Horse Liveries - Do's and Don'ts

[Rossymons]

Relation running a very successful livery for over 100 horses. His wife is in charge, she is not one to upset.
They’re doing VERY well out of it
He is so smart that he sells his straw to the livery and then, after they have mucked it out, has it back to reuse for his beef cattle. As he often says “I had a bit of luck”

Theres a fella near me doing the exact same thing and he doesn't ride a bicycle neither!

 

[ollie989898]

Been doing it for over 25 years. The worse bit is the weeds, every couple of years I have to spray the paddocks

I am sure the weekly charge more than offsets the cost of any grassland spraying!

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Be careful if you end up with a real middling, coorse as cat shite bitch that one person will drive away the good ones,
Also can get very cliquey

If we get any like that they are spoken to & then kicked out if it carries on . The bad ones need weeding out .

 

[robs1]

I am sure the weekly charge more than offsets the cost of any grassland spraying!

Yep over £1500 acre gross a year, better net figure than any other way of using ground

 

[TheTallGuy]

how do you go about setting up direct debit ? must be loads of hoops to jump through. + not sure I would be happy giving a local farmer permission to dip into my bank account whenever he felt like it.

Direct Debit doesn't allow the business to just dip into the client account willy nilly as there are tight rules they have to abide by. If a client requests a payback then it has to be honoured without delay and the business has to cover all the fees, if it happens too often then the business could have their ability to use DD withdrawn.

 

[chaffcutter]

Forget direct debit, just get them all on Standing Orders

 

[Daddy Pig]

Direct Debit doesn't allow the business to just dip into the client account willy nilly as there are tight rules they have to abide by. If a client requests a payback then it has to be honoured without delay and the business has to cover all the fees, if it happens too often then the business could have their ability to use DD withdrawn.

I know that. That's why I assume there would be lots of hoops to jump through beacuse otherwise an unscrupulous livery provider could clear out a customers bank account and dissappear.

 

[thorpe]

Theres a fella near me doing the exact same thing and he doesn't ride a bicycle neither!

does he have a choice of rides?

 

[Rossymons]

does he have a choice of rides?

Yes theres some lovely bridleways and exercise areas for the horse.

 

[Enry]

Forget direct debit, just get them all on Standing Orders

Standing order is a fixed amount isnt it? So ok for monthly livery fee but no good for x number of bales of hay and straw in addition

 

[robs1]

Standing order is a fixed amount isnt it? So ok for monthly livery fee but no good for x number of bales of hay and straw in addition

We do standing order but that includes hay/haylage and straw. It's much easier to include everything in my opinion as from the other yards we supply it causes a lot of arguments as some buy good hay others rubbish hay and the good hay can go "missing" etc. You also need to keep count of how much each owner has had and again it can go missing plus all the extra space required, they can use a bit more if its included in the monthly fee, any excessive use gets pulled up on but only had to mention it once in all the years and it's far less hassle overall.
The only thing we supply for bedding is straw if they want to use other bedding they have to buy their own but I dont reduce the price if they do