Valley Farm Natural Livery

15/01/2026

Extra grass day today.
We strip graze across our winter field so that the horses have new grass to eat throughout winter. Generally we extend the grazing once a week but it's weather dependent as we don't extend after a hard frost or heavy rain, so sometimes it's sooner or later than that.
With hay supplies being limited across the country this year it's a relief to know we've got grass left

01/03/2024

Welcome to spring, what a delightful day it is!
At least the horses have access to forage, freedom and friends in their open barn where they can shelter from the weather.

17/02/2024

We've got one space available for a pony to join us at our holistic, high welfare livery yard.

We offer much more than grass livery.
🌟24/7 turnout with a large barn and yard area so there's always a dry place to stand to get out of the rain.
🌟Hay is available in the yard all year round
🌟 Large riding arena, 1100sqm (standard 40x20m is 800sqm)
🌟 Access to good hacking routes
🌟 Small yard, no more than 6 horses in total
🌟 Your own stable
🌟 Personal, large storage space
🌟 Covered area for vet and farrier visits

We have a lovely mixed herd who are very well settled here and enjoy the freedom to be in the field or in the yard as they choose. This is the first time we have a space in the 2 years since we opened, and only have a space now as someone is moving away.

Options for part livery (we do all the poo picking) at £420pcm or DIY (owner does 8 barrows of poo picking a week) at £360pcm

03/02/2024

1 space available for a pony up to 13.2hh (barefoot or front shoes only)
⭐️24/7 turnout with a communal barn and hard-standing area, and track leading to the fields
⭐️Meadow hay, bedding and water provided in the barn and yard area
⭐️All poo-picking done, so no need for any stable chores
⭐️Maximum of six horses
⭐️Individual stables available for convalescence, or tacking up, grooming, vet visits etc
⭐️Large individual and lockable storage spaces
⭐️Large outdoor arena
⭐️Good hacking
⭐️Owners live on-site
⭐️ £410 pcm

Valley Farm, Oldham Road, Ashton, OL7 9RS

17/01/2024

The horses are enjoying being out in the field this morning.
You can really see where the grass is longer, as they haven't had access to that part yet.

09/01/2024

Fence moving day! The recent dry weather and strong winds has meant the winter field has dried out beautifully.
The horses spent a couple of hours in the grass then chose to bring themselves up to the barn for a snooze

28/11/2023

I love what my friends over at Home Farm Holistic Livery offer. If you're on my waiting list and are within reach of Mottram, Tameside I'd recommend you check them out.

Happy horses today in the morning sun. The rest of the herd is munching in the field.
We have one space available for a barefoot horse or pony under 16h.

22/11/2023

New grass day

12/11/2023

Absolutely this, we're not a first come first served yard either as it's important that all the horses get on with each other as well as all the humans.

You know you've got it right when you turn up to the yard on a Saturday morning to find the majority of your liveries cars parked in the car park, enjoying their horses on this beautiful day, and there's not one of them you don't look forward to seeing!

This farm is not just my workplace, it's my family home, my dream, my hobby place, the place my heart horse lives, the place I had my first dance on my wedding day, where we host Christmas and family and friends parties and celebrations, and the host of so many more memories to come.

It's so important to me that I pick the right humans to share this space with, which is why when we have livery spaces it is never first come first served. The right horses and humans are paramount to anything and I want to protect the peaceful, friendly atmosphere I have and keep it that way.

I've got it so wrong in the past. And never again.

A word of advice to livery owners, if you show somebody around and your gut says no, for whatever reason or no reason at all, listen to it. And if you have someone on your yard that fills you with dread when their car pulls up, it's time to say goodbye. I had a livery who bullied and manipulated me so badly in the past that I almost closed. Thank God I didn't.

Happy Saturday everyone 🌞

11/11/2023

Lovely to see the ponies out enjoying the grass, with a beautiful sky overhead