Lakeland Livery Yard

02/08/2025

Our own little star at Cockermouth show well done adelynn Laura Taylor

04/07/2025

☀️🥰Don't forgot to get your pony's rugs freshened up for spring 🌤

We offer and rug wash and reproof and a pet bed wash. Drop your rugs and beds off in store and they'll come back nice and clean!! 😆☀️

04/07/2025

*** IT IS A LEGAL REQUIREMENT TO REMOVE RAGWORT FROM ALL LAND USED FOR GRAZING HORSES AND LIVESTOCK ***

I have, once again, been shocked at the amount of ragwort I’ve seen left in paddocks with horses in. Even the most clueless of horse owners can normally tell you that ragwort is poisonous to horses, so why are so many owners not pulling it?!

It is actually an OFFENCE to leave ragwort in any field intended for grazing or hay making, AND an offence to allow it to seed and spread onto neighbouring land, if that neighbouring land is used for the same. That neighbour is within their rights to take LEGAL ACTION against you, if you allow ragwort to flower and seed on your land. I cannot fathom why you wouldn’t want to clear your own paddocks of ragwort, as it is both chronically and acutely POISONOUS to horses. It is absolutely not safe to just assume that horses won’t eat it. There is hardly any grass in any paddocks at the moment, and these are normally the paddocks that you see full of ragwort.

Under the Weeds Act 1959, you can be FINED for leaving ragwort to flower and seed on your land, if it is used for, or adjacent to, grazing livestock.

Don’t be complacent and lazy; pull that ragwort TODAY! We are all caught out by the odd bit of ragwort here and there, that has seemingly appeared overnight, but I’m talking about the crops of the stuff that should have been pulled weeks ago.

25/06/2025

A NEW equestrian area for training racehorses could be built in the Penrith area if planners Westmorland and Furness Council approve the planning…

22/06/2025

Molly Moo and Dants

12/06/2025

07/06/2025