Am I overreacting... someone fed my horse and I don't know what.

I'm lost
OP asked if she was over reacting but wanting 'a hell of a meeting'
Many people think yes this is an over reaction
A few people think not
I don't think people should be berated for answering the question that is the very title of this thread based on the information given? I don't see her seeking reassurance I see the blatant and obvious question and a long rant which is of course permitted.
 
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ester said:
I'm lost
OP asked if she was over reacting but wanting 'a hell of a meeting'
Many people think yes this is an over reaction
A few people think not
I don't think people should be berated for answering the question that is the very title of this thread based on the information given?
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I think people think that yes the bucket needs to be discussed, but no not in the way the OP was going to.

Achinghips and Popsdosh then descended into some form of namecalling at some point? That bit has confused me!
 
Damnation said:
I think people think that yes the bucket needs to be discussed, but no not in the way the OP was going to.

Achinghips and Popsdosh then descended into some form of namecalling at some point? That bit has confused me!
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Confused me too! as I had not actually made any comments that could be construed as being off the mark. I think if you read back you can all work out who started making the personal comments .I started by defending others under personal attack obviously its ok for people to do that and not be pulled down for it. I will leave it now as cant do playground politics.

Just for the record there are many ways that bucket could have ended up there IMO for example could one horse have just hung it outside in their mouth and the other one grabbed it ,it happens if their close enough to do that or maybe the one next door chucked it over the partition . We obviously dont know as we dont know the lay out . A simple question to the YO may have answered it .
 
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Confused me too! as I had not actually made any comments that could be construed as being off the mark. I think if you read back you can all work out who started making the personal comments .I started by defending others under personal attack obviously its ok for people to do that and not be pulled down for it. I will leave it now as cant do playground politics.
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We can be confused together!! :D
 
FWIW and getting back to the original issue, I used to have a horse who delighted in chucking his empty feed bowl around. One day we found it 3 stables down - to this day I'm not sure how he got it there but as he had previous, we could only assume that he had hurled it in the perfect arc so it sailed merrily over his neighbours' heads :D
 
My old YM didn't close my old mares stable properly so overnight she got out and ate everyones breakfast which would have been sugar beet, competition mix and god knows what but around 10 horses feed. I only had her on a basic feed so she was very quiet the whole of next day but in the end was fine. I know what a worry it is but just keep an eye on her and I'm sure she'll be ok. Good luck.
 
Glad the horse is OK. Agree the notice is a good idea. Also, if anything else like this happens, remember you'll get a better result from asking calmly rather than going in all guns blazing!
 
Now if we're competing about bad stuff horses have eaten. Years ago our old horse used to break into our feed room. Once he ate quite a lot of unsoaked beet, another time we are pretty sure he shoved his nose into a sack of concrete thinking it was food. Never a sick day that horse :D
 
My Shetland got out of his mini paddock and went walk about in the village he did this a fair bit .
He made his way to a friends house to hang out with her pony who was stabled while he was there he got peckish and ate a whole bag of pony cubes he was only ten hands he was fine how I don't know .
 
two of my ponies broke into my feed room and ate two whole sacks of top spec balancer........ vet warned me not to give them any more for a while because of the selenium levels and I tartly replied that as they had eaten about a year's worth in one go they definitely wouldn't be getting any more for a while! One of the culprits had a bit of previous on scoffing an entire sack of competition mix that he somehow managed to reach when he was turned out in a remote paddock so a feed bin was placed by the gate to save bringing him in to be fed. It should have been well out of reach, but evidently wasn't! Neither episode gave him any trouble and he was still hunting at 31....
 
Op out of all seriousness if it happens again get one of those cheap autonomous surveillance cameras and put it in the box . Im guessing there is a plausible explanation but at least you will know.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
The fact that no-one knows how the bucket got into the wrong stable is the moist worrying part of this, IMO. How will they ensure that it doesn't happen again?

Great news,that she appears unharmed,OP
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Looking at some of the postings, it would appear a few are getting moist whilst hammering away on their keyboards LOL :-)
 
Shadowdancing said:
Well. I'm genuinely shocked at just how nasty people on this forum can be but lesson learmed i guess. I wont be rushing here for advice anytime soon! I don't even know why I bothered stopping in here tbh but I thought some people may be worried. Obviously not all of you .. a good portion might as well stop reading this now...

For those who were kind enough to ask yes thank God she's OK. Staff have pled ignorance; no one seems to know what happened. This is worrying. Co-owners quizzed (so lovely and helpful) and best possible conclusion is: She had a huge feed that should have been given to her neighbour: a very old TB that is a very poor doer and has huge teas with loads of random supplements. My horse barely gets a handful of feed daily. I've been with her most of the day and can only think she was just stupefied with the amount of food she had. All vitals normal was cheerfully passing dung from early stage but never normally lies down in field so we were a bit worried. She was definitely quiet but nothing really speific. Vet is a friend been on standby on phone and supported us. Just dozy..! At least she seems normal tonight. I've had the worst day- so stressful. But she seems OK. I think I have a few more grey hairs myself tho. And of couse work don't treat pets as an emergency so I owe hours... great (call centre for you). But I can't complain. She's alright that's all that matters. Still no straight answer on why or how this happened but I'm chasing it.
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I am so glad she is OK. I haven't read any further, but tbh I would have gone mental and I think people have been very nasty to you on here, sometimes one person says something a bit sharp and lots of others follow on. I hope there are no unpleasant developments in the next however many pages.
 
Clodagh said:
I am so glad she is OK. I haven't read any further, but tbh I would have gone mental and I think people have been very nasty to you on here, sometimes one person says something a bit sharp and lots of others follow on. I hope there are no unpleasant developments in the next however many pages.
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I think people are pretty shocked by how horrified OP was about this and most of us feel she's been very melodromatic. She said its been "the worst day - so stressful" when all that happened was she found an empty bucket in her horses stable. I dont get why all the drama, sorry.
 
Different point of view from me. Firstly to the OP, I am relieved your horse remains healthy.

I assume, always dangerous I know, that the yard the OP keeps her horse on is run by amateurs and occupied by pleasure riders, because if it isn't and there are horses there competing under FEI rules, that sloppy mistake could have ended a competition horse's career for a long time.
 
AdorableAlice said:
Different point of view from me. Firstly to the OP, I am relieved your horse remains healthy.

I assume, always dangerous I know, that the yard the OP keeps her horse on is run by amateurs and occupied by pleasure riders, because if it isn't and there are horses there competing under FEI rules, that sloppy mistake could have ended a competition horse's career for a long time.
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I had a colour system here to control that .
Yellow buckets normal
Red buckets drugged food
Gold bucket competition horse, feed first never use a spoon that's been in a different bucket ,wash bucket first never use water that's been in a different bucket to rinse a gold bucket .
 
Goldenstar said:
I had a colour system here to control that .
Yellow buckets normal
Red buckets drugged food
Gold bucket competition horse, feed first never use a spoon that's been in a different bucket ,wash bucket first never use water that's been in a different bucket to rinse a gold bucket .
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That's a good system. When we had a horse competing under FEI rules I was incredibly careful. Even under national rules it pays to be vigilant. We have a bright pink mixing spatula for use only with feeds with drugs in them and bright red bucket for competition horse's feed.

OP I'm glad your horse is ok. I think it's always sensible to approach any queries into an unknown situation calmly until you have heard any explanations offered. For example in my stables the dividing walls don't go up to the roof and we have had one or two horses who like to fling their buckets around when they've finished eating and inevitably there have been times when buckets have ended up in the neighbours stable.
 
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