Would you use this livery?

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I've posted before about the riding school that both I and DD go to. It's great for lessons (£20 an hour, well-looked after horses, and experienced instructors.) It also has livery horses/ponies. We've been thinking about getting DD a pony in a few years. However:

1. it has some tiny stables
2. there is very little land. Horses are stabled 24/7 in the winter and only allowed out for a maximum of 4 hours a day during the spring/summer.
3. there's no off-road hacking, and the roads are narrow country-lanes that have quite a lot of traffic.

It's £60 per week, which I believe is for DIY livery. On the plus side, they have 2 indoor and 2 outdoor schools. It's a nice community, people are friendly, and it seems well-run (which I know is not always the case).

Would anyone use a livery like this? I had ponies as a child that lived out all the time & I struggle to imagine how a pony would cope with being cooped up for so long. However, the place is full & there's a waiting list so it's obviously not a problem for some people.

@queenelsie, no, this would be my third horse/pony. I had them as teenagers (I’m now 42) and worked for a local farmer looking after his horses in exchange for free livery. So I have a lot of knowledge and experience of it all, but I’m not so up to date with prices and recent leaps in treatment/feed etc.

I'm in s/west England. Plenty of places round here do assisted livery for less than that and full livery isn't much more. It's extortionate for a place with limited turnout and not much off-road road hacking.

Not a chance.