DIY in your own time ???

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I went up to get my horse in the other night first day of all the rain and all that and being a TB he thinks he will shrink if he gets wet !

Anyway other livery was bringing in her last pony just as I got there and so mine was just about to start creating. I went to get him and tbh he was behaving like a complete tit (rain dance on 2 hooves / trying to shelter behind me from the rain !)But I am used to him and know that this sort of behaviour doesn't happen very often.
Any way I bring him in and give him some hay and he shuts up (apparently if you are eating hay while tied on the yard in the rain you won't shrink)

SO Livery who just brought her ponies in was complaining saying that it was other liveries fault (not me) as she had brought her horse in first and that set them all off ??

Anyway she goes home and the other livery who's fault it is apparently (and I have to say I get on really well with) Comes over to tell me how before I got there she was saying it was all my fault as I was late ???

If you have followed so far (well done) but my point is if it's DIY yard surely I can DO It Myself WHEN I WANT ??? Or do we all need to synchronise watches so we are there ready when she is ??
Livery who was complaining has the luxury of not haveing to work and lives 2 mins from yard!

However I should point out that said livery doesn't roll up before 10am at weeekends and her ponies have been bashing the stable door for 2 hrs ;-)

Thanks feel much better now
 
feels bettter to rant :D

i know what you mean though - im on DIY (and love it) but everyone brings in at different times... im very lucky in the respect that my mare just bogs off if shes not brought in first - she wont hang round by the gate generally and just goes away n eats until i go get her.

horses will kick off - especially in crap weaather when they want to come in.... tell her to shush and mind he rown business. :D
 
As a 'diy' you are absolutely in your rights to tend to your horse on your own time scale. However, as the weather is now turning and horses are starting to come in at night, and with horses being naturally herd creatures, difficulties can arise.
In winter my liveries help each other out so at the horses are all dealt with at the same time - this prevents any jealous behaviour and prevents the fields being trashed if one is still out and stressed as his companions have gone in.
Equally I do assisted livery, so if a livery is not available to deal with their horse I do it for a token fee. This means all horses on the yard are in a similar routine, everyone knows where they stand, and the horses are more relaxed as a result.
 
I own a yard, and all my DIY's are still living out! But when they do start to comein I have a rule that no horse is left in a field on its own. So last but one livey brings in last 2 horses. If we find it is the same livery always bringing in the same hore we will charge and give it to the livery bringing in as we have had one or two people who deliberately come up late so their horse is in. We will happily bring in if owners can't make it and make a nominal charge for that.
 
Yes, I think up to a point you are right - you do your horses at times that suit you - however even DIY yards have rules etc. about times and horses alone etc.

And whilst you may want to do your horse later than others - if he is going to be upset if left on his own you do need to make arrangements to ensure this doesn't happen.

I am on DIY, however we have assistance available - and I have stated that I am very happy for my horse to be brought in if he is on his own (and accept the charge for that).

I also talk to my fellow field mates, and we're all pretty aware of each others routines, and endeavour to fit in around each other so that problems like this don't arise.
 
Where I'm at, we all generally help each other out as we're all on different work times etc.
The rule is to never leave one horse out on its own, so if I get up there and there's my horse plus one other to come in, I get both in and the same goes for the others. (however, sometimes people try to pull theirs in, feed then chuck back out before anyone has noticed that your horse is left out alone.... fine when u dont have a ginger pansy like mine who hates being alone! caught the YM doing it to mine the other day, i wasnt impressed!)

We try to give each other a vague time that we'll be at the yard in the am/pm, but its not set in stone and you're right, you shouldnt have to synchronise watches etc as a DIY it's down to you. But we find for ease and convenience (sp??) that if we sort of pair up it makes things easier and better for the horses.
 
when i was on a diy yard we all used to try and wait so that everyone was on the yard to grab the horses. we would all try to be at the yard for 5.30 in winter to get the horses in, but as i worked the furthest away i was always the last to arrive so sometimes my mare was in(if weather was bad) . however the other liveries never complained as i was always the first on the yard in the morning and would feed the yard before anyone else arrived. so it was a bit of give and take.:)
 
amymay said:
Yes, I think up to a point you are right - you do your horses at times that suit you - however even DIY yards have rules etc. about times and horses alone etc.

And whilst you may want to do your horse later than others - if he is going to be upset if left on his own you do need to make arrangements to ensure this doesn't happen.

I am on DIY, however we have assistance available - and I have stated that I am very happy for my horse to be brought in if he is on his own (and accept the charge for that).

I also talk to my fellow field mates, and we're all pretty aware of each others routines, and endeavour to fit in around each other so that problems like this don't arise.
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He is sometimes the last one out and is fine he just carries on grazing, his paddock is right next to the yard. I think the weather altered his mood more than anything. It just really P***ed me off because it was so to faced of here and I feel like she is always trying to blame someone else for everything and also needs to realise that for those of us that work we can and do get delayed. She could have brought him in if she was so worried about it ???
 
i have got 3 horses so i dont have that problem
2 of the others are almost always in before mine.

we have just got a new boy, who is only 4
if i am going before the owner arrives, i will bring him in before i leave, even if he is just walking about with the occasional whinny.
the fields are wet now and if the horse got spooked by farmers shooting etc and the other owner was another 2 hours coming down, it could injure itself and/or ruin the field within one day.
 
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