How far do you travel to your yard?

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StellaArtois

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Will have to move yard once we sell our house and move area. Just wondering how far some of you travel to your horse. I am lucky just now as its only 5 -10 minutes away.
 
Its about 20 footsteps from my back door to my stables
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it's about 5 miles as the crow flies so I can walk if the car is bust or the roads too icy, but takes 10 mins or so to get there by car. I would go up to about 20mins I suppose.
 
Used to be 1 mile away but then when I went to uni he went to a friends so when I came back at the weekends had to travel 20miles, took about 40 minutes.
 
As little as 7 minutes (with my foot down and no traffic
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) but normally about 13 minutes
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Lucky in that I work and keep my horse on the same place,so my desk is all of 500 yards from the yard!
Had a friend who used to drive 40 miles to get to one yard- every day. Couldn't do that myself.
 
Ooooh I love this sort of question now
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About 50 yards, I live on site
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I used to live 17 minutes drive away though, the most I have ever done is 35 mins drive each well and that was awful, I would never do it again
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How many times a day do you go up if you are further away. Still twice or does someone do your horse either morning or night?

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I go up once a day - YO turns out in the morning then I muck out, feed etc in the evening with my head-torch. Sometimes swap the other way round depending on work but it already costs £40 a week in petrol just going up once a day. Technically it would be cheaper to pay the YO a few quid for the full day but I like seeing him every evening.
 
At the moment mine are kept at were I work which is 20 miles / 30 minute drive away.

They will be coming home soon and then they will be outside my bedroom window
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How many times a day do you go up if you are further away. Still twice or does someone do your horse either morning or night?

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Now the horses are in at night I go up in the evenings every day and one morning a week. Everyone on the yard has to travel quite a distance to get there so we take turns doing the mornings, meaning one person will feed and turnout all 10 horses once a week
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30 secs
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Longer if the orchard is muddy
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(our house is in the middle of an orchard) and the livery yard backs onto it
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I can see my horse in his stable from the kitchen, and the field ajoins the garden
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we used to travel a 32mile round trip twice a day everyday, would have used the YO but she was useless & didnt trust her. i was frequently asked to turn out the horses that she was meant to be doin! we would have moved them but my mare was pregnant & didnt want to disrupt her.
we now have to walk 50m to the yard! heaven! but i dont know what to do with the spare 2hrs a day now i dont have to drive there!
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