Bad yard management - where too turn? i'm utterly horrified

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I'm not going to name names in public, so please don't ask me too.

A yard known too me has numerous members of staff that don't care about the horses, recently it was reported to a senior member of staff BHSAI that there were concerns about a specific horse which was showing colic like symptoms, said member of staff dismissed the concern with a shrug and walked off, leaving a stage 1 working student to 'deal' with it.

Numerous times have I heard senior staff telling students off for watering horses that had bone dry buckets because 'ciients come first'. Surely they realise without healthy horses there would be no clients?

They 'work' their ponies for up to 5 hours without a water break, which in the heat we've had of late left the ponies struggling and some noticeably ill the next day.

The list goes on. How do I know this? I was the stage 1 dealing with the horse, and also one of many who'd been shouted at!

Sadly, due to my own battle with cancer, I am no longer at said yard, but it kills me to know these animals are suffering.

I understand they've got to make money, but what on earth happened to horse welfare?

Any ideas? :(
 
if it's also a riding school, contact the people who do the licencing ? Otherwise RSPCA or WHW. So sorry you're so poorly, huge (((((((((hugs))))))))) sm x
 
Ditto Spaniel.

Really sad to hear this, but good on you for doing something about it, its too easy to walk away sometimes if you no longer experience it.
 
I've had similar concerns as a student and was luckily in the position to walk away from the yard. It put me off working with horses tbh; it's amazing what can be going on in the background of an apparently well run yard. I'd be interested in hearing solutions as I didn't know what to do apart from leave!
 
I can't just walk away from them. Which probably makes me a right soppy git, but meh.

Will ring the riding schools licencing place, if not ill ring the RSPCA
 
Do you want to PM me the name of the establishment and location- I have very hight contacts with the BHS and can pass it on to the top people.
 
Regarding BHS and council inspections. The BHS used to turn up with no warning but these days they book to see you meaning that anything that isn;t right can be sorted out just for the day so to speak. They have a check list to go through but to be honest, for them to check every little thing in minute detail would take days so they sometimes take the word of the yard owner on some things.
The council inspect the buildings, horses soundness, health and safety ect. They don;t look in every stable and every stall.
Neither bodies speak to members of staff so any wrong doings could easily fall under the radar.
We pride ourselves that any inspector could turn up at any time and other than accepting we are a working yard and might not be immaculate at all times, they would find all horses eating hay, fresh water, groomed, hoof picked and ridden in correctly fitting tack at any time.
 
is it the yard we had a chat about some time ago? With the horses I knew? If so, you could pm which members of staff it was and I'll pass it onto the owner...
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