Ah apologies, I misread it. But even so still extortionate.It says £40/week for stabling with grazing and £15/week for just grazing.
Ah apologies, I misread it. But even so still extortionate.It says £40/week for stabling with grazing and £15/week for just grazing.
Horses are bad enough ,throw a few woman in the mix its a disaster
Horses are bad enough ,throw a few woman in the mix its a disaster
You have to be firm and not afraid to confiscate their kit and horse if they don't pay. From what I have seen first hand is horse owners truly believe the world owes them, so if they can't pay, then think it should be free because you feel sorry for them. A local guy to me has the job sorted and what he does is as follows. 60 horses in on grazing deals where by they pay £15/horse/week. For that they get 2 acres but only 1 acre available at any time so the other acre can recover. He has 130 acres down to this permanently fenced into 10 acre paddocks, so in a 10 acre paddock there is only 5 horses if that makes sense and its partitioned off internally with electric fences to create the smaller paddock. He then has 100 acres of wheat and 100 acres of grass he makes haulage off.
There are 40 stables which are charged at £40/horse/week but also include the grazing as above. Water, electricity are also included. But total number of horses is 60. His turnover form this is £1900/week.
They have to buy straw off him for bedding as he will not let them import straw and they can only buy hay/haylage off him. His reasoning for this is purely weed control which he is anal about. They can buy in alternative bedding such as shavings but have to ok it past him first. He charges just under the local average price for straw/hay so that they don't argue with him about the cost.
They buy their own other food and sort their own vet and meds out and have to insure their horse against normal things.
He does everything around the yard such as supply the straw/hay when required and clears the muck heap when full. If somebody does not pay he has been known to sell the horse and equipment to recover the outstanding rent although he does not get many issues as they all know where they stand with him. He's doing all that himself and uses farm contractors for all field operations.
not as many as folks think, here we only have the old and infirm either horse or human, but ,many yards have well over 50% usually because folks have bought the wrong horse and end up stuck with it or wont/cant sell one thats grown out ofOut of interest,what percentage of horses in livery are regularly ridden?
Are horses supposed to be ridden?? Looking at our lot, I think the horses would drop down in shock if someone got on their backs!!!Out of interest,what percentage of horses in livery are regularly ridden?