Where do you keep your horse?

Where do you keep your horse?

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waggerz

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hi jst wondering where everyone keep their horses and if you would like to share, what you pay if you rent or keep at livery and why do you choose to keep them where they are? :)
 
at the moment i keep my horses at home in a feild which is borrowed from an elderly family friend in return for cooking for him. but looking to move to cardiff next year and no idea what to do with my horses. I have 8 all togeather and would like to avoid selling any but i may have to if i cant find anything. I would love to be able to rent a small holding but it is highly unlikely or eventually buy one... which prob wouldnt happen either. But to begin with a feild between 5 & 10 acres would be good... but no idea what prices to expect.

So where do you keep your horses and why?
 
I rent fields and stables as i like my horses out as much as poss and not many yards round here offered that.
Plus no bitchiness :D
 
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I rent fields and stables as i like my horses out as much as poss and not many yards round here offered that.
Plus no bitchiness :D
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I have to agree, i dont keep any of my horses in and with no feild shelter they rely on our thick hedges. :) my horses are 100% more happy outside and feild shelters always seem to cause problems between them as they are quite a large herd.

And have encountered unwelcomed behaviour at all stables ive been to.
 
I rent a 3acre field at the back of a blokes house. It also has 2 stables, tack room & small hay barn- for £10 per week. I've shared once & it was a nightmare! Ended up doing hers too & then paying for her hay & rent aswell. Was glad when she upped & left so now its just me, the daughter & her pony!!
We keep him there as I just couldn't afford livery 4yrs ago when we moved here (was on allotments before that) & it was cheap & perfect for us. He does have company in the next field but I have been thinking of moving onto a livery yard so the pony & daughter can have a bit more company. Cost change will be massive though & I don't know if I would cope on a yard as we've got so used to doing things on our own, in our own way.
 
I guess basic livery is the category for my horse? He is on DIY livery at a big livery yard. Well he's on grass livery currently but will soon be stabled at night again.
 
DIY at a lovely quiet yard with floodlit school and 46,000+ acres of off road riding. £30 p/week in summer (out 24/7 if you want) and £50 p/week winter (inc. ad lib hay/haylage and shavings bed). Scottish Borders.

Although DIY my horse gets fed/rugs changed/turned out am if wanted and the owners were fab at keeping all the horses well looked after when last winter's 'ice age' struck. :)

He's a horse who needs company, and I like the peace of mind of having the owners on site - also helps if I am away on training/away for weekends etc.
 
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waggerz said:
hi jst wondering where everyone keep their horses and if you would like to share, what you pay if you rent or keep at livery and why do you choose to keep them where they are? :)
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Home, my house is surrounded by the paddocks, I am incredibly lucky.

I wouldn't have horses at all, if I had to keep them elsewhere, been there, done that, for long enough. I am, I will freely admit it, a grumpy, (not quite) old woman, I simply cannot be bothered with marching to someone elses' drum nowadays, or the clockwatching, or the curtain twitching, quite besides the travel factor.
 
A rented field, which has a stable that we use as a tack room, a shed we use as a hay store, and a shelter currently used as a stable! We have water but no electric - we're right basic, we are ;)

I personally prefer livery yards (social thing) but my mum loves the field so much, and waited for so many years to get her hands on it, that when her horse passed away she bought another one in order to keep the field :rolleyes: (well, that wasn't the only reason but she was very pleased she got to keep the field!)

I prefer somewhere with fancy stuff like electricity and a school!
 
When we were looking to move last year the criteria was to find a place with land for the horse and somewhere that was safe for my cats....(2 were run over and killed at the last place,hence the move:()

We found somewhere,double the rent,double the distance to anywhere....and my horse was lonely so had to buy him a friend....all in all a very expensive way to keep my animals safe and happy. I LOVE IT!
 
H is on working livery (grass) - which means he is ridden when I can't get there and has had lots of extra schooling while I was on hols (amazing results - thanks YO :D )

His fee includes feed/hay when needed, rugging, bringing in for farrier etc, bringing in for me if I am running late ;) and taking back out!

There is an indoor school and lovely, safe hacking. If there was an outdoor school it would be perfect!
 
I've said at home, but its not my home - its my fathers farm. I am lucky that I don't need to pay, I just help out with the cattle in lue of. We have lots of grazing and a small yard of 4 neat stables. Much better than where I was!! It takes 5 mins to drive, so doesn't take long!
 
At home, although we rent it, very lucky, got 2 horses and 7 stables, 6 acres and a floodlit menage. Currently looking for land to buy so we can build our own, my partners in charge of the house, I'm sorting the outside!! Can't wait!!!
 
Mine's at DIY livery at a farm five minutes drive from my house. £15 per week for grazing, stable and tack room. Small schooling area but it's grass and probably unusable when very wet. The farmer's horsey, has his own horses and very helpful.

I keep her there because it's nearby and cheap, and I like the place. however there's no winter turnout and I'm worried how I'll cope with no off road exercise area. I've only had her since June, so if it doesn't work out, I'll consider moving.
 
Horses at home, stables in garden adjacent field rented (10 acres)
Rough unimproved grazing, water--river or trough filled by hosepipe from my house
Rent approx £50 per acre per annum.
 
Very lucky to have mine at home so the only cost is buying in haylage and shavings etc!! I love having them at home no one to stick there nose in to my business!! Bliss :0)
 
I keep Robbie on DIY livery at a big RC yard in the area.
Costs me £170pm and they T/O 5 days a week the weekend i have to do it all myself

Chose to move there because of the facilities and more people to go out competing with
 
originally we were trying to sell our old pony as he was very naughty (b
uckking me off as soon as i got on) he went to a friend on loan with view to buying. she didn't want him so my mum was just going to take him to the ashford horse sales, i couldn't do that so asked my dad to keep him and he said if i found somewhere close and affordable i could keep him, so i found this field in church hougham and kept him there for £10 a week. we then sold him later on and i bought my current horse. i started riding out with someone i met, and i later moved onto her land and i was paying £50 a month, nearly a year later we have put our horses together as she has moved them to church hougham from her other firld that she sold to buy some more land, so it was more together. we are now really good friends and instead of paying rent i just have to do all her mucking out. which between our 3 is only one and a half barrows a day.
 
I keep my boy at my friends house.... She has a lovely little yard, just her horse daughters retired 1st pony and my boy. Have menage full set of jumps fab hacking help each other out horses get on a treat, too well sometimes lol!!!!
 
I rent a small yard ( 3 stables) and grazing next to my house. Good fencing and gates, secure lock-up.

I pay £40 pw as a private tenant -long term lease- I have sole use and basically do what I like. I manage the grazing/fences etc although if any major repairs were needed landlady would pay ( she is ace BTW).

I have no water but collect rainwater in huge buts. No leccy but we have strung some lights up in the stables and lock-up which atatch to a 12V car battery.

Tis fab.:):)
 
At livery and at home - to be awkward. Originally kept all 3 at home, but now most likely my riding horse will go to livery and the two others will stay at home :)
 
I'd love to keep mine at home for the convenience but would miss the social side and also the help if I wanted to go away. I need to trust people to look after my horses when I'm away not some groom I've hired that I don't even know.
 
I keep my horse at Tm international horse for horsemanship on working livery which has fab hacking (on the moor) which with the livery i receive free lessons and hacks.
 
Full livery - I live in an awkward part of London where it's tricky to find local stables, and most of the nearish ones aren't particularly nice! Plus I'm a student, so if I have to stay behind and do more work, I know my horse won't suffer because I can only get down once a day. He's kept at the riding school I've been riding at for the last year or two, so it's a plus I knew a few people down there, instructors onsite, good facilities, regular competitions onsite, and good hacking. Where I am it's £100 a week in SE London, including all bedding (shavings), full use of facilities, all feed (though my boy's only on hay, and I don't think it includes supplements) and turnout, mucking out, rug changing, feeding and watering, and I think you can ask for grooming xx
 
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