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Louey

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Im currently looking for my own horse hopefully for spring/summer, all of the local livery yards are currently full so have put my name on the waiting list. Would you advise that I stop looking until a place becomes available or keep looking.....I dont want to be disappointed to find the perfect horse and end up with nowhere to keep it......:(
 
Me, I would wait, ask the sellers to hang on to it for you so you can find somewhere suitable for that particular horse, they are so different. Yards differ greatly, your new horse may need a quiet yard, or one that is a bit busier with lots going on his or her temperement will guide you to which suits.
 
Keep asking around as there is normally a few livery yards that do not advertise and like to keep things small and they often have spaces (through my own experience). Look in local tack shops and feed stores etc...

I can't see any damage looking around, but be careful not to waste people's time. It's one thing looking online at a horse and another saying that you want to buy the horse!

Good luck and I hope everything works out for you :)
 
This is probably completely the wrong advice but I can tell you that when sis and I got our first horse, we had no-where to put him, (a long time ago).
Fortunately Dad asked some of the farmers that he'd been to school with and one allowed us to keep the horse with his daughter's pony.
Our latest acquisition didn't have a stable available when we went to look at her either. I had to ask the vendor to keep her while we built a new stable. When she arrived the 2 ponies had to live out for a couple of (fortunately dry) nights and every-one else move round, until the new stable was finished and every-one could cold move back into their own homes, lol!

It is more than probable that there will be a private yard where you could keep a horse if you ask around.
 
If you can afford full livery, if you find a horse you want to buy then get it and keep it out of the area until somewhere closer comes up.

If you need DIY, you'd best wait until you are paying to hold a stable to look.
 
I have a stable waiting for the right horse and the YO has been just fantastic about it too, so I am trying to find the horse for it...lol :)

If you find the right yard, then I would suggest putting a deposit down for it that way you know you have somewhere to take your new friend.
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Many thanks for your advice, its such a dilemma!!!!! I have my name down for the nearest yards to home, mainly because these yards are very nice, have all the facilities and the people are great hence the reason why they are full! I definitely dont want to time waste anyone so if I do find the perfect gent I will plead nicely if they will hold on to him for me :)))
 
I found the stable first, put a holding deposit on it for a month and then bought my horse. Call all the livery yards regularly, if you don't keep in touch they won't call you back in my experience.
 
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