Burton Grange Equestrian

21/12/2024

We made it! 🥳
Happy Winter Solstice everyone! ❄
Here's to longer days coming and spring just around the corner 🌻🌷🌱

03/12/2024

This was literally my entire childhood! So many happy memories at the local riding school. ❤🐴❤

🫶THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF LIVERY YARDS

Riding your ponies bare back in from the fields. Without a hat.

Putting up a ‘Riding is at Your Own Risk’ sign and that sufficed.

Being dropped off at the yard first thing in the morning and not being picked up until the evening.

Only having a handful of feed options and ‘supplements’ consisted of vegetable oil, salt or garlic.

You filled your livery spaces with postcard sized signs in the local tack shop.

Livery contracts were just a vague verbal agreement.

Horses only had two rugs- a stable rug and a turnout rug. Maybe a string cooler if they were lucky.

The dedicated kids with ponies who had to catch two buses after school just to get to the yard.

Liveries had to speak to yard owners in person or ring the landline at reasonable hours.

The sum total of biosecurity was worming your horse.

Everyone wore Harry Hall jodhpurs bought from the local tack store.

Unsupervised child labour was totally acceptable and everyone mucked in.

The Robinsons catalogue was every horse owners version of Argos.

People just loved spending time with their horses.

The local farmers would be happy for you to gallop in their stubble fields once the crop was cut.

Lunch on the yard was a cup-a-soup or a pot noodle in the grubby tea room.

The kids would take over the arena at the weekend playing chase-me-charlie or gymkhana games.

If you have your horse it’s feed or water in a Tub Trug you were cutting edge.

Bedding options were straw or shavings.

Oil drums for jumps were the norm. Jump wings were for the professionals.

Our version of social media was writing on the white board.

Most horse owners generally only had a saddle, bridle and grooming kit on the yard.

Everything could be fixed with a poultice or purple spray.

If you fell off, you got up, dusted yourself off and got back on.

You could ride out or be at the yard for hours without needing to worry about your mobile signal.

- 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵

29/11/2024

Perfect timed post from our local equine vet practice, following on from our last video showing some of our retirees enjoying the snow ❄ All outside, fluffy and naked despite having a barn bedded down with cosy straw and 3 feeders full of haylage!
No rugs. All ouside, warm & happy!

Fight the temptation to over rug your horse in the cold weather!

While the temperatures have started to drop this last week, don’t be tempted to pull out all those heavyweight rugs!

Your horse can thermoregulate to much lower temperatures than us so to decide what rug (if any!) to put on your horse, look at the weather conditions instead! The prolonged wind and rain on your horses’ back are what makes them cold not the ambient temperature, so while it is dry and sunny outside (and when stabled), you can keep the rugs lighter or off completely…. even for clipped horses!

While we were all traditionally taught to feel your horses’ ears for their warmth, this isn’t an accurate picture of their temperature (the same as your little finger can be cold but your body is warm). To assess their warmth, place the back of your hand on your horses’ neck, mid abdomen and hindquarters and if these are warm your horse is warm enough! Your horse generates heat by eating, so even out in the field if they are eating they will be generating their own heat source so will be hotter than you think…. if you don’t believe us, go assess their temperature while they are out in the field too!

Not only can over rugging be detrimental in the long term for those needing the winter to help them lose weight, but a horse that is too hot can develop skin infections from the build-up of sweat and heat, and in some cases can colic from overheating!

Our vets are horse owners too so are excellent people to discuss your rugs with. We are always happy to help, so if you have any queries about your horse, speak to one of our vets or call the office.

29/11/2024

Freelancer wanted for holiday cover for a few days mid December. Mucking out 6 boxes only. Days and times flexible. Please get in touch to discuss further.

24/11/2024

🎅🎅 Are you Looking for the perfect xmas gift for your horse? 🎅🎅
Then look no further! We've got everything your horse could want!
🎅 Play time every day, with nice friends, in large, spacious fields
☃️ Large, airy, undercover stables with automatic waters rubber matting & big, deep, full straw beds, perfect for snuggling into on a cold winters night
🎄 We use haybars full to the brim with quality home produced hay or haylage.

We also have some fabulous facilities for our owners to enjoy, so treat yourself and your horse & join us at BGE.
We have 1 stable available right now!

18/11/2024

Selling on behalf of a client:
Beautiful Ideal saddle company Jessica Dressage saddle. Black. 17.5 inches. Medium Wide. One careful owner, very good condition. No damage. £400 ONO. Collection only from Helperby

07/11/2024

1 space available now on full livery.

02/11/2024

And just like that our winter routine is here. What a calm and relaxed end to a busy week prepping for today.
Stables ready ✔
Horses first night in ✔
Classic FM on ✔
No bonfire night stress here, just chilled out horses munching their hay!

20/10/2024

16/10/2024

A big thank you 👏 to Yorkshire Sharpening & Supplies for their fantastic mobile clipper blade sharpening at BGE this morning! Im now all set & ready for clipping to begin! 🐴

26/09/2024

👀 Looking for livery? 👀
We have 1 stable coming available shortly for Full Livery
✅ Daily turnout throughout winter, 24/7 in summer
✅ Same s*x herd turnout
✅ 5 🌟 , 7 day care
✅ Excellent facilities, including a silica sand indoor arena with mirrors
DM to arrange a viewing

22/09/2024

❗UPDATE: Position now filled❗
✴ Groom wanted, Sundays 1-5pm ✴

For general yard work with no riding, 4hr shift, 1-5pm every Sunday.

Applicants must;
✅ have previous experience
✅ be over 16yrs old
✅ be reliable & work to a high standard

Very good rate of pay.
To start November for approx 6 months
Please send your CV to [email protected]

06/09/2024

✴ UPDATE: Positions now filled ✴
❗❗ WANTED ❗❗
We are looking for 3 part time, seasonal freelancers for general yard work on our small, friendly livery yard.
Days & hours needed from Nov:
Mon - Fri - 1-5pm
Sat & Sun - 08:30 - 12:30
Sat & Sun - 1-5pm
Days & hours flexible, to include mucking out, bedding down, haying up (into haybars), bringing in / turning out horses, changing rugs and feeding. No haynets, no riding, no poo picking & no filling waters (everything is automatic). Excellent rate of pay. Applicants must
✅ have good time keeping,
✅ be reliable & hard working
✅ have previous experience.
To work as part of a team, sharing the daily yard work. Please DM to discuss further.

23/08/2024

That's all of our quality, home produced straw in, ready for winter! 🌾👍
We're old school here at BGE, loving our big banks and thick, deep straw beds for our 🦄 ❤

20/08/2024

What a gorgeous picture 😍 taken by one of our liveries during her evening hack out on the farm today! 💗🐴🌈☀️
I wonder if she found a pot of gold?! 😉🤩