How far do you travel to your yard?

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I'm currently looking at yards and trying to work out how far will end up being too far? The situation is complicated as we have the youngsters in a field 5 miles in one direction and the better yards seem to be in the other direction :( I can arrange to have them fed and leg checked in the week, so I'm not factoring that into it too much. I am also currently getting around on a 125cc motorbike, but as fab as the bike is at getting me through traffic etc I am clearly going to have to buy a car to enable me to get to a yard with winter turnout and a school that isnt owned by crazy people!

So how far away is your yard? and how far is too far based on one visit a day?
 
currently just under 16 miles.It isn't so much the distance as the time involved that makes it a little too far as I also work full time hours and find I have hardly any time outside of work and horses meaning everything else suffers.
 
mines about 5 miles away through the lanes, bit further main roads. Takes around 10 - 15 minutes drive and when I used to cycle in summer it took just under half an hour:). At uni it was about 4 miles away so 10 minute drive but have been 15 miles from home before which i felt was too far - but then I was on DIY :)
 
About 50' from back door to barn. :)
Nearest paddock is 20' from back door.

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I have never kept my horses further than a mile away from home.
 
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used to drive 16miles one way to the yard, so 32miles per trip & as it was DIY was doing thsi twice a day! It was however very cheap & only 2miles from uni so I stuck it out, but used to hate doing the drive esp. at rush hour!
Now its prob about 30meters! lol! & i love it! :p
 
5 miles, about 10-15 minutes each way twice a day minimum as on DIY. I wouldn't want to be much further away TBH...

I think you need to consider how far/how easy it would be to get there in snow. I feel we are in for a few years of much harder winters than we have been used to :(
 
The yard I've found that seems the most suitable has all year turnout, indoor stables, fab hacking and ad hoc livery services. Its just over 10 miles from home, 7 miles from work, but I think the services might swing it. I've gone through hell and back not being able to get to my mare in the snow, but the current favourite yard has people living on site that if needs be, I could call and they will do a daily full livery service for £10 a day.

i'm just dithering as its down country lanes and if the weather turns the way its predicted it could be weeks before I see my mare :( Its all well and good knowing shes looked after, and TBH a big step up from where I am now, but I am starting to feel like I give nearly half my salary to keep 3 horses in the lap of luxury and never see the b*ggers! :(
 
My present yard is 2.9 miles away. Not too bad distance-wise although the last 1.4 miles is down a very narrow, pot-holey, sunken lane with hedged fields either side. When it rains hard, water runs off the fields into the lane so it's either flooded or frozen solid and almost impossible to negotiate without a large sack of grit to hand. Ah, the joys I've had getting to and from the yard last winter and just recently! :rolleyes: TBH I'd be happy to move further away if it meant an easier drive to the yard in winter and meant less damage being done to the front suspension on my car (no matter how slow I negotiate the pot holes.) I'd be happy to travel 5 or 6 miles to a decent yard but sadly there aren't any in my neck of the woods.

Furthest I've kept a horse was 18 miles away and that was whilst I was selling one and wanted the facilities to prep and let people trial him. I only had to go up once a day in the evening, as he was turned out in the morning for me, but it was a long drive there (through Exeter in rush hour :( ) and back every night after work. Too far for me to want to do it for anything but a short time.
 
Well, the two little ponies are at home in the paddock, and my two boys are currently kept at a livery yard which is a 10 minute drive (about 7 miles) away. We only moved house a few months ago though, and I used to travel 15 miles each way (at least once a day, sometimes twice!) to my horses.
 
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literally 30 seconds away, maybe a minute if I am feeling lazy :p - I neighbour the yard ;)

Also means I look after the horses when YO is away :)
 
My share lives nearly 20 miles away. It takes me 30min (can do it in 20 if it's clear and my foot is feeling heavy) and almost all of it is motorway work. It's very doable, but i wouldn't want to keep my horse that far away if i had to go up every day (do 3 at the moment) and had a full time job. I just think i would rather have an extra 30min with the horse than sat in a car, often in traffic.
 
Mums pony is about a 3 minute drive, very handy in snow! New horse is a bit further, about 10 min drive max, haven't experienced that in the snow yet! :S I wouldn't have horses further than a 6/7 mile radius, just for the pure fact of snow and getting to the yard (we are DIY)
 
I am out 11-12 miles away, but they are on part livery. Closest i have been was about 6 miles when i had them on DIY, which was too far in the winter i found. As by the time you have done all your jobs and got home its time to go back again!
 
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