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Post by skint on Apr 20, 2007 12:55:45 GMT
Hiya, Just thought it would be interesting to find out what facilities etc the people have at home. Me myself have no facilities at all, thefield is on a slope and we have no menage. We have to rely on schooling while hacking and hiring a school twic a week for lessons.
What does everyone else have.
I would love to have a washroom with a warm shower and heat lamps - would make bathing so much easier too
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Post by lolly on Apr 20, 2007 12:59:55 GMT
For you or the ponies!! I would just love to win the lottery and have it all, we have three on part livery and it costs silly money
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Post by overatdaknee on Apr 20, 2007 13:04:49 GMT
Yay! Skint you are not alone. I have five (muddy) acres, no electricity, no tap (we fill up barrels and do the waters via buckets) rickety stables which not one of the doors shuts properly, I am not too lazy to mend doors just have an ancient cob who bulldozes his way through my fencing- despite having an electric line- whenever the urge takes him, then he pushes his way into the stables thus breaking the doors. I have mended them so many times that the 'mend' wont take any more screws and nails. I have no outdoor school but borrow a friends, it would be lovely to have proper facilities but my bank balance won't take it! I have just spent £600 on doing some qualifiers and am 'skint', despite holding down three jobs! But, when the ponies do well I know it really is down to 'hard work'.
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Post by haggis on Apr 20, 2007 13:06:14 GMT
Hi Skint
well you seem to have the same as me except i live 300ft above sea level, but with no outdoor school, only the councils roads ( don't start me on bad drivers) and going to a mates school when we need to i have still managed to get to HOYS with L/R show ponies , open show ponies and open M&M , think i do quite well, also my ponies are fresh as they are not over schooled as it must be a great temptation to work in a school instead of hacking out in all weathers ( let me tell you the rain up here comes straight at you)
my wish would be for a warm horse shower -- better than carrying water
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Post by julie on Apr 20, 2007 13:07:13 GMT
we have nothing bar a small paddock so I spend so much time and money carting ponies and child off to lessons that when we move - hopefully to a place with a menage - I'll be quids in! Its one reason we started to compete at winter evening dressage - it was the only way to exercise the ponies!!!
We have to hire xc courses for whp experience or just rely on small shows to get them going.....it must be great to have a school and as for hot water....oh ah!
The girl that teaches us dressage has just had a Monarch American barn built, complete with 6 large stables, tack room, feed store, washdown facility and its own solarium - my advice is to come back in the next life as a dressage horse!!
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Post by rose on Apr 20, 2007 13:20:53 GMT
we are really lucky we have 4 acres and never, never have mud. I can go out in my nighty and slippers mid winter and dont get wet its great, so can ride all year round on the grass, you can drive on it all year round as well so do not have a surface to ride on need one, poss need one, more in the summer as we get very dry.
my poines dont know whats its like to stand in mud, even in winter the white socks stay white.
but the hacking is not great we have to ride on the lanes for about 1.5 miles before grass/woods etc., so cant have everything.
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Post by ld on Apr 20, 2007 13:43:49 GMT
ive just moved from a place that hada solarium & indoor school i must say i found it easier to bath outside and leave to dry and the school was dark n dingy n dusty would much rather be in the open air. we have a paddock but the area we are in is very busy so dont do much hacking
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Post by busybusy on Apr 20, 2007 13:46:36 GMT
When we built stables and manege at home 3 years ago, an electric shower and wash area was almost top of my list!!!! It is wonderful!!! Just a cheap shower unit (£85.00) and a couple of extra legnths of hose.....now after some infra red drying lamps........
I feel we really appreciate having the ponies at home after being on a yard several miles away! The best bit is trotting out in pj's and slippers - chucking in feeds and a bit of haylage..then going back to bed with a cup of tea!
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Post by skint on Apr 20, 2007 15:13:54 GMT
I know that I am so lucky in some ways in that the ponies are at the bottom of the garden, so I can feed in my PJ's not a pretty sight and we ahve wonderful hacking we only have to go 1/4 mile and we are in woods and open lanes
So I shouldnt moan, I take my hat off to people that qualify for hoys on limited budgets and facilities as it does make it so much harder work
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Post by flashthecash on Apr 20, 2007 20:32:56 GMT
Compaired to some of you.. I'm nearly in the lap of luxury .. we have leccy & runing (cold) water. two acres (on a slope) and no one to bother us I don't have a school but a few near enough to use, indoor & outdoor. My schooling is done whilst hacking out. We do have some lovely hack round and about. One thing We do have is hot water .. we have a old water boiler... Came from a old hospital laundrey.. runs on gas.. so at least the beasts get hot baths
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Post by steve on Apr 20, 2007 21:07:22 GMT
Hats off to those of you who are struggling along with minimal facilities. Been there and done that. We now have 9acres with a pond which is handy. A large barn for storage of haylage and shavings an indoor covered stable area for 10 with a shower room and tack room. (Dutch barn sort of thing) A further 20 stables around that all fields electric taped a 40mtre x 40mtre all weather floodlit arena a nice large car parking area. Plans passed for a further 9 stables just need a nice big indoor now and the jobs on. Problem with having all this is the costs of running and maintaining it all. Plus my lot just keep filling the stables with new ponies.
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Post by Poor person on Apr 20, 2007 21:24:24 GMT
It's alright for some
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Post by Guestless on Apr 20, 2007 22:49:19 GMT
I have nothing at home - only a pocket handkerchief for a garden - so my ponies are kept at DIY livery. I have 2 fields and 3 stables - thankfully with both electricity and water (but no loo)! There's a small outdoor school but fairly decent hacking.
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Post by armada on Apr 21, 2007 9:38:37 GMT
After a few unhappy years on livery yards, we finally found a lovely placw we could afford, with four acres (it had five but last summer we put an arena in), we had to build a stable yard, but found a super open fronted building which was big enough for 3 boxes, a foaling box and large tack room. We then had to pay for electric and water to be piped down and built a track to get vehicles down to the yard, which is at the bottom of the garden - who on earth needs a two acre garden anyway? I also bought a horse walker and its great. I had to sell a flat I had bought in central London when I was in my early 20's to pay for all this, but its worth every penny. Even though I now survive on my overdraft!!
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Post by fjudge on Apr 21, 2007 12:21:01 GMT
We keep our ponies at home. There are 4 horses on 20 acres of land. A "big field" and 3 paddoks with shelter. Yard that consists of 4 stables and a corner stable, take room (with big sink, fridge/freezer, light and a bit of heating, barn type area with doors where we keep our rugs on rug racks, mucking out equiptment, brooms, etc.. and a feed room (a shed). We dont have a menage, only a fenced of paddok..big enough to have a decent course of jumps. Its not totally flat, few upy downy bits! But good practice for shows i guess Although we dont have a menage, we are very lucky to have a xc course. Dad had it put in a couple of years ago. it is 2'3-3'3 and some of the jumps can be lifted to make the height bigger (needs to be done by a tractor or something!!) The course consists of common xc fences, ditch - pallasade, bank, water jump and a corner. Some of the fences have a choice of 2 heights. Also a working hunter course and a few odd sj's. So i would say we have a good variety and we are rather lucky to have it in the comfort of our own home. ETA - great hacking facilities...whiteleaf woods just 3 mins hack up the road and great bridalways off the local roads. Also, a menage that we can use 1 min hack up the road.
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Post by welsh on Apr 21, 2007 16:55:02 GMT
i consider my self quite lucky, about 14 stables in a courtyard shape and then 2 further stallion stables, big indoor barn used for wintering out ponies, used to have an indoor school but have no longer, leccy and running cold water, flat schooling field, lorry loading ramp, access to the chase thats after hacking several miles though along fast lanes.
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Post by farmerfarm on Apr 21, 2007 17:51:36 GMT
big farm so theres millions of acres, an excercise paddock, barns, running water & hot if needed, menage at the end of the drive (belongs to livery yard next door) Can ride in the stubble fields so thats great for a GALLOP
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Post by fizz on Apr 22, 2007 15:42:12 GMT
our yard is finishing up as a working sheep farm & going to livery only, we are getting a indoor school,out door school, toilet, jumps & we can not wait.
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Post by welsh on Apr 22, 2007 16:26:43 GMT
I live on a farm so endless amount of hacking right in the countryside. We have 5 stables and as much lund as we want for the horses, we are having an arean built this year and a heating lamps. We also have a XC course and gallops around the farm.
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