New website to find temporary grooms to cover holidays and illness
A website has been launched to puts horse owners in touch with recommended horse professionals who can provide mobile livery services.
Mucking Horses Associates (MHA) estimates that 90% of the UK’s horses are stabled in private, non-livery accommodation.
So a significant number of owners are faced with the dilemna of arranging temporary care for their horse.
MHA is designed as a stop gap service, to cover times like holiday, illness, pregnancy or work commitments.
“Only those individuals who can demonstrate competent skills and knowledge in the field of equitation and a positive attitude towards horse welfare are eligible to become associates,” said a spokesman for the company.
A company is also recruiting for mobile livery associates based around the country.
For more information, go to www.mobileliveryassociates.co.uk
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.