Do you think this is a bit silly??

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Don't want to bitch or anything but YO has decided to have a bonfire and FWs at the yard tonight!! I've had a nightmare of an evening and it took me 3 ours to get home from work, so got to yard about 8.30... FWs in full flow!! They were not small ones either.. really loud ones!!

Badger wasn't very happy with it all all but I'm sure he'll cope.. just a bit worried he'll get colic or something now!!

Just think YO is a bit daft!! There are about 30 horses on the yard, 20 of which are liveries...
 
Would say its a bit irresponsible when she has liveries. Hopefully the display is a good distance away from the stables.
 
The farm (riding school) i'm on until recent years had a massive bonfire and fireworks, if the horses were bothered the first year they soon got over it and now can be ridden safely without being spooky when there's shooting or fireworks or whatever going on. Good for desensitising. xx
 
apercrumbie said:
I'm lucky in that my horses don't mind the fireworks, but the danger lies in the fireworks landing in the horses fields. Is the YO clearing up afterwards?
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Would imagine so - everything is very well kept generally. Just felt a bit strange leaving him because he never really gets silly like that.. but guess he'll get over it!
 
I think it's mad, we put our cats and dogs indoors, but the poor horses are subjected to it. I dont know if it really effects them, but i wouldn't like to be sitting on my boy when they go off!!!
 
PonyIAmNotFood said:
The farm (riding school) i'm on until recent years had a massive bonfire and fireworks, if the horses were bothered the first year they soon got over it and now can be ridden safely without being spooky when there's shooting or fireworks or whatever going on. Good for desensitising. xx
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This is how mine were desensitised (sorry drunk), they no longer notice it. I aways go up with seditives but my lot are so laid back they need a rocket up there arse without fireworks ....sorry to all the non-firework peeps but honestly they are so chilled now after 4 yrs with me cringing in the stable.....

for the record even my cat and dogs are the same...but I live on a council estae
 
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It's not entirely unreasonable... what if you were on a yard where people go shooting, or the hunt go past, or near a motorway, in a city?

Not everyone lives in the middle of the countryside with nothing but birdsong. You can't protect your horse forever and from everything, they have to be given a chance to work stuff out for themselves occasionally and they usually do.
 
At a yard I used to be at the owner always had a firework party, but he gave us plenty of notice, and the owners of the horses whose stables were in sight of the fireworks were given the option of leaving their horses out that night.
 
At every yard I've ever been at, the older horses almost seem to "watch" the fireworks! :) The younger ones then learn from example and if scared, don't stay so for long.

But it would have been good to have some notice?!
 
My lot like watching too, the field gang were happily chillaxing with fireworks going off on 2 sides last night and the stabled horses had a super view of all the action and at late check last night were fast asleep.
At my last yard they held a display in the fields in front of the stables complete with catherine wheels nailed to the fence and the horses had a super view and didn't seem too worried.
 
Goddy got colic the first firework night he was subjected to :( :( And that wasn't even with the display at the yard. I'd be a bit annoyed tbh, as it kind of goes against common sense IMHO.
 
Well it's not ideal when there are horses around but if the YO didn't have fireworks then there would be someone else letting them off near by so no getting away from it.
We went on a rocket stick hunt hack this morning...I found 6 and my friend 8 although i think she spotted the same stick twice!!!
 
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