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Last Friday my horse wasn't himself. Hadn't eaten, drunk or pooed all night. Called the vet and was found to have gassy colic, they weren't sure if he had an impaction. Treated by vet, I was on constant watch for 48 hours. He was only allowed sloppy small feeds fed often and small nets of soaked hay. Luckily he recovered. The reason I am fuming is that whilst at the yard tonight I could hear a child screaming about, I was poo picking. Once back on the yard there was a chap and his very young daughter. He was visiting the house near the yard and they had said it was OK for him to come round, stroke the horses and had given him a bag of carrots to bring round 4 of which I found outside my horses stable!! At no point have I ever given anyone permission to stroke and feed my horses. Can you imagine what could have happened on Friday to a horse with colic being given a guts full of carrots!! Getting more mad as I'm writing this!! Will let the YO know tomorrow but not sure whether to find some sort of article about feeding horses and post it through their letterbox?
 
Have a word with this neighbouring house that tells people it’s fine to go onto the yard and feed/stroke the horses. Does this neighbouring house have a horse at the yard btw? Not that it excuses their ignorance, actually makes it worse as they should know better!

They need telling in reality not all horses are Mr Ted, and have very varied diets, which for many means no apples/carrots. Certain medical reasons dictate specific diets etc etc. ending with the stark warning that ‘strangers feeding what they want to other people’s animals could cause serious illness and a huge vet bill’ - which you’ll chase them for.

Do you have cameras on your yard? If it’s happened so casually while you were there, I’d be wondering how often this actually happens.
 
PurBee said:
Have a word with this neighbouring house that tells people it’s fine to go onto the yard and feed/stroke the horses. Does this neighbouring house have a horse at the yard btw? Not that it excuses their ignorance, actually makes it worse as they should know better!

They need telling in reality not all horses are Mr Ted, and have very varied diets, which for many means no apples/carrots. Certain medical reasons dictate specific diets etc etc. ending with the stark warning that ‘strangers feeding what they want to other people’s animals could cause serious illness and a huge vet bill’ - which you’ll chase them for.

Do you have cameras on your yard? If it’s happened so casually while you were there, I’d be wondering how often this actually happens.
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They are lovely people and no, they don't have horses at all. Luckily mine have been out all summer so no danger there. They don't have visitors very often so I don't think it's too regular but once is too many times. OH bought me a camera for Xmas so I may be able to place it so it catches anyone at the stable door.
 
I'm not surprised you are fuming, I would be too.
We are the last house on a dead end private lane and in the last week we've spotted 3 different lots of people wandering about with no real reason. One couple did say that they were looking at a house for sale down the lane. They were taking photos of our shelter/horses/Xmas Dec's. Who knows which?
Another family had children standing on our wall, taking no heed at all of the electric fencing inches away from the child's nose.

The third person was seen on our ring doorbell, so right up by the door but left nothing and spoke to no-one.

It has taken 3 yrs and ££kkks to get my cobs legs right after she was fed a mince-pie or similar that made her legs bleed. The Appy developed a hoof abscess at the same time.

I would definitely have a word with the people who live at the house. We have signs up all round and no-one takes any notice. We had had to physically make it impossible for passersby to feed them and have cameras all over the place to act as a deterrent. Good luck!
 
Pearlsacarolsinger said:
I'm not surprised you are fuming, I would be too.
We are the last house on a dead end private lane and in the last week we've spotted 3 different lots of people wandering about with no real reason. One couple did say that they were looking at a house for sale down the lane. They were taking photos of our shelter/horses/Xmas Dec's. Who knows which?
Another family had children standing on our wall, taking no heed at all of the electric fencing inches away from the child's nose.

The third person was seen on our ring doorbell, so right up by the door but left nothing and spoke to no-one.

It has taken 3 yrs and ££kkks to get my cobs legs right after she was fed a mince-pie or similar that made her legs bleed. The Appy developed a hoof abscess at the same time.

I would definitely have a word with the people who live at the house. We have signs up all round and no-one takes any notice. We had had to physically make it impossible for passersby to feed them and have cameras all over the place to act as a deterrent. Good luck!
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It's so worrying isn't it. I think I will have a word, they are lovely people and probably don't realise the damage they could do. Glad you eventually got your cob sorted.
 
Always best to have a quiet word with them. I once had a short term rent on a field backing onto houses and found grass clippings tipped into the field one day. I worked out which house it was and went round to ask them not to do it again. Turned out that previously the owner of the field had cattle and was quite happy to have grass clippings. House owner was apologetic and promised not to do it again.
 
Errin Paddywack said:
Always best to have a quiet word with them. I once had a short term rent on a field backing onto houses and found grass clippings tipped into the field one day. I worked out which house it was and went round to ask them not to do it again. Turned out that previously the owner of the field had cattle and was quite happy to have grass clippings. House owner was apologetic and promised not to do it again.
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I will have a word. I just don't think people realise what the consequences can be. I would still have been mad that someone fed my horses without permission but the fact he had had colic, the money and time involved in making sure the horse pulls through for someone then the potentially put their life in danger, I'm afraid it really upset me.
 
When you say 4 outside your stable do you mean that they had left there for you to give or that they had given and been dropped or something?
If the latter, yes be mad, if the former and they were out of reach and not actually given to the horse I’d think it quite sweet of them.
I’d definitely put a sign up either way though, somewhere really obvious.
 
Go round to the house,sit in their garden and have a picnic. When they come out say you are doing nothing wrong, they think it's ok to stroke and feed your horses so they shouldn't complain about you using their garden.
 
poiuytrewq said:
When you say 4 outside your stable do you mean that they had left there for you to give or that they had given and been dropped or something?
If the latter, yes be mad, if the former and they were out of reach and not actually given to the horse I’d think it quite sweet of them.
I’d definitely put a sign up either way though, somewhere really obvious.
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My guess is they had tried to feed them but chickened out when horse tried to get them.
 
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