Does your yard provide grit ????

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hayleymitch

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Or is it just ares that doesnt???

I would have thought it was up to the yard to get it but is that just me.

Anyway they are not bothering to get any so will have to go and get some tomorroe, cause its that bad we cant get any of the horses out of there stables it is a complete ice ring.
Lol dont i sond like a right moaner sorry just seeing wat your yard owner does ?????????
 
I sand/salt. The driveway, the walkways, outside all the barns and stables, and also make walkways in the fields to enable the horses to get around safely. Our ground is frozen solid for 4 months of the year so it's normal for me to have piles of sand/salt all around the farm. Our horses are very good on ice though, they put their "winter toes" on when it's icy.

All of my liveries here are on full care board, so the sand/salt is covered in their board charges. If I had DIYers then it would be up to them to buy and spread their grit wherever they wanted it.

So if you are on full livery then yes I'd expect to have areas de-iced, if I was on DIY then I would buy my own and do any de-icing I needed/wanted. If I shared space with other people and they weren't bothered by the ice but I was, then I would buy it for my horse because I might not want my horse having a broken leg; and if others make benefit of my gritting, then that is fine by me. I'm not a possessive person, just try to keep things safe as I can for the animals.
 
my yard provided grit today and gritted the communal areas inc the carpark but OH was told off for parking in the carpark because apparently it wastes the grit?
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My yard did. Not overly, but enough to mitigate the worst bits, more of a Health and Safety thing. But we paid for it in the fees, nothings for free esp not salt/grit, it is very expensive.

If your yards rates are cheap, you might have to buy it on top. If you pay top whack, I would expect it to be thrown in.

But either way if there was none I would be off pronto to get some...
 
I will be goin getting some 4 tomo, only didnt get some today cause was working till late, so i wasnt down the girl who loans him did him 4 me.
Thought it wont kill him to stay in for a day and hopefully get him out tomo in the snow lol.
 
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