Im starting to think renting a field isn't so bad..

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After reading several posts about how ppl hate their yards due to ppl being horrible, im thinkin that renting my field with no electric and concrete isnt so bad after all.
Ive never been on a livery yard so this is probably why but just can't believe there are so many out there with poeple trying to spoil things for other people on the yard.
We are on a 25 acre plot and we rent by the acre, so im not on my own and you get a lil bit of bitching but nothing that would make anyone move, as long as the horse are happy and healthy everyone keeps themselves to themselves!
Sometimes i wish i had the luxury of a livery yard esp this time of year but I really don't think I could put up with what goes on in some of them.
I think its a real shame that people have to be like that!
 
Sometimes I think it would be nice to be at livery to have help, company and facilities. But having read the posts on here I can see it's an awful lot of hassle, expense and stress and I am much better keeping my horses at home.
 
I rent 'just a field and a ''shed''. Have done for 18 years. Iam as happy as I can be with this arrangement. However, on the farm there is a livery yard, and although thought they were 'ordinary nice people', things have changed and basicly - they are not!! Several clients (nothing to do with me) have left recently, for the very reason of ''bitchiness'. It seems sad in so many ways, yet also it seems normal? My non horsey friend says put horsey people in the same place and its what your going to get.... but I want to know why? (never been in the livery yard situation personally).
 
I left the yard I was at because of bitching and went to renting my own field with a couple of stables and store in the corner of the field! I have to run lights off of a battery, and dont have any hardstanding area (will be getting some type 1 stone at some point to rectify that little problem), but its great other than that.

I can do what I what, when I want with no one to whinge. I guess the downside is in the winter months I'm bumbling about by myself in the dark, but then I used to do that at the yard as was usually the first and last person up. I have to school in the field, so cant ride during the week now in the winter, but I have taken the approach to 'wind down' for winter, unclipped and out 24/7, its a lot cheaper and I'm not knackered from trying to fit it all in around a full time job like I used to when I was on a livery yard.
 
I've also always rented fields and/or stables and have been pretty happy for years.

In winter it is a lonely old game, and it's horrible when there's an emergency and no one on hand to help
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But, I love the fact that my ponies can live out, or come in when I want them to, though I haven't got enough indoor areas for them all, I can have as many horses as I want on the land, I can alter fencing, add gateways or whatever, and no body interferes.

Also, it enables me to afford to compete, have lessons etc, which I couldn't do if I were paying livery.

I've kept various horses at various yards for short periods over the years when I've needed specific help, and can honestly say that 3 of them were HELL ON EARTH (catty YO's, and even cattier liveries), and at the others, there was 'atmosphere' not of the good type!

I'm soon to move one of mine for a month to a yard so I can ride her in their floodlit school after work.

I'm REALLY looking forward to it as I have friends there, and the atmosphere is a good one, both from people and the horses who live there

Woo hoo!
 
Not all yards are bad....mine is generally lovely...you get the odd bit of silliness now and again but in general its nice.... and you can leave stuff lying around without anyone else using it or nicking it.

Would still prefer to have mine at home.....best buy a scratch-card on the way home lol
 
I have never been on a livery yard, i,ve always shared rented fields with a friend. We help each other out with all sorts of stuff, like water, hay, sharing vet calls and farrier visits.
I have one field that is exclusively mine and have had a stable and feed shed erected just incase of illness etc. Yes it can be lonely and sometimes boring mucking out poopicking on your own so thats when my radio comes in to play.
 
it seems to me maybe we are the lucky 1's! We can work round our lil obsticals, like using battery lights, my stables and yard is slabbed to give me a hard surfice

who needs livery yards ay? lol

poppymoo - I no there not all horrible, just seems the majority are!
 
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