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Just been to livery yard to find a note complaining about me shutting field gate! As a farmers daughter I grew up shutting gates as a matter of course and always will do. Why is it a problem to have to open a gate to take your ponies to the field? I know they like to just open their stable doors and just let their ponies run to the field so they dont have to get their trainers wet, only horse people I know that dont own wellies, but why should I not use the standards I was brought up with? Last weeks complaint was that soaking hay on yard makes the yard wet, duh, we had almost constant rain also making the yard wet! They also complain because I tie up on yard, they claim ownership of tie rings and that I put a notice on gate stump about my horse, I have no right to put a note anywhere except on his stable door even though they have a note on the gatepost about their ponies. No point complaining to YO as old farmer with no interest in the yard other than collecting rent.
 
I always close gates. I was brought up with countryside ettiquette, which is to always close gates behind you. I have the opposite problem on my yard where nobody closes gates! So annoying!
 
I have to lead mine through 2 fields to get to the one I turnout in. The gates of these fields are left open because it is far easier to walk through an open gate than it is to try and open/close it leading two horses. I also think it stops the gateways getting churned up. Thankfully I am the only one on the yard so it's not an issue but maybe there is more to it than them just being lazy.

Water on the yard here last week would have frozen and been lethal so again, there may be reason for the complaining!

Not trying to cause trouble but it is sometimes worth looking at it from other angles.
 
I would just ignore them. There was a lady on my old livery yard who was always trying to cause a drama. It was pathetic and petty and not worth rising too.
 
We are all equal liveries, they just want us off, so complain about everything. I wouldn't mind if I had nothing to complain about them, but the yard is filthy they never brush up, they antagonise my horse because they know they can wind him up and make him difficult to handle, they change my hay to rotten bales if I dont chain them together, I have lost scissors, towels and buckets. They turn out behind main gate so I can't put mine out. The list goes on and on, can't find another suitable livery for my horse so stuck there. Also don't see why I should be bullied off.
 
I had an issue on a previous yard where the person next door wanted me off so she could have the field. She tried every trick in the book from phoning the landlord every morning with a complaint about me. Opening teh gate so the horses were on the road (but never hers). If I turned out she'd wait till i'd left then shut the horses in stable with no food. When that didn't work she'd shut them in and phone rspca saying there was no food and they were going crazy. She was known to them so all they did was phone me and warn me. In the end it was her that got into trouble.
I'm so glad it's only me where I am now. So much less hassle.
 
pennyturner said:
I was taught to leave gates as you find them. I wouldn't close an open gate unless there were an obvious reason to do so.
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I was taught the same - shut the gate if it was shut and leave it open if it was open.

I have my horses at home but use an out of the way corner for soaking hay as I don't want water on the yard if it is freezing although I accept that rain will make it wet. Have to admit to being stumped re the problem of where you pin a note.
 
Personally I would move to ANY yard to get away from people who are harming my horse (have done this in the past). Winding your boy up is endangering both him and you if it makes him hard to handle. I feel so angry for you, bullies are the worst! Where are you based, OP, perhaps someone near you knows of somewhere you could move to?
 
I am trying my best to find a solution to this, tried to point out I am not the only person that shuts the gates and it's unfair to single me out. Got a mouthful back about how terrible my horse is and how I have a stupid face! I also have a mouth like a fish wife. We are pretty much stuck, with the hours we work, we need to be able to get to the yard easily from home and our work places. Also need all year turn out which most places don't allow and due to COPD can't go to barn stabling. Thanks for your kind comments.
 
My solution would be to leave. bullied off or not, I would not stay in an environment where they wind up my horse on purpose (or accidentally to be fair).
 
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