New Yard - Not what I had hoped it would be!

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I moved yards in April this year, closer to home. When I moved all seemed to have what I wanted, all year turnout, good grazing, sandschool with floodlights etc, everything well maintained.

Now - it seems not all is well! The summer grazing was great to start with, but now we have way to many horses (YO taken on a load of grass liveries), who are on our winter grazing, so we now have no where to go for the winter and the summer field apparently turns into an unusable bog! The sandschool is a nightmare (its only 20x40) - last night there were 7 of us trying to get in there, and considering my horse is just coming back into to work (on day 3 at the mo) after 3 months off, it isnt practical or safe to go in with so many people. The yard is a mess - nothing is tidied up, looked after, stables leak, only YO's horses are a priority.

Now feel really bad that I moved horsey from a lovely yard to be closer to home and think I am going to have to move again. Cant go back to where I was as it is up for sale so now having the long slog of moving again - or do I just grin and bear it!!!
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Move hun-
I felt awful as in the last year i haved moved 5 times.

The first yard was a dump and miles from home.

The second was a friends yard and i loved it but it was just too far to travel to again.

The third was a lovely yard, but like yours it soon became apparent that the menage was poor, the grazing non existant.

The fourth yard was everything i wanted, close to home, tidy etc. I found the liveries a little clicky but this didnt bother me.
At this time i had 2 at this yard and my retired ones down the road in a filed and had commited to buying 2 youngsters.
Unfortunatly as this yard was so popular i stood no chance of ever getting 2 more boxes for the youngsters.

THEN, by a chance conversation on facebook i heard of a small yard, 8 horses in total that had 4 empty boxes and was just down the road from my retired ones field.

It is perfect and while moving as often was a pain i am now on the best yard out of the lot.
The grazing is good, the menage i never have to wait to use and the yard manager is very helpful and accomodating.

Your perfect yard is out there if you look so dont get yourself down!
 
I have had the same thing, and have just moved them again, i hate doing it to them, but its made all the difference, i now have a horse that wickers at me he has never done this before and both are the happiest i have ever seen.

it might be a nightmare but i find if you are not happy your horses are miserable too

have a choccie, it will be ok
 
If it's getting to you this much now, how will it be in January, when you need to be hauled kicking and screaming from your warm bed (and that's on a good day, or is that just me?).

Only you can decide how bad it is. One way would be to grin and bear it for this winter and see if you just settle into it. Or say to yourself 'Sod this' and move!
 
Move!

I've had my horse just over 6 months and have moved him three times since I've had him. It hasn't been ideal but I have now found the perfect yard and am really happy but it's taken me a long time. It's so hard to really know what a yard is like until you are there...

At the end of the day, unhappy owner = unhappy horse! If you are relaxed, happy and chilled, so will your horse be. And your horse will have you as a constant so should settle easier.

I firmly believe that we pay a lot of money for our horses and should do what we need to do to make sure we and our horses are happy and getting the most we can from our lives together. Horses are a lot more flexible than I think we give them credit for!
 
This happened to us too, we are now moving again. Good Luck
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I don't think you'll be happy trying to make the most of it - better to move now.
 
Move! Wahtever else happens at a yard, a YO that only cares for their own horses and lets other animals take a running jump isn't the kind of person I would trust with my horse!
 
QR. Definitely move. I've had my mare two years and two months now, and I've wasted so much of that time with her through being miserable on the various yards I've been on!

And it rubs off on your horse, if you're stressed/unhappy then your horse will be too. I'd start looking now, because its only going to get worse as we get into winter. Good luck
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