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Hi everyone,

Hoping you can help with my yard dilemma, I recently moved to a lovely yard about a month ago, but have the opportunity to mor to another yard with a stable next to my friend, problem is I've heard rumours saying there's no turn out in the winter but yard owner insists there is, but who do you believe?

Yard 1 (where I'm at)

£120 pm
Outdoor school with good surface
Very helpful yard owner
Excellent hacking
Good fields, all year turnout but long walk (15 min return journey!)
10 mins away from house

Yard 2

£80 pm
Indoor and outdoor school
Heard yard owner likes you or doesn't
Excellent hacking
Would share field with my friend, which wasn't looked after but we have now poo picked, ragworted and topped
5 mind away

Really not sure which one to go with, turnout is really important to me but don't know what to believe :(
 
You believe the rumours, as they're generally true. Some YOs lie to get you on the yard. And their idea of turnout usually means a 15 minute turn in the school for a leg stretch.
 
Yard one it's definatly worth the extra for the grazing and I would hate a difficult YMer and nearer home .
If you have heard grazing in winter is an issue it probally is .
 
I would never risk moveing away from a yard where i was happy. By my own experience and by reading some of the horror stories on here , its just too much of a risk.
Stay put! Good yards where you feel relaxed and welcome seem to be like gold dust!
 
Stay! From experience, there is nothing worse that a unhelpful / moody YO ( either loved you or hated you... depending on what mood they woke up in!!). I have been there and it can end up causing no end of bother.

I have also been lied to by YOs to get you to move, I have then moved and ended up having to move again due to their pack of lies! its a total waste of everyones time, I just dont get why they do it as it just ends up with people getting seriously peeved off.
 
Stay. No question. Yards are tricky places, and why risk moving from one where you're happy to one which already has rumours being spread around? No smoke without fire.
 
most rumours have a truthful start point! id stay at yard 1, it sounds like a better enviroment for your horse
 
You say that if you move to the new yard you will be in a stable next to and sharing a field with your friend? If so, can this friend not tell you what the turn out situation is like? Were they at that yard last winter?
 
Bay TB said:
You say that if you move to the new yard you will be in a stable next to and sharing a field with your friend? If so, can this friend not tell you what the turn out situation is like? Were they at that yard last winter?
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If I were in your position I think I would spend some time with your friend at the other yard and just take in what goes on there. Write down on a bit of paper what you like and what you don't like. I would leave the decision making until next year after I had watched what the place is like over winter as this is what you are worried about. There is no rush to move. Another stable will eventually come up if you dont take one this time and after studying the place you will be in a better position to know whether it will work for you.
I have recently been through this - I moved my horse this weekend. The YO where I was was lovely in summer but turned into a dragon in winter. I found another place and visited multiple times at different times of the year and spoke to people there. YO had nothing to hide and was lovely/understanding about me wanting to be 100% sure of moving there. I took 8 months to move (5 months on waiting list, 3 months interrogating riding club and friends and people on the yard about the place!).
There honestly is no rush to move you are better being able to compare the two places fully before making any decision.
 
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Thanks everyone, some really good advice. I'm going to stay where I am for now as horse and I are both happy, and sit back and watch what happens in the winter as my friend has only been there for a month.
 
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