What made you move livery yard/stable?

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As per title... Just curious as to why people move yards :)

My one and only move was to relocate the entire yard as our old one was sold and we found a new one big enough for all of us!
 
I’m happy to give the name of the two people that caused me and many other people to leave my old yard. One is YO and the other was a livery, both very nasty people. Towards the end I dreaded going to the yard at all.

Moved to my new yard in March of this year and I LOVE it, as does my horse. YO’s mother stopped me the other evening to tell me that Little Horse is really settled now during the night (she can hear the barn from her place) which is fab! I wouldn’t leave this yard, the people are lovely, YO and family are lovely, the facilities are amazing and my horse is very happy. Result!
 
First one cos I was all but accused of paedophilia and had a massive row with the YO's mum (the accuser and owner of my loan horse. I miss that horse) - does this happen to men in general, like being a primary school teacher? Second one was because we just outgrew the facilities and the nearest yard to our house had a couple of spaces. Fantastic where we are now and I don't see us moving for as long as I can help it.

We do keep in touch with our last yard. Always nice to see old friendly faces.
 
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im moving yards on thursday, mainly due to snide comments about me and my horse from other liveries and the yard owner, not a way to run a buisness when the yo talks about you to other liveries, i have been there three and a half years and im now moving to a small diy yard with about 25 liveries if that, not as much grazing but full turnout all year and on a plus its alot cheaper and its right next to the beach
 
I have never moved yards, but got very close to it a couple of times! Always due to unfriendlyness of some fellow liveries (one in particular!!!), the bitchiness and playground antics, but then I see my pony happy and settled, which to me is more important.
 
JenTaz said:
im moving yards on thursday, mainly due to snide comments about me and my horse from other liveries and the yard owner, not a way to run a buisness when the yo talks about you to other liveries, i have been there three and a half years and im now moving to a small diy yard with about 25 liveries if that, not as much grazing but full turnout all year and on a plus its alot cheaper and its right next to the beach
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Small?!? 25? erk. there's 6 on ours :D and no kids ;) Actually 5 cos one has 2 neds. - Make that 4. There's an empty stable at the mo. Anyone interested? full floodlit school, full elec/water/lighting, 2 haybarns, 2 tack rooms, plenty of hacking, 14 acres for 6 horsies... fantastic view over liverpool bay and the rochdale pennines - from North wales... Well you never know.

I do envy you the beach though. Sleeps would have a whale of a time on that.
 
Strange YO who kept all the best, nearest fields for his two horses, refused to allow us to have a starvation paddock even when a horse had to be put down due to lami. Made us walk through the snow/ice of last year 30 min round trip rather than letting us use his precious closer fields!) Shouted at the kids for no reason. Let out the indoor school to a dog training group every evening during the week. Topped fields with the horses in it. Never did any maintenance. Put the price of hay up and up even though it was cut from his fields. Refused to allow us to have our own haylage even though he could/would not supply himself.

Oh and other livery who could not control her horse from the ground making my life very difficult every time I wanted to bring my two in and out as her horse went nuts!

The verbal and text abuse I got from her was shocking! Asked me what she was supposed to do when I left. Erm - sorry but I don't care!
 
The rules changed re: Grazing :mad: ... and other bits and pieces...

So moved to new yard because of grazing and it turns out I was missing out on lots!! The yard i'm at now is amazing! The instructors are fantastic, the facilities are first class and the people are so lovely! It's more expensive, but the boy and me are happy!! :D
 
I moved one of two horses because of need for facilities, moved that horse again about 10 months later because the stable politics took a positively Kafkaesque turn. at yard. Current yard is great in most respects, very lucky. We then bought 3rd horse and moved 2nd back to original yard(no facilities but only us on it) to be turned away.
 
I moved yards the first was lovely but the horse didn't settle well
The second we got broken into
The third which I love so much and made some every good friends is just too far away, too dear to keep a youngster on, and have to use shavings, plus paddocks are small.
So moving to new yard and has quiailties of yard 3 but closer to home, cheaper and hay and straw included
 
up until about 8 months ago i was happy at my yard, i couldn't see me leaving there but now if the right place comes along then i would move because of one livery who is the most neediest, nastiest, two faced person you could meet.
it's been made even harder though because my vet said that if i move my horse i'd be taking a very big risk which is why the next place has to be perfect. i don't enjoy going up the yard anymore and do my best to get out of it and it shouldn't be like that.
 
first one; cause my horse kept getting colic because of the field situation

2nd; as i hated the yard after 2 days :o

never moving again - i love the yard im on and the people are lovely :) :)
and my horse is mega happy sooo :)
 
first yard had great hacking and lots of all year turnout (about 70 acres in total) which was fab but it was 22miles away from me house one way!!! Have just moved to my second yard (on Saturday) that has excellent facilities, good hacking and monthly xc, sj and dressage clinics - it's more expensive but only 15mins from my house and it's a fab place to get my young boy (4yrs) used to things :) so watch this space!
 
1st yard 4 years ago - Small and quiet, but total lack of any suitable facilities.

2nd yard - 3 1/2 years ago - nice yard with fab facilties and nice people, but prices went too high and lack of turnout,

3rd yard 1 year ago (im there now), is fab, has good turnout, good stable, good facilities, good jumps, shows right next door, and people are nice, but after a silly misunderstanding with my old best friend , I have been receiving mild bullying and have seriously been considering moving!

Oh and my 5 year old recently moved to an equine college that I attend and she can be abit unsettled somtimes and had never lived anywhere else and she loves it there! only the experienced ride her though!
 
This is probably going to be extremley long so appologies in advance!! . . .

Yard 1 - i moved from my first riding school aged 13 because there comes that point where you just need to move on :)

Yard 2 -moved to a small private yard and rode horses for the YO, very dodgey business, got a horse on loan there from another livery aged 15, then bought my own- kept on grass livery at a mutual friends, major problems started from here. (there had always been minor problmes here with YO consistency, she'd be your best friend one minute and slagging you off and screaming at you the next but through fear of having nothing to ride, i stayed) YO and her partner started slagging me off to all my friends at the yard, people who i had known for years prior to being on this yard and people who's business i'd bought them, slagging of my loan horses owner, wouldnt give the horse any TO so poor horse was stabled 24/7 apart from being ridden, didnt take care of the limited facilities, school was always bog and we (kids) were treated as manual labour, digging out the old school, breaking concrete, piling up broken concrete sweeping the pavement outside their house ect ect. . . my owner decide to move her horse and it then got worse, they sent death threats to the owner of my horse, they stole the money she'd left for the farrier. it was awful, slagged myself and mum off to my sister, it was horrendous, they'd shout abuse whenever we saw them at shows even after we left.

Yard three - Moved to this yard, Riding School/Rescue Charity didnt really get on with YO compleetly different views ('Ride with your mind') didnt' agree with the way they looked after their horses, some were turned away and compleetly forgotten about horrendous feet, ragwort in fields, some wern't ever turned out, new arrivals left with headcollars and lead ropes on so 'they could teach themselves to lead', told me how to look after my horse, bitchy ness, bitchy daughter, its their way or the highway, stupid rules that changed depending on who was breaking them, one rule for one one rule for another, other imcompetetant liveries who knew nothing and didnt wnt to learn anything and as a result, horses suffered. had had enough and our good friend offered us livery at her yard :D

Yard 4 - Love it here! no bitchy liveries, beautiful facilities, amazing hacking, supportive YO, transport to shows. i love it here, and would never move, both horses are doing amazingly well and are both extremly happy. but i am unfortunatly having to move as have got a job on a showing/stud yard in dorset and its too far to travel daily so will be living in, thankfully mine can come and this yard has good facilities and amazing hacking with lots of opportunities!

well done if you got this far, chocolate brownies all round!!
 
Only ever been on 2 yards. Have been on current yard for 5 years and have no intentions of leaving. We have our ups and down, but its close to home, nice facilities, lovely people, great YO, its not the cheapest, but we love it.

Left last yard because YO and her husband were a nasty pair of people. We got bullied and for those of you that know me, that will come as a surprise. We paid a months rent in lieu of notice and walked with our horses to go to our current yard. Horrible, horrible people who went bankrupt a year or so afterwards. Being in business myself I wouldnt wish that fate on anyone, but I do on them, and then some.
 
I have moved many times though all but one were due to moving house/going to different unis etc. The one time I did move was from a livery yard with good facilities (as in horsewalker, school) but rubbish hacking and a particularly poisonous livery client who acted like she owned the yard :rolleyes: I don't do yard politics :(

Moved to a lovely farm, decent converted stabling, good turnout and the most amazing hacking, the only slight issue was we were promised a school was being built... don't think it ever was!

The yard I am at now is lovely, great offroad hacking, nice school and the people are fab :)
 
We have just moved, I wasnt looking to move but several of my fellow liveries were. They found a yard with better hacking, better grazing, and which was cheaper. No brainer really.

It means my boy now has access to good grazing and a bald paddock for when the grass is rich. He is in with my friends 2 others who my boy already knows and we can work out the poo picking and daily checks between us. They are grass livery for the winter.

I found it really hard moving. And I am still settling in and a bit sad to have left old yard and people. But this is better for my boy and me too in the long run, as if he is happy, then so am I!
 
I was on a big livery yard but left as I was offered 12 acres and a small yard to rent on my own. I'd been wanting to go solo for a while anyway so I accepted and moved. One of the best things I ever did, although it helped that I'd learnt so much from my livery yard owner in the 5 years I was there, her horsey knowledge was fantastic and I'll always be grateful to her for sharing it. I'm still on my own but at a different yard, I love it...it's hard work and a bit lonely sometimes but I don't think I could ever go back to a livery yard, I like being independent.
 
I've recently moved. Mainly to be closer to home / quicker journey to the yard but also because the facilities and service had deteriorated a huge amount. Yard wasn't maintained properly (in fact, wasn't maintained at all!), arena surface wasn't looked after so became very deep and uneven. YO used to be fantastic, couldn't do enough, loved the yard and took pride in how it looked, cared about the horses... she changed last year and became spiteful, bitchy and ignorant (told us all in spring that only young horses can get laminitis because "their bodies aren't used to huge amounts of grass, it isn't possible for older horses to get it because they have become used to ingesting grass so can deal with it"...).

So, moved to a yard closer to home with an amazing outdoor arena and an indoor that has a reasonable surface but is levelled and watered several times a week so is at least looked after. Also has a YO who doesn't believe bizarre things...
 
The girl who worked there being nasty about everyone behind their back.

Also the state the yard owners kept their horses in- they had been reported to ILF
 
My first move was due to a new job so was an hour and a half away. Had to decide whether to buy loan horse or not (I did and she came with me :D )

Second move was when I quit job after 9 months and moved closer to home. Pony came as petrol was too expensive to keep her on the yard. Disappointed as it was a fab yard.

Third move was because pony became unsettled after a year of horses playing musical fields.

Now love current yard and youngster has never moved, since she came to us. Would love more facilities but ponies are happy and settled. I've moved home again (still obly 10 minutes away) and debated moving ponies but they're happy and the yard is on way to my work so I'm happy with where they are.
 
Lets just say I moved for the first time in over 20 years just over a month ago, due to the YO being 'difficult'. Won't go into details, as its always a small world and would hate to be in major trouble for 'telling stories'!! BUT,, I have yet to hear of ANYONE who does know my side of things who would put up with what I had to put up with. Many have said that I needed a medal to have been there that long, either that or needed a new brain to get me to understand what I was doing to myself stress wise just being there!!
I am happy where we are, horses are just about settled now, but as always a few minor hicups which is what I knew would happen... Family ethnics and all!
 
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