Do all livery yards have one mad person

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Post your experiences, I need a laugh
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I once knew one who crawled around on their hands and knees picking the buttercups from the horses field
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I know of someone who insisted that her horse would need to be shod with racing plates as it was an ex-racer!
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(fortunately it was field bound brood mare and was barefoot but it makes me laugh!)
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We seemed to collect them at the yard I used to be at! One woman got half way round a quite long hack and announced "ooh I wish I'd not worn my thong with a zip up the middle today" - oh yes, I believe that it was as uncomfortable as it sounds!
 
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We seemed to collect them at the yard I used to be at! One woman got half way round a quite long hack and announced "ooh I wish I'd not worn my thong with a zip up the middle today" - oh yes, I believe that it was as uncomfortable as it sounds!

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LOL!
 
We used to have a woman who marched around telling everyone another livery was "cruel" for putting a hair bobble in their horses forelock, and wouldn't even jump a little crosspole because "it hurts the horses legs"
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Lmao at the thong with the zip!
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Im the mad one at my yard... purely because every other horse is safe and sane and I'm the one with the unpredictable loony (they do look at me funny sometimes).

However, I used to ride for a woman who got a 'psychic' out to talk to her horse and told her that the reason said horse wasn''t happy was because all her rugs were red instead of blue. She actually went out and replaced all the rugs... guess what... horse was still the same!
 
I wish we only had one! several on my yard the stories are too many to recount! every day one of them does something that makes me walk off sniggering and tutting! the one that sweeps her stable on hands and knees with a dustpan and brush evryday prob takes the biscuit tho!
 
We had a girl who always brought a spare packed lunch! (she didnt ever eat it unless she couldn't find first lunch) in these lunches she also had all this weightwatchers stuff, the yoghurts, the soups everything. She would always also have a piece of pizza, a donut and 3 packs of low fat crisps, and 2 choccy bars!
 
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We had a girl who always brought a spare packed lunch! (she didnt ever eat it unless she couldn't find first lunch) in these lunches she also had all this weightwatchers stuff, the yoghurts, the soups everything. She would always also have a piece of pizza, a donut and 3 packs of low fat crisps, and 2 choccy bars!

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PMSL was she on the rotund side?!
 
At the moment it's the one who is convinced their horse is anorexic, and has been seen trying to force feed the horse. If he's hungry, he'll eat. This same person complains that there won't be enough grass in the summer and they'll have to move him every year, and has yet to move! When the girls moved field to the boys' summer field for a month while theirs rested, they wouldn't speak to anybody who owned a mare for a week.

We did have a loon who had a flece, an underrug, a heavy weight stable rug AND a duvet on their (rather overweight) horse in 13 degrees! This same person also gave their horse a 'tonic' that apparently made him sweat lots and he had to be heavily rugged because of this tonic that the vet where she came from had prescribed. (She was at our yard term time, went home for Easter and came back with this) Our YO spoke to her own vet who had never heard of such a thing. The sweating and rugging only happened once - the YO got rather annoyed and called their mother!
 
I think I am the odd one out on my yard as my horses are out 24/7 and I actually ride the one that is rideable (the other 2 are youngsters) oh and I hack out on the roads!
 
We have one lady who will hold a bucket behind her mare after she's mucked out in the morning and whistle for her to pee/poo in the bucket before she leaves for work. Because she doesn't want her to do it on the freshly mucked out bed.


Mad or ingenius you decide!
 
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We have one lady who will hold a bucket behind her mare after she's mucked out in the morning and whistle for her to pee/poo in the bucket before she leaves for work. Because she doesn't want her to do it on the freshly mucked out bed.


Mad or ingenius you decide!

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And I thought I was weird! If he has a wee on his clean bed when I've just mucked out I catch it in a bucket
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I don't whistle though lol!
 
Our neighbor is contantly coming to help me with my hose and always spends 10 mins going into detail how it should be laid out over the field so it wont freeze up, even when its mild weather, bless him!
 
I think the mad person is me. I also catch my horses wees and poos in a bucket if I am there after I have mucked out.

I am mad and proud!!
 
We used to have a nutty old lady who would put a tablecloth down in the corner of her horses stable before putting his feed bucket down so that he wouldn't get shavings in his tummy from clearing up the spilt bits!
 
yeh me....i am the only person who likes schooling.

but, we also have a few who spend so long laying their beds, that is looks like its been laid with a spirit level, only for their horse to go in and turn it all up straight away!
 
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