At Wilkinsons Farm Livery Yard we offer a friendly, supportive, quiet and peaceful environment which complements our natural approach to horse care. The wellbeing of our horses is of paramount importance to us. You can rest assured knowing that your horse or pony is taken care of to the highest standards by ourselves and our longstanding small team of experienced staff.
Our livery packages are tailored around the 3 “F’s”, essential for the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the horses and ponies. These are freedom, friends & forage. We pride ourselves in offering 24/7 turnout throughout the summer months and daytime turnout throughout the winter months, maximising the time your horse or pony can spend out in the field.
We run several same-sex turnout groups ensuring your horse/pony can fulfil their needs for social interaction and grazing with friends and be able to groom and play. We also have a small number of crofts available for those horses that prefer to be part of a pair rather than in a group. We put a great deal of time and effort into safely introducing new horses to their group and making sure the horses are a ‘good fit’ for one another. We try to make winter as easy and stress free as possible for the horses and humans. We have plenty of options to keep our horses mentally and physically happy and active over the winter period.
We make excellent quality homemade analysed forage, be it through hay and haylage or our well-managed grazing throughout the summer months. We are very careful to only use old fashioned horse friendly grasses when we reseed/overseed and we have virtually eradicated rye grass from the Farm. Our hay is made specifically for horses and is usually suitable for laminitics and the metabolically challenged. We regularly soil sample, use as few chemicals as possible and only fertilise with what the horses produce!
We are very proud of our fabulous facilities. Whether you are young or old, a happy hacker or a competition rider, we have everything you need for you to enjoy your horse and for your horse to be happy at home.
- Spacious stables
- Monarch 5 Horse Walker
- All year turnout. 24/7 during summer, daily turnout winter
- Large, spacious fields and crofts providing well managed pasture with a mix of electric fencing, hedges and post & rail fencing
- Same sex, group herd turnout in large spacious fields and crofts
- Compulsory, well managed yard targeted worming programme, incorporating faecal worm egg counts and equisal saliva tests
- 2 Floodlit All-weather arenas
- Floodlit Round Pen
- 65m x65m grass show jumping arena with a full course of show jumps
- Hot/Cold water shower
- Brew room
- Toilet
- 4.5 miles of private Farm Ride in beautiful countryside with optional cross country jumps, grass gallops and water splash, exclusively for the use of our liveries
- Miles of fabulous hacking direct from the Yard on bridleways and quiet country lanes.
- Box & trailer parking
- Regular visits from industry professionals including instructors, physios, farriers, dentists and vets.
- Regular clinics and dressage competitions for our liveries
- Assistance available 7 days a week
We are pleased to offer two livery packages:
Our livery packages are designed to provide an environment that meets all of the horses and ponies’ natural needs, whilst also meeting the needs of the horse rider/horse owner.
1) We offer a small number of Part-Livery (both 5 and 7 day) where we look after your horse’s daily care.
We only offer a small number of Part Liveries to enable us to provide a very high-quality livery service and can really get to know the horses in our care enabling us to care for their individual needs.
2) Assisted DIY (Do-It-Yourself) livery, where you the owner look after your horse and we are on-hand to assist when you need help on an ad-hoc basis when you cannot manage yourself.
Over the years we have owned and cared for many horses from warmbloods, Irish sports horses, TB’s, Spanish horses, traditional cobs and children’s ponies to name a few.
Our experience has proven time and again that horses and ponies thrive when kept in an environment such as ours.
Our simple approach to equine care ensures the horses natural behaviours are met and this results in relaxed, content, happy horses.
For further information, or to arrange a visit please call on 07933179278 or drop us a message and we will be very happy to help.