How many are looking for a new yard ?

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Just wondered how many folks are still looking for a new yard before winter sets in, how many are just gritting teeth with a determination to have moved prior to next winter and what are the reasons for wanting to move?
 
Me neither, even though it's a 30-40 minute drive each way. In fact the house is going on the market & we're moving nearer the yard.
 
I'm moving my boy in 3 weeks. Moving from a yard with a school and only 5 other horses, to a bigger yard with no school, due to bitchiness! it finally occured to me that I'm paying all this money and not enjoying it. Plus we're giving the loan horse we had back, and the owner has got really funny threatening small claims for not wanting to pay a years livery for loaning him 3 months. Oh, and also the fact the yard I'm moving to has lots of grass so smoke can be out 24/7/365 :)

bexcy-bee x
 
I have just moved yards ready for winter..

Reasons for it were....No grass on previous yard and having to put hay in the field in the summer and costing a small fortune. Winter would of been a nightmare.
No field management, worming programme etc.

Nowhere suitable to ride after work in the dark - no indoor school, no outdoor school with flood lights.

Hygiene on the yard was not good for my son (dog & chicken poo everywhere).

Hope this helps :)
 
I was going to move yards, although nothing to do with the change of seasons, more to do with bitchyness and bullying, however my current YO & YM have persuaded me to stay put, and it's such a fab yard I'm glad I am!
 
I think I will move again come spring. I sold my land this year and we're trying to sell the house so we can buy somewhere with land to have the horses at home. I have moved back to livery and have been really happy, but the fields really are terrible and getting me down already, so I think come spring, unless house is sold, I will look for somewhere else :)
 
i'm looking to move yards but as someone said above it's to do with yard bitchiness and bullying, the YO won't sort it out and infact is best friends with the yard biatch and won't hear a bad word said about her. i don't want to be up the yard anymore because of it all.
 
Im desperately looking for a new yard as I am being made to pay for services I don't want or need on top of my agreed diy livery! Really struggling to find somewhere near me that offers diy but still has nice facilites, they all seem to be only part or full available near me :(
 
I have vacancies too! As does every other livery yard in the area (even the really posh ones!)...people aren't moving, or if they are they are moving to a field for financial reasons and they are selling their horses....nightmare! (i'm in Kent)
 
I am moving yards next weekend.
Moving due to current school being right by the road and several incidents have scared my boy who now refuses to go down one end of the school and i'm tired of fighting with him.
Relocating just down the road to a lovely yard with 2 schools, neither of which have a 'scary evil end' of the school!
 
Paint Me Proud said:
I am moving yards next weekend.
Moving due to current school being right by the road and several incidents have scared my boy who now refuses to go down one end of the school and i'm tired of fighting with him.
Relocating just down the road to a lovely yard with 2 schools, neither of which have a 'scary evil end' of the school!
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Ah but how do you know? Our school has a 'scary end' goodness knows why as it's no where near a road or anything scary looking. Five of the eight horses here are really spooky down that end.
 
DebbieR said:
Me neither, even though it's a 30-40 minute drive each way. In fact the house is going on the market & we're moving nearer the yard.
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Loving this ^ ^ ;-)

I have just moved yard - suddenly dawned on me that I needed a yard with a little less emphasis on the DIY! I have a very finely tuned lifestyle between working full time, kids, house and stables and the old yard was taking more and more time to do things like poo picking and then I was informed recently that I had to take water up twice a week too when it freezes and do the poo picking by wheelbarrow, in the dark twice a week.

It didn't matter what I said to them about trying to make lives easier, the response was always a bit of a blank expression and "always done it that way".

Anyway, result was that I moved to a lovely big yard with loads of friends for my 5yo daughter, loads of help, 24/7 running water and electricity ..... ;-)
 
I'm looking for a new yard....but then I'm buying a new horse :D

It's weird, having moved areas, have realised how much I relied on knowing the area I was in so much, and decent vets/farriers/yards/saddleries etc - I'm totally in the dark about what's in the new area.
 
Very happy to say that we managed to sell our house in Devon and moved to Cornwall to our new house with land just in time for winter, stables are going up on Monday so horses will be snug and dry at night during the predicted bad weather and I only need to walk ten paces from my back door to check on them. Heaven after many years of bitchy crappy livery yards!
 
nope! In fact tomorrow I'll have been there 7 years!

It has been a turbulent year with them deciding to resurface the school at the start of the year and the contractor is a PITA still hasn't finish it. Don't get me wrong, I'm so frustrated, but the other benefits outweigh it and there is no other yard in the area I would choose over it. The school will be done eventually. Until then we have pretty well draining flat fields. sigh!
 
I love my yard, just don't have a horse any more.
I had left my yard before due to financial reasons above all, but I always went back and they have always had me back, they are very nice and I do love the place, they do a great job of running the place.
Once I do have a new horse I will go back without a doubt, unless of course I win the lottery....
 
Im looking to move one of mine, i just need to ring loads of yards - i hate ringing people i dnt know :o. If anybody knows of any yards with spaces within roughly 20 minutes of lincoln university let me know :D Moving so i can keep riding through winter and be closer to me now im at uni :D
 
im still looking for livery or small yard to rent with 3/4 stables and grazing near to cullomton devon if anyone knows of anywhere plz let me know.
thankyou
 
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