Does it annoy you when other people feed your horse?

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Slight rant, sorry guys
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Everyday now people on the yard are throwing hay over Dougs door constantly, we arent talking a few strands, I mean huge slices. People just do it as they walk past
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I know which people are doing it and have asked if they stop, but still they carry on. The other day the person just said "Oh I didnt realise you were here"
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And to top it off, today Doug has had two feeds. He has only just started having one feed a day, tiny little amount of chaff, but the person gave him literally half a bucket of chaff, pony nuts and carrots when they brought him in from 8 hours on grass because he looked hungry
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If the feed bowl wasnt left in there I would of had no idea, ridden him and may end up with colic. Another reason why I only like to feed him myself is because he gets very stressed out when eating anything from a bucket, he rolls and eats at the same time as he gets very impatient, what would happen if he choked or something? Oh and he has one hay net of SOAKED hay because he coughs...so people throw dry hay over the door constantly
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Sorry
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I'd be furious is someone gave my horse a 'feed' that wasn't his own! What muppets!

Hay is another matter, but I'd be having stern words if someone gave a proper feed. Putting a feed over the door that an owner has left there and you've been asked to feed is one thing, but taking it up oneself to feed another's horse a random concoction at a random time is just idiotic.
 
Think it is the one thing that drives everyone mad!
You plan your horses diet to suit him,keep his weight stable and people chuck god knows what into them
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It's simple enough to ask....
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That is really annoying, have you tried putting up whooping great big signs say:

DO NOT FEED MY HORSE HE IS ON A SPECIFIC DIET!!!
AND HAS SOAKED HAY!!!

Or

UNLESS YOU ARE GONNA SOAK MY HORSES HAY B4 GIVING IT, THEN LEAVE WELL ALONE!

It really annoys me, its one of the reason i was upset when i thought i was going to have to go back to a large livery yard
 
I suggest that you put up a note on your stable door or as near to it as possible to ask people to please not feed your horse anything, be it hard feed, chaff, hay/haylage etc unless you have asked them to. If it was me I would be mad too!
 
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That is really annoying, have you tried putting up whooping great big signs say:

DO NOT FEED MY HORSE HE IS ON A SPECIFIC DIET!!!
AND HAS SOAKED HAY!!!

Or

UNLESS YOU ARE GONNA SOAK MY HORSES HAY B4 GIVING IT, THEN LEAVE WELL ALONE!

It really annoys me, its one of the reason i was upset when i thought i was going to have to go back to a large livery yard

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Hahaaha! I might have to write some big signs
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Incredibly rude. One or two of my friends will give D some extra hay if I text to say I'm going to be late from work but none of the would ever feed her without my permission.

I can't imagine how people think giving someone else's horse a feed without asking would ever be okay? I would speak to YO immediately if that happened as could have very serious consequences for a horses health.
 
Yes I know someone who constantly feeds my horses, none of them are fed hard feed yet she has fed mine on many occassions when she is feeding her own it is driving me mental
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even more so as I have asked (and told) her to stop it and explained why they are not fed any hard feed at all.
 
I would be mad as hell.

This kind of interference infuriates me, as real harm can be done through ignorance.

I assume he is on DIY? If so I would see the YO, explain the problem, and ask for advice on solving the problem.

That way, you don't have to have a row with anyone, you haven't asked the YO to step in and have a go, you have just said you are really worried and not sure how to handle it.

It should get the YO on side which hopefully will have the desired effect on whoever is doing the feeding/haying.

Come up with something about working on Nutritionists instructions if you have to.

Can you tell I've had a problem with this lol!
 
I would be absolutely bloody fuming
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Have you had a word with yard owner?
Think i would be leaving some snotty notes on his door,basically pointing out that whoever chucks in the hay and feed etc will foot the almighty bill from the vet when they cause him distress from overfeeding!
ps..can i ask why people feel the need to constantly throw feed at your boy??
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ps..can i ask why people feel the need to constantly throw feed at your boy??
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Because he looks "terribly thin"
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Or more to the point he looks a lot finer and fitter that he did a year ago

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But yes, according to the person he looks "terribly thin, you can see his ribs"

Its very hard to speak to the YO about it...the main person throwing hay over the door is my YO's daughter and one of my friends hence the response when I asked about the hay being thrown over.
 
Thin, thin ! Do these people need glasses? All I see is a very proportioned and very healthy looking horse ( or is it pony, forgive my ignorance as I tend to say horse per se).
But no, he looks absolutely fine to me. Perhaps you should print off some pictures of thin,neglected horses and put it alongside one of your's and then ask them to spot the difference. With a question saying which one needs to be fed extra?
Gosh I would be fuming in your shoes.
Good luck and give them hell. I would!
 
I would be fuming, we keep two ponies in our yard during the summer they have to be on restrictive diet as they are very pron to laminitus, There is a cottage next door and last year the woman kept giving them apples/carrots over the gate because they were hungery as i was starving them.
 
He looks great to me too.

Seriously if this behaviour is as ingrained as you say, and involves the YO relatives my advice to you would be leave now.

They are showing no respect to you or your horse.

A nice school, etc, etc are no good to you if your horse comes down with laminitis. Trust me I am not exaggerating when I say people like this are very dangerous. Get him to a safe place where you have control.

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Does the YO actually know what is going on? I'm afraid I wouldn't care who it was doing it. I would mention it to the YO - the fact she is the mother of one of them is even better. It's not giving her business a lot of credibility if her offspring is interfering in paying clients management routines. As for your friend it sounds like she could also do with being told to mind her own business.
 
Either move yards or stick up a polite but firm notice. If the polite notice doesn't work, put a stronger worded notice up.

Other people feeding one of my boys extra unsoaked hay in the past has caused colic attacks. All through sheer laziness to go to the muck heap to empty their nets. I used to find it plonked over his door. Also I believe someone thought they were doing him a favour feeding him parsnips (not just one but a whole net bag full). End result very nearly losing my horse and colic surgery costing over £5,800 plus normal vets bills pre/post surgery for a multiple twisted gut caused by excess gas build up. Unfortunately I could not prove this person had done it or I would have been recovering the costs from them.

I have notes up outside his stable and everyone on the yard is perfectly aware that if they dare feed my horse anything, I will explode!!

Seriously you really do need to put a permanent end to the ad-hoc feeding before it does cause potential health issues for your horse. Hope you get it sorted.
 
Put up a notice like - 'Feeding my horse could kill him' or something along those lines. Especially if the people who are doing it are young, hopefully that'll shock some sense into them.
 
god i thought it was just me !!!!! i have a local woman who consently feeds my two ,ive politely asked her to stop but do you think she listens she has the cheek to say there hungrey , when she has no idear about horses
it really does p*ss me off
 
Yes i hate this!! I have huge signs on my door saying DO NOT FEED, one of my horse's choke's but tbh most people on my yard are pretty good at not interfering with other peoples horses
 
Christ I'd be furious, I don't like it when people walk along a row of stables dishing out carrots but giving someone else's horse a feed without permission is bang out of order and stupid!

I'd go straight to the YO and mouth off, and I'd have a rant at the people doing it as well. You'll really kick yourself if you take this lying down, and they carry on and make your pony ill. Make sure it stops now.
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TOTALLY feel for you- at my old yard (where i kept my old horse) i was once approached by a girl on the yard who said she'd just had to stop some kids feeding my horse apples over the door- she asked how many they'd given him- 7!!
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- and these are not very young kids either- maybe twelve?? and their mum was there too!! He can be very nippy when fed titbits, and who's fault would it have been if he'd taken a chunk out of a child's hand...? Mine. Arggg.
Just got to add though Doug looks great in that photo.
 
I would be more than furious if this happened to my horse, and if I could not feel 100% sure that these people would stop after I'd spoken to them, then I would move.
 
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