working livery????? should i?

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hi,

i have 2 warmbloods that im struggling to work these few winter months.
i have the oppotunity to put them on working livery at 2hrs per day 5 days, and i ride on a weekend.

this option will work out cheaper and less time consuming for me (im considering doing it unitl mid march)

but it is worring me that strangers will be riding my horses (they are all stage 2 and above) and looking after them (im very fussy!!) i know they will get 5* treatment but cant help and think my horses will think why has mum sent us here?

Iam i being silly??
help pls
 
yes they are desperate.

im just concerned without me being there that they might put riders personelly i wouldnt want on them?

i lightly compete them but havnt done for 6months or so, but will be again next season.

this past few months they have just hunted and hacked out. as i havnt the time to school them and one of them really needs some schooling as he is falling behind where i would like him to be at.

1 of my horses were there a few years agao (i was a stundent then there) and it did him the world of good in his education, but i didnt like the fact there wasnt enough 1 to 1 love ???
am i being fussy as on full livery etc they dont get that?

ive always had mine on DIY so just used to me feeding/brushing them etc.

should i ask them to just allow stage 3 riders? also on weekend i will be going up to "love them and hack out" and poss the odd show
 
My girl was on working livery at Warwickshire College while I was a student and it worked really well. She was looked after brilliantly, the only thing I didn't like was the lack of turnout. Her schoolwork improved cos the decent riders got her going well and she just made as as little effort as possible with the less experienced riders!!

I hacked her at the weekends and took her hunting occasionally. If I had wanted to compete her dressage/SJ I probably wouldn't have done it cos I think she needed a break from that type of work at the weekends.

It really depends on what you want to do with yours.
 
what college?? id just turn up at the college unexpectidly and watch the structure of their lessons and check the stables and how the students work-- i hate to say it but my college (nto saying which lol) have lots of hroses on loan/working livery and although they are looked after well they don't do very taxing work and arent schooled to that much of a high level but then again they dont put 'crap' ppl on good horses!?!?


if it isnt too far u could just go lol and see what u think... and if the standard is as good as u expected without them knowing you're coming... !?!

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I have my horse on working livery and have very little problems with it, just make sure you have a signed contract with the number of hours your horses will be working and just general conditions for example if you dont want utter beginners request that in your contract
 
Hello, my mare was at a riding school before I got her and I have noticed that if experienced friends ride her she goes beautifully, but if someone not so experienced rides her she just coasts along. She does not appear to be upset at all by been ridden by less experienced people just gets on with it, and she is quite a sensitive horse in many respects. I guess you know your horses and if you are still around to check on them and 'love' them they will be fine.
 
I wouldn't do it myself unless I absolutely had to for financial reasons. I've heard from people who worked at collages that the care is not all its cracked-up to be (nothing much is as good as advertised in the equine industry is it?). Also I watched a group of grade 3s having a lesson once and some of them were so not good riders. One was very rough!

Just to add, my mare is on full livery and she gets lots of one-to-one love!!! I know several other people on full livery who also give their horses a great deal of time, attention and love!
 
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