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blackbetty

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I just wanted to know how you manage unannounced visitors to your livery yards? For example people who you don't know just appearing on the yard, who have nothing to do with your liveries horses.

We are installing a new set of front gates on the drive way, but I'm concerned that they will still drive on through. Would you put a sign up saying ring this number first etc?

Any ideas welcome!
 
I'm a livery not a livery Y.O but we have electronic gates at our yard and everyone is given a code to gain access/egress. Regular vets practices and farriers/instructors/physios are given the code to save them keep having to ring the liveries or Y.O to be let in. I personally would tell no one except OH and Dad the code and I always make sure I cover the code strip up in front of visitors so they can't see what I enter. Having been on one livery yard where all our tack got stolen I would hate the thought that i had helped a potential thief. If people can't gain access because they don't comply with the above then they can ring a buzzer which connects with a phone inside the stable yard and whoever can interrogate and then let them if or not whatever the case may be.
 
Not an owner, but I used to be on a yard where the bloke that ownbed it (he was a retired jockey in his 70's) used to come dashing out of his house (sometimes in his pants
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Bit of a shock the first time, but we never had anything nicked
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Bit too cold to be doing that at the moment!!

I don't want to look like I'm being unwelcoming, but just want the yard to be secure and have peace of mind that there aren't random people walking around
 
we have new gates but we have our car par on the outsdie so liverires park and only walk through into yard. I make a point os saying i am around the yard allot just in case they sussing me out but then we have a yard next door so we watch each others backs.

I would say depending on your set up have visitors parking on the outside of gates, and aANY strange cars jot down licence plate
 
I think just making your presence known is enough to put off any unwelcome visitors. say 'Hi!, can I help?' and if they say they are looking for livery, make some excuse, say you're busy but if they ring you, they can make an apointment to look round... keep it sweet and helpful... if they are genuine, they will ring.
 
Presence known and dogs should be enough.

The problems with coded gates is that if an ambulance is needed or the firefighters at 4 am in the morning it would take up valuable time trying to remember the code in a frazzled state.
 
Our yo lives on premises and watches anyone that comes throught the gates.Our old yard was completely unsupervised anyone could walk on and it did worry me.
 
We have various movement detector bee bop alarms dotted around, ie tackroom/barn etc, and a warning note sounds whenever anyone enters.
It's in one of our bedrooms so if anyone wanders round at night we wake instantly.
They work via radio signal and are cheap to run.
The downside is in the daytime if it's busy they go off a lot, but you could just put the movement part across somewhere everyone enters and leaves, and it would give you the chance to glance out and see who was there.
When we get round to it we also have cameras to connect to the same system, now that's something husband could do whilst snow's stopped the building work!
 
People drop in at my yard very frequently. I have 5 big dogs running around and I am either outside when they turn up, or in the house. I just go over and say hello to them, and ask if I can help them.
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I have no qualms about people just dropping by, most of my boarders arrived in this fashion. I don't need people to make appointments to come and view my yard, as it is well run and nothing is hidden here. Gosh, I don't even lock my house when I go out for the day, and all of our vehicles have the keys in the ignition permanently.

I do live in a very safe area of my country though so perhaps you don't, in which case I can understand your concerns.
 
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