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Gorgeous George

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If you were offered this from a yard would you rate it?
Nice airy 12 x 12 stable
All hay, straw, feed (as much as you want) included
Small friendly yard of 9 horses, owner living on site
Fantastic rubber 60m x 20m school with jumps & floodlit
Horsewallker
Good hacking
Full livery Mon-Fri, assisted DIY at weekends
Turnout 24/7 in summer or all day or all night (whatever you prefer)
Turnout 8am-2pm in the depths of winter (with hay in the field)
Individual turnout (can touch other horses over fencing)

Disadvantages:
20min drive from home
paddocks are quite small and grass isn't very lush
Large water buckets in fields, not troughs

It is affordable and I think reasonable, just such a scary decision!
 
Well surely it depends on what you have now? If it is tiny stables with no grazing and 30 mins drive then yes this place sounds great .
 
How small is 'quite small' on the paddocks?
As long as the horse has access to water does it really matter if it's a trough or a large water bucket?...as for 20 minute drive, many would consider that was on their doorstep with the distances many have to go to their yards. Depending on the price I would say that the facilities on that yard are good.
 
Sounds fabulous.

Amy was a 30 min drive away from me for the first couple of years - and I didn't find it a problem at all.

Sounds like a really nice yard.
 
The yard sounds nice, does your horse lack condition and need lots of grass? Most horses see grass and get fat so if it was not too lush I would not worry to much, also grass this time of year does not look all that.

What facilities have you got now?
 
Would you be going up once or twice a day do you have the time in the week, 40 min drive there and back per visit? It sounds nice to me. From your previous posts it would sort the problem of turnout. Personally I prefer a lot of turnout to limited times. If the grass is poor it can always be supplimented with Hay and its included so wont cost you any more?

I tend to follow my gut instinct though - What is yours?
 
Go or it! It sounds great!!!
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the yard I use now has great facilties but is 30min drive away- not too bad during the week when I work near by (10mins), but weekends and on DIY it is annoying at times, 2hrs travelling a day can be a pain, especially when it takes me 1h30 in the morning (from leaving home and back) just to feed and turn out! But, I'm getting used to it. I would go for it if you can, if full and assisted livery then "no problemo"!!
 
From reading the way that you have phrased the Pro's it seems to me that you have more or less made your mind up already.

It sounds very similar to the arrangement that I have except that I have to drive 40 minutes to get there during the week - only 25 at the weekend though - and both my horses and I are very happy.

Re the turn out, is there the option to rotate the fields to get more grass? Or can you put hay out in the summer too?
 
My gut instinct is 'go for it' it is the same size stable that George is in now but better ventilated and heaps more turnout (just smaller fields), a bigger school. It takes me 10mins longer to get there although it's double the distance, would only have to go up once at weekends and not at all in the week if I so chose (although I will go every day).
 
Wonderhorse I haven't moved yards, I'm still at the one I started at! The paddocks are about 100ft x 40ft for each horse, they are actually double this but half is fenced off to rest it. The winter grazing is seperate.

It is £80 a week.
 
Jack is about 30 minutes from me but he's also on full livery. The drive doesnt bother me one bit but i suspect it would get annoying if i had to do it multiple times a day (not to mention you then have to factor in the petrol cost).

The facilities sound good and after having spent a few years on yards with good facilities, i couldnt go back.... you get used to them very very quickly
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Oh if its full id go for it. I just thought 30 minutes would be a bit of a drag on DIY.

Hmmmm £80 a week doesnt seem bad to me with UK prices..

Before i left the UK i was paying about £150 a week for almost the same but no individual turnout (which pissed me off enormously)

Only difference was the owner was an international dressage rider but tbh.. she was away more than on the yard anyway
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Sounds good to me tbh.
 
sorry gorgeous thought you had moved
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gosh i must take my location for granted, cant imagine being that far away from my boy. i moved yards 2weeks ago and was stressing that the last yard took me 4mins to get to and the new one takes me 6 mins to get to!!!
 
I would travel for those sorts of facilities and I would pay for them.

Only downside for me is the TO...I like group turnout on large paddocks, but that's just my personal preference. I wouldn't send my pony out on loan to anyone who was going to keep him in an individual paddock either, turned loads of people down for that reason.
 
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omg,for £80 pw you could buy your own yard!

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Sorry but I don't think so. GG you're getting an absolute bargain there!!!! Good find!

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google the mortgage calculater
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I wouldn't rate it all because turnout until only 2pm is way too early for me, and I would hate individual turnout. But the rest of it sounds good, and if thats what you're you're looking forward then you may as well go for it. Just remain friends with your present YO so you can move back if you hate it
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The turnout till 2pm is only in the depths of winter, probably dec - feb, at the moment that's the turnout I get now in the summer and it will be worse in winter!!

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LOL in that case I'd definitely move
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