Keeping your horse and livery!

Where do you keep your horse?

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Just wondering how many of you keep your horse on livery and what type of livery as I am considering setting up a business so wanting to get figures etc!

Also some of your experiences on the yard, what you like and dislike about your yard, the good services you like and what services you wish there was.

Also if there is any yard owners here anything from your point of view.

Also any tips or other info is greatly appreciated!

Thanks guys!
 
I'm a part livery but ideally I'd like to have total flexibility between assisted DIY and full.

The main things I want from a yard are

- staff with a good accommodating attitude
- horses to be treated as individuals and their individual needs catered for
- a maintained arena with lights and decent surface
- enough land to comfortably accommodate the number of horses
- safe fencing and individual and paired turnout paddocks for all shod horses
- lorry parking

You'd be surprised how many yards, for all their solariums and olympic size indoors, fail to tick all the above boxes!
 
caseywebb said:
Just wondering how many of you keep your horse on livery and what type of livery as I am considering setting up a business so wanting to get figures etc!

Also some of your experiences on the yard, what you like and dislike about your yard, the good services you like and what services you wish there was.

Also if there is any yard owners here anything from your point of view.

Also any tips or other info is greatly appreciated!

Thanks guys!
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Untill last month i had one of my horses on part livery and one on full livery, they are now both on part livery.

Full livery = bedding, haynets, hay, your choise of feed. mucking out done, feeds done and nets done, horse put out and bring in whenever you want. Veninary attention done e.g. inhand walking, poulticing ect. wormcounts and worming done, hooves picking out, two goes on the horsewalker per week. skipping out throughout the day and rug changes.

This costs £400 per calendar month


The part livery = Haynets, hay, your choise of feed. feeds made for you. horse put out in mornings if stabled overnight.

This costs £200 per calender month.

Not only are the services good the YO is always helpfull and keeps a diary everyday and writes down anything, e.g. if the horse was in, if the horse has sustained any cuts, lameness, had the shoes done and things like that

hope thats helpfull :)
 
ilovecobs said:
Untill last month i had one of my horses on part livery and one on full livery, they are now both on part livery.

Full livery = bedding, haynets, hay, your choise of feed. mucking out done, feeds done and nets done, horse put out and bring in whenever you want. Veninary attention done e.g. inhand walking, poulticing ect. wormcounts and worming done, hooves picking out, two goes on the horsewalker per week. skipping out throughout the day and rug changes.

This costs £400 per calendar month


The part livery = Haynets, hay, your choise of feed. feeds made for you. horse put out in mornings if stabled overnight.

This costs £200 per calender month.

Not only are the services good the YO is always helpfull and keeps a diary everyday and writes down anything, e.g. if the horse was in, if the horse has sustained any cuts, lameness, had the shoes done and things like that

hope thats helpfull :)
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That sounds well priced and if I had my horses on livery I would definetly want services like that!! I think that the diary is an especially personal touch!! The services sound extremely personal and helpful and I definetly would love to run a livery yard as brilliant as that!!
 
My friend and I rent a field and private yard from a farmer for £25 a week per horse. This includes as much hay and straw as we need (within reason!) and we have lights but no plug sockets. We are in the New Forest so have amazing hacking on our door step and there are several places nearby that we can hire the school but to be fair we are just happy hackers. The only thing lacking is the electricity supply and we love having the place to oursleves. I don't think I could go back to the politics of a livery yard although it would be nice to have more people to ride out with.
 
I am on DIY livery with the option of livery services , schooling and full livery if i go away or anything.
I love my yard!
All the horses are happy and healthy
The YO is very accomodating (even took my horse to the vets for me in her trailer free of charge because i had no money)
The stables are all in a barn which is cool in the summer and nice and shelterd and warm in the winter.
Security is a main factor for me! And our yard has alarmed gates which are locked at night , also the barn and tack room are alarmed.
The school is lovely.

I pay £139 pcm for stable, grazing use of school and jumps this is the norm around this area
 
Sounds good value for money BobbyMondeo!!

Also wondering do any of your yards have services such as tack cleaning etc?
 
My 2 are on DIY and i pay £20/week each.

for that i have access to stabling, fantastic grazing, 10 miles of forrestry, all weather arena, cross country course, gallops my horses can live out all year round if i want YO does not interfere with that.

we have winter fields and summer fields so they dont get over poached, my YO will feed/hay in the morning free of charge but i am normally up before he is out anyway (in winter if they are in) we also have our own 'bit' where we can keep her hay, straw, feed etc. We have a white board up in the tackroom where we can right up any messages i.e if we need feed or hay or straw (the YO will go to the feed merchant and get it for us free of charge and then just add the cost of the feed onto our monthly bill) he cuts his own hay and straw so we get it very cheaply. we have the option of adlib hay or haylage if we pay an extra £5/week

if we want them turned out we pay £1.20/day.

the most important thing is that everybody knows there place, he is the YO and what he says goes, luckily he is very fair and will go out of his way to help you and make sure that you are happy.
 
My yard is pretty good , and i think if i had him on full livery for an extended period of time and they were riding him ect they would clean his tack too.

Full livery includes turn out, muck out, bring in, feed, rug change and its £6 a day ontop of the basic livery costs.
Schooling is at £10 a session ridden and £7 lunge with a BHS reg instructor who is very good!

The main thing i think most of us think about when choosing a livery yard is saftey and the horses being treated as individuals, which they certainly do on my yard, which is why it works so well
 
Thank you it is nice to know the cost of schooling aswell!!

I think it is very interesting to also know the costs of hay/turn out etc !! Thank you guys this is very helpful for me!!!
 
Speaking as a YO....make sure you keep your sense of humour at all times.....you will experience things that you never thought possible!!!!!!!
 
I am very lucky that i keep all 5 at home, i live with the OH, rent and livery free at his parents farm! We have too much grass atm! but not enough stables! so mostly live out
But beggers cant be choosers! and i am very gratefull!!!
 
I keep my 2 with the sheep on rented grazing with a barn.I pay the farm owner a nomianl £8/week/pony.
I work on a full livery yard and have to say BobbyMondeo you are getting schooling/lunging REALLY cheap!!! its £15 just to lunge with my boss, although she doesnt ride the clients horse now as she has had back surgery. Lessons with her, she is a BHSAII, are £25 for half an hour.
For full livery where I work it is £98 a week, 1 olympic size menage (rubber over sand) a normal 60x40 sand menage, horses turned out/bought in, all haylage (only 1st cut used) feed and bedding inc (bedmax and cushion bed) rugs changed etc. Separate diets catered for but supplements are extra. Creams/powder/potions applied as ness. Fields are very well kept (poo picked pretty much every day) rotated grazing, worming, farrier and vet, feet pickingetc...I think its pretty good, but I kind of expected to have to groom and clean tack too, which we dont...
 
I keep mine at home, but have a few liveries at home also. I have one who I train and compete on owners behalf who pays £130 a week for everything included and regular trips to shows (owner is working outside the Uk at the moment so this suits her very well). Other liveries are full or part, so pay between £90 a week and £110 depending on what is included.
My own are easy as mostly live out, and are a bit overweight so have a smaller less lush paddock seperate from the others. Hope that helps!
 
I'm on a small livery yard, only 6 liveries, 8 horses and a shetland. It's a family run thing and I appreciate it when YO sorts out ordering wormers and she sorts the farrier, very important to me, they can live out in summer. We have no winter turnout but mine are in their own field which is basically mine over the summer. Some maintainance is a bit lacking but all the horses are very happy.
 
DIY - though includes ad lib haylage and straw all year round.

Smallish yard with school, individual or pair all year turnout (need to be stabled at night in winter but can be out in summer). Absolute bargain at £110 pcm and one of the women will change rugs/turn out am for 50p!!

Like the fact that people will always help if you ASK for it, but otherwise don't interfere and are happy for you to do your own thing.
 
Mine are at my parents home (which is my childhood home too... hence I often say I keep them at home)... so my livery is cheap - I just pay the bills that come in (eg feed, farrier etc). We have one other livery there and she pays 25 per week for DIY with full use of facilities including individual turnout, menage 40x20 rubber over sand, her haylage but bedding is not included... We have off road hacking within 200 yards down a dead end road with 3 farms on it... so you can hack and easily never see a car etc. We kinda work it so that we turn out in the morning and who ever is there brings in in the evening. Who's there first feeds etc. It works well but it's not exactly a big business!

Blitz
 
i must say yards are funny places and i know ALOT that only care about the money
this one
take me bsja give me jumping lessons i get dressage lessons
its not perfect rules getting told off etc but what im gettig for the money is pretty great
people
some are two faced stuck up but its a yard? so there would be
but some people are mega nice :) x

two menages [duno what size big enough tho lol] indoor and outdoor
jumps nicee big range :)
16x14m stables :) [i think there big anyways]
good hacking for HOURS and i mean HOURS
i can have hay for 75p per haynet
can have lessons
good grazing :) shame i have to walk miles to get there lol x
 
I put DIY livery, before i saw share a small yard with friend, cos I have Bella on DIY on a yard with our friend who also has Kennels there. It's £35 per week, so works out at a fiver a day. She is put out in the morning and hay is included, but that's it.
It's quite nice, but can be a bit lonely sometimes, and we don't have a proper school, there is a small menage, but you can't do much in it really, so we ride in a 'makeshift' school in the field made from electric fence tape + posts *not on though. And there is one pony and a shetland youngster, so can only ride on my own or with/on the little pony which is also a bit of a downside, but i'm not complaining, it is good but would be nice if there were a few more people.

I agree the little things do matter though :)
 
DIY for my two, at £140 pcm each. Incs ad lib hay, good turnout, school and nice hacking. Just need to buy in feed and shavings @ £6.50 per bag. My boys are economical though :) It's a real farmyard with lots of different species co-habiting, but it's great. Friendly too, which is a must. Also offers full livery for £240 pcm, inc everything I believe. Used to be on high end purpose built yard but made to feel like horses weren't ours. Got judged and told off by YO. No thanks!
 
I clicked DIY although my mare is on grass livery, this means we have a group field to put them in hay all year round (no grass at the moment so none this winter!), use of sand school when riding school not in it, fantastic hacking, small space in tack room and a falling down garden shed to squeeze 25 grass livery bins into so you end up climbing over each others bin! For this I pay £255 pcm but can't find grass livery with a school round here for less.
 
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