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Just wondering what you have in terms of facilities.

Are you on livery or have your own yard or fields etc

Do you have stables? If yes how many

How many acres do you have? If you rent your own yard or fields how many horses do you keep on those acres, if you are on livery how many acres do they have and how many horses there?

Do you do the maintenance yourself

do you have any other facilities?

How much do you pay per horse, per month?

Thanks
 
Our yard is EVERYTHING but fancy, but its like a wee family. With 50 + horses and we have a block of 13 stables, ( funny number but theres a hay shed, tackroom and feed room attached.) Then a block of 4, block of 8 and then another block of 15. We have a jumping school and a schooling school, which is all outdoors and AMAZING hacking. Our horses get mucked out, fed and hayed for us, mostly so all the horses on the yard are on the same routine and turned out if we ask but we do the rest ourselves. Ponies are £40 a week, 14.2hh and under/or different sizes of stables but im not sure how much horses are. We have help when ever we need it. Not really good grazing tbh but starvation paddocks with hay at all times. Cheapest yard i've ever been too, but YO very selective on who is on the yard for obvious reasons. Love it tho:D
 
I rent 5 acres with an extra 3 for winter use , usually houses my 2 horses and 2 ponies but currently have an extra horse belonging to a friend which may turn into a permanent thing. 2 stables and a pony size field shelter and the use of 2 containers for storage. water is pumped from stream and there's no electric and apart from hacking around the farm there are no facilities. We do all the maintenance ourselves but because we get on well with the farmer he'll let us use tractors and rollers etc when needed. Price is cheap lol, costs me the same to have 2 horses and 2 ponies as it used to cost me to DIY livery 1 horse!!!;)
 
I'm on livery

There are 4 stables on the yard

Not sure how many acres but there are 6 horses. My two have 2 summer paddocks and one winter paddock.

The yard do the maintenance.

There's a large barn for hay storage, rugs, feed etc plus a locked tack room, free lorry/trailer parking, a marked area in field for schooling plus jumps.

£48 per horse per month.
 
Have 2 horses, 4 acres 20x40 arena with couple jumps - harstanding with 18x12 field shelter with rubber mats and 6x12 tackroom, small haybarn and shed - electric by leisure battery and running water to automatic troughs. Cut hay off own field but buy in extra haylage in depths of winter - horses live on hardstanding/arena and field shelter in winter when bad which means they can sleep on arena if nice or in field shelter on mats if bad but also means they go to arena to wee (if i put down bedding they would go in shelter). Good hacking locally but have trailer keep on hardstanding so can box up. Only me there.

Dont ask cost - it all got bought (2 acres first then further 2 acres this year) on mortgage !!!!!
 
At home. 3.5 acres split into four fields, 1 horse and a few sheep. Field shelter with a gate which usually stays tied open (the sheep spend more time in it than Merlin!) and the old pig pen has had a full door put on it and doubles as a feed/hay/tack room (it can be converted back should we have porkers again). OH and I do the maintenance. My very lovely next door neighbours, who have four horses, knocked a gap in the field boundary wall and put a gate up so I could use their manege without having to go all the way up the drive, along the road and all the way back down theirs. Excellent hacking - I have hundreds of acres of Scottish moorland available with no roadwork and I can go down the fields on the other side of me to get straight onto the beach.

Yes, I do know how lucky I am :D
 
I have mine on DIY livery. There are about 30 stables, full time turnout on good grass in summer, every other day turnout in winter. All hay/haylage is included, but have to provide my own bedding. There is a locker, feed bunker and saddle/bridle rack for each horse in a locked tackroom. Use of indoor arena (approx 15x35m) and several hours per week in outdoor (approx 40x60m) (have to pay arena hire outside 'core' hours), with jumps to use as required. Horse walker also on yard, but it costs extra to use.

Cost is £30 per week.

This thread is very interesting...always good to see how other facilities compare!
 
DIY Livery

Yes, there are 21 stables on the yard, 5 of which are owners private ones. 5 outdoor ones and 16 indoor ones.

i think around 15 acres i think. 5 or 6 are again owners private, excluding the owners horses there are 8 horses, 3 on a 4 acre firld and 5 on a 6 or 7 acre field.

No

Outdoor school with floodlights, hacking on the viking way just round the corner and a UK Chasers course down the road (you have to pay to use it, not included in the livery lol). Free parking for lorries or trailers. Big barn to store hay, straw etc. Jumps in the school. Every person gets an extra stable to use as a feed room and/or keep hay or bedding in there, and mucking out tools. 2 lockable tack rooms with cupboards and racks. A lovely YO that is extremely helpful when you need help but does not get involved if she wasn't asked to.

£100pm per horse.
 
Are you on livery or have your own yard or fields etc Livery

Do you have stables? If yes how many On the livery - 2

How many acres do you have? If you rent your own yard or fields how many horses do you keep on those acres, if you are on livery how many acres do they have and how many horses there? 25 acres. 19 and a half (miniature!)

Do you do the maintenance yourself No

do you have any other facilities? Sandschool, S-J paddock, riding around the land

How much do you pay per horse, per month? First horse - £80. Miniature - £60
 
I am on DIY livery on a 'semi'-working farm. YO is horsey (has Shetlands) and it's one of the nicest places in the World to be..............but not posh at all!
For £80 per month we have stable, all year grazing, 20 x 40 sandschool (new jumps provided this year!), secure tack room, own storage area for 'stuff' and we can buy hay and straw at cost on site (write on the board and it magically appears!). All of the stables are housed within converted farm buildings, so, we have a good variety of sizes. Most of the grazing fields are about 5 acres, with 3 or 4 horses in each (rotated regulary to avoid them getting unpleasant). We have specific areas that can be sectioned off easily and quickly for fatties, recouperation etc without the horses having to be way away from the main hub of the farm. Farm also provides grass livery only (£48 per month) that includes the same but no stable. Grass livery fields are located much further away from the main farm stuff though.
It's a lovely yard, apart from the odd spat everybody gets along, and the cost and facilities are about average for our area. We have great hacking without doing much more than crossing a road and we're fairly central for travelling. YO lives on site (virtually in the middle of the yard) and is very careful about who she will have as liveries as it's her home. I've been there 5 years and will only move if I'm forced to!
 
Just wondering what you have in terms of facilities.

Currently, Full livery with sandschool and excellent hacking but about to move to private yard with 3 acre field and 2 stables nearby with access to same hacking.

Are you on livery or have your own yard or fields etc

See above!

Do you have stables? If yes how many

See above!

How many acres do you have? If you rent your own yard or fields how many horses do you keep on those acres, if you are on livery how many acres do they have and how many horses there?

See above!

Do you do the maintenance yourself?

Currently, no. When I move, yes.

Do you have any other facilities?

I am going to use a part of the field to school in, and possibly put some jumps up.

How much do you pay per horse, per month?

On full livery, £415 - Jazz
On grass livery, £80 - Mouse
At private yard - £140 a month for both :)
 
Are you on livery or have your own yard or fields etc
On our own farm

Do you have stables? If yes how many
3

How many acres do you have? If you rent your own yard or fields how many horses do you keep on those acres, if you are on livery how many acres do they have and how many horses there?
We have 210 acres in total. In spring, summer and autumn I have the use of 2 acres, in the winter I have 180 acres.

Do you do the maintenance yourself
My husband does

do you have any other facilities?
No :(

How much do you pay per horse, per month?
Nothing :D, but I do work on the farm with my husband.
 
I'm on a livery yard 15mins from home. There's 14 stables for liveries and YO has got 6 horses. All liveries turned out in a herd in massive field (not sure how many acres), outdoor school with great surface (rubber), fabulous off road hacking, great YOs, friendly supportive liveries (no bitchiness) and all horses are happy.

I love it! :)
 
Alphamare said:
Just wondering what you have in terms of facilities.

Are you on livery or have your own yard or fields etc I keep my horses on my parent's land

Do you have stables? If yes how many Three wooden stables (one is used for storing hay), a brick stable (needs a new roof so isn't used at all at the moment ;) ) and a tackroom.

How many acres do you have? If you rent your own yard or fields how many horses do you keep on those acres, if you are on livery how many acres do they have and how many horses there? Three horses on 8 acres approx. There is more land but it is either very steep or woodland so we tend to just use it for sheep.

Do you do the maintenance yourself Yes, with my Dad. I harrow and top the fields with my little MF 35. :)

do you have any other facilities? Outdoor sandschool.

How much do you pay per horse, per month? Free, thanks to my lovely parents. :D

Thanks
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We rented 7 aces and seven stables for 11 years then the owner sold it. We moved to a livery yard and hated it, mind you most people left before the first year was up, it was a nightmare!! Then we rented what should have been 10 acres but we ended up with 6 as the farmer wanted the big field for hay and everytime itrained it was like a bog. In june we moved to the field we are on now, there is about 11 acres and just a field, but there are trees all round for shelter/shade and the owner is really great, he is there most of the day and will call us if there is a problem. He is going to build us a shelter, and is great about fixing fences. We can do whatever we want, and can take our dogs with us. Its lovely.
 
We are at a Livery Yard and there are 30 stables and around 110 acres of paddocks. There is also a DIY Yard a mile down the road that belongs to the same owner. They have cirac 15 stables with 40 acres of paddocks.

In terms of facilities, both yards have walkers, the Livery Yard has an indoor school and the DIY has an outdoor school. Beyond that we share a grass gallop, cross country course and around 1000 acres of off-road hacking that links to further public bridleways. Maintainance is done for us.

Costs vary from £30 to £90 per week, DIY to Full Livery (Full includes bedding, turnout, changes of rugs, picking out feet, haylage, feed etc)
 
Are you on livery or have your own yard or fields etc
own yard (on dairy farm)

Do you have stables? If yes how many
6 in total.
3 brick stables (1 used for storage) and 3 wooden stables (1 used for storage)

How many acres do you have? If you rent your own yard or fields how many horses do you keep on those acres, if you are on livery how many acres do they have and how many horses there?
Approx. 4 acres in summer (2 14hhers and 2 shetlands) and approx. 8 acres in winter (same ponies).

Do you do the maintenance yourself
Poo pick, ragwort, rotating electric fencing (for strip grazing in summer) but the rest is done by the farmers

do you have any other facilities?
set of showjumps, dressage markers and about 100 acres of hacking (dairy farm) no arenas though. wash ponies in the milking parlour. homemade hay and straw.

How much do you pay per horse, per month?
nothing
 
About 60 stables.
We've got an indoor, lunging pen, farm ride, outdoor, canter track. All year turnout and starvation paddocks if needed. Yard do all the maintenance and delieveries etc. Vet comes for routine visit every week as do farriers.
But...£300 if included shoes for full DIY
 
We have a farm(well mum and dad do) the horses are on a 7 acre patch and I have an outdoor school with about 6 jumps we have 10 stables. There are 2 starvation paddocks and more land turned over to hay. We have a large tackroom and a feed room and 2 large barns.., hacking100 yds to bridle way and then it's all off road... I am v lucky (but still dream of an indoor school
 
Alphamare said:
Just wondering what you have in terms of facilities.

Are you on livery or have your own yard or fields etc

Do you have stables? If yes how many

How many acres do you have? If you rent your own yard or fields how many horses do you keep on those acres, if you are on livery how many acres do they have and how many horses there?

Do you do the maintenance yourself

do you have any other facilities?

How much do you pay per horse, per month?

Thanks
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2 12*17 box stalls inside a larger barn with tack and feed area (will be a room at some point), wide matted aisleway for grooming and an area to keep a few bales of hay. Large storage barn for 350+ bales of hay. 20*45 meter arena which will be an indoor next year. At present it's compacted hardcore so not much use for riding.

This is my own property after doing livery for way too many years.

25 acres in total but 18 of that is woods. The two horses have probably a 2.5 acre area at the moment, divided into dry lots and one pasture of about an acre. They are fatties and the pasture is lush so they don't need much. There are 3 more acres of grass but it isn't fenced yet. I could cut hay off it if I could find a farmer to do it for me.

I do all the maintenance.

I haven't worked out the cost per month ... and right now I don't want to :D

I remember paying 15 pounds/week for DIY livery at a barn with a crappy outdoor arena and muddy pasture with no grass. That was 11 years ago
 
Alphamare said:
Just wondering what you have in terms of facilities.

Are you on livery or have your own yard or fields etc I have my own yard

Do you have stables? If yes how many 6 ordinary box stalls, 2 double sized foaling stalls - could be converted back to 10

How many acres do you have? 50, about 10 paddocks of varying sizes

If you rent your own yard or fields how many horses do you keep on those acres,Mentally counts heads, 30 today - our grassland is for turnout it is not expected to sustain horses if you are on livery how many acres do they have and how many horses there?

Do you do the maintenance yourself Yes

do you have any other facilities? The farm has a half mile trotting/exercise track, round pen, one acre arena, half mile sand gallop, trails

How much do you pay per horse, per month? I don't, in cash. In blood, sweat, and sometimes tears (pain, frustration, rage - take your pick) I pay alot ;) I have 15 Boarders here, they cover costs for my own horses and keep my daughter in mascara and hairspray;)
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You lot have no idea how lucky you are! I'm jealous of all of you!

I'm on DIY livery, in summer I pay £100 a month, in winter I pay £150.
There's 12 horses on 4 acres.
We have an old sandschool, that is quite small. About three quarters of a 20 x 40 school, so too small for my unbalanced gangly 4 year old.
We have a communal tack room and feed room, which results in disappearances :(
Hay is kept in a wagon back, same with straw.
Hacking is okay, there's only two or three routes.
I don't like it there, people get too involved. Its bitchy and there is always an atmopshere.
I've been there since October.

BUT I'm moving to a 4 acre field :D
I paid £250 for a years worth of rent.
I have to put my fencing up and build a mobile field shelter.
I have 1 horse and am either going to get 1 or 2 companions.
I won't have a school but I'm going to section off part of the field, or alternitivley school in a seperate 1 acre field.


Can't wait to move but I wish some of the yards round here were as you described :D
 
Just wondering what you have in terms of facilities.

Are you on livery or have your own yard or fields?
DIY livery

Do you have stables? 13 stables in all

If you are on livery how many acres do they have and how many horses there? Lots of acres as it's a farm, 5 horses at the moment, my pony is with 2 mares in about 2.5 acres and they usually are in another field in Winter about same size.
All year around turn out (my pony lives 24/7 out).

Do you do the maintenance yourself? Yes and No, I do try to keep the yard tidy, clean tacroom/feedromm etc but the farmer does the fencing.

Do you have any other facilities?
No school but then I only hack so great hacking (by Cirencester Park-Glos-) was 1st thing on the list when I was looking for somewhere for my pony.
Price includes stables/straw (both of which I don't use), hay, shared tackroom, feedroom

How much do you pay per horse, per month? £120
 
Kali is on full livery at a yard situated on half a pro polo yard in Berkshire.
Cost to us is £700/month, which includes use of all facilities, schooling (three times a week), general care (mucking and skipping out every day, bring in, turn out rug/boot/bandage changes, feed (hay/haylage and hard feed) prepared and given, bedding (straw or flax), grooming, feet picking out, clipping, tail/mane pulling, tack cleaned, fleeces/summer sheets/bandages/numnahs washed, meds given and special attention (so Kal has Keratex on his feet, for instance)).

Facilities:

- stables - 8 large, brick-built boxes on main yard (smallest is 12 x 15), 12 spacious boxes in brick-built American-style barn (12 x 12) - all with corner mangers and automatic waterers and stable chains on doors so liveries can leave doors open during the day, 4 smaller, brick-built outside stables at end of barn (all 12 x 10), and a further 8 small pony boxes in covered pole barn with low walls so the ponies can "talk" to each other and slip rails - all boxes light and airy so prevent COPD.

- schools - small, covered indoor arena with rubber and sand - suitable for general schooling of smaller horses and ponies and lunging larger horses in the winter - very large (80 x 200 metres) outdoor arena (floodlit) - dedicated jumping field (with set of affiliated jumps) and full-size dressage arena with markers

- other - two alarmed and fully-secure tack rooms (one for main and pony yard and one for barn - with space for 2 saddles/bridles per livery with some spares), washing machine, covered wash-down/farrier area with cross ties (shampoo, sponges, etc. supplied), general equipment for liveries use, e.g., haynets, bandage pads, lunging rollers, lunge whips, schooling/jumping whips, basic first aid stuff (hibiscrub, wound powder, purple spray, etc.). Storage room with lockers for liveries and space for rug boxes, etc., and dedicated rug room with rug rails and rug dryer. On-site loos, shower, catering facilities and friendly/family atmosphere.

All fields are post and rail with electric wire at the top (run off the mains so no batteries required), all have water troughs running off mains water and all are poo picked and ragwort pulled and generally maintained by yard staff (although liveries do pitch in too). Turnout is generally segregated by gender but not always, and all the horses are in herds with horses they get along with. Yard has space for 32 horses and ponies on 55 acres of grazing - fields are regularly rested. There is hacking on the property's 160 acres of land, including a gallop track and a cross country course (24 jumping efforts), and the surrounding roads are quiet if liveries want to go further afield.

Yard is at the end of a poorly-marked, single track, dead-end road making it difficult to get in and out without being noticed - in addition YO, several yard staff and a fairly major celebrity all live on site, so security is high (guard dogs, motion-sensor lighting, locked/alarmed gates and lots and lots of pairs of eyes).

Yes, it's expensive, but it's very high quality . . . but, most important to me, Kali is extremely settled and happy and the bitchiness quota is kept to the bare minimum making it a nice place to hang out.

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We rent a private small yard. 28 acres and 3 stables + store.

Just us and our 4. Direct access to the woods. About 6 miles from where we live.

£210 a month. Yes, I know how lucky I am!

Livery yards take the pee with the prices. There are some silly expensive yards up here, and some are most unpleasant places.
 
We are paying slightly more now than we were before (£80 pcm more) but what we have gained in terms of land and facilities makes it worth it.

Its probably quite similar to livery prices which round here are about 20-25per week. but its just us there which is perfect.

anyone else?
 
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