Liveries at the Heritage Coast Stud -

The Skepper family have been involved with looking after horses for three direct family generations and the care of the horses has always been of the utmost importance.

"We strive to keep horses in a relaxed and natural environment to encourage them to grow into mature strong horses and keep healthy throughout their life."

We have three main yards each with their own grazing facilities and clearly separated from each other by at least a mile.

Valley Farm Yard & AI Unit-
We have one stallion paddock and associated stabling. Further stabling and three huge recently converted barns for housing horses through the winter. These are incredibly successful for wintering. Each barn has access to paddocks during the day.
We have recently input a new yard of 5 stables that are available for DIY livery.
This is the yard where the AI and Stallion collection unit has been developed.

Onsite live Jane & Piers Marson. map

Main Yard -
Here we have full facilities for training and looking after horses that are convalescing. Our facilities include :-

· Horse walker
· Outdoor all weather school (40m x 20m)
· Indoor lungeing school
· Two Stallion Paddocks
· Two tack rooms (one for liveries)
· Grooming parlour
· Feed shed
· 11 normal sized stables
· 3 extra sized stables
· Separate stabling for stallions if required

Marsh Yard -
This is a lovely yard which was converted in the late 70s. One side consists of three huge stables that are designed for mares and foals and the other side as 6 loddon style boxes. This yard is wonderful for youngstock as it is quiet and idea for weaning foals due to the shape and style of the boxes. From this yard there is direct access to fields of over 60 acres in size.

We have two further stabling units at the main house at the Stud. These consist of six stables that turn into two foaling boxes with a double box next door. Both units have a small paddock for newborns which opens onto a bigger paddock near the house. These boxes are kept for the mares foaling down.

We have a team of farriers who are excellent with youngstock and remedial farriery who visit the stud every two weeks.

Worming -
We operate a very strict worming policy and all the paddocks are cross grazed with sheep. Due to the huge acreage we have we are able to rest paddocks properly.

The Stud has one access to each of the areas: Valley Farm and the main stud (at Heritage Coast Stud) which provides us with excellent security and we have family members living on both sites.

Veterinary Work -
All our veterinary work is carried out by Paton & Lee who are an equine only practice.

Staffing -
We have full time staff in the family and one full time Head Girll and various part time staff as required.

Rates -
We take in both short and long term liveries. Our rates vary according to the individual requirements but the basic rates are:

We offer specialised facilities to cater for horse that require livery for convalescing from injury or illness. For more please click here

Note - All fees such as farriery, worming & veterinary are not included in the livery fee.

For our Terms and Conditions click here

For references please jane@hcstud.com