The perfect livery yard

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What would be your perfect livery yard?
-size
-amenities
- what type of arena
- type of hacking
- perfect other liveries, both horse and human!
- children allowed?
Etc etc!
 
My friend has the perfect yard. Smallish with airy indoor stables, everything in it's place, full livery only, a huge outdoor school, walker, instructor on site, off road hacking, only one pony with competitive child owner

It's quiet and efficiently run, the people are friendly and seem to get on well

My nightmare yard would be ine where the YO is largely absent but the liveries string personalities so you end up with unofficial YM .... Or worse two of them!

I rent a field with stables though so luckily don't have to run any gauntlets!
 
Ours is perfect, because there's only us on it ;) Nothing else matters tbh, as long as there is plentiful grazing, stables and only us!
 
indoor/outdoor/big canter field (as i dont hack)!

and able to let my dogs come the yard (as im lazy and it saves me time :D )!!
 
Our yard isn't perfect, but it is close. YM is fantastic and very supportive. Only a few of us and 16 horses all together, no bitching and no pressure. It has all I need and more importantly the horses are very content.
 
I'm lucky enough to already be there.
There are only 4 ponies/horses. We have great grazing which is well maintained and rotated. A good rubber/silica sand school and amazing hacking where we can go out for hours without seeing a road. We can come and go as we please and have whoever we want at the yard. People are all lovely and friendly with zero bitching. We have good tea/coffee facilities,toilet on site etc.
 
My perfect yard would be small with all year round optional 24/7 turnout but large indoor stables for when you need them. DIY with optional assistance. Indoor and outdoor school and gallops with good off road hacking. Oh and all the horses to be fattys like mine so he has company in his bare paddock.

Don't think I am asking for much........ Lol

I am lucky to have the yard I am on now as its not far off from perfect!
 
Lolo said:
Ours is perfect, because there's only us on it ;) Nothing else matters tbh, as long as there is plentiful grazing, stables and only us!
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Same here, tried small yards, big yards, ones with and without managers but just like being a friend and I with the horses.
 
It doesn't exist ;)

Large yard.
Outdoor stables.
School.
Decent hacking, incl. somewhere off-road.
Grazing that isn't over-lush.
24/7/365 turnout.
Not a million miles from home.

No chance! :p
 
comes down to the liveries personality really. One persons dream set up is another persons nightmare yard. I've been on small perfect quiet yards and been slightly bored, whereas now i'm on a messier, less organised yard but it suits me better as I've more freedom and the other liveries are similar to me.

On a base level you want nice stables, good turnout, good arena, nice hacking, proper routine - but after that it depends if you want quiet people who just potter round, or people who are more competitive etc.
 
Well I don't know if mine is discribed as perfect or not.

we over small bhs run yard



Yard routine
DROPPINGS REMOVED FROM FIELD
CHEST FREEZER FOR STORAGE OF RUGS ETC.
COMMON ROOM (TEA COFFEE ETC )
INDOOR SCHOOL
OUTDOOR SCHOOL
ROUND PEN
TACK ROOM (DEPOSIT ON KEY REQUIRED)
SHOW JUMPS
2 CROSS COUNTRY JUMPS
W - C
W/C LIBRARY ( BOOKS TO BE RETURNED AFTER USE )
HOOF BRANDING (OPTIONAL)
PARKING FOR BOXES / TRAILERS
summer dressage arena on grass
Routine dentistry
Supplements and medications added as required at owners provision
Fields rotated, harrowed and fertilized - weed killed
Horse Shower
hay draining area
very good grazing
new horse introductory scheme


CCTV being fitted as I type
 
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ShadowFlame said:
It doesn't exist ;)

Large yard.
Outdoor stables.
School.
Decent hacking, incl. somewhere off-road.
Grazing that isn't over-lush.
24/7/365 turnout.
Not a million miles from home.

No chance! :p
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I've almost got this! Just the school missing but it's currently in progress. Small-ish - 8 horses in total. Great grazing 24/7/365 but can bring in as required. Direct access onto miles of off-road hacking. Minimal roadwork to link 4 different commons.

Just one fly in the ointment - I wish it were within walking distance of home.
 
my yard is pretty much perfect to me.

20 horses but on 2 separate yards so 10 on each meaning its not too busy
indoor and huge outdoor school with show jumps and dressage markers
on and off road hacking to a variety of places
great turnout in small groups
i have my own tack room
rug room with 3 rug racks so great for drying wet rugs in winter
loads of storage
tea room
yard lorry
no bitchyness at all
and best of all about 3 miles from my house!

:)
 
My one!
Live on site
Lovely, lovely friendly, helpful people
Relaxed yard with loads of other animals about
rolling hills surrounded by sheep
and best of all the most helpful, knowledgeable owner who looks after my girl like she was her own (and also with the other liveries)
 
Mine for my 4 horses :D:D 2 mins from home

4 large airy barn boxes, rubber and shavings, auto drinkers,well lit, with power points and iphone docking for music if i want it.
Huge space in front of stables for when farrier or vet comes to treat/work inside
Separate room next door for haylage, barrows and tools.
Hot horse shower and solarium.
Large sand and rubber floodlit school with jumps and dressage markers, well maintained.
Huge space for trailer and parking
Toilet and shower area
Plenty of grazing with piped water, maintained for me with Summer and winter fields.
Great off road hacking
Someone on site 24hrs with cctv and locked gates at night.
Neighbours 400 metres away who have horses to go hacking with, who have a large all weather canter/gallop track i can use.
Yea thatll do me just fine thanks

We even have access to a weighbridge on site
 
No livery yard is perfect.

A nice private yard, with plenty of grazing, good size stables, storage, arena, gallops and lots of space :p

I happily settle for my yard with sufficient grazing, storage and stables though as it's just me :D
 
I've just done a quick count and have been on no less than 15 yards over the last almost-40-years, some of them more than once. I'm never happy! Could write a novel on some of the stuff I've been expected to deal with :rolleyes:

That said, I'm imminently about to very regretfully leave a brilliant yard to have girlie closer to home. Very sad to go, YO nearly had me in tears last night saying I could come back whenever I wanted :( They have got it absolutely right there and the only thing I would change is that they have individual turnout - can chat over the fence but it's not the same.
 
i don't like livery yards, i wish i still had my mummy and we could move back to our old house, where we had kept our 4 horses happily, with 4 stables, and plenty of grass, my uncle made my sister and i a mock cross country course, we had beautiful hacking woodlands/beaches/sand tracks, we could either hack 2 miles to an indoor or 1 mile to an outdoor neither we had to pay for because we were all such a close knit village, by having my horses at home i got to ride 1 pony in the morning and 2 after school, i was enormously lucky! Now sadly i don't have any of that, i really wish i could go back 4 years and have my ponies back :'(
 
Ours is a small yard which is sub let from a larger yard so it is great; only 3-4 permanent part liveries (all friendly and fun) and a range of showjumpers in and out for sales/schooling that belong to the Yard Manager. Lovely big all weather school with jumps at main yard right next door, free lorry parking, sand school for lunging, direct forest hacking (main reason I chose yard), decent haylage and bedding, dressage instructor on main yard and a professional and reliable YM who teaches SJ. Tea facilities and loo with safe tack room (shipping container) and good storage and feed rooms. Only gripe is grazing is a bit rubbish but it's well fenced and we are shortly getting more fields when some other people leave next door so hopefully that will help! Only issue for me personally is that it is 25 mins from my house in traffic but worth driving further for good hacking that I can safely take the dog out too.
 
Any place where I can keep my horse without phsychotic liveries with equally phsycotic mothers getting all jealous and nasty just because I have turned up to see my horse is perfect for me.
 
Depends on the horse for me. Last yard was perfect for my old horse who didn't need/want much turn out but appreciated being out of the cold in warm stables and an indoor school. New yard fantastic for my new mare who turned 6 yesterday and needs loads of turn out to keep allergies at bay....
 
I love my little yard I rent. 2 stables, loads of storage space, school, and more than enough grazing. Yes at times it is lonely, but I wouldn't change it and the horses are both way happier than they were at livery yards.
 
Home with only my horses here. :) Up till now I haven't had any facilities but I'm just about to get a school built. We don't have great hacking but it doesn't bother me much to have to box out a few times a month for that. Only today as I herded my Sec A in from the field and shooed him across the yard into his stable (spring grass is too tasty to leave!!) I thought how nice it was that I had noone to raise their eyebrows at me. :o:p
 
A yard that caters for the 'bigger boned' horse that does not need an unlimited supply of fertilised dairy grass!!
 
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