Yard help please!!!

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I had a yard sorted, but for various reasons am now yardless again... Old yard was going to be grass livery, had a school, excellent hacking, somewhat boggy grazing and YO is an AI.

I don't wish to go into details... but lets just say it was going to cost me X.

I have two yards I am looking at. One is £40 a month cheaper than X, for grass livery. It's a huge yard, has school and things, excellent hacking, YO lives on site, but no tack room because it's already been robbed once and there are a LOT of horses.

The other is £40 more than X... but I get a stable. And atm, I'm also the only livery, there's only 3 stables, but they're surrounded by yards so there's horses everywhere. Same again, school, excellent hacking, and the YO is horsey and would be down the yard every day, and has already said she'd help me out... but they have no electricity and aren't residential, although apparently some of the other yards have people on pretty much all the time.

Given that Dori-ann isn't a huge fan of big yards... I'm more erring towards the second, despite the lack of electricity (which, I'm trying to think of things it affects, and aside from clipping I can't think of anything! There are solar lights!) - but it is a slightly price hike!
But then... given I may be the only livery for a while, X+40 for some peace and quiet with my pony... is it worth it?
(x being the given rate for the area!)
 
If your horse is happy living on it's own, then I would go for the one with the stable,, however you need to know your horse will be ok on it's own because it's not the most normal of lives for a horse, to be without company x
 
You could always get an energiser and hook up a light at the stable without electric. Keep it in your boot and charge it when you get home :) I've done this before :) That way you can plug other stuff into it too.

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/330w-power-inverter-12v-230v

Or you can get rechargable flood lights...

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/p...ble-rechargeable/path/work-lights-floodlights

Or a little generator if you're feeling flush?

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/clarke-1kw-inverter-generator-ig1000/brand/clarke

Or even just a baseball cap with lights on?

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/clarke-bbc-5-baseball-cap-with-led-lights

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Got the hint that I recon you should go to the one with the stable? ;)

I've got one of these - you can stand it on something or hook it over the stable (with a bit of jigging)

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/chl100-halogen-floodlight-500w110v

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We have two portable stables on our yard, that don't have power. We use a caravan awning strip light, which runs all winter off a car battery (keep in a box obviously..)

I'd always want an option of a stable. You never know whats round the corner, and you may need box rest etc...
 
Oh, thanks for the ideas on power sources!!

I am going to see yard number 3 tomorrow... it's the furthest out of the three (the other two are on the way to work) - but it has the best of both and is £5 cheaper than X!

But given that I'm going to get caught up in traffic far more chronically and therefore need to be up so much earlier... I don't think the money counts!
 
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