Livery yard dilemma

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My new horse has been in 24/7 since he got out of his field twice and ripped a horses rug. I have had him nearly 2 weeks. The YO is being difficult and wont let him out at grass at all, so this week hes been a bit mental when Ive taken him out for some grass. She has so many stupid rules so Ive had to find a new livery fast because I dont think its fair hes in 24/7. Ive found a yard that I used to be at has some vacancies but its changed hands since I was there. So I found out today the new yard has small herds but small fields too. Now I dont want him to be on loads of grass but enough to keep him occupied. What would you do? Im not sure whether to just move anyway, stay a few months and look around for somewhere else that has a bit more grazing. Although Ive been told the new yard owners are very accommodating and if you have a problem they will sort it out. My horse likes eating wood so I dont want him bored and to start nibbling the posts at the new yard.
 
Why don't you actually discuss it with the new yard? Tell them what you're concerned about and see what they say? Then make your decision....easy!
 
I think I will talk to YO but I cant stay where I am much longer its not fair on my horse to stay in 24/7. I think the new yard will have to do for the summer.
 
I'd be away from there like a shot hun. I had to move my veteran cob for exactly that reason. He's a typical too-smart-for-his-own-good cob and taught himself to step over the sagging, 18" high barbed wire fence that separated the winter sacrifice field (solid mud) from the resting fields. You'd think the answer would be to mend the fence but no, the answer was to ban him from turnout. He got profoundly depressed and started to lose weight and even when I offered to go halves with re-fencing the field, nothing was done. So I moved him for welfare reasons. No horse should be stabled 24/7 for convenience.
 
Cant understand anyone that profess's to love animals, to demand that they stay in 24/7 permanently with no plan to sort out the problem, and a veiw to get them back out, some people are so kin weird.
 
I would speak to the possible new yard, and look around other possible new yards this w'end to get him moved asap.

Some yards are not about the animal but the money.
 
I don't think it matters how small the fields are - even a tiny field will be better than the current situation. I wouldn't stay at a yard where my horse wasn't "allowed" to go out as a punishment, I just wouldn't stand for it. Just move to somewhere where he is able to go out, and if its not quite right, then look again. But for goodness' sake, PLEASE get your horse to a yard where he can go out, keeping him in 24/7 at this time of year is just cruel.
 
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