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Our yard can be very bitchy at times especially know YO is ill and hardly ever up there and now have a queen b trying to rule everyone with her young daughter following in her footsteps.

Yesterday Daisy Mae and my friends foal was delievered and were put in same stable to calm down together. Knowing they were quite happy together had left them with my friend whilst popped down to have mares and foals delievered in field. I came back to find Daisy Mae running around crazy being hounded by many men who YO husband knew. Apparently they had decided to seperate them without me being there and she had paniced and jumped over stable door. Will admit am to blame for her jumping over door because never had heard of a foal jumping stable door before, has sorted that all out now. Im so annoyed with all the men who bullyed her into the stable. I know its the old fashioned way of sorting foals out but these men had took over her and kept pushing me out the way when i told them to let me calm her down. They put headcollar on her when she was in barn and she was rearing up and kept wacking her head of the roof! Then he battled with her on the grass basically knocking her to the floor before she broke the rope and ran back off. In the end they finally led pony into stable with Daisy and she was calm going into stable.

Im just rather upset at the moment because of the way they handled her yesterday without my permission. Also last night with having so many young kid on yard had put a sign up just asking not to feed or over crowd Daisy Mae and my friends foal. Today have had YO husband basically ball at me right infront of my face. Apparently putting that sign up has offended everyone on yard and has basically thrown all there help back into there faces. Slighty confused about that as i werent there and they decided to unsettle her.

I really need to keep a sign on the door though because cant afford for kids to go in and scare her and she ends up getting loose again. Feel rather annoyed and stressed at the moment about it all. If anyone can help me with any suggestions about what to put on sign would be very thankful.
 
i would be very p*ssed off if anyone tried to seperate ponies of mine. Obviously they were left together for a reason!

unfortunalty cant think of what to put on the sign. Maybe something like thank you for taking an intrest in my pony but please for your own safety, come and see me if you would like to see or feed her
 
I would have gone mad if anyone ever tried to handle any of my horses with out good reason (i.e. they were hurt) or my permission! Personally I would say sod it to the sign and simply move yards!
 
Im passed p*ssed of to be honest! Problem is there isnt many yards which will let you have a field for breeding and keep horses in stables.

Have decided to start looking for land which can put on stable block because have had enough now. I was so scared for her luckily she only got a few little cuts on her head but he really shouldnt have done that.

Problem is i dont want to annoy the man because he will kick me off yard and havent got any where to move to yet. At least the sign keeps unwanted kids away from her.
 

I would be utterly livid - but it can be a problem keeping foals on livery yards. Not ideal in my opinion (and I do it myself).

I would look for somewhere else. Either a smaller yard that is managed well, or your own land.

If you do decide to stay - can you have a word with your YO/YO's husband, away from the stables & non confrontationally.
 
i would be incandescent with rage, how dare they
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I too would be livid, especially as there was no need to interfere with them! Would word sign as "Weaning in progress, NO Entry please! Or something to that effect! Hope it all settles down soon an the babies are fine! Are you on a yard that has many babies?
 
I wondered why we hadnt heard from you yet I can understand you must be very upset.

What wording did you use on your sign> You would be surprised at how easily innocent wording can offend but then I guess you wouldnt as you have now experienced it. Is this the first time she has been separated from her dam?
It can be very traumatic perhaps if you posted on the breeding site you could get some feedback on separating and managing youngsters.

If you are worried the YO will get a strop on maybe you should ask him for some advice. Ie feed his ego if you can get them on your side they would probably keep the kids away for you.
 
Amy I can only agree with what everybody else has said.....I would go and have a quiet chat with YO & her husband and say that you didnt realise that the sign would offend anybody and could they offer you some assistance, because as they will know that it is very traumatic when a foal is first seperated from its Dam and also it is her 1st time in a stable and that you wouldnt want anybody on the yard to get hurt should they scare her and she escape again. But realistically I think that you need your own place especially if you are getting the older colt you talked about as kids will be kids and stallions can be dangerous so I wouldnt want to have a breeding herd in a field where teenagers/children had easy access...you know where I am if I can help or lend an ear. keep your chin up and post me some pics!
 
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