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clairew

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A couple of weeks ago I moved my two from stables which are a minutes walk from my house to a livery yard (owned by same person who owns the two stables) as my confidence has totally disappeared after a couple of disasterous hacks and I wanted to move back to having a school (there's not one at the stables at home) and more people around as I missed being on a yard. Farmer caught me and husband a couple of days ago and said that we have to move back to the stables near home as he has more liveries coming on 1st January so he wants our stables cleared at the yard!! :(

Sooooo, I now have two options:

1. Move back to home. We have a 6 year old who seems to love being around more horses and I think needs a bit more 'action' going on around him. Stables are nice, field is small but only 2 minute walk from home/stables. There is a small outdoor school at a yard a mile or so up the road which we can hire out but not sure when we'd be able to use it and apparently it floods badly. Hacking isn't great, all roads around us with a couple of boggy bridlepaths. Totally DIY, haylage and straw included at a cost of £60 p/week for both horses.

2. Go to livery yard about 15 minutes drive from work, 20 minutes from home. Beautiful sand/rubber outdoor school and amazing off road hacking. Part livery including hay and straw £110 / week for both horses (:eek:)

If the second yard wasn't so expensive I'd be there in a heartbeat, but the fact that it's nearly double theprice is making me think twice. Any thoughts..?!
 
If you can afford it i would go for option 2 at least for the rest of the winter when everything is much harder. Why is the farmer turfing you out though for other horses? If you are paying the same rates I would be a bit annoyed to say the least.
 
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I would say to the farmer that you moved to the yard for a reason, you don't want to go back to the 2 stables and is it possible that other liveries (either new or old) want to take those ones? If not I'd tell the farmer thank you very much but I'm offski. Think it's quite rude of him, I've read a lot on this forum about new liveries taking priority over existing ones. I know it doesn't happen everywhere, in fact I've never heard of it before, but I know I'd much rather have my old liveries who I know have paid their way and will continue to do so. New liveries have to take what's available, which is the 2 stables. Obviously only say this though if you are prepared to move to the more expensive yard :)
 
Was the move to the livery yard just temporary? as in whilst he had empty stables?

If not, then I dont understand why he is asking you to return to your old stables.
Surely if not a tempory arrangement, then they're your stables and I'm sure he'd not ask other existing liveries to move off the yard to accomodate new ones.

Maybe he thinks you are happy to return and it hasn't occured to him that you have no intentions of returning, and that he should have your old stables advertised for rent?

I'd certainly tell him how you feel, but then if only a temporary arrangement, he's quite within his right not to turn the business away x
 
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