Keeping your horse and livery!

Where do you keep your horse?

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i pesonally keep my pony at home but i think livery would be fun as you get all the facilites and get to know new people, personaly i would like for a livery to have a school showjumps good hacking stables ad lots of paddocks and i would probs have my pony in part time or diy livery
 
My mare lives at a very busy commercial stud where I work and live on site. I get staff discount prices and the yard has good CCTV, a indoor and outdoor arena, solarium, shower and horse walker. I pay £3 a day for grass livery and adlib hay/haylage and in winter I pay £6 a day for adlib straw, hay/haylage, pay per bale of shavings if needed. Feed is also included in these prices if we use their feed.
 
We are on DIY livery with these facillities...

20x40 school
schooling/jumping feild
Mile long gallops
Fab hacking
Stable

We pay £26/week for that. Then we get charged haylage/straw ontop of that. (can buy from elsewhere but its good qualitly and good value so no need)

We also have the option of them doing the horses as and when needed, and they charge £7 per hour for anything that needs doing. We each have whiteboards outside our stables, and write on that the day, and what we want doing with each horse, if anything.

Then at the end of the month we get a bill. Usually works out at about £140 i think (inc haylage/straw and also bringing in/rug change/feed in the morning) :) Its by far the best yard we've been at, mostly beacuse of the people. Like the system, and horses are happy, so its a fab :)
 
Full livery inc: individual paddock, daily mucking out/poo picking, school with lights, twice daily feed and hay as req (hay and straw unlimited at no extra cost), twice daily rug change. £75/week
Grass livery: as above with stable reserved for winter £50pw
Most other things available at extra cost.
Haylage £10pw extra, Shavings £9pw extra
Feed at cost, own food if wanted.

I really appreciate knowing that everything is taken care of, the yard owner knows all the horses I've never had a cross word from her (even when my mare puts hoof holes in stables/fences). YO caters for individual needs (e.g extra haynets/small holes for horses that get bored, sunscreen for greys, bare paddocks for fatties).
Knowing the YO will notice if your horse is unhappy/unwell and respond appropriately is priceless.
 
big tick boxes for me and mine:

A nice friendly YM/YO who has a genuine love of horses more than money
access to a school
access to hacking
year round turn out but with flexibility to bring in if required
haylage in fields for wintering out
not too big that you become anonymous
not too small that there's no one to ride out with
well managed, safe and well fenced fields
sensible herd management (i.e. putting horses together to suit their personalities)
somewhere secure for tack
an area for general "stuff" including feed bins
non restrictive opening hours (am self employed so not always up at a sane time!)


I have a complicated payment arrangement so not entirely sure what the actual weekly rate is for all of the above. I think about £30 per week in the summer and £40 for winter (as that includes haylage)
 
I will hopefully be moving shortly to a yard near loads of offroad hacking, £125 pcm including unlimited hay and straw. Haylage if used is included in that too. Storage area in a locked tack room for feed and tack, toilets, school (unlit), individual/pair turnout, winter and summer paddocks.

Current yard is £25/week for stable and access to facilities - 2 schools, 1 lit and indoor, 1 outdoor, neither are maintained very well and are deep and uneven, indoor has a concrete base and concrete frequently shows through. Lights are £1 / hour, and YO charges £6 per hour if you have a lesson or if anyone else rides your horse. Hacking is quiet lanes and bridleways. 1 pallet per owner in hay barn and normally 2 pallets for storage outside stables in barn. I have 2 stables in a separate block so have a bit more storage.

Was on a yard last year (I'm not a serial yard hopper honest !, just can't find the right place) was £35 a week with unlimited hay and straw, great schools, lovely surfaces and both at least 40 x 40, 1 outdoor with full set of show jumps and 1 indoor, lights were free. Mix of American barn and outdoor stabling, individual/pair turnout, great hacking, great xc course, 2 sets of gallops and horsewalker (included in price). Had to leave there as it was too far from home.
 
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