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? asked in PetsHorses · 10 years ago

Dream livery yard facilities?

I'm bored so... what facilities would your dream livery yard have? (If money was no issue)

Update:

tbh there are only a few things I wish my yard had, hot/cold wash box, solarium, horse walker, rug drying room... all of which they are planning to put in within the year :)

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  • 10 years ago
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    I'd love a mud-free yard. Totally impossible, especially in Scotland, but a girl can dream. How much more comfortable my life would be if I didn't have to walk through mud...

  • zakiit
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Stables - some indoor some outdoor for horses with breathing difficulties, that are nice and large so that the horse does not feel hemmed in. Rubber matting and automatic waterers and feed boxes that can be filled from the outside, hay rack and a couple of rings with baler twine for tying up inside and outside the stable. Head collar hook and a fold away saddle rack.

    Wash box with hot and cold running water and solarium separate so that more horses can be washed while the horse is under the solarium.

    Grooming stalls with shelves for kits, boots (horse) bandages etc.

    Vet box/farrier box

    Rug cleaning and drying room with racks.

    Secure tack room with a fob key for each owner. And large chests for each one too.

    Horse walker

    Lunge pen

    Indoor school

    Out door schools plural.

    Few bare paddocks for those fatties prone to foundering.

    Separate turn out paddocks for each horse but within vision of each other each with a shelter, water, hay rack and salt lick.

    Set of show jumps

    Cross country course with water features, banks and so forth.

    A few good hills for fittening work.

    Access to good trail rides or hacks, depending on what you call them!

    Near a beach!

    Not asking for much, am I?

    Source(s): Riding instructor
  • 10 years ago

    Stalls with attached outdoor area

    Two large indoor ring and one outdoor ring, one indoor ring and the outdoor fitted with all the things you would need to jump and excess equipment

    Long and very safe cross-country trails with and without jumps

    Large and fertile pastures including run-in shelters

    Room for a garden

    Large shed for tractors and barn equipment

    A basement

    A hay loft

    A heated viewing area for the arena

    Individual cross-tie areas (like not in the center of the isles, seperate from there)

    Two indoor wash stalls

    Heated barn with the home on top of it

    Including gaits, alarms, cameras, etc throughout the property

    Very close to a vet

    Large tack room

    Large feed room

    Large roundpen

  • 10 years ago

    I had all this once, then urban sprawl took us over =\

    14 x 14 stalls,with runs that can be shut off with dutch doors, picked twice a day, rubber mats bedded with sawdust. Ceiling fans in the stalls, automatic waterers, Daily turnout in 1/2 acre rings (we had 4)

    fly system, went off every half hour during the day with citronella spray

    Indoor and outdoor hot and cold wash rack

    Wide barn isle for tractor and truck access

    Multiple tack areas/cross ties with saddle and bridle racks

    lab for mixing meds and collecting semen for sending off for A/I

    large tack room with lounge and full bathroom with shower.

    Loft for storage

    Indoor school large enough for a large dressage ring, mirrors, good footing and watering system, dragged daily.

    Indoor and outdoor sound system for clinics and playing music to ride to

    Outdoor school, good footing, drainage for flat work or jumping

    round pen (We sold the hot walker; it was more trouble than it was worth)

    cross country course

    grass fields to ride in, marked and mowed bridle paths

    water obstacles

    Machine shed, tractor, implements, work benches, storage for jog cart

    Hay shed, 3 sided for ventilation

    3- 15 acre pastures for rotation, all wood fencing, no wire anywhere

    3- 3 acre dry lots

    Shed row for show stabling

    parking for trailers and shows

    Whole place fenced with a coded gate to prevent looky loos and contain horses if they get loose (it was open most of the time except nights)

    Plenty of barn cats, dogs and goats for adding comedy to the world!

    Access to great vets and farriers

    Somebody else to mow, weed eat, fix fence, paint, and clean 20 stalls (this part I DIDN'T have, but I can dream!)

    Airport hub within an hour drive so clinicians can come in at a reasonable cost (didn't have this either!)

    Live in close (but not too close) to the barns, live in for help.

    I miss those days of having wonderful facilities. Now I have a field.....I don't miss the drama of dealing with the boarders however!

    Source(s): thanks rach26, it was fun to remember the good old days when land taxes and insurance weren't so outrageous
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  • Emura
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    This is if space was also not an issue.

    24x24 stalls

    Living quarters

    wash racks with heated water

    large arenas

    lots of trails

    several pastures that are rotated

    large tack room with lockers

  • 10 years ago

    I would have:

    -Indoor arena

    -Outdoor arena

    -5 star stables

    -hot & cold wash

    -post and rail paddocks with shelters

    -Big tack room with kitchen, bathroom facilities.

    -feed room.

    -Large round yard.

    :)

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