Does anyone get scared at the yard by themselves?

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In July I moved from a massive competition yard where there was always someone around to a small 12 box yard thats more or less in the middle of nowhere. I work late 4 days per week which means I do not get up to the yard until 6.30, horse is already brought in for me with the others so at least I dont have to walk down the field alone! But, I'm up there compleatly alone, in the dark and I freak myself out! I'm ok in the yard with the horses, but hate going round to my storage and muck heap in fear of being kidnapped!

What does everyone do? Or are you just not scared? Should I pick up my mums dog everytime I work late and add on extra 20 mins to my daily travel just so I have some sort of security?!
Am I mad?
 
I hate it!!! If I'm with a horse its fine so I used to just lead my horse around with me whilst I was doing jobs but a dog would work and be less hassel :)
 
I know how you feel
At the old yard, I remember it was once windy and i kept imagining noises, in the end I rang my dad and made him come "help" me finish my jobs lol.
I've now learnt to push the fears aside, I'm just very quick to do any jobs in the dark! lol
 
My YO lives on site so, even if Im on the yard alone, I know all I would have to do is scream very loudly and both she and the dog would hear me :D
 
I'm awful. I used to take Wonka down to the muck heap with me as I got so scared.

At the old yard I was at, I would ring someone when going down to the field; I rang my dad on one occasion and was talking to him and when on the phone I screamed, "Dad there's a bear, there's a bear!" This hulking black bear shape coming towards me in the pitch black and I was cacking it...it turned out the black shetland had escaped from her field :D I told Dad and he said that I should remember we don't get bears over here.

Just as he was telling me that I screamed...he asked me what happened...I fell over in the mud...I had him on loudspeaker and he was crying down the phone with laughter. I didn't find it funny...
 
I hate it! The other night I swear I heard a little girl singing- there was no one else there. I very calmly rugged my boy up closed his stable door, gave him a pat & ran like the big baby I am!
 
I used to get scared on previous yards I was on, but for some reason on the one I moved to just over a month ago, I am fine. I am usually first there in the mornings between 6 and 6.30am and I've just been to to a final skip out and hay up at 9pm. It's on a working farm with loads of dark buildings, and my horses have sheep in the pens next to them which are always banging around, yet for some reason here, I never feel scared. Not sure why......
 
Good Grief! What is wrong with all of you?

I would agree that if you are working a horse then it is always better and safer to have a second person there in case of accidents or problems....but walking from the tack room to the muck heap????
 
the watcher said:
Good Grief! What is wrong with all of you?

I would agree that if you are working a horse then it is always better and safer to have a second person there in case of accidents or problems....but walking from the tack room to the muck heap????
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Our muck heap used to be down the hill from the stables, in the pitch black and there was a public footpath which ran down the side of the yard to the muck heap where some very strange people walked...Wonka was brilliant then :D I am scared of the dark anyway!!
 
"but walking from the tack room to the muck heap????"

In the dark, with loadsa creepy noises, in the middle of nowhere, saying that I'm fine riding with no one around....but thts in daylight!
Glad others feel the same!
 
Just as well you arent where i am 80 acres pitch black then have to walk the horses up small bit of road to get to stables i am the only one there, usually just shout or whistle until they all come can be a bit hairy if they are being silly and hooning around in the dark all you hear is thundering hooves a bit like the horsemen of the apocalypse coming, i usually stand by a tree in case they run in to me.

Have had a few funny moments in the dark saw this yellow labrador sitting in the field in the snow staring at me i kept walking towards it it just stood and stared was getting a bit worried in case it was going to bite me when i got up to it kept walking then as i got closer realised it was a thistle bush felt like a right div. I also thought an old football was a rabbit sitting in the middle of the road thought it was injured and tried to pick it up haha i am normal honest :eek: and i dont need glasses amazing what you think you see in the dark.

Guess a thistle bush is better than a wherewolf hoooowl sorry couldnt resist not trying to scare you although i was once a bit jittery after watching jeepers creepers but usually the horses jumping around and nearly landing on me in the dark is much more frightening.:)
 
Don't ever feel scared of the dark, don't understand it really. I'm quite happy in our field on my own in the dark, we are in the middle of nowhere and there isn't even much reflected light from far off towns - total darkness. Once I've walked to the barns from the field gate, a few hundred yards, my eye's are used to the darkness, and what is there to be scared of?

As a kid I used to go walking with my dad over dartmoor at night, in winter, no torches, I think it's just what you're used to - outside tonight, the sky is beautiful, I can see so many stars, and the milky way.
 
I don't like it for the first few dark nights, then just get used to it.
Strangely it is worse if I have my teenage daughter with me, we seem to give each other the heebie-jeebies.
 
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Don't ever feel scared of the dark, don't understand it really. I'm quite happy in our field on my own in the dark, we are in the middle of nowhere and there isn't even much reflected light from far off towns - total darkness. Once I've walked to the barns from the field gate, a few hundred yards, my eye's are used to the darkness, and what is there to be scared of?

As a kid I used to go walking with my dad over dartmoor at night, in winter, no torches, I think it's just what you're used to - outside tonight, the sky is beautiful, I can see so many stars, and the milky way.
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I'm a bit like that - grew up in the middle of nowhere, and live in the sticks now, so am quite happy wandering around in the dark. I wouldn't mock anyone for being scared of the dark though. (Although I did snigger at the bear/shetland story, sorry..xx)
 
I take my dogs at night but in the mornings I am there at 5am and the dogs slow me down so I go alone. I am actually more scared with the dogs on the evenings as they make me aware of everything that moves lol
 
LOL - I remember being at a yard of 25 ish odd horses and being absolutely fine about the daily routine, then a couple of times putting the willies right up myself with imagination and sort of talking to myself and shouting out to "imaginary" partners "I'll be right back darling" and similar thinking it would put off imaginary rapists and murderers from jumping out of imaginary dark corners at me...

God - seriously - they say that 98% of all murders are actually committed by people we know - not strangers.

Please sleep soundly in your beds - it is extremely unlikely that we will be attacked by strangers...
 
I have no problem out in the field usually, but do draw the line at going out there when the teenage girl who lives down the lane crosses my land with her off their heads friends. Now we only have one elderly dog I will not confront them if there is no one else in the house at 1.30am on a Saturday, if we still had the Rottie it may be different.......
Just being nervous because it is dark doesn't happen.
 
Had just seen a friend off after an evening out and heard the commotion in the field, decided not worth checking as the horses were in another field and the sheep were inside. :)
 
Things that go bump in the night should never give one a fright, its the whole in each ear which lets in the fear, that and thw absence of light - spike milligan I believe. Dad used to say it to me when I was little.
 
The yard I used to be at in Scotland was supposed to be haunted, I reasoned it was just the kids trying to be 'big' and scare each other - I was left on my own waiting for my dad to pick me up one night when I heard footsteps clumping towards me ... I nearly wet myself! Then the YO's dad calls out "hello are you still here?" he'd been feeding the goats

Another time there was a rumour going around that someone had escaped from the lunatic asylum (where criminally insane people were kept) and had wandered over as far as the lad around the RS ... it gets dark around 4pm where we were, so it wasn't all that late when I was trying to catch some horses in a field - I was crouching down to see their silhouettes against the lights from the nearby town - when I heard a noise behind me, I turned around and saw what looked like someone in a long coat, with their hands in their pockets walking towards me ... I nearly died, I could feel my throat closing up and my head starting to spin, when the 'man' made a whickering noise and I realised it was one of the rug-wearing horses

Scared doesn't even come close!!! :D
 
I scared myself silly the other night, when wearing my headtorch for the first time, went round the farm building to the stableyard and saw four eyes floating in the dark, laughed at myself for being silly, fed the horses then noticed a field full of floating eyes, even knowing it was sheep and our horses I didn't hang around, it was really spooky and I don't scare easily, I took my OH with me the second night wearing the torch, but I'm ok now
 
Fine on my own in daylight but in the dark I hate it, freaks me right out, I had to take 2 horses up the field in the dark the other night ... that was fine, but I was not happy coming back down on my own in the pitch black, so I phoned my OH in Edinburgh and talked to him until I got back in the car! Our yard's surrounded by trees and there's loads of wildlife so there are always plenty of creepy rustling noises to keep you on your toes :D

Somehow I'm ok when it's dark in the morning, but absolutely brick it when it's dark at night :confused:
 
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