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Retirement Livery

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Our retirement livery provides a natural, peaceful and fulfilling environment for our oldies. Our set up resembles the equicentral style of living in that we allow our retirees to live in a herd environment with permanent access to their grazing and large communal barn. Meaning, they can please themselves and wander between their field and barn at their leisure. We  have 2 retirement barns and can take up to 18 horses between them.

 

During the winter months our barns are bedded down with our home produced wheat straw and we provide our own, quality adlib hay & haylage using tombstone feeders. During summer we empty the barns, and our horses are free to graze their well maintained large pasture, whilst also retaining access to their barn should they wish.

 

With regular photos & updates, we aim to provide peace of mind to owners, knowing their old friend is looked after & cared for to the best of our ability. Please note our retirement liveries are all of advanced age so we do not take on turned away/ recuperating younger equines.

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What our retirement livery includes;

• Adlib hay, haylage and straw throughout winter (usually Nov – April)

• All field maintenance including rolling, spraying, fertilising and regular summer harrowing

• A large communal barn bedded down with our home produced wheat straw

• Quality grazing directly & freely accessed from their barn, 24/7, 365 days a year

• Tombstone ring feeders within the barn filled with large bales of our home produced hay and / or haylage during winter

• Deep littered barn, skipped out and bedded down everyday throughout winter

• Twice daily checks, 365 days a year

• All rug changes according to weather and specific to each individual horse, including fly masks

• Provision & administration of fly spray & sun cream, if and when required during summer

• Arranging and attending to the vet, dentist, farrier, genital hygienist and physio (if and when required) Monday - Friday only. NB: farrier visits are compulsory

• Arranging and sorting rugs for washing / reproofing / repairing as & when necessary

• Purchase and collection of routine faecal worm egg counts 3 times a year

• Regular updates with photos and videos

• Owners are welcome to visit whenever they choose

• Use of undercover yard area & wash down facilities

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What our retirement livery DOES NOT include;

• Vet, farrier, dentist, genital hygienist, physio costs

• Worming costs if and when required (including equisal saliva tests which we use twice a year)

• Provision & administration of hard feed

• First aid equipment (to be reimbursed if used from the yard first aid kit)

• Rug washing, reproofing & repair costs

• Mucking out, hay, haylage and straw throughout summer (eg if box rest is required)

• Use of riding facilities such as our indoor arena, grass riding paddock and on farm hacking

• Euthanasia & disposal costs (If the necessary forms are completed, we will arrange and attend to this, if and when required)

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Extras available at additional cost if and when required;

• Grooming

• Bathing

• Mane & tail tidy​

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