Difficult livery scenarios

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Just wondering what your worst livery arrangement was? How did you overcome it?

Mine has to be having my horse on full livery where the owner constantly stole from me. She stole loads of feed, supplements, grooming products.....anything she could get her hands on. And then pretended to be whiter than white. I left. It was such a nightmare.
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I think I have only had the one "grumpy" farmer scenario where is was too much bother to let my buy some of his cr@p hay (which I had to do). Not a patch on yours, though! I've been lucky!
 
the worst (it was my first pony) was a yard where no one was in charge rules seemed to be changed daily to fit in with the 'top dog' woman - i left after she told me that my freind couldnt come onto the yard and pick us up in her trailer and i would have to load and unload my horse on the main road outside the gate!!!!
 
when I was on DIY and the owner's daughter took over from the owner aftter many years.

The daughter decided that all gates would be locked at 5pm and that there would be no keys issued......except that it also meant that anyone on DIY couldn't get in to feed their animals or muck out (my mo was in the evening)

daughter said she'd put in feeds and hay but wasn't going to muck out - so that meant 5am get up to get horse done before commuting - needless to say I and a lot of other working horse owners left asap.
 
lol the worst we had was at a yard where we shared a section of a field in which we took it in turns to do things (our job was to pick ragwort, and I spent a good 6 hours doing this, someone else did the water and third person poo picked). This was fine until our horse was accused of kicking another, quite horribly and I wouldn't put it past him as he's quite 'don't mess with me' type and I'd seen him threaten said horse before. however kicks are just one of those things that happens when they are living out 24h a day in a not all that big field, and noone had actually seen my horse do this - it could have easily been the other horse in the field. The person with the other horse, who was not kicked, decided they would move my horse into a field full, and I mean full, of ragwort despite the hours of picking I'd done in our field - but we weren't even told. Everyone snuck around behind the YO and our back to remove our horse into a dangerous field for supposedly kicking another horse. We ended up moving after this - it was kinda the final straw. doesn't sound as bad on here as it was at the time, but I could have exploded at the person who decided it was ok to move him!
Your experiance sounds ridiculous, and really makes me wonder at the intelligence of some horse owners! (not you, the YO stealing your stuff
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lol the worst we had was at a yard where we shared a section of a field in which we took it in turns to do things (our job was to pick ragwort, and I spent a good 6 hours doing this, someone else did the water and third person poo picked). This was fine until our horse was accused of kicking another, quite horribly and I wouldn't put it past him as he's quite 'don't mess with me' type and I'd seen him threaten said horse before. however kicks are just one of those things that happens when they are living out 24h a day in a not all that big field, and noone had actually seen my horse do this - it could have easily been the other horse in the field. The person with the other horse, who was not kicked, decided they would move my horse into a field full, and I mean full, of ragwort despite the hours of picking I'd done in our field - but we weren't even told. Everyone snuck around behind the YO and our back to remove our horse into a dangerous field for supposedly kicking another horse. We ended up moving after this - it was kinda the final straw. doesn't sound as bad on here as it was at the time, but I could have exploded at the person who decided it was ok to move him!
Your experiance sounds ridiculous, and really makes me wonder at the intelligence of some horse owners! (not you, the YO stealing your stuff
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Unfortunately I was unwell at the time these thefts were occurring. I therefore went to the yd once a week, filled up my feed bins....(although he was on full livery I provided my own feed). A week later the whole lot had gone. On measuring scoopfuls I realised my horse was getting through twice what was expected. And guess what - the YO's bins were perpetually empty! I mean you could hear an echo when you took the lids off!!
I confronted her and she said 'Well, you told me to feed him a generous amount'.!!!!! The blatent lying was incredible. It was a nightmare. There are other parts to the story, but I think that is enough to be going on with!
 
Oooh me me!!

Yard 1: Had pony on diy livery at "friends" who suggested we all (there were another 2 liveries) take in turns to do mornings/evenings - sounded like good arrangement but turned out that she expected us to look after her 3 horses on our shifts in return for her doing 1 of ours - not exactly fair but very hard situation as was a good friend!

Yard 2: Bought my first horse and kept it at the riding school/livery yard I'd been going to. All fine until they decided to build a big outdoor school in our field while horses still using it. Nothing was fenced off - machinery everywhere, big (I mean big huge!!) ditches to lay pipes - one pony actually fell down one and had to be lifted out!
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Yard 3: lovely lovely yard where everyone was nice, proffesional people, horses well cared for, good facilities etc oh I miss it!

Yard 4: (current) hmm where to start - well, we pay more than most in the area for diy, we have indoor school and outdoor school but outdoor is unusable and indoor not much better. We have to pay for any fence repairs, light bulbs, anything really, ourselves. There's no field rotation - it's kinof every man and horse for themselves. Everything is done on a "first come - first served" basis, ie those who have been there longer get paddocks closer to yard, they think they have monopolly on the school etc. Nobody (apart from me and 1 other) ragwort pick - fortunately my horse is in a seperate paddock and fields were topped with all that yummy ragwort now dried and probably quite edible!
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Mine was when the people using the next door stable decided to convert their long narrow stable into three, and made a massive hole in the double brick wall and poked a piece of metal angle iron through into my box as a divider.
I asked them not to push it right through as it stuck out, but they were rough types and ignored me.
I pushed it back to half way every day but then decided to put back one of the bricks and cement it in so they couldn't leave the bar sticking through, but they immediately pushed it out and I blew..
I rang them and shouted down the phone, threatened to flatten them etc (I wouldn't have dared but still, I was cross)
Funnily enough although they never spoke to me again, the bar stayed firmly on their own half..
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I had an aquaintance who never ever bought feed or hay for her own horses, after the liveries had gone home she took some from every horse's stable.. Unbelievable.
Unlike daft me who because one woman fed her horse on throw away veg from the local market, fed her horse haylage of mine very night for two winters..
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My horses were on part livery, the arrangement being YO mucked out, turned out and fed in the morning and I went up in the evening to put beds down, bring in, groom and feed. I bought all my own feed, hay and bedding and left the morning feeds made up for her. YO lived on premises. I had family staying for Christmas, so paid her extra so I didn't have to go up. When I went up Boxing Day evening, the feeds I had made up for Christmas morning were still there! I had thought my old horse wasn't keeping his weight on as he should, but put it down to old age and an earlier bout of colic. I doubt if she had been feeding them as I asked and paid her to. Silly cow then took the huff and stopped speaking to me - I left 2 weeks later!
 
I am not even gonna get started on this one!!!I have been on that many yards now that have turned out to be a joke,my poor boy now looks at me and says "we off again",lol,no seriously,he been all over,i only wish i had the money for my own place!!Poo and ragwort usually my issue,HATE field full of shite and i usually start in a field of 2 and end up clearing 5 horses poos(as the greedy livery owners numbers increase,they muck the stables out,but apparently the horses dont shite when they out during the day
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lol?)?Fingers crossed i have finally landed on my feet,lol!!!
 
Quite a few years ago I had part livery at a small private hunting yard. There was me and one other livery. The groom turned out, mucked out and brought in Mon-Fri. I did weekends.

Sounded great but it wasn't. The groom was the BIGGEST liar I've ever met. She was also lazy - the horses were turned out late and brought in at the last minute even if it was hissing it down all day. Usually I brought in during the week as she'd never got round to it.

She called the stables deep littered - I called it a dirty disgusting mess. Thought I could right it at the weekends BUT, apparently I wasn't allowed to put more shaving in - only she could do that.

Goes without saying they weren't fed enough - I ended up buying extra feed for them.

I could rant for ages about how dreadful it was - eventually the groom got her comeupance - she was fired as the owners sold up and moved. We were allowed to stay on as the new owners wanted liveries - we advised them not to employ the goom and they listened to us.
 
in return for them sorting out my pony in the week mornings, I had to do all 12 of theirs evenings and weekends! They took my things, broke them, were horrible to me, took my pony without asking, then found someone to buy my pony...who wasn't for sale!
 
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