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Turnout Time :Summer Winter

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Location : Cheshire

Turnout Time : All year - bring in when it's going dark or riding

Facilities : School with floodlights, walker, solarium, warm water wash area, large secure tack area, fab YO and YM, bridle path only a couple of minutes away on a country lane that's a dead end.

Services: TO and Bring in with rug changes, adlib hay, stable, 1 bale bedding (nedz bedz) - everything apart from exercise.

Hidden Extras : None

Cost per month : £80 pw so £346 pm
 
Location : Scottish Borders

Turnout Time :Summer 24/7 Winter Unshod ponies can stay out, all others in at night although no stipulations regarding when they must be turned out/brought in (although YO's won't leave a single horse out alone)

Facilities : Lovely floodlit menage, full set of show jumps. 46,000 acres off road riding - forestry and moorland. Experienced classical dressage instructor on site, hay/haylage and shavings provided, plenty of space for tack/feed, (free) hire of equissage..

Hidden Extras : None, winter cost includes adlib hay/haylage and shavings

Cost per month : £35 per week summer, £50 per week winter
 
Location - Devon

Turnout - Were given allocated paddocks and we can do as we like with them, turnout as we wish, as long as we pooh pick....

Facilities - Stable and grazing, lights in the stables and lights to flood light the field (ideal for bringing in in the winter)
were allowed to ride in the fields in the summer :) Average hacking

Services - Added onto the DIY weekly payment - TO or bring in is 50p :D £3 for mucking out, £7 to clip! Very cheap! And YO lives on site so is happy to do short notice eg, if i'm stuck in traffic and need pony bringing in :)

Hiden costs - NONE!! Wouldn't stable at a yard where there was!

Cost - £20 a week (DIY) and then any extra if we have any services :)
 
Location - Cyprus

Turnout - All year round, unless wheather is really bad or have requested to stay inside

Facilities - Personalised stable (no one else uses it) , lights in both stable blocks, 4 dressage/flatwork arenas, 1 jumping arena, 2 of the arenas are floodlight, a fullsized cupboard can be allocated In one of two secure tack rooms (you need to provide the cupboard), 2 trainers on site at all times with 2 private trainers also around, 2 horse shower stalls, 2 human shower stalls, cross country track, cafe, tack shop, 5-horse horse box, free usage of any lunging aids (pessoa, chambon ect.)

Services - mucking out, feeding of horses, bringing in/taking out of horses, clipping on request, lunging of horses if away, as much hay as needed, as much hard feed as needed (my horse gets 2 buckets a day) will tack up your horse for you (only for the stupid and spoilt)

Hiden costs - If you would like an allocated cupboard, you need to provide it, this costs around £50 and use of the horsebox is also extra, depending on the distance depends how much.

Cost - 450 euro a month, with no extras.
 
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Location : North Hampshire/Berkshire border

Turnout Time :Summer Winter . . . pretty much whenever you want although I don't think anyone turns out overnight

Facilities : large floodlit and well-surfaced outdoor school with viewing gallery (harrowed once a week by owner), set of showjumps, individual padlocked tack lockers in locked/alarmed tack room, kitchen facilities, loo, locked/alarmed hay barn with individual feed bays, locked rug room, wash down area, large stables, turnout, gallops, picnic area, trailer/lorry park (locked), direct access to Forestry Commission land for hacking (no road work) and access to cross country jumps built by the local hunt

Hidden Extras : bedding, hay, feed - owner supplies straw for £20/month (all you can use) and hay (large bales at £55 each), other feed and bedding must be organized/ordered in by liveries . . . also grazing isn't great in the winter so we put hay in the fields (which obviously costs more)

Cost per month : £170 . . . no charge for lorry/trailer parking

Extras . . . one of the liveries is an instructor and organizes regular group jump lessons - very low key, great fun . . . visiting instructors run clinics (including Tracey Lawson) and liveries organize regular group days out with horsebox sharing (e.g. West Wittering Beach for a good blast with the horses)

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Qru, i am very interested in your reply from Cyprus. I plan to move out there in a few years and wish to take my horse with me. I have my eye on Georges Ranch in Coral Bay do you know anything about it?
 
Location: Cumbria

Turnout Time: All year round turnout, can be out 24/7. Turnout in small single sex groups

Facilities: Outdoor 20x40 school with jumps, good sized stable, hay/haylage included, own tack/storage area and locked shared tackroom, good hacking, local showfield within hacking distance, decent sized fields with good grass and yard has a friendly atmosphere.

Hidden Extras: None

Cost per month: £138 (£32 per week)

Its great and both me and my horse love it there :)
 
padderpaws said:
Qru, i am very interested in your reply from Cyprus. I plan to move out there in a few years and wish to take my horse with me. I have my eye on Georges Ranch in Coral Bay do you know anything about it?
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Hiya,
I'll tell you what little I know as I'm not in that part of Cyprus :)
It's run by a British woman called Caroline, they participate in all the major competitions in Cyprus (there aren't many, but enough for the small set of riders on the island.)
Someone I know has just moved their horses from another stables to George's, which tells me it must be good as it's a good 3 hour round trip from their house to the stables.
I think they have a small tack shop, which is also a bonus as its basically impossible to get any horsey equipment here unless you order from the UK.
I can't really give much more info, as I don't know much about it. I think the liveries are cheaper than the one I quoted above as pafos is a cheaper part of Cyprus than I am in.
I hope that helps and I'm not just Repeating things you already know
:)
 
Qru, Would that be Caroline Grossmith who runs "rideincyprus"? Anyway I am so very envious of you. I really cannot wait to get out there. I love the island and the riding is really lovely. Thank you for your reply every bit of information i get will help me make an informed choice nearer the time.
 
Location : Just outside Dundee, up Murroes/Kellas way

Turnout Time :Summer; 247. Winter; Some horses live out, although most are in overnight, no horse is ever left alone.

Facilities : jumping field with full set of show jumps, Floodlit all weather paddock, fields upon fields to hack through, and a slightly overgrown xc section!

Hidden Extras : None for me :D all hay and straw is included, although if you were on shavings you would need to buy your own... Horses are also turned out and brought in mon-fri by the YO during the winter with a rota for w/e turnout.

Cost per month : £130 :@)
 
Location : Kent

Turnout Time :Summer 24/7 Winter 12 hours-ish

Facilities : plenty of grazing, sand school, lovely massive stables.

Hidden Extras : none

Cost per month : £64
 
Location : Leicestershire

Turnout Time :Summer - 24/7 Winter - limited turnout but when they do go out it is for approx three hours per day

Facilities : Large floodlit indoor and outdoor schools, wash box, tack room, solarium, stables with rubber matting, lunge pen, full set of show jumps.

Hidden Extras : In summer, owner is required to supply own hard feed and bedding

Cost per month : £415 (This is Part Livery)
 
Location : Cheshire

Turnout Time :Summer Winter- all day, as in really all day 6am to 8pm. can go out 24/7 in summer once ground is ok

Facilities : 3 menages, flood lit incl full jump set and boards, gallops, good hacking, indoor in 10minute walk hack away

Hidden Extras : none

Cost per month : i charge £35 per week DIY. Liveries get own hay etc etc from who they like, up to £90 per week full livery
 
Location: North East

Turnout time: Anything you want

Facilities: All weather arena with show jumps and a growing set of portable cross country jumps and floodlights, fab hacks off road including forestry commission next door without having to touch a road, own area for bins in feed room and secure tack room, muck trailer.

Hidden Extras: Non

Cost: £130 per month for stable and field including hay and shavings in winter DIY, £45 grass DIY + hay which is add lib round bales in feeder.

The best bit: If you go on holiday or want a lie in (planned hangover) or get stuck because of the snow, the yard owner or one of the liveries always helps out and if you repay the kindness (like you would) you dont get slapped with a charge for putting a feed bucket in or turning the horse out! I love my yard and eveyone in it!
 
Location: Cheshire

Turnout Time: Summer, 24/7 Winter, out most days for at least 4 hours depending on ground.

Facilities: 1 outdoor 30x60, all year jump paddock, fields rideable all year round

Hidden Extras: bliss bedding at £7.30 a bale. 2 bales a month. Trailer parking at £5 p/wk

Cost per month: £45 for part livery inc haylage and wormers
 
Location : Central Scotland.

Turnout Time : All year round! :D

Facilities : Giant field to bomb about in, small paddock (riding or for the laminatic :rolleyes: me..) Beautiful hacking everywhere, could not think of a better place for hacking! Small XC course, there is a little forest, and we chop trees and construct some jumps :D Loads of room, fully rubber matted stables :D

Hidden Extras : Only one other livery now (YAY!) Brilliant little yard!

Cost per month : A very very reasonable £100. Could not ask for any better.

:D:D
 
Location: Somerset

Turnout time: all year ( my horse shares a 6 acre field with one other pony).

Facilites: 100 acres of fields for us to use as we wish for riding; flat bits for schooling and lots of hills. But, we have easy access to the Quantock Hills for hacking, so we don't really bother with wasting time schooling !!

Hidden extras: none. Very small yard and we help each other out if a horse needs to be brought in/ turned out, etc.

Cost per month: £80 (does not include straw or hay)

So lucky to have found this yard, as livery on the Quantocks is very rare. Also, it is right behind my house so no driving to get there, and I can see my horse in his field from my house :) :)
 
Location : North East Scotland

Turnout Time : 24/7

Facilities : Shelter, own tackroom, huge amounts of grazing, hacking right next door (only have to cross 1 main road and you can hack for miles, including the beach 10 mins hack from field), sand school, jumping field

Hidden Extras : We have to pay for everything neede as field is D.I.Y, but I really like it this way. YO is really helpful and if he can help in any way, he will.

Cost per month : £70 a month.
 
Location: east Scotland
Turnout time: whatever you like; but if you wreck the fields you will have to fill hay nets all summer! Occasionally asked to keep them in during December to January.

Facilities: stables, use of cow court, three small fields (totalling about 2.5 acres) and starvation paddock. Can wash down in the yard using the hose. Tack room and loo. Feed area and can hang rugs up in the cow court to dry. Reasonable hacking and use of farm tracks and stubble fields.

Hidden extras: none, it's purely DIY, no one horsey to help apart from the other livery. You may have to look after the farm pony unless you don't mind seeing her left without food and water!

Cost: £120 per horse per month including straw and hay.
 
Location : North West

Turnout Time : As and when you want to

Summer Winter: 24/7 summer, winter up to yourself no 24/7 winter turnout

Facilities : 40 acres of land, different summer and winter fields, brew room, tack room, all straw, hay, haylage on site, floodlite sand paddock, huge barn, storage, horsebox/trailer parking, great hacking rural area so very quite, owner on site, farrier arranged, worming programme in operation, has health and safety checks, owners feed 7 morning a week, large stables

Hidden Extras : essentially a DIY but YO offers all the services and is great

Cost per month : £40 per week includes feeding, haylage, turnout, school, electric, water, 1 bale of straw per horse
 
Location: East Yorkshire

Turnout- Non on site but can use a field a mile up the road.

Facilities- Own stable, school, x-country jumps in a field behind yard, very good hacking! Option to join in lessons and hacks for
free.

Hidden extras- £3 for muck out and £1 for haynets to be filled.

Cost per month- £160 a month (£40 per week)
 
Location : Staffordshire

Turnout Time :Summer - I think it's 24/7 but my horse comes in during the day
Winter - Most horses out for a few hours during day or in when v wet. I am lucky and my horse is out with a couple of retired horses and just comes in for a few hours during the day, out overnight.

Facilities : Lit outdoor with great surface, I think it's just under 60x30m
Indoor, surface not great but better than nothing
Lunge pen
Secure tack room, yard is secure with working CCTV everywhere, two American barns although stables a little on the small side for my liking (I have a big horse)

Hidden Extras : None

Cost per month : £130pcm DIY livery, services, hay etc on top
 
Location - Cornwall

Turnout time - Summer 24/7 and winter 24/7 (when i first arrived i was given a big 4acre field just to myself but Gem didn't like being in her own field - even though she could see the others - so she quite promptly popped the 5ft hedge. Livery yard owners said If i liked i could leave her in with them but as soon as i was un happy about anything (her being in with 3 others or the amount of grass) i could move her back into the other field with one of there's for company.

Facilities - Outdoor floodlit sand school, big airy stables, secure and roomy tack room/feed room, hay store, 1 full set of bsja show jumps and 1 full set of rustic working hunter jumps, dressage markers and arena, fantastic hacking - 3 local beaches, a green/common to ride across, lots of hill work. All fields are properly post + rail fenced and with good grass, hay on site at £3 a bale. Owners live on site and check 3 times a day.

Hidden extra's - Y/O brings in/turns out and feeds every morning free of charge if i'm stuck and cannot get over there.

Cost per month - £80 (plus hay and bedding - but the shelter out in the fields is brilliant so i don't tend to stable very often.)

Very lucky to be where i am:)
 
Location : Northumberland

Turnout Time :Summer Winter 24/7/365 - grass livery

Facilities : Small friendly stable yard, tack room, feed room, ad-lib hay. Cross country course, fields to ride in spring - autumn (inc show jumps) good hacking. Horse will be brought in for farrier, vet if required.

Hidden Extras : None

Cost per month : £20 per week (20 X 52/12 = £86.66 per month)
 
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