Youngstock livery: why did you use it, how did it go?

[Poing]

Please share your experience. I’m toying with the idea for various reasons, including current yard not being quite what I want, and literally nothing else nearby.

 

[IrishMilo]

Mine's currently away at the moment - the yard my other horse is at isn't optimal for his needs. I wanted him to have more company, bigger space, and more grass. All of which he now has.

 

[myheartinahoofbeat]

I have mine on youngstock livery at the moment. He’s just over a year old. He spent the winter in a barn with 5 other foals and is now in a 30 acre summer paddock with the foals and some 2 and 3 year olds.
I’m not sure if I’ll keep him there again in the winter because of the cost. I have 5 horses at home but they are all much older and bigger.

 

[awelshandawarmblood]

Mine was there from when I bought him as a yearling until he was 3. He was out in a small herd of other youngsters & some older boys to keep them in line. They had a 10 acre post & rail field with a huge 3 bay barn bedded down & with hard stand. It was definitely the best thing for him letting him grow up & be a horse - I went once a month to spend a few hours fussing & handling which he loved and was enough.

He was an hour from home, but nowhere local to me had safe fencing and unrestricted turnout. The yard I was on with my other lad at the time, I felt would have been too restrictive at that age.

I'd do it again.

 

[Caol Ila]

My horse wasn't on 'youngstock livery' as such. But she was at a livery yard where they were out 24/7 in summer and had group hard standing paddocks when they weren't in a field in the winter. It was definitely more youngster friendly than most normal livery yards. The one I'm on these days suits her now she's doing adulting things, but the other one was brilliant when she was a baby.

It might suit her now, but it would not suit my other horse because negotiating pigs, trains, and the M80 would blow his f*ckin mind. All good training for a baby, however.

 

[lannerch]

I kept my horse on young stock livery as I think it is essential for young horses to be with other young horses to learn together to play together , to allow them to be a baby horse.
To me it is an essential part of a young horses education .

 

[Poing]

I kept my horse on young stock livery as I think it is essential for young horses to be with other young horses to learn together to play together , to allow them to be a baby horse.
To me it is an essential part of a young horses education .

This is what I’m thinking, rather than just moving him to a “riding” yard where he will be in a routine that suits working horses.

Thanks All x