What would you do?? Field Livery

[peanutsmumma]

Current Field
At the moment I rent a field from a yard literally behind my back fence so I can see them from my house.
The field isn't very big.
I am allowed to put a field shelter up this year.
I'm left alone to get on with my own thing ( the field is split in 2 and someone else rents the other side of it )
No storage so I have to make/buy my own.
There is a school that is owned by the other side of the yard.....don't ask....family break up so the yard was split in 2.
We can use the school but have to pay £25 a month for it, it isn't the best surface and sometimes there are horses turned out in it.
There is always a drama on the yard, it's like a soap opera!
The fields are all over horsed so the grazing isn't good.
We have somewhere to ride out the back of the yard but apart from that you have to ride on the road to get anywhere.
I have 2 children that can stay in the house when I go out to the field as they can see me out the window

Possible New Field
It's about 3 mins from my house.
The field is bigger than my current one.
I can put a field shelter up.
There is a nice surfaced school to use.
Under cover area for hay.
Feed room space for any 'bits'would have to fit visiting the horses around the children, partner etc.

The are a few empty fields so that the horses can be moved whilst theirs are harrowed.
There is miles and miles of hacking with no real roadwork.

What would you do? I need opinions!!

I know I'm lucky to have them out the back of my house but this has only been the case for the past 2 years. I've always had to travel to get to them


Thanks

 

[Sossigpoker]

Obviously the new field.

 

[AmyMay]

New field

 

[MuddyMonster]

The new field providing you are confident you can fit it in around children etc.

If you want to stay at field 1, if field 2 is only 3 minutes away can you access the off road hacking by hacking to it?

 

[Gloi]

How old are your children?
If they are very young it might be worth staying where you are until they are at school/nursery and then moving to the better place.

 

[peanutsmumma]

The new field providing you are confident you can fit it in around children etc.

If you want to stay at field 1, if field 2 is only 3 minutes away can you access the off road hacking by hacking to it?

It's 3 mins in the car but to go by horse it's about a 30min ride because of the route and the roads.
We do ride over that way for hacking already but the road we have to ride down to get there and back is dangerous.

 

[peanutsmumma]

How old are your children?

12 & 8

 

[Gloi]

In that case move

 

[OrangeAndLemon]

In that case move

Agree

New field sounds good

 

[Surbie]

New field sounds all round a better option

 

[Birker2020]

New field

 

[irishdraft]

New field x

 

[poiuytrewq]

New place sounds really lovely!

 

[The Xmas Furry]

12 & 8

In that case, no brainer, move.
If very flush with money, perhaps do a month trial and keep current field on?
You are coming into the easier months of the year for managing chores, but equally much longer times at yard as riding etc

 

[Zoeypxo]

New field for sure

 

[Fieldlife]

You’ve not mentioned cost / drainage / ground type of two options.

 

[peanutsmumma]

You’ve not mentioned cost / drainage / ground type of two options.

The new yard will be £10 cheap per month. The current Field is clay so gets really muddy in places, the new field is partly on a hill so 'apparently' drainage isn't too bad.

 

[Abacus]

New field sounds better. 3 mins is nothing. Assuming your children can be left for a while. (Mine of 13 and 11 would probably be fine for a whole day if they were surgically attached to their various devices).

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

New field is a no brainer

 

[Fred66]

To me 8 is too young to leave alone and an 11 year old is too young to be responsible for another child. (OP hasn’t suggested this).
Can you afford to rent both ? If so possibly when time constraints might be an issue (say through winter with short days) then put them on place near you otherwise keep them at the new yard

 

[Lucky Snowball]

Move

 

[peanutsmumma]

To me 8 is too young to leave alone and an 11 year old is too young to be responsible for another child. (OP hasn’t suggested this).
Can you afford to rent both ? If so possibly when time constraints might be an issue (say through winter with short days) then put them on place near you otherwise keep them at the new yard

I would never leave my 8 year old at home but my 12year old is responsible so he would be ok.
I can't afford to rent both fields so it's either one or the other.
The only thing that's keeping me where I am is because it's so close and convenient

 

[Fred66]

I would never leave my 8 year old at home but my 12year old is responsible so he would be ok.
I can't afford to rent both fields so it's either one or the other.
The only thing that's keeping me where I am is because it's so close and convenient

I did put in my post that you hadn’t suggested it, others seemed to be implying it would be ok.
I suppose it depends how easily you and your husband can align schedules to enable you to spend alone time there and whether for shorter visits you can take the children (or at least the youngest) with you.
As the one at the bottom of the garden only has proximity going for it

 

[peanutsmumma]

I did put in my post that you hadn’t suggested it, others seemed to be implying it would be ok.
I suppose it depends how easily you and your husband can align schedules to enable you to spend alone time there and whether for shorter visits you can take the children (or at least the youngest) with you.
As the one at the bottom of the garden only has proximity going for it

Sometimes my partner is home at 5pm, other times it can be 8pm. At the moment I can go out at anytime to do the horses whereas I would either have to take my youngest with me, or wait until he gets in.
I just don't feel like I can progress with my boys where we are.
They are both young at at the moment I can't ride in the school because it's hit and miss, and then if I want to go out for a quick ride, there is only one route to do which they become stale too.

There is also talk of my current place possibly being sold for housing but we aren't really being kept in the loop about it.

Ahhhhhh.......I hate making decisions

 

[Afon_34]

I would snap the new field up before someone else does

 

[Highmileagecob]

Any chance of checking how often people move on from the new yard? If there is a majority who have been there for ages, I would move, but if a space has become vacant because there is a high turnover, then pause and find out why. If the grass is greener, it's often because there is more s**t!

 

[peanutsmumma]

Any chance of checking how often people move on from the new yard? If there is a majority who have been there for ages, I would move, but if a space has become vacant because there is a high turnover, then pause and find out why. If the grass is greener, it's often because there is more s**t!

The only reason there is a field avaliable is because a long standing liveries horse passed away.
All the liveries have been there for years.

 

[Fred66]

The only reason there is a field avaliable is because a long standing liveries horse passed away.
All the liveries have been there for years.

Go for it, you know what you have and don’t like it. The niggles will get worse and the opportunity on the new one might be lost

 

[splashgirl45]

New field for the hacking particularly.. your children won’t be young forever and if the other liveries have been there for years it sounds like a good place which won’t come up again..a word of warning , you say there is storage, I wouldn’t leave anything of value there, like tack . I thought we had secure storage but all of our rugs were stolen from our field which had houses opposite , they took the doors off of our sheds !!!!

 

[TheOldTrout]

New field.