And one more...what annoys you most about the other liveries?

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For me it is when people fill up a barrow and then leave it sitting on the yard for hours while they do other things. WHY how does that save you any time? It just stops other people form mucking out! The other one is people who muck out one barrow full and empty it and then come and say "oh can I just put these last few bits in your barrow" and then proceed to put 4 or 5 fork loads in my barrow so I have to do 2 trips to the muckheap!
Oh and 1 more when you make a drink everyone expects you to make one for them too, although no one ever makes you one in return!

Phew happy to get that lot off my chest!
 
Lying!!! Just found out a lie this girl who exercised chloe had been telling me....no wonder my horse acted like a nutcase everytime I got on the xc course with her...
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I don't know about that.

Thought of some more though, other people who don't poo pick the fields so those of us who do have to do twice as much and people who don't check the water in the fields so if there is ever a day I don't check it for any reason chances are there is none there.
 
I am the only one that harrows the menage for YO (for free), only 2 out of 7 owners poo pick the fields, and my stuff gets borrowed without any sign of a "thank you" ever. Also people have been helping themselves to my feed as they have none in....... You are not on your own....winge over too!!!
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I dont have them any more thank god, but for me it used to be using my things without asking, I will never get over the time when one woman hacked out in my jumping saddle because she had left hers at home, she had a big fat cob and I had a skinny TB, I dont know who I felt worst for, her fat cob or my beautiful saddle...
Not sweeping up, I used to spend my spare time sweeping up after liveries.
And not respecting ground- cantering up private fields in mid winter just because we had said it was ok to hack up, some poeple have to brain.
 
People who don't close the gates especially when there are horses tied up on the yard! My horses stable is right next to one of said gates and they just stroll through leaving it wide open! Also the people who don't poo pick, they have to muck out their stable so why should there only be a few of us who poo pick too!!
 
Not picking up their horses poo from the school.
Not keeping their electric fence battery charged or maintaining their fences properly so their ponies go through it so my friend and I have to keep rounding them up as we never know when the owners will turn up.
 
Ok, lets see.

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Taking other people's horses out without their permission or knowledge, bearing in mind that most of the horses on our yard are VERY unfit ATM and the people who "borrow them insist on going out on 2.5hr hacks with LOTS of hillwork!!

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Borrowing my belongings, eg saddle, reflective gear, riding hat, headcollars, etc etc without my permission, then finding them filthy and covered in hair.

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Leaving the field gate unlocked when our field leads straight out onto a MAIN ROAD, just because they were in a rush and didn't twist the key properly (bearing in mind there is no bolt on our field gate, only a chain and a padlock, so it was only the weight of the chain holding the gate shut!!).

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People who help themselves to your feed, carrots, supplments, hay and haynets, bedding, etc hoping you won't notice, again without permission. If you do notice they PROMISE they will replace it next time they go to the tack shop, but it is never replaced.

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People who complain like hell if there is a horse on the yard that kicks out at the other horses occasionally, claiming it is dangerous, then buys themselves a new horse who charges at anyone who enters the field, spins round and boots them (wearing shoes), and that is perfectly acceptable!

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People who can't be bothered to bring their own wheelbarrow up (our yard doesn't supply them), so uses mine JUST as I am about to pick it up, then leaves it outside, in the rain, full, and leaves!

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People who tie their horse up right next to the tackroom door, then deliberately leaves their grooming box in the middle of the doorway so that you'll trip over it. When you do fall over it they simply walk off (when they saw it happen), no apologies or trying to move it out of the way.

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When the entire yard refuses to fill up the water trough in the field, you have to do it EVERY day without fail unless you want your horse dehydrated (I purposely left it one day (after filling it up religiously every day for weeks) to see if anyone else would fill it up, when I went back up later that day, after everyone had been and left, it was bone dry. I filled it up and the horses were fighting to get to the trough first
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People who root through your stuff to see if there's anything they like, take what they want then leave the rest a mess.

I could go on...
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Crikey, we must be really lucky as although we are all into different things, everyone gets on and mucks in to help each other. Don't have a single grip about anyone at our yard.
 
It really bothers me when people don't turn up to do their horses until late - sometimes 10 or even 11 am on a weekend. The horses have usually run out of hay and water and are very pissed off. Put the horse first, for god's sake!

Also people who don't give their horses enough hay and water to actually last them the entire night. A tiny haynet lasts about 2hrs and if you are complaining that your skinny TB is losing weight - well perhaps you should think that it is starving for 12 hrs a night! Grr.
 
Lucky for me, people at my yard are normally okay. A few things i have experienced with livery yards though are:
1. B****yness! When another livery doesnt agree with the way you do something so they b**** to another person about it! EG. I used to point to point train in winter after school so was obviously pitch black but went out with reflectives on but other liveries were b****ing about it! Id rather take my horse out in the forest in the dark(away from main roads) than race him for miles when hes not fit!
2. Liveries that dont pay enough attention to their horses and barely ride them or feed them and then insist on buying another expensive animal to waste.
3. Liveries that never come down and see their horses just because its winter and leave them unrugged and skinny without looking at them for a few months.
 
I am very lucky as none of the other liveries are especially annoying. A few little things, but nothing to spit the dummy out over.

I still want to run a 5S event on the stable though...
 
I just love it when they have skinny horses, they can barely ride because they are so over the top/sharp, give them a comedy small haynet/haylage/whatever and then massive huge feeds (to get some weight on it!!) Its amazing how many ppl do this - imo! oh and rugs - some ppl love to rug soo much that their horses are sweating in their stable/in the field. they never know they are too hot because they never check. i love rugs, particularly buying them (!) but this is ridiculous!!
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Defo other liveries who do not emtpy the wheel barrow after them and leavei t sitting for me or another livery to empty .... best thing to do is empty it but leave it extremely full and empty a bucket or 2 of water on top of that so it becomes heavy *sniggers *
 
OMG Where shall I start;
People on my yard p:ss me off when they buy a horse without getting it vetted, or even taking a moderately knowledgeable person with them so they end up with a cripple.
Then they don't budget (or even bother to find out about) the expense of worming, shoeing and vaccinating (we're on FL so the feeding, mucking out etc is taken care of)
They then p:ss me off further by NOT doing the above (worming, shoeing and vaccinating) OR worse still, having it done and not bothering to pay the vet and thinking they're quite 'clever' for it...
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And for riding their horses once a week, which wouldn't bother me THAT much except for the fact that they pound the hell out of them and bring back dripping exhausted wrecks who can't walk the next day.
And they p:ss me off because they have the cheek to complain that PF gets better care, more bedding, and her own enclosure, not to mention proper first aid when she needs it... ALL of which I either take care of or have paid for myself.
I could probably carry on, but I can feel my temperature rising!
Thank God I'm leaving next Sat!!
 
Blimey Shadowflame, I'd hate to be on your yard, it sounds like hell. The worst I ever came across in about 8 years of being at livery were occasionally having stuff borrowed and not put back, but only hoof picks, brushes etc - not saddles!!! Are there no better yards you can move to in your area? Have you thought about moving to Dartmoor!?!?
 
Luckily I now have my horses at home. However, when I was in a livery yard the thing that annoyed me was just how messy people can be! they never sweep up after them and the yard looks like a bombs hit it. Also, kids galloping around the sand school when you are trying to practice your dressage test! they should be drowned at birth!! LoL.
 
Have to agree with you Merlotmonster, I can't stand people who clearly don't understand sand school etiquette. Only last night I was practically being pushed out of the school as one of the brat teenagers and her mother were galloping past my horse setting him off. I was only lungeing in a small corner but they decided I was taking up too much room and were riding into my corner! Theres also one or two who ride their horses right at you as if you should be jumping out of their way every time they come past. So rude!!
 
People who dont work but spend the day faffing about and want to ride when everyone arrives from work so there is a huge queue to use the school, even more annoying in winter when the horses have been in and need to be worked.
 
Jealousy.....................
Have just got our new horse and all but one person has come and had a look and said how nice he is.
The person (who I thought was a friend) just went on and on about how wonderful her horse is (which I'm sure to her he is) but she couldn't even bring herslf to look at him!!!!
I was really upset and can not understand why someone can't be pleased for you.
 
Echo that, someone on our yard said to my daughter the other day "oh isn't X (her horse) better than Y (my horse)?" my daughter just laughted and rode on.
 
You should train your horse to attack theirs when its on the lunge!!! that would get them out of the way!! haha.
Seriously tho, some people have no manners and no idea of left/left etc.. they think they own the place.
Also agree about the jealousy thing...theres always people who want you to fail. I had a new event horse (who was an advanced schoolmaster) - they were practically falling over themselves to watch to see if I would fall off when practising jumping!!! they also have comments like oooh, hes a bit old isnt he....that kind of thing..
 
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Blimey Shadowflame, I'd hate to be on your yard, it sounds like hell. The worst I ever came across in about 8 years of being at livery were occasionally having stuff borrowed and not put back, but only hoof picks, brushes etc - not saddles!!! Are there no better yards you can move to in your area? Have you thought about moving to Dartmoor!?!?

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Believe me, I would LOVE to move to Dartmoor!!! I'm glad someone else actually finds it unbelievable, I was starting to wonder whether my expectations of other people was too high! I am currently looking to move yards (I promised myself I would stick it out 'til August but I just can't do it), but am having problems finding a yard. I don't want to stay in the same area (too rough, we have issues with Chavs hopping over the fences, chasing the horses round with lunging whips, then trying to ride them
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Bl**dy hell Shadow Flame - you have a yard from hell there!! Or some very selfish riders me thinks!
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And just to add to it, lunged my boy for the first time in 2 months today (due to injury), to suddenly find he has a terrible phobia of lunge whips that he didn't have last time I lunged. The only thing I can put it down to is one livery who I really do not get along with takes a lunge whip into the field every time she brings in/turns out. I don't WANT to think she has been beating him, but I know that she is the sort of person who would consider such a thing
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I've tried my hardest to make peace, and it is always thrown back in my face. I have reported incidents to the yard owner and she really couldn't care less
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