Livery Yards

Winter can be a tricky time for horse and yard owners, with shorter days, wetter weather, and less time to ride. Being prepared for the winter months in your yard can make these times easier, to plan ahead for seasonal eventualities and to make sure winter is an enjoyable time for all!

To run a successful and viable business, yard owners should be constantly looking to develop and evolve their businesses. With fierce competition to fill vacancies and find clients, being able to take additional training for yourself or your staff can allow you to provide dedicated services outside of standard livery packages, and can help you stand out from the crowd.   Over recent years the livery packages available have developed from basic DIY, Part and Full to the huge deve...

Off the back of both the cost of living crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, many horse owners are tightening their belts and downgrading their livery packages. Whilst previously there was a huge demand for serviced livery packages such as Part Livery and Full Livery, yard owners are now finding it harder to fill these vacancies and are instead finding a much higher demand for Grass Livery, DIY and Assisted DIY on the basis that they are of less cost to the horse owner. But are you truly better off...

Across all industries, prices are increasing, and the equestrian industry is no different. Soaring costs for yard owners are resulting in huge difficulties for them and their clients in terms of the sustainability of running their yard or keeping their equines.   A recent investigation from SEIB Insurance Brokers confirmed this with a pair of nationwide surveys finding out how these increasing costs are affecting yard owners and their clients. The surveys confirmed that yard owners ...

What’s in a livery package? Once upon a time, finding livery for your horse was a simple affair. You either wanted to own a horse and look after it yourself, or own a horse and have somebody else look after it for you on a day-to-day basis. How things have changed!   There is now a plethora of livery types growing in number year-on-year to cater for the specific requirements of horse owners and horses across the UK, all devised from differing demands of horse owners in the...

As a yard owner and at a time when the cost of running a business is increasing, it is important that you put changes in place to make sure that these are reflected in the costs of your services for your clients, yet many yard owners are unsure how to deal with what is often deemed a delicate situation.   Bills - particularly electricity and fuel- have been increasing rapidly in recent weeks with many yard owners finding that this is directly affecting the running costs of their equ...