vidis
Active Member
Hello
I am looking ahead to the future and doing some research. I have asked similar to this a few years ago but things have moved on in our property search so just looking for some advice.
I am wondering if a property that has essentially half - three quarters of an acre of paddock and space (on that) to build 2 stables, plus tack/storage room, is sufficient. I know 'they' say 1 acre-1.5 per horse (presumably living out 24/7).
Would my area be good enough to keep two small happy hacker horses/cobs there (stabled most of the time) and potentially build an all weather arena/small paddock for limited turnout on our land.
We live rurally so my idea would be to build that on my own stabling and rent a field locally, so I would envisage being able to have them stabled at home with some small turnout in a sand arena/small paddock but able to be turned out in the rented field also.
I am NOT going to rush into anything as I want to be sure that if we did go down this road it would be of a standard high enough for the animals to be enjoying themselves/living well.
I have seen numerous properties built on half acre - 1 acre (on which their house also sits) where the owner has built a couple of stables, an arena and I presume they are stabling the horses most of the day. A quick look on property sites shows many people are doing this, and I don't know necessarily that they have access to further land.
Providing feed etc would be necessary, of course, if stabled a lot, and I would be envisaging two older, happy hacker, type horses. I just want to hack around our countryside home, not to compete or anything, but we live rurally in a quiet place where our few neighbours have horses, beaches nearby, lots of nice trails etc.
Just thinking through all the options well in advance!
I am looking ahead to the future and doing some research. I have asked similar to this a few years ago but things have moved on in our property search so just looking for some advice.
I am wondering if a property that has essentially half - three quarters of an acre of paddock and space (on that) to build 2 stables, plus tack/storage room, is sufficient. I know 'they' say 1 acre-1.5 per horse (presumably living out 24/7).
Would my area be good enough to keep two small happy hacker horses/cobs there (stabled most of the time) and potentially build an all weather arena/small paddock for limited turnout on our land.
We live rurally so my idea would be to build that on my own stabling and rent a field locally, so I would envisage being able to have them stabled at home with some small turnout in a sand arena/small paddock but able to be turned out in the rented field also.
I am NOT going to rush into anything as I want to be sure that if we did go down this road it would be of a standard high enough for the animals to be enjoying themselves/living well.
I have seen numerous properties built on half acre - 1 acre (on which their house also sits) where the owner has built a couple of stables, an arena and I presume they are stabling the horses most of the day. A quick look on property sites shows many people are doing this, and I don't know necessarily that they have access to further land.
Providing feed etc would be necessary, of course, if stabled a lot, and I would be envisaging two older, happy hacker, type horses. I just want to hack around our countryside home, not to compete or anything, but we live rurally in a quiet place where our few neighbours have horses, beaches nearby, lots of nice trails etc.
Just thinking through all the options well in advance!