Am I oversensitive in this?

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Fransurrey

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I just wondered if this was standard practice. I arrived at the yard yesterday to find that my field had been rolled and harrowed - with my horses still in it. Everyone else at the yard happens to work at one place, so it seems that everyone else knows what's happening except me! I just wondered if this was normal - I was a bit peeved, since no-one on that yard has any idea what my horses are like with large tractor, let alone a 16ft harrow and roller behind it!
 
If I could only do paddock work when there are no horses out, then I'd never get it done
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I wouldn't be worried, majority of horses aren't bothered, and I'm sure the tractor driver would've stopped if it was upsetting the horses
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Personally, I'd be dead chuffed if someone came to harrow and roll my paddock
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We use the muck sweeper when the horses are in the field. We do havew the horses off when it gets rolled but only because it also gets fertilised then too.
 
Mines chain harrowed and rolled with the boys in it but the old boy always tells me when he's gonna do it, they went a bit nuts the 1st time but they have been there 18 months now so they are used to it!!
 
I can understand why you would like to have been told but if you had known you probably would have kept him in. At least you now know that he's not bothered about big machines!!
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My field is always done with the horses in it, and no one bothers to tell me first, it did p me off at first, but the horses aren't bothered so I gave up worrying !
 
I wouldn't be happy, but only because the paddocks my horses are in are quite small, and my TB is prone to galloping round, and my WB is very prone to jumping out...
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If the field was a reasonable size I wouldn't mind though.
 
My paddock is done with my horse in it and my horse stands in the middle watching precedings! He particularly likes the round baling machine though, that is his favourite. I fence him off when the rest of my field is topped and he stands in his bit watching in fasination! This was how I got him used to tractors etc to be honest...he is now bomb proof in all heavey traffic.
 
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My paddock is done with my horse in it and my horse stands in the middle watching precedings! He particularly likes the round baling machine though, that is his favourite.

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I empathise with your horse - I find watching farm machinery quite fascinating as well. how sad am I?
 
I always do my paddocks with the liveries horses in them - and my own horses. I have not got time to let everyone know when I am doing the paddocks - I have to grab time when the weather is good and I have time. If I find a horse that doesn't like it I just ignore and slowly continue, the horse always gets over it and just accepts that the machinery doesn't attack. the only problem I have are two horses who would dismantle my tractor if I left it in their field. I got stuck one day and had to ring for help from the tractor as they were circling and starting to try pulling things off.

If a horse doesn't like tractors and machinery it needs to get over it. seeing them in their fields will help solve the problem. If it becomes the norm it is not scarey
 
Yes. But of course it would have been nice if you'd known in advance...

It is excellent "therapy" for the horses. They soon realise that the big scary thing isn't going to eat them, which is very good for them should they meet them out on hacks.
 
Ta for replies everyone. That's pretty much what I was wanting - simply someone telling me that is was in the plans. There are only three owners on the yard, including the girl who manages things, so in this case I don't think it's unreasonable to expect just a text to say 'we're planning to roll/harrow next week' or similar. It is a small paddock, so they would have been quite close to the machinery at various times. There is a spare paddock that I could have put them in to be sure.

I agree that horses and ponies need to be desensitized to these things. I would like to do that when I'm present, though, in case something went wrong.
 
My mare used to follow the tractor around at her first yard, then when we went to the second yard she was the leader so the whole herd followed it round. I think it freaked the poor farmer out tbh
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I think it would have been nice for them to let you know but if the field is bog enough for them to get out the way they prop weren't bothered.
 
I alwaysremove all the animals from the field first before working in it with a tractor so as to avoid an accident. As we all know horses are un-predicatble animals and the last thing anyone wants is an accident.
 
I like to know, so I can restrain my 3yo appropriately. Not because she's scared, but the opposite. I think she is perhaps a reincarnated car thief. The last time a little JCB was in her field (to put in a new trough) she climbed up on the tracks and tried to break in.
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