does your YO grit/salt the yard when its icy?

Yep! The livery horses wont go out if its icy for risk that they may slip but us DIYs can do whatever we want, but I think when we have really cold snap she will have to stay in until it thaws.
 
I have a bucket of road salt in my corner cos my boys go out early. Local council around us fill grit bin, so of we troddle and fill buckets
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Sorry for the horses but isnt it common sense that if its icy and its not been gritted that horses should stay in???
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Our yard isnt gritted but then its upto us whether we take the horses out. If we do and they fall we have noone else to blame except ourselves
 
Our old YO use to. We have a new one now and it is their first winter so we are still yet to find out.

If they dont i will make sure i request it to go onto their to do list!
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An interesting one.

In this day and age of litergation a livery yard owner who is running the business should protect their interests as regards 'Public Liability' and 'Due Care' so the yard owner needs to spread salt on the ice in the common areas and put 'ice warning signs up'.

They most certainly should have an insurance policy in place which includes 'Care and Custody' and third party public liability.
 
My OH brings rock salt from work, so if need be I can grit a handy path to get my 2 out. Other people seem to think they can just help themselves, & wonder why I get p*** off when they insist on laying an inch thick layer, YOU ONLY NEED A FEW GRAINS!!!
 
I can't remember exactly but think our YO said that either grit or salt damages the concrete surface in the yard. Luckily I'm on a small DIY yard and we try to avoid pouring water across the yard and only down the drains which does make it alot safer.
 
No - I can grit if I want to but I have to sweep it up
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Luckily the yard doesn't need much so I usually grit their turnout pen and thats it.
 
Yes I have large piles of sand/salt during winter. I use it for the roads on the farm, walkways, entrances to all the barns and the stable block. I use it to make walkways within the fields so that the horses can still get around.

All horses here are on full board though - if I had DIYers then that would be down to them to organise.
 
This is probably wrong - I usually am,
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but I can recollect someone saying that if someone grits/salts their pathways etc and you fall you could claim from them.

Out YO certainly hasn't gritted the yard and it was slippey but my horse was kept in today bar the 30 min mooch around the school.
 
They didn't until we got a bucket of salt from one of the roadside bins... Oops. Well we do pay a fortune in Council Tax and the local council never seem to bother gritting the roads around us.
 
I asked a YO to grit a yard (water run-off from his cow barn) to salt the yard - he went into the house and came back with his wife's salt crock! It was the only time he 'salted' the yard. Hey ho. Problem was, we were only allowed to tie-up in a certain spot, but to get to it, we had to go over the icy bit, and to get out of the yard we had to go over the icy bit, and to get to the menage we had to go over the icy bit.
 
Ish, YO provides the grit, gets done at night but primarily it's down to whoever is turning out first in the am to put it out, usually myself being as I'm the only one there at min, haha!!!
 
I keep on a farm, and no they don't! It was a complete skid pan in the parking area and outside the stables this morning - it was raining last night when I left, and I commented to a fellow livery that we would be in the do-do if it froze overnight. Luckily my girl is unshod which makes it easier to negotiate ice, and she is extremely obedient to lead so stepped VERY slowly because I told her to. The little pony I look after nearly did the splits though. Yes, I could keep mine in, but she has arthritis, and if they are in for a day or two, they go nuts when you do put them out, so which is worse?
 
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