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Do it yourself or DIY livery DIY livery is the most popular option, where yard owners provide the grazing and stabling facilities but the horse owner meets all the needs of the horse, including feeding, mucking out, grooming and exercising.
What is part DIY livery?
Do It Yourself (DIY) DIY livery offers horse owners access to stables and facilities, but all aspects of horse care must be undertaken by the horse owner. These yards are rarely managed or staffed, therefore this is often the most cost-effective type of livery.
What is a DIY yard?
DIY livery yard facilities : DIY literally means do-it-yourself and you will be paying to hire a stable and for grass turnout.
What do you need for DIY livery?
At a minimum, you should provide adequate toilets and changing facilities for them, a proper floodlit ménage and access to off-road hacking for their horse. A clean and professional look is also essential. Everything must be well maintained, including adequate fencing and good muck heap management.
What is classed as a livery yard?
At a livery yard, horses are housed and cared for in return for payment but do not belong to the owner of the yard. Health and safety standards for livery yards are set out by the Chartered Institute for Environmental Health ( CIEH ).
What’s the difference between full and part livery?
Full livery – The staff undertake all care of the horse and often exercise or even compete the horse on behalf of the owner. This is normally the most expensive option. Part livery – The horse is normally fed, watered, and the stall or loose box is mucked out (cleaned) on behalf of the owner.
Does DIY livery include bedding?
Livery usualy includes use of field, stable, tack room and all/some of the facilities (if any are available). Sometimes also includes feed, hay and bedding.
Does DIY livery include hay?
Well-Known Member. usually when hay is offered in livery, you should be given the option of a reduction for grass only livery.. so yes the hay should still be included..
Do I need a license to run a livery yard?
What licences does a livery stable need? Livery stables that simply house and care for other people’s horses do not need a licence. But you may need to get a licence if, for example, you offer a working livery arrangement whereby, in return for a reduced livery fee, you: hire out your customers’ horses for hacking.
Is a livery yard profitable?
A decent number of horses and a well run yard can make enough money to give you a salary even after rent, but it is not a route to riches. Remember that every livery space you occupy with your own horses is one less that can be earning you a living.
What do I need to run a livery yard?
Running a livery business will involve substantial overheads, including staff costs, business rates, insurance and property maintenance costs. Depending on your situation you may also have mortgage or rental payments. Day-to-day running costs will include electricity, water and wages.
What insurance do I need for a livery yard?
If you have a commercial livery yard, you need to ensure you are covered for interruption of business due to sickness or other unforeseen circumstances. Furthermore, if you employ staff at your stables, you are required by law to have employers’ liability insurance.
Do you need planning permission for a livery?
Planning permission is required for any permanent equestrian construction including stables, a permanent field shelter, or an arena, and it may even be required to simply keep horses/ponies in a field.
Do livery yard owners have a duty of care or a responsibility?
In a full livery agreement, the yard owner is primarily responsible for the daily care of the horse. Services vary but tend to include feeding, turnout to grazing and bringing in. The yard usually provides feed, hay and bedding. Therefore, the yard must ensure that they are providing good quality food and grazing.
Do you need planning permission to keep horses in a field?
The short answer is yes. Planning permission will be required where there is a ‘material change’ in the use of the land from agriculture to the keeping of horses for leisure purposes. What is agriculture in Planning Law?Feb 14, 2020.
Can you build a menage without planning permission?
Generally, the answer is yes you need full planning permission. This includes ménages, stables and conversion of existing buildings.
What is full working livery?
Working livery the horse was treated as for full livery except the price was halved and the horse used daily in lessons instead. The owner provided tack, many of them had a separate set of tack for the riding school to use. If tack was broken by the riding school, the horse owner had to repair/replace it.
What is the difference between a stable and a livery?
is that stable is a building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses while livery is any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
What does horse livery include?
In addition to providing the horse owner with a stable in which to keep their horse and a field in which to turn their horse out during the day, full livery usually also includes bedding, hay and feed. Some livery yards may include exercising of the horse within their full livery service.
What is livery use?
Livery vehicles are for-hire vehicles that are used by businesses to generate revenue by transporting people. Think taxicabs, limousines, buses, van pools and even hotel shuttles. Shuttles, van pools and buses are also treated like limousines since they operate on a fixed, prearranged schedule as well.
How does a livery work?
Working liveries are usually managed riding stables that offer horse owners a discount in stabling fees in return for allowing their horse to be used in riding lessons. The owner has full access to the horse at all times, but the riding school reserve the right to use the horse for lessons at their leisure.
How much does livery cost UK?
Grass Livery can be expected to cost around of £20-£25 per week. DIY Stabled Livery can be expected to cost roughly £30-£40 per week. A full livery service can cost up to £100-£150 per week. Any extra care of the horse or tasks carried out by staff at the livery yard costs extra.
