Am I a terrible YO ?

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Hi will be as brief as poss. I have a small yard a field away from my house and yard that i use for livery. Nice large wooden boxes, loads of storage, unlimited use of outdoor school, free lorry/trailer parking etc we charge £60 month. Only seven horses no grass liveries, as noone only has one horse they have two fields each approx 3.5 acres each but it is clay so we have to be careful in Wet weather. One horse will not stay put unless other persons horse is out in next field it has broke post and rail, electric fence wrecked field and worst got in with my horse and kicked s**t out of him. The owners think if theirs escapes everyone else should leave theirs in because their horse cant possibly have a day in if others are in for farrier / bad weather etc. Am ready to SCREAM ! Is it me or as their horse is the problem should they make the effort to fit in with the others.We are normally a nice friendly quiet yard- honest!!!!!! soz its long
 
Your the YO, you make the rules......I would quite clearly think they have the problem.....if I was at your Yard an owner like that would p*ss me right off...if I keep my horse in, for what ever reason,then that's my business,and would not be expected to turn my horse out to keep it company so that it does not use another horse as a punch bag,or treat the field as a race course,or tear up the fence.....we all know horse's need company so why stick it out on it's own.....pathetic!
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that would annoy me so much i would either ask them to leave or pay for the damages, my mare used to escape at our old yard and i tried everything to keep her in mind you she didnt break anything she did get into the barn and eat hay which we replaced
 
Feeling better already! I am going to speak to them tomorrow and explain in words of one syllable that its becomming a problem. my other two liveries have been here years and we all live in peace work with each other etc so i just feel like a major nag atm. ps if either of you ever need livery you sound very sensible!
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I do sympathise, been there and done it!
My bugbear was a Highland which thought it was great fun to walk through any fence, electrified or not if it wanted to be somewhere it shouldn't be, even though it had good company in it's own field, it wasn't lonely, just a bargy bast***d!. The crunch came when it smashed three enormous holes in an up until then, very strong thick hedge which bordered ours and neighbours land and left great clod hopping hoof marks all over a newly seeded field! Two of those holes were where it decided it wanted to come back in to our field! I would have shot it myself, instead the owner had the ultimatum of either paying for the repairs and supplying extra electric fencing (none of the others even thought about going anywhere near the fence so I didn't see why I should supply it; the fence in normal circumstances was more than strong enough and fit for purpose but it wasn't intended to keep in a tank!) and also grovelling to neighbour which we had already had to do on her behalf. She asked if we could use barbed wire in future to keep him in? After I landed back down to earth I sweetly suggested she found somewhere else for it asap and I was never so glad to see something go ever before. Where it went, they cussed me for sending it (which I hadn't!) and did fence it in with barbed and electric wire; it still walked through the lot; last I heard it had walked out in front of a car, caused no end of damage but walked away unscathed! That did need shooting, sounds like this one does as well!
You can either start billing them for vet fees and repairs (and time to repair any damage) or insist it stays in unless they are there to keep an eye on it which isn't ideal for the horse but might stop a war starting! It sounds like it can't be left alone, can't they buy a Shitland to keep it company or something?

I feel for you; if it happened here again (very unlikely, only have a friend's horses now) I would have no hesitation in asking them to move; it really isn't worth the hassle for either your other liveries, your own horses or yourself.
Good luck in sorting it out without murdering somebody!
 
Bargy B**s***D- UM that sounds familiar! Worst thing is they have a pony that has been with it for six years ! it just doesnt care that it is out with its mate it pairs up with something else. Have just notice you're Wynnastay could i PM re a pony we have thats supposed to have hunted there for years?
 
oh god the fun of running a yard !!

i had one a couple of weeks ago that through a huge strop as her horse came in with a little rip in its rug and of course my mare must of done it (ok she had ripped one of her other rugs) when i saw the rip i went nuts it was about an 1/4 of an inch long - then found out that all the mares had been over the fence with the boys - it probably ripped its rug on the fence !!

she demanded it had a field of its own - i proceeded to laugh (dont get me wrong if it had been beaten up we would of moved it) then told her no as there was a perfectly good field for her hrose to go in and if she didnt like it to find somewhere else !! she left it in its stable all day - it cantered round and round getting all sweaty but i had no where to put anyway !! once she realised her demands were unrealistic it was to late she turned the horse back out in the field and i gave her a months notice (and asked her politely to leave before that if she could - with no extra charge)

Lets just say she left last sunday !!!
 
God lov em ! The other regular occurance is the field they are currently in requires a 2/3 min walk through another(empty) field and any excuse eg my horse has been in this morning or shes got inyo the wrong field they keep asking "can we put them in our other field?" which ajoins the yard- pure coincidence of course! they wil be the first to complain there isnt any grass when they have to go in this field as i explain for the hundreth time its being rested FOR THEIR USE !
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Flipping heck £60 per month I would be apologising profusely and either repairing any damage or paying for it to be repaired, not demanding that everyone else worked round my reprobate horse. Might ask that if others were being brought in if mine could be dragged in too, so it didn't cause a problem (if others were happy to do this).
 
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Hi will be as brief as poss. I have a small yard a field away from my house and yard that i use for livery. Nice large wooden boxes, loads of storage, unlimited use of outdoor school, free lorry/trailer parking etc we charge £60 month. Only seven horses no grass liveries, as noone only has one horse they have two fields each approx 3.5 acres each but it is clay so we have to be careful in Wet weather. One horse will not stay put unless other persons horse is out in next field it has broke post and rail, electric fence wrecked field and worst got in with my horse and kicked s**t out of him. The owners think if theirs escapes everyone else should leave theirs in because their horse cant possibly have a day in if others are in for farrier / bad weather etc. Am ready to SCREAM ! Is it me or as their horse is the problem should they make the effort to fit in with the others.We are normally a nice friendly quiet yard- honest!!!!!! soz its long

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Jeez, I pay that for a field and a stable, no facilities whatsoever!!!

Some people want the earth unfortunately
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It isnt a prob with not coming in with others its that if others stay in her mare will not stay in field even though its with their pony who its been with for years and they do not think they should leave her in. Had the last laugh today though as the mare has been a little tucked up lately and was apparently strange when ridden nappy etc i told them it was probably cold and might have had colic its also been a bit runny but they thought i was being OTT.Any way they had the Vet for jabs and he told them due to the weather and lack of rugs she'd probably been colicky and keeping her off the frost and rugging her was the right thing to do! he is also my vet i knew he'd say the same but cant help feeling a little smug
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After they had the day in she turned them onto the yard and the b****y horse kicked a hole in one of the stable doors i have polited suggested she could manage the 30 second walk to the school and put them in there for an hour in future!Have also put my foot down and said on the rare occassions the horse she loves has to stay in, that hers will have to be in too! cue grumpy faces! I just hate the fact i constantly have to "nag" as normally we all just work with each other and my othre liveries are great!And yes may well have vacancies soon!!! but i have to say the price does reflect the fact we are on clay and when its wet its wet although i mange by being sensible .All normal happy owners welcome!
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A friend of mine owns a livery yard, diy, she charges £25.00 per wk which includes good hay and straw, use of small indoor school, excellent off road hacking and will turn out/in if you wish. she had a livery there who was never happy she would go off for a week or so, and yo would do her horse for her, she would give yo a bottle of wine for doing it!! thats really going to pay the bills.. then in the summer she said she couldnt afford the livery and could her horse live out, so yo sorts out a field for her, buys a load more electric fence, puts one of her own horses out for company with her mare, and she is now charging her £8.00 per wk! girl still not happy as yo left her horse out in rain, and hadnt brought her in.. the list goes on, well this girl eventually leaves because she says the yo is not giving her horse enough attention. YO was actually quite upset, as she had bent over backwards for this person, i told her thank god she has gone, because she certainly wont get services like that anywhere else, when YO confronted her and said how much she had done to help, eg looked after her horse basically for nothing girl says 'well i gave you a bottle of wine' its totally unbelievable really, what people expect.
 
I would give the livery notice to leave OP. Sorry but sounds like you had a great set up there with two nice liveries before this third one came along and disrupted the apple cart. Your yard sounds lovely and I'm sure there are loads more people out there who would love to be at your yard AND would be suitable liveries for you.
 
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