Doormouse
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We have a lovely small yard, nice wooden stables, automatic drinkers, a secure tack room, feed room, storage for hay / bedding, a 60m x 40m school, 10 acres for 7 horses, a small starvation paddock and fabulous hacking. All good so far. We offer good quality small bale hay for £3.50 per bale sold 10 at a time and put into your own pile in the barn, £2.50 for good small bale straw or space for any other type of bedding.
All we ask as far as rules go are that your own bit of the yard is kept tidy, your bit of the tack room,feed room and barn are tidy and that you don't leave straw or hay trailing all over the drive. The muck heap costs to be removed so we try and keep it tidy and squared off so we can get as much as possible. Our land lord is fantastic and is always trying to help us out but he does like thi gs to be tidy so we try and keep everything nice for his sake. We try not to trash the fields and to rest a good chunk of the ground in the winter but we don't stop turnout, just ask that nothing is out 24/7 as we have very wet clay land.
I am at my wits end with 2 of my liveries, they just don't seem to care, they turn up randomly, expect us to feed their horses when they can't be bothered to come, sulk when we refuse or ask for payment and never ever tidy up after themselves. Today was the final straw when one of the liveries mother turned up at 12pm to do a pony that was in and had been done at 3pm the day before, and she started having a go at me that we had moved the fencing, where was she supposed to turn out and that there was no grass in her old field and it was trashed. Had she given me 5 seconds I would have explained where he was going but she annoyed me so much I told her that her field was trashed because she turned the pony out 24/7 regardless of the weather and there was no grass because the pony had eaten it all!!!! And then she started saying that we wouldn't want to loose liveries at the moment as they were hard to come by. Felt very much like a threat to me.
Why can't we just find 2 nice sensible liveries who look after their horses properly and appreciate being in a nice yard.
Or am I just asking too much????
All we ask as far as rules go are that your own bit of the yard is kept tidy, your bit of the tack room,feed room and barn are tidy and that you don't leave straw or hay trailing all over the drive. The muck heap costs to be removed so we try and keep it tidy and squared off so we can get as much as possible. Our land lord is fantastic and is always trying to help us out but he does like thi gs to be tidy so we try and keep everything nice for his sake. We try not to trash the fields and to rest a good chunk of the ground in the winter but we don't stop turnout, just ask that nothing is out 24/7 as we have very wet clay land.
I am at my wits end with 2 of my liveries, they just don't seem to care, they turn up randomly, expect us to feed their horses when they can't be bothered to come, sulk when we refuse or ask for payment and never ever tidy up after themselves. Today was the final straw when one of the liveries mother turned up at 12pm to do a pony that was in and had been done at 3pm the day before, and she started having a go at me that we had moved the fencing, where was she supposed to turn out and that there was no grass in her old field and it was trashed. Had she given me 5 seconds I would have explained where he was going but she annoyed me so much I told her that her field was trashed because she turned the pony out 24/7 regardless of the weather and there was no grass because the pony had eaten it all!!!! And then she started saying that we wouldn't want to loose liveries at the moment as they were hard to come by. Felt very much like a threat to me.
Why can't we just find 2 nice sensible liveries who look after their horses properly and appreciate being in a nice yard.
Or am I just asking too much????
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