I could uproot it and plonk it on top of where I am now and have my current hacking it'd be perfect.

Facilities were great, was on diy but could use services ect, hay and bedding on site..everyone was lovely..
 
Sounds like you're definitely doing the right thing for her. I've been sad to leave both livery yards I've been at - the first one we all got kicked off of because the lady who owned it sold her house and the people who bought the house weren't horsey and wanted to turn the stables into offices. It was in a lovely location and it was where I grew up around horses so it was horrible to go. But saying that, it wouldn't have ever been the same again once she'd left. It's sad driving past it now because I remember it as it used to be, rather than the rural business park with mown fields that it is now.
The second yard was even sadder! We kept them at a farm, and the farmer and his family are just so lovely and went out of their way to help out in any way they could for us and the other couple of liveries there. He built stables for us, built shelters, made sure fences, troughs etc were always working, kept an eye out on the horses for us etc - there were no fancy facilities but it was a really, really lovely environment and we were all so happy there. We only left as we bought our own house with land and stables - yet we left the yard in floods of tears and still go back to see them! x
 
when i left my last yard i was quite sad.
I loved it there and my horse was happy i just needed more facilities to enable us to compete.
still see my old yard owner and it is very friendly
 
Yes I have just left a yard that I been on for 22 yrs!

Started there with ponies and then both my horses been there, reason for moving is that they no longer do full/assisted livery and going though a serious illness in the family so I need support where possible. Plus the fact my young horse is on the recovery from a fractured cannon bone so needs consistent work and fittening to get him going.

Seems like a great move so far as my horse is the happiest that I have seen him as the yard is quiet as its mainly a competition/breaking yard that only has 2 full liveries including myself, so there are the same people each day and same routine with no pesky children running round the yard either!

Hopefully more opportunities for training and getting to shows also given that I have no transport of my own! :)
 
I was sad to leave our old yard, had been on part livery there 8 years since I bought my horse as a 6 yo, and YO helped me back my second who i got as a youngster.

But as we were moving 550 miles north, it wouldnt really have worked to stay.

The facilities were nice and she is still a good friend now 5 years later, and what was most important was that our horses and those of other clients were always absolutely top priority in her mind.
 
Yep, two yards I've been really sad to move from.
One was years ago, I had my boy at the yard I bought him from for a while, love the people and the facilities but they don't do DIY and the cost was too much in the end. Until I moved away (see next bit of my post) I used to still go there for lessons.
I recently moved from Hants to West Sussex and was gutted to leave my old yard. Was on a working farm and honestly had the best bunch of people on it I've known at a large yard (30+ horses). I had the most lovely field all to myself and a stable for each horse, and the land was so well draining there was barely any mud in the winter. Don't get me wrong, the yard I've moved to is lovely, people seem v nice so far, there is a proper, useable school (the only con about last yard, no useable school!) and you can ride straight out onto the South Downs so the hacking is amazing! :)
 
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