Thinking of starting a livery yard...

Whereabouts are you? I'm on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border and there are loads of liveries around here. If you're interested to know what's on the market already to see what you would be up against pm me
 
I have recently had two horses on my yard that have caused me major probs. Horses are your responsibility when they are on your land - even if you don't own them. We had a livery who refused to feed her anglo arab as it would make her fizzy - the horse rapidly became a bag of bones and we had to bear the cost of feeding it, which we had to do in secret as the owner point blamk refused to see the problem. She eventually got a job elsewhere and abandoned the horse altogether. The first we knew was when someone came to buy her - we begged the woman to take her cos she was in need of a good home. We had no money for the horse at all! In fact the owner demanded money for a lesson she had taught despite never once paying any livery. The second one has been a similar situation. The horse was lame and so we got a vet in cos the owner wanted to put him on working livery. We paid his bill and discovered that he was unrideable and incurable. His owner has not been seen on my yard since 3rd March. This is a 17.3hh standard bred who eats like a well...a horse. We have paid his feed, his farriery and his vets bills. She owes us over 1000k. My advice - make sure your contracts are foolproof and signed as soon as the owner agrees to come to you. Don't leave it a moment longer!
 
If you open one in the derbyshire area please let me know where as we are desperately looking for some where decent for our horses!! there is not many
 
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