Facilities: Horse Livery
Livery currently full, please click the link below and send an email to request to be added to the waiting list (updated 29/12/09)
Please note, we do not offer DIY Livery at Eland Lodge, for details of our Full Livery, please email Katy: click Here
Based on an American barn style the livery yard allows a genuine community to develop with the horses under our care. We have 22 boxes, all twelve-foot square, arranged in two rows of eight facing one another and a seperate row of 6. The boxes themselves were supplied new by Bradmores of Nottingham and the specification includes a corner upright hay manger, a rotating feed bucket and an automatic water drinker, some of the boxes have solid partitions while half have a viewing grill so neighbours can have as large a degree of contact as they or their owners wish, in addition, half of the boxes have a window onto the outside of the barn making them especially suitable for horses on box rest, or for those with dust allergies. Additional facilities in the livery barn include a secure tack room, adequate storage space for your essential equipment, rug hanging rails and a well lit wash area for grooming, clipping, plaiting and bathing with hot running water.
In addition to the excellent accommodation, the care the horses receive is of the highest standard. 24 hour supervision 365 days a year is provided by our friendlly, knowledgeable staff for your horses essential routine and your peace of mind. Top quality haylage or hay and shavings are included in the livery, along with the complete range of Sweet Meadow hard feeds and chaffs from Dengie. Feeding plans are developed with the horses owners as well as a livery package tailored to your individual needs to include grooming and exercise of your horse if required.
Our standard horse livery includes:
- A fully rubber matted 12'x12' stable with auto water and shavings bedding
- Hay or Haylage - as little or as much as your horse requires
- Hard feed - 2 per day (supplements not included)
- All turning out and bringing in - at specific times if required
- Rug changes
- Leg wash and feet picking out
- Late night hay/haylage and check
- Use of all facilities on site including priority booking of the school and unlimited use of the Cross Country course
- Holding/bringing in your horse for vet and farrier visits
- Parking for your trailer or horsebox
Extra services that can be added to your standard horse livery to make a tailor made package
- Clipping, trimming, plaiting and show/hunting preparation
- Exercise of your horse from walking in hand following veterinary treatment to schooling/jumping etc
- Grooming and bathing
- Tack cleaning
As a livery client the all weather surface is at your disposal through the booking system, the cross-country course is also available for use with the menage and the hacking resource of the site being fully included in the livery fee. In addition to the training resources we have an extensive list of competitions in the three principle riding disciplines ensuring that the training is tested in the heat of genuine competition. In a developmental sense therefore the site provides a considerable resource.
We would hate to think that the whole site was a seething cauldron of competition and rigorous development, we are committed to enjoyment and if your idea of an ideal mornings or afternoons enjoyment is a quiet hack through some of this nations finest countryside, we would be happy to show you our favourite routes and some of the quiet unspoilt lanes and tracks that bless this part of the world. For the quiet rider, if you know were you are going the sight of Roe and Fallow Dear is a high probability, for those with sharper eyes the pretty little Munkjack are a lovely sight. The opportunity to enjoy this relatively small area of paradise is principally what persuaded us to take on the challenge of Eland Lodge; we can honestly say that although exhausted, we have not been disappointed.