horses and grazing

[D14]

What are peoples opinions of letting a shed (6500 sqft) and some grazing to a horse business to establish their own outfit? I am thinking of about 20 acres of grass and a single span shed with a concrete floor, water, electricity etc for them to put their own stalls into. I am fully aware that horse people are funny and we would not entertain multiple individual stables but letting to one person is a different thing possibly. We have 6m grass margins around most fields for leraps, that could be used for exercising as they are not a environmental scheme of any description. We have not got a menage but would not be opposed to looking into adding one. I would be thinking a maximum of 10 horses and would be happy to write into a lease that we would buy any infrastructure the tenant added using a depreciation calculation. We could then sell them hay and straw at a price to suit both parties so a bit under the market value but enough to see a profit. The rental price I have in mind for the whole lot including water, electricity, shed, 20 acres of grass, use of approx 5 miles of grass margins and an area for them to put a menage in is £55/horsespace/week. Any rates they pay on top but any planning costs we cover. We would insure the shed but they insure the contents. We have been asked about this by an established horse breeder for a stud/training outfit.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

I would say that it all depends where you are situated. There may be opportunities near Bicester or Hitchin as examples as these areas are marked for huge development. This would result in the 'leisure industry' expanding which includes equiculture. Those 'yards' that I visited in my yoof & with my children have changed, grown, disappeared entirely, depending on the folk who operated them.
A good manege https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manege won't be enough so I'd build two or three! Then no one hogs the only one, unless it is very large & can be sub-divided (This may benefit events/shows/winter activities. This place has done well with careful management over the years;http://www.widmerequestrian.co.uk/livery
Your soil structure is an important part as this will dictate how much traffic it will take before turning into mud!
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[rob1]

unless youre near london then IMVHO the price is too high £120 per calendar month is the going rate round here

 

[Mercedes]

It is most important to ascertain that they are credit worthy and able to generate income to regularly pay.

It is vitally important that they are genuine horse breeders with sufficient knowledge in order to maintain all grazing land in GAEC. Horses are notorious for poaching land. A regular dung removal operation from the grazing land needs to be employed otherwise the land will become "soured"

Do your homework and then proceed with care.

 

[Leereade]

If I wer you I'd build the stables and a ménage and easily draw £1000 a month

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Word Origin and History for ménage
1690s, "management of a household, domestic establishment," from French ménage, from Old French manage "household, family dwelling" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *mansionaticum "household, that which pertains to a house," from Latin mansionem "dwelling" (see mansion ). Now generally used in suggestive borrowed phrase ménage à trois (1891), literally "household of three." Borrowed earlier as mayngnage, maynage and in the sense "members of a household, a man's household" (c.1300); but this was obsolete by c.1500.

Menage a trois........I don't need to say anymore!

If you get the spelling right in your quest for clients those folk who take horsemanship seriously will take you seriously too!

manège
maˈnɛʒ/
noun
noun: manège; plural noun: manèges; noun: manege; plural noun: maneges

1. an enclosed area in which horses and riders are trained.
   • the movements in which a horse is trained in a riding school.
   • horsemanship.

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[Princess Pooper]

Word Origin and History for ménage
1690s, "management of a household, domestic establishment," from French ménage, from Old French manage "household, family dwelling" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *mansionaticum "household, that which pertains to a house," from Latin mansionem "dwelling" (see mansion ). Now generally used in suggestive borrowed phrase ménage à trois (1891), literally "household of three." Borrowed earlier as mayngnage, maynage and in the sense "members of a household, a man's household" (c.1300); but this was obsolete by c.1500.

Menage a trois........I don't need to say anymore!

If you get the spelling right in your quest for clients those folk who take horsemanship seriously will take you seriously too!

manège
maˈnɛʒ/
noun
noun: manège; plural noun: manèges; noun: manege; plural noun: maneges

1. an enclosed area in which horses and riders are trained.
   • the movements in which a horse is trained in a riding school.
   • horsemanship.

SS

Always annoys me too!