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Abbotts View Livery: Barefoot and Back to Nature Abbotts View Livery is a Track System boarding facility also offering consultancy, run by the author of Horse Track Systems. www.abbottsviewlivery.co.uk

Based in Aston Abbotts Buckinghamshire, UK. Please see our website, or contact me for more information.

Newbie Ellie sampling the water buffets 😍
20/09/2025

Newbie Ellie sampling the water buffets 😍

Gelding space at highly HIGHLY recommended track livery in Leeds 😍
19/09/2025

Gelding space at highly HIGHLY recommended track livery in Leeds 😍

Ellie and Oscar's first full day on track on Tuesday!After careful introductions, Ellie and Oscar spent their first day ...
19/09/2025

Ellie and Oscar's first full day on track on Tuesday!

After careful introductions, Ellie and Oscar spent their first day on track with the herd.

They were both in their element! Sometimes being over the fence for longer makes a huge world of difference and it's like they've always been part of the herd.

Fast forward to today and they're now about to spend their 2nd night on track, and are are officially integrated members of our mostly mares herd 🐴❤️🥹

My beautiful Buck with his fresh autumn clip 😍Also cracking up at my shadow, waving a nettle cube treat at him trying to...
18/09/2025

My beautiful Buck with his fresh autumn clip 😍

Also cracking up at my shadow, waving a nettle cube treat at him trying to get his attention 😂😂

Beautiful Vita is so tall she makes my twin wheelbarrow look tiny 😂😂 any guesses what she weighs?She's a 16.3hh (I think...
17/09/2025

Beautiful Vita is so tall she makes my twin wheelbarrow look tiny 😂😂 any guesses what she weighs?

She's a 16.3hh (I think) German warmblood.

Isn't she beautiful 😍

New boy Oscar and lovely Willow ❤️
17/09/2025

New boy Oscar and lovely Willow ❤️

Field introductions with newbies Ellie and Oscar on Monday.We like to use a big open space where possible for introducti...
17/09/2025

Field introductions with newbies Ellie and Oscar on Monday.

We like to use a big open space where possible for introductions to reduce the risk of injury. It's also good to use a neutral space for initial meetings like this, so no one feels protective of their territory.

Ellie and Oscar have met everyone individually, then in groups, then eventually the whole herd all at once. We repeat each step as many times as needed depending on what we observe, and they only last 30-60 mins and always end on a good note.

I explain our introduction process on detail in my best selling book Horse Track Systems:

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Top picture: Wild horses grazingBottom picture: Domesticated horse grazingWhat's the difference? #1 THE GRASS ITSELF In ...
15/09/2025

Top picture: Wild horses grazing

Bottom picture: Domesticated horse grazing

What's the difference?

#1 THE GRASS ITSELF

In the top picture the grassland is long, stalky and sparse and low in sugar.

In the bottom picture the grass is shorter, greener, higher in sugar and starch and overseeded with higher sugar and starch grasses.

#2 MOVEMENT

In the top picture horses travel miles per day between resources.

In the bottom picture horses go into a small paddock and then a stable resulting in very limited movement.

#3 HERD MEMBERS

In the top picture the horses live in a herd.

In the bottom picture the horse is turned out alone. As is common practice.

#4 TERRAIN

In the top picture the horses travel over varied terrain during their miles of travel. Stimulating their hooves and creating natural wear.

In the bottom picture the horse only travels from field to stable on soft ground and is traditionally shod, restricting the expansion of the hoof to absorb impact and blocking any conditioning over terrain.

NATURAL HORSE VS DOMESTICATED HORSE

Physically, mentally and emotionally? No difference.

And we wonder why horses don't thrive on traditional keeping?

This is why we have health conditions such as laminitis, EMS, obesity, colic etc, and diagnosis' that are better managed on track such as Cushings or arthritis that are commonly a struggle to manage on traditional set ups. Also, behavioural conditions such as weaving, cribbing, box walking, being difficult to handle, explosive, rearing/bucking etc under saddle and in hand are all caused by either/and, incorrect or limited turnout, high sugar feed/forage and a lack of herd turnout.

This. is. why.

*Both images are from Google images and I do not own them.

Cracker had the wind up his butt this afternoon 😂😂
15/09/2025

Cracker had the wind up his butt this afternoon 😂😂

Mine and young Arrow's second session with Rosca Horsemanship today. Learning lots, and really enjoying them! Arrows the...
14/09/2025

Mine and young Arrow's second session with Rosca Horsemanship today.

Learning lots, and really enjoying them!

Arrows the most challenging, and probably the most intelligent, youngster I've brought on and having Ross there to guide me has been a game changer. I didn't quite realise what I was getting into with a Spanish Mustang, that's for sure 😂 but I know he'll be my greatest teacher.

I'm so pleased to have this support from Ross going forward into Arrow's baby steps towards being a ridden horse in the distant future 🥰

He's 4 years and 4 months old but physically and mentally he's still such a baby. I can't believe people ride horses at 4 let alone younger. It's got to stop. 😔 Waiting a few more years and spending those years doing gentle training on emotional regulation, basic handling, introductions to tack, in hand hacks, even leaning over them when they're old enough and holding light amounts of weight, sets your horse up for life and is so beneficial. It gives your horse to time to grow and mature without the detrimental effects, physically and mentally, of carrying weight and being ridden or lunged heavily, too young.

2-3 extra years not riding is nothing in a 15-20 year ridden life.
And backing too young can make the ridden life span much much shorter.

A Saphy in the middle 💖
14/09/2025

A Saphy in the middle 💖

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Our Story

Abbotts View Livery is a combined track and equi-central system hybrid that allows your horse to live out in a herd 24/7 all year round, with free choice and careful management of grass intake. We offer part, full and retirement livery packages.

The 'traditional' way of keeping horses (shod, stabled and turned out onto lush grass) that has been performed for many years needs addressing. For some horses, this system ‘works’, but for most, this has big and negative impacts on their health and well-being (think obesity, boredom, weaving, wind sucking, pacing, door kicking, and other stress related behaviours). We need a way of keeping horses that provides more turn-out, decreased behavioural problems, more movement and better management of the high sugar and starch grasses of England that are detrimental to the health of the majority of todays horses (think EMS, Laminitis, obesity, cushings). Being able to keep horses living out 24/7, year round, whilst still managing grass intake and your horses mental and physical well-being is a huge task, wether your horse is retired or in full ridden work. A track system is a new and exciting way of keeping horses that provides all of these things, and I believe, is the key to having mentally and physically healthier horses.

So after a lots of research, budgeting, planning and dreaming my vision of running a yard came to fruition! I feel so excited to be able to create a livery environment that I dreamed about for me and my horses, and I'd love to share it with you and your equine partner. My mission is to create a livery yard for like-minded people where their horses are free to express their natural behaviours and is a place of retreat, where people challenge themselves to build on their relationships with their horses and offer encouragement, guidance and support to one another

Please see our website, or contact Amy for more information www.abbottsviewlivery.co.uk