Cheer me up - livery woes. Different planet ???

I think when you go and look at a yard its easy to be swayed by large stables, the huge school and perhaps all the extras, when what you should be really asking is how do they manage the horses and will my horse fit in with their regime, because what ever they say they are not going to change for you.
There is a lovely yard near me, I know I wouldn't fit in there. Mine live out in all weathers unrugged, with no extras unless its really cold. Nearly all their horses are what I would consider overweight, so I would be in the, 'she's not feeding it enough' slum. I like my stables bedded to the door, not the just a strip at the back, because that's where they stand most of the time if they have to be in and they always have company.
Its a long time since I have been at livery but my happiest ones have been where no really talks to anyone else, because they are just too busy doing their own thing.
My experience of having a livery was bad, and I can understand a YO wanting to manage a situation if in their opinion the animals wasn't being cared for properly, but it would be difficult to charge for something the owner hadn't asked for. I just wanted mine gone PDQ.
 
EJJ999 said:
She is throwing me off the yard and accusing me of the worst thing you could accuse a livery of !!! She has put horse on full livery (she obv trusts me enough to think I will pay) so that I don't have to be on the yard until end of her notice period
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What is your YO accusing you off that can cause you to be thrown off?? Must be serious?
 
EJJ999 said:
I have nowhere to go at the moment. Believe me I am working on it. Worrying myself stupid that she is nasty enough to spread the lie about it. If she did no one would touch me. There is no proof - there couldn't be - I didn't do it ! Hopefully, I will move to a yard that knows that she is bonkers (if it ever gets out). I won't be saying where I am going though. At least if she causes trouble when I am there they will, hopefully, judge for themselves.

It's easy enough to prove how quickly I have paid my bills (although that's not the accusation).
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Hopefully your new place is better and suits you and your horse! But we all know y/o talk with each other as well, so I'd be more inclined to know how far apart your new yard is from your old??
 
This is why I no longer do livery yards! I had one livery yard who refused to turn my horse out because he couldn't run in a herd (he got stressed on his own and stressed in a herd but was happy with a single companion or in a strip where he could see other horses). I offered to pay for electric fencing so he could go out in a strip with the main herd but no.I then caught the yard manager beating my horse with a broom. I was so upset and had to find somewhere else - less convenient in that it was a 40 min drive from home rather than 5 mins and a much busier yard but they took this horse on and gave him a perfect stress free life! Many years later and with a different horse I had a yard who decided that I was a troublemaker (I wasn't) but who decided the best way to get rid of me was to mistreat my horse. It was a nightmare from beginning to end and I was absolutely terrified of going to the yard worried sick about what I might find. Eventually got my horse moved to a quiet small yard and the horse (and I) thrived.
 
I don't know where you are, but I really feel for you. Livery yards can be an awful place to be, or the best place. It's such a massive expense and the horses are so important and such a massive part of our lives, that when all is not well at yards, it can really make you sad. Be good to know where you are, I am sure one of us could find you a friendly yard :)
 
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