What time does your livery yard close?

millitiger said:
Her house is around 20m from the yard, maybe a little less?



Of course we respect our YO's privacy, what's that got to do with the price of bread? :confused:
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It was just an example why we have a kerfew . This is Our home first before the buisness as well as a buisness . Past liveries would come up late would come to house and ask questions etc . Where as before 8.30pm i would often be out on yard so could answer question without being disturbed .We want a piece-full night after 9pm my hubby works in londeon ( not horsey) and i start work at 6am we want to chill out of an evening . So do our horses and livery we always get complements on how quiet our yard is and how relaxed their horses become her even stressed one that's because its a relaxed atmosphere so we must be doing something right lol

If someone as i said works in London and would need to come up later as long as they text us to let us know that the lights going on horse clip clop on yard is them not someone trying to steal tack / horse there is no probs.

At the end of the day

Its one of the first thing people ask when they come round to view.

Is there a time when we cant come up we tell them they say no probs we always gone by then anyway.


we are generally very easy going

there is no times you cant use school or having to school etc .
Our liveries have EX grazing
- 2 schools 1 being indoor
2 show jump courses
some x country jumps
weekly clear round jumping
free lorry parking
round pen
common room
wc
yard music
stable mirrors
stable boredom things for horses in stables
rubber mats
storage for there extra hay/ shavings
large storage for their rugs
dropping cleared daily
24 hr security
alarmed tack room
indoor grooming area for clipping etc
a rug racks each


prob why we have a waiting list



They come see what we do if they like it and they meet criteria they stay
if not they go somewhere else.
Some people are harder to please others not so . Such is life

I have said all I want to say :)
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Yard I am on is open 7.30 to 10pm, instructors tend to be there till 8pm for lessons and stable hands tend to clock off about 5.30-6pm (I think).

YO live on site (father and two sons plus wives and kids - 3 houses), light automatically go off at 10pm, so aim is to be out by then, ;)
 
Personally, would never go to a yard where there was opening and closing. My YO lives on site which overlooks school, but not yard. He always reckons having people coming and going at random times deters thieves as they can't predict when yard would be empty.

Our school lights are on a timer, but are free. You just click them on for an half/hour/2 hours and they turn themselves off.
 
diamond_light- why are you so desperate to prove that your yard is amazing? :confused:

nobody has said it isn't, nobody has attacked you for having closing times, some people (including myself) have simply said they would't dream of having a horse at a yard when the YO/YM dictates when you can and cannot see your horse.

Why you feel listing your facilities has ANYTHING to do with the thread is beyond me- the yard I am at has amazing facilities but it has nothing to do with this thread :confused:
 
millitiger said:
diamond_light- why are you so desperate to prove that your yard is amazing? :confused:

YO/YM dictates when you can and cannot see your horse.




sorry didnt mean for it to come across that way appologies was having a bad morning

its not so much we dictate when liveries can see their horse

its viewed as we want a quiet evening at our home here where we can sit outside our house if we want not in full view of yard liveries .
or have the windows open without dust and hair coming in .Our liveries have all done their horse now past from one .

we seem to appeal to working people who come straight from work to yard change here and thats why they finish up early .
anyway nuff said .

Every yard is different to suit each and every ones needs . Thats the point of viewing a yard you go u see if it suits u stay if not u move on
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I've just left the yard, I go straight from work and today actually got away from work early but buses and trains didn't co-operate and I didn't get to the yard till 7pm. By the time I groomed rode and tuirned out then swept up and tidied his box for tomorrow (he's on full livery but I can't resist skipping out), it was 9pm.

I don't think of myself as demanding but I work hard to keep my horse and the logistics of getting to the yard mean I am one of the late shift.

I'm usually gone by 9 but feeling I had to rush and get away by a certain time would spoil the enjoyment for me.

There is a cottage on one side of the yard rented out to a farm worker from the farm the yard is part of and we try not to disturb them but we probably do at times.
 
Never been on a yard with time restrictions, on the farm where pony lives we can get to/from yard without disturbing farmer, same on the yard where horse lives. My daughter has often been "up the yard" with mates until 11pm on a summer evening, chatting long after the horses are grazing and dozing in their fields for the evening.
 
At our yard she likes us to be gone by 9.30/10pm which is understandable. My work hours mean that in the winter I have to turn out around 6am and cannot bring in until after 8.30pm so restrictive opening hours would not work for me.

At the moment because Genie is unwell I am up even later most nights and my YO is absolutely fine with it, especially as I keep her informed. For example on Weds night I arrived at the yard for a late night check after midnight, and left the yard just before 1am. Obviously I would not do those hours were it not for the exceptional circumstances!
 
Our yard is open 24 hours a day but our small block of 8 stables is separated by a road so we are away from the main buildings but do have CCTV as back up. YO is fantastic, she says that they are your horses so you must be able to have 24 hour accesibility to them... and she lives on site. She is a YO in a billion and we all love her!
There are very few rules but one of them being that the last person to leave the yard makes sure that all the lights are out, the stable doors are all shut properly (we have some escape artists!) and the tack room is locked. This has never been a problem. YO also does rounds before she goes to bed as she gives a last feed of hay and haylage or I do this when she is on holiday as I only live 5 mins walk from the yard. BLISS!
I could never be on yard where I didn't have 24 hour access to my horses.
Actually spent quite a few nights sleeping in the tack room or outside the stables when waiting for a mare to foal or looking after a sick horse and YO has usually come out at various times through the night to check up as well - usually armed with a cup of coffee for me.
 
My yard houses 45 horses including all types of livery ,We have never had a opening and closing time on it. The YO lives on site in one cottage as does her parents in another house.

The staff start at 8am and finish at 5pm, but we have some horse owners arrive at 6am. I normally arrive anytime between 6.30 and 7.30am and ride my 5yo. I do try and be considerate when I am riding him around the farm past their houses on the concrete. (he is on walk exercise only) They have never complained having clip clopping past their windows. They have probably been kept awake all night by them whinnying and chatting to each other and the odd door kicking :)

Generally most people are gone by 9pm on the evening, unless competing/sick horses. Then the YO or her parents do a 9.30pm late haynet round for all those in overnight, then lights off. But on the odd occasion we sit in the tearoom having a chat and a coffee it has always been ok.

Having said that, if the YO and her parents did put a reasonable time on the yard closing ie 9pm and opening at 6am, I think the majority of us would respect that. Each to their own I guess.
 
Neither of my yards have opening or closing hours, and i think i would struggle if they did. I have 3 horses at separate yards, a full time job and an attempt at a social life. I don't get home from work until 6pm, so if i am riding and have jobs to do at the yard, i can quite often be there at 10pm. The YO of my youngsters yard lives very much on site, his house is connected to the stable block and to drive onto the yard you have to park within 20 feet of his house. While my youngster was sick recently, i felt very bad about being there early mornings and late evenings to check on her but YO was fantastic, didn't mind, would always pop out to find out how she was getting on. At my other yard the YO's are not involved with the running of the yard but their front door is only a courtyard away from the side entrance to one of the stabling barns. If i am there very early or late i try to be quiet, and we are not allowed to drive or ride past their house (separate entrance so we don't need to) But with competing and working it is invaluable to me to be able to be there at whatever hours. The lights in the hay barn are on a timer, but all the others including the school lights are on normal switches, very rarely do they get left on.
 
Our yard does not have opening hour restrictions, but some people really take the piss!
I am the only person with a horse there who works. In the winter I turnout at 6.30 and he comes in again at 6.30, I can't ride in the winter evenings as we don't have floodlights, so time is limited.
In the summer, my boy lives out. I spend approx 1 hour a day (when not riding) at the yard. To poo-pick, do waters, feed, groom etc etc.
The other liverys don't work, which is fine. They turn up at 10am (ish) and then stay until 10pm, sometimes managing to poo-pick, and other times I question what they do at all!
It is fine for them to be there, obviously they pay the same as everyone else, but sometimes I think a little consideration should be had. For example. If they are there all day, why not poo-pick or use the menage before I come at 6.30? I am the only person with time restrictions, but this is never considered.
We have just suggested a booking system for the school, but that hasn't yet been working well.
I think a curfew is sensible.
I live on site, and it's a nightmare to have people shouting and faffing around when you are trying to relax in the evening.
I think it's a bit of a no-win situation really. But I do look forward to the winter, when they aren't there in the evenings, due to the dark and cold, and I can have the yard all to myself ... bliss!
 
My yard has opening and closing times that have to be adhered to.
Weekdays is 7am til 8pm, horses usually in by 5.30pm
weekends and bank holidays is 8.15am til 6.30pm and horses usually in by 4.30pm.

I am struggling to get my head around this as I have never had a yard with time restrictions on it...
 
I think it's a bit of a no-win situation really. But I do look forward to the winter, when they aren't there in the evenings, due to the dark and cold, and I can have the yard all to myself ... bliss!
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My sentiments exactly . My new livery went to a qualifier yest morning , They just said we be up really early ie before 6.30 which is when they were leaving , I said no probs as long as we know.:)

Mine dont have to book school . The only we do is out of courtesy if some one has a lesson we do our best not to be in the school at the same time .
 
Everyone on our yard has a different routine. Some people are very hard working and have jobs which dictate that they finish late so they sometimes come down to ride as late as half seven or eight in the evening. But the YO is fine with that, think they like you to be off ideally by half nine latest but are fine if you have a show/problem with horse, etc.

We always switch the menage lights off after we have finished if we are the last one in there, better to switch them off then leave them on in case someone wants to use it after you come out.

I was on one yard where we had to be off at 8pm weekdays and on a Saturday and 7.30pm Sunday and I hated having to fit in to that time scale, although I'm nearly always off by 6.30/7pm latest anyway in the evenings as I only ever accept temp contracts if I have a 4 or 4.30pm finish!
 
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We can go to the yard as early as we like but have to be off by 8pm, it's a fairly small yard so the YO knows most poeple's routine.
If you need to be there late, you just let him know & he's fine with that, if you're going to be up particulary early in the morning he also prefers to know in advance so he doesn't think he's got burglars.
I don't like knocking on his door & try to avoid it if I can, when I had to have a horse put down one evening I went to his door & told him we'd be there for some time after curfew & explained that there would be a bit of coming & going; he came out to help & opened up the usually locked barn door so her body could be removed easier.
I like there being a closing time, as I know that nobody is going to go up late & possible leave gates or doors open.
A friend of mine was on a yard where people could come & go as they pleased & she used to find that gates she'd left shut had been opened after she went, so I like there being a cut off point.
Although it would be better if the time could be later in the summer but you can't have everything.
 
We dont have a yard closure time as its also a working farm therefore the farmer is on and off the farm throughout various times of the day especially when its lambing season etc. But we always make other people aware (and the yard owner) if were out competing etc so people know where we are at incase of emergencies and possibly to expect us back late so then they dont worry who is at the yard at a ridiculous time of night.

We also book out the school if were having individual lessons, but other than that we share. We have a meter and we just put a £1 in every time we want to use the floodlights for the arena, but thats usually just in the winter.
 
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I couldnt be on a yard with time restrictions but I am considerate to the YO's.

I work shifts and so like to keep the YO's on their toes by turning up at different times. :D

In winter if I am working an early shift then I am usually the last person there. I dont get to the yard til around 6 and by the time I have sorted them it is usually 8.30. I turn out all the lights before I leave and Im careful not to make any noise. I also go and chuck them out on a morning after a night shift at 7am and again Im usually the first there.
Our yard is on a bridlepath so in summer there are always people riding past anyway.

I think so long as everyone realises that it is the YO's home and they respect that then there is no need for opening and closing times.

Our school lights are on a meter but they also have a switch so we can turn them on and off as we need them
 
No official opening and closing times but the reasonable ones are considered to be 6am till 9 pm but we don't have school for lights. The previous place I liveried at didn't have a peter for either school but you had to book the school so it was obvious if you left lights on - as YO could check the book as to who was in there. If caught 3 times you would have a small fee.
 
Our yard manager doesn't live on site but only about 200 yards down the road. We do not have restricted times because if we did, I wouldn't be there.

In the winter I'm normally at the yard by 5.30am to exercise one of my horses and muck out before I go to work. I don't get there in the evening until 6pm but am normally left by 7pm.

At the moment, I'm trying to ride both my horses 5 - 6 times a week each and as I prefer to ride in the mornings, it means I'm normally at the yard by 4.30am to get them both out before I go to work.

Our school has a timer switch on it which lasts for 45 minutes so you have to put it on just before you go in and this way the lights can never be left on as it turns off automatically.
 
We don't have an opening or closing time but on the last yard it was 9pm and all the lights used to go out automatically. I once had car troubles and only managed to get there at 8 and hadn't finished all my jobs at 9 and really struggled with no light! I think closing times would put me off having experienced it before.
 
Yard opens at about 7-8am, although I have been there earlier and it closes at 10pm on a weeknight and 7pm on a weekend as the yard owner lives onsite - my tackroom is right opposite her front door and I'm usually the last one sneaking home as quietly as possible. So I also check all lights are off before I go and shut the gates on the way out.

Our indoor school is on a meter, £1 gives you approx an hour, it seems to work well on our yard, I just keep a stock of pounds ready in the winter. Our outdoor school is not on a meter, but people are very good at turning the lights out.
 
No real restictions on time at my yard Im usually up at 6am 6.30am feed and turnout after horeses have had breakfast the girls can bring in there horses when they like in summer they an leave them out 24 x7 if they want to as we have all year it doesnt make any difference. Winter they tend to ask me to bring in for them which is no problem at all lights are included in the livery as is the use of the school etc, we just ask hem to make sure lights are off and gates shut, as we live on site if anyone comes on after they've gone we're out like a shot to check who and why but most of the girls are great if they break down I'll either go and pick them up and give them a hand to do their jobs
 
Our yard owner lives on site, they don't close but they like you to let them know if you are coming up between 10pm and 4am, more so in winter as they have alarms that go off in the house that are triggered by cars/movement. A friend of mine always nipped up at midnight to skip out and net after her night shift.
 
We have no opening/closing times - but actually don't really have any rules at all (apart from 'you must wear your hat whilst riding')!!

..It is run by a farmer though!! :p
 
Our large DIY yard doesn't have any set times and some working liveries (the humans!) have to arrive VERY early on winter mornings to do their horses before work (think, 5am onwards) and in summer some like to ride out until quite late into the evening after work (up till 10pm). The YO's live onsite and don't have a problem with it, but I guess they might if people were ever noisy or inconsiderate. So far, those liveries that find they need to come up at the odd hours are the considerate ones!

As for menage lights, I'd have them set on a 30 min timer permanently if you're going to the trouble of having one installed!
 
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