zandp
Well-Known Member
Had to leave my last yard as the YO (unhorsey) thought that he could turn one horse out one night, who'd been left in in her Thermatex as she was hot after riding. He then decided that, when I was on the yard - actually gone back to barn to get headcollars - that chasing 2 youngster (1 mine) and 1 older horse (mine) waving a hi viz waistcoat about was a good way to get them back into the field. Cue 3 very stressed horses. He also used to shout at me for not poo picking when the ground and poo was frozen. Anyway left there and went back to a yard I'd been on before, better the devil you know and all that.
However a friend's helping me reback my youngster and YO is demanding I pay her £6 for lessons, friend isn't giving me a lesson. I've spoken to the YO every day for 3 weeks about this, saying, as per yard's rules I'll pay for him riding her but I'm not paying for a lesson. Each time she agrees to this and then each day I go down to another sarcastic / rude and mostly illegible/illiterate note. Latest one said that if people were making money in her school she was having a cut.
Now I have previously paid money when getting outside instructors in at other yards where they had instructors based there and understand the logic of that - but she doesn't give lessons any more, doesn't offer a rebacking service and both schools are **** in quality flooring wise.
Why can't I find a yard near me where I can decide who rides my horse(s) ? Where they understand that poor grazing is actually quite good healthwise; that horses don't need to have cow quality grass ? And that mixing up herds causes problems - her latest note to us all said that we could go to 24/7 turnout but all mares had to be in one field and all geldings in another - we're currently in 3 separate herds. It took 3 of us over a week taking turns suggesting to her that mixing 3 herds up into 2 was going to cause problems and that perhaps we could move as herds ? And this move is for 2 weeks as we're back in our original fields by the end of the month. And that topping, harrowing and resting is normally done when there are no horses in the field - what's the point of topping, harrowing, having the field grazed for a month and then resting it ? And that lighting bonfires in the middle of the field - including burning pallets / other things containing metal isn't perhaps the best idea ? And that you're meant to have some sort of ragwort removal programme ?
God I need a new yard....
However a friend's helping me reback my youngster and YO is demanding I pay her £6 for lessons, friend isn't giving me a lesson. I've spoken to the YO every day for 3 weeks about this, saying, as per yard's rules I'll pay for him riding her but I'm not paying for a lesson. Each time she agrees to this and then each day I go down to another sarcastic / rude and mostly illegible/illiterate note. Latest one said that if people were making money in her school she was having a cut.
Now I have previously paid money when getting outside instructors in at other yards where they had instructors based there and understand the logic of that - but she doesn't give lessons any more, doesn't offer a rebacking service and both schools are **** in quality flooring wise.
Why can't I find a yard near me where I can decide who rides my horse(s) ? Where they understand that poor grazing is actually quite good healthwise; that horses don't need to have cow quality grass ? And that mixing up herds causes problems - her latest note to us all said that we could go to 24/7 turnout but all mares had to be in one field and all geldings in another - we're currently in 3 separate herds. It took 3 of us over a week taking turns suggesting to her that mixing 3 herds up into 2 was going to cause problems and that perhaps we could move as herds ? And this move is for 2 weeks as we're back in our original fields by the end of the month. And that topping, harrowing and resting is normally done when there are no horses in the field - what's the point of topping, harrowing, having the field grazed for a month and then resting it ? And that lighting bonfires in the middle of the field - including burning pallets / other things containing metal isn't perhaps the best idea ? And that you're meant to have some sort of ragwort removal programme ?
God I need a new yard....
