Dear fellow liveries (warning . . . rant)

PolarSkye

PolarSkye

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. . . I am sick to the back teeth of picking up after you . . . when you empty your barrow onto the muck truck, fork it up properly like the rest of us - don't just leave it there for someone else to fork up before they can even unload their own barrow . . . if your horse poos on the yard, pick up after it . . . if you use a communal walkway for transporting your barrow full of muck/hay, etc., sweep it once in a while (the sweeping fairy is getting tired of always doing it) . . . if your farrier has visited, sweep up after him/her . . . if you soak your hay by the tap, clear the drain . . . if your horse poos in the school, pick up after it AND empty the pooperscooper (the muck truck is parked right next to the school) . . . we keep our horses on a DIY yard, which means you DO your own horse, and doesn't mean that someone else is responsible for cleaning up after you. Yes, I know you a) have a job to get to; b) have a new baby; c) have creaky knees; d) have PMT; e) might break a nail . . . but that's not my problem. If you want someone to clear up after you, stable your horse on an assisted livery yard and pay for the privilege.

Rant over.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand breathe.

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Love it!! It seems in life, there are always people who expect others to clean up their mess for them- very annoying!
 
so true!! am fed up of forking up the muck skips, having other horses tied up/leaving mess outside my stable! love it.
 
I'm also very tidy and bloody hate untidy people ESP people who don't pick out their horses feet and spread bedding outside my stables when they are always swept well. And leaves stuff out overnight when gale force winds are expected!!!! Yes I'm the first up in the morning and at 5am I don't like picking up other peoples crap
 
As a YO (Full Livery only) I sympathise! I could never do DIY at our place! It would drive me up the wall. Go get a chilly beer! :)
 
I'm not the world's tidiest person (just ask my husband and kids), but there are some things that are common courtesy . . . why on EARTH would you not fork up your own (aka your horse's) dirty bed onto the muck truck? If you don't, it stands to reason someone else has to . . . or they can't fit their muck onto the truck. Does my head in.

Ditto sweeping. I'm not obsessive about sweeping outside Kal's stable . . . and Lord knows he's messy, but I'm heartily sick of being the ONLY person to sweep our communal slope (there are five horses/liveries using it) and being the ONLY person to sweep out the drain under the tap next to Kal's stable . . . again, I'm not the only one who dampens hay, cleans out feed bins/water buckets, etc.

Dirty yards are an open invitation to vermin . . . not to mention looking slovenly and run down. How hard is it to do a bit of extra sweeping, pick up after yourself, etc.

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I could have wrote that myself, just adding a few more points-
The field water trough is not cleaned by fairies either, nor is it checked daily.
If your wheelbarrow is either broken, or you are just to cheap to buy one & you use mine, don't be suprised if I empty it back in your stable on the third occasion.
Neither is there a brew area fairy who cleans up cups, toast plates etc.
Nor is there a bin fairy who magics food wrappers, pot noodles etc away.
 
Can I have a rant please?

Read the yard rules which were given out to everyone recently. They quite clearly state that the fields must be poo picked. That doesn't just mean by ME!

If you've got time to spend sucking up to the YO and sitting around and gossiping, and time to go off competing then you've got time to do the fields!
 
BoolavogueDC said:
The last place I was at got over that really easily.

Fines.

Lots of fines :D
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My old Dutch yard used to do this fines work a treat

5 euro first offence
10 Euro second
15 euro third
and so on and so upwards!

Strangely no one ever went over the 5 lol and we had a lovely clean yard at all times;-))
 
Don't get me wrong . . . I love my yard . . . GreyDonk is happy (or he will be once he is back out in the field with his herd mates), the people are nice, the facilities are good, the location is wonderful . . . but I do get tired of feeling like a mug for clearing up after myself only to find that I am also clearing up after other (perfectly able) people.

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The Fuzzy Furry said:
Phew, breathe P-S!

Am so glad I also have my own yard, means I can be OCD about being tidy - but also equally messy on winter work days too - only myself to shout at :D (except lovely livery, but her horse is staying out next winter :)
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You've seen how untidy I am outside Kal's stable . . . I'm not talking about arranging the grass a strand a time . . . all I ask for is basic courtesy . . . pick UP after yourself (or your horse). Drives me nuts.

And I am breathing . . . and mainlining red wine ;).

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Know how that feels, on our yard there are always the same few people who dont lift their hand to anything and leave it up to everyone else to do i.e. poo picking, checking waters, checking/ fixing fencing etc etc the list goes on..........keeping my fingers crossed there is a lottery win heading my way!!! lol
 
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I sympathise whole heartedly. Mine are kept at home now and actually I have the same rants about my son leaving stuff around when he's 'on duty'! When I had mine on full livery though there were still rules which were really common courtesy - like clearing up after you've used the school, clearing up after you've tied your horse up on the yard, picking feet out before leaving the stable/school etc. Some of the liveries would moan about the notices that were put up, but actually if they just thought a little about other people, then the notices wouldn't have been needed at all. :mad:
 
now what you mean! love the yard that i am on, but just outside my stable and tie up point is also the shoeing area ! so i quite freaquently get there of a evening to find i have to sweep the area, where the owner has a) not been there for the farrier b) not cleared up c) not cleared up properly (nails), we have got one chap who removes the poo then leaves the rest, and one who sweeps up a but fills my skip up and leaves it for me to emty..
 
purplestar said:
now what you mean! love the yard that i am on, but just outside my stable and tie up point is also the shoeing area ! so i quite freaquently get there of a evening to find i have to sweep the area, where the owner has a) not been there for the farrier b) not cleared up c) not cleared up properly (nails), we have got one chap who removes the poo then leaves the rest, and one who sweeps up a but fills my skip up and leaves it for me to emty..
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Sorry, this would do my head in, id say to him if he fails to cleanup his mess or sticks it in your skip bucket without bothering to empty it, that you will dump the contents in his stable
 
Are you me, PolarSkye??? I have exactly the same with our yard - even have people commenting that I always tidy their mess - because they don't :eek:

That said, like you, I love where we are and our boys are very happy too, so I try not to let it wind me up - can't help the occasional grumble though.

When we all get on so well, what's a bit of sweeping :rolleyes:
 
Agree with all, got very good at returning peoples mess. One i would add is people tying up outside my stable and being surprised hen my famously grumpy mare gets stroppy. Also i hate people who let kid run riot on yard and then are surprise when an accident happened. Horse are dangerous who knew.
 
Fellow liveries and yard staff alike are very tidy here, as am I. The last yard was the same. Guess I've been lucky! We do share wheelbarrows though for small jobs. You fill it, you empty it, sort of thing. Works well. Plus we have a tidy farrier who cleans up after himself:)
 
We aren't too bad on our yard about keeping it reasonably tidy, sweeping up, etc, but I do get a bit annoyed about being the only one who ever sweeps up the hay soaking area, despite 50% of the horses on the yard having soaked hay. Doesn't seem to bother anyone else but it being covered in a layer of wet hay completely does my head in!
 
K27 said:
Suggest you print this off and put it on your yard noticeboard?!.....
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Ha! LOL. Sorely tempted, but it would upset a few people.

This morning I encountered yet another wheelbarrow's worth of poo just dumped on the muck trailer this morning which prompted me to write the following on the noticeboard in the barn

"Please fork up the contents of your wheelbarrow, some of us are tired of doing it for you. Thank you."

I'm an easy-going sort, really I am . . . and I don't mind a bit of extra sweeping/tidying as the price to pay for being on a nice, friendly yard . . . but some people really do take the pee and I don't see why my time is any less valuable than theirs. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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