Have you done a midnight flit or left a yard quickly why?

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I did once was at a temp place privately owned .

Women was a c*w

1 my mare had moon blindness her horse she turned out with my mare and donkey it chased my mare into the post and rail fencing :(. i had to rescue her out of the post and rail she was trapped

2 No apology still turned her horse out in same paddock so my mare had no option but t o suffer the bullying .


3 Her mother used to turn the light out while i was mucking out , i would put it on continue to muck out she come back turn it off - once again i was plunged into darkness this continued reg 4-5 times in a row

4 she would contently say your being unfair to your horse keeping it alive






Her brats would say :


5. what ya doing - i would say filling water bucket

brat would say why ?? I would explain what i was doing


then what ya doing filling a haynet

brat - why?I would explain what i was doing


what ya doing ??????????????????? I would explain what i was doing over and over they would continue all the time every day

drove me insane..


6 the brats would come round with a cane and poke me in the back - or legs daily


7. the brats would pee on my hay get their dinkle out and wooshhhhhhhhhhhhhh


8. owner said in the cold when taps frozen
you cannot use my tap in the garage :mad:


instead i had to drive twice a day with jerry cans 10 miles x 2 with water for my mare to drink. from my home tap

my mare got ill there lost all her weight looked like a jamie gray pony .

she was a biotch to say the least so i did a flit from her she made my life hell and her property was the result of my beloved mare being PTS.

what horror stories have you experienced at a yard.

after her brats ( and before ) its no wonder why i dont like kids
 
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I'm a YO and someone left here suddenly without saying she was going.

We'd had no arguments or anything like that; in fact we'd had a nice conversation the night before - and she'd given no indication that anything like this was going to happen.

Basically, ours is a DIY set-up; and in the winter the horses come in for the night normally. On this occasion it was a horrible, filthy, very cold night and the snow was just beginning the fall. The pony concerned was old (21) and darkness had fallen and still no pony had been brought in.

So I texted to owner to ask if everything was OK, as I didn't feel right about it being up in the field in that weather.

She texted back to say she'd moved it because my place was "too far to come". She'd taken the tack room key with her too, and although promising to post it back never did so, which meant we had to go to all the bother of getting more duplicates done.

Whilst I realise that some people doubtless do have dreadful experiences on yards; this was not the case with this person and I felt it was extremely discourteous and downright inconsiderate to do a moonlight flit like this. My main concern was for the pony in this situation and I felt she could at least have said look OK no hard feelings but I'm finding your place a bit of a way to come (9 miles) and so I'm taking him out tomorrow, but no, nothing.

This thread will doubtless bring with it the usual rash of YO-bashing rants; and whilst I sympathise with anyone who's had a bad time at a yard, I know from personal experience that it does leave very bad air if someone just hops it and leaves without giving the courtesy of saying they're going.
 
I've moved horses before giving notice, I had a bad experience a long time ago when a loony YO locked my horses in and wouldn't let me at them. Depends on whether I trust YO to not do a crazy on me. Last yard was fine, gave notice, moved horse when it was convenient for both of us.

If I did do a daylight flit though I would always give whatever notice was in the contract and pay up whatever was on the final bill.
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
She'd taken the tack room key with her too, and although promising to post it back never did so, which meant we had to go to all the bother of getting more duplicates done.
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i would change the locks .

We had to do this 3 times when onw one would not return key

here they pay a deposit on the keys which they get back when they leave , if they loose one they buy the replacement

With this lady at woodrow, it wasnt a livery yard it was he place which she accepted a livery ie me
 
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I can understand why people leave yards if the yard owner is crazy as the OP explained in her situation but i know of people who go from yard to yard, rack up loads of bills and then never pay and do a runner or get chucked off. Think it is so unfair and gives the rest of us a bad name.

I would always give notice, and always have. Its only fair.

Feel sorry for MiJods poster. How disgusting to be treated like that by a livery, especially as you took the trouble to ring them up as you were concerned about their horse.
 
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Yup. Got to the stage where I refused to be alone on the yard, when I did I would see to both horses I was sorting in 20mins (turn out, muck out, sort feeds etc!) and go. YOs just kept making things really difficult for me, all of the girls on the yard started being very funny with me and couldn't take it - especially when I was sat in A&E waiting room with possible chest/stomach injuries from an accident at yard (YO was there at the time!) and I recieved a very snotty/rude message from the YO. Ended in a fit of rage and me almost hacking the 6 miles home through busy town but did manage to get a lift back thankfully. Was not nice at all and am now very wary of YOs :( Now on a LOVELY yard though and extremely glad I've moved :D
 
We had one do a runner without paying a rather substantial bill. She was a nutter, she was only on basic livery, but refused to do anything and treated the grooms like personal slaves. She was soooo wasteful with hay, bedding etc, and trying to school in the same arena as her was taking your life in your hands!
YO decided not to pursue it, since getting rid of her was apparently a 'blessing' and just be pleased that she'd left.

Same woman turns up 5, maybe 6 years later when we had an open day, inquiring about livery... couldn't see why the reception was a little cold? :D
 
I did a bit of a quick one, wasn't happy where I was due to there being no one running it, yard owner lived between yard home and other far away.. She was mental, nice as pie one minute, going mad the next..wasn't horsey but thought she new everything.. Had a go at me for not turning my horse out when he was on box rest after an operation, tried to feed my horse when he had been sedated & I'd put a notice on my door saying he wasn't to eat anything. Liked to control everyone.. Then one of my horses was injured due to rubbish being dumped in field.. Didn't want a debate so waited till she was at her other home, left a cheque paying up my notice period and went same day before she came back..
 
I have left quickly (gave notice and left the next day, but did pay up til the end of the month that I was paying for the day I gave notice) but as far as I was concerned it was amicable and wasn't due to the YO, more two particular liveries. It just worked easier for me to move Genie the next day rather than wait til the end of the month, and also worked to the YO's benefit as she had a horse in the stable the following week so had a few weeks of double rent for that stable!
 
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Never done it never would.
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thats easy when you haven't been in this situation ,
this is the only time i did .

women was un talkable to
the family was crazy . we all say we wouldn't but faced with this situation
you need to leave with out her knowing as she was type of woman who would do something stupid.

Remember i did it for the safety of my horses. she had my rent so she did not loose out ,

i only found out later some one else had done a flit from hers too again for the safety of theri horses the woman was strange so were her kids.


since then always given notice as do liveries and when they leave qwuick they have to pay month,

we had one lady vanished non payers we found out later she steals horses and parks them somewhere then vanishes without pay.o
 
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Yes I have and hope never to do it again. Its a long story but the YO and her husband were utterly vile and the business was going down the tubes. Paid a months livery in lieu of notice and went within 24 hours. YO tried to make me pay for more than my livery, alledging that I had entered some classes at a show they ran, which I had not. I left with her standing on the running board of my 4 x 4 screaming at me through the open window of my car. Hubby got me to stop, got out and told her what he thought of her, and this was in front of an audience of other liveries, all desperate to leave as well. He had to prise her hands off my car as well, and then she tried to undo my trailer ramp and unload my horses, who she said she was going to sell to pay for my alledged 'debts'. Other half was pretty calm and got her off of there as well and we got offf pretty sharpish. Arrived at my new yard, where I have happily been for over 5 years in tears.

They went bankrupt not long after. It couldnt have happened to a nicer couple.

Being a YO is a job I would never do. I take my hat off to you all.
 
I left quickly, yesterday actually :rolleyes:

I had already given notice and paid. It's a long story and I won't bore you with it, but I'll never trust anyone in the horsey world again apart from family and friends.
 
No I have more respect for myself than that. The horse community is a small world AND there are such things as forums lol.

No matter how bad the place is and how craply your horse is looked after all it takes is for one person to blacken your name and doors close or become difficult for you.

I have remained on asking terms with everywhere I have left and I am hopefully going back to one of them in Feb :)
 
I had to do an urgent move at the weekend - got a day and a bit to move the horse and his stuff. Took me totally by surprise, but luckily managed to find a yard for a temporary home until I get something closer. It was not YO's fault I had to move, rather a relation of his who keeps horses at his yard. Better off out, at least my horse is safe now!
 
I left with just a few hours notice. In my defense although the livery fee was weekly I used to pay a full month up front, so she had two or three weeks money off me.

Before I moved to the yard I expressed concerns about one or two things and was promised that they would be sorted. They weren't and as a direct result I ended up having an accident that lead to me being on crutches for two or three weeks and unable to weight bear on one leg for several days.

I was offered no help with the horses (which I would have happily paid for) and instead very non horsey OH had to do everything.

I had had enough one day, and a friend offered to pick horses up later that day and take them to my old rented field 20 odd miles away. The horses had 24/7 turnout at our own place and OH just had to stop by on his way to and from work to check water and put in hay.

Not that I make a habit of these things, but a few weeks ago I was sharing a field with a girl who I caught hitting my horse. A friend picked him up and took him to her place an hour later......

The last two times I haven't had my own place my horses mental and physical well being has been compromised. I will never put my horses in that position again and will therefore always rent my own land.
 
Blimey scary stuff - from both sides.

Never had a horse in livery but seen quite a few different liveries and set up through my work. I've always had mine either at home on my parents farm or in rented grazing with my daughters.

I can sympathize with both sides here, some awful stories.
 
Festive Beastie said:
No I have more respect for myself than that. The horse community is a small world AND there are such things as forums lol.
No matter how bad the place is and how craply your horse is looked after all it takes is for one person to blacken your name and doors close or become difficult for you.
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the one i was at was no livery yard so i had no worries .


I was a diy here

when kids start hitting my mare with canes

i have to try and persuade a nearly blind horse how to get out of a post and rail fence where some legs were over the middle rails.??

kids pi$$ing on my hay i dont care about reputation

MY mare comes first and i would say stuff the narrow minded people who would try black list me .

all i ever heard from 2 other people is she is nuts no one had ever heard of her before and since there is a min of 15 yards around this area locally i have no worries especially when this happened in 1994.

I could nt give a rats what anyone says about me my horses welfare and safety comes first over a few rumours
 
slightly different but we were given a months notice to find somewhere else.
I was gone as soon as I could arrange for someone to pick him up. I paid cash for the day that I owed once he was on the lorry.

on another note, my dad was talking to our yard owner and he was saying that, although he always has a spare stable, he doesn't let just anyone take it - peoples' reputations are still taken into account.
 
I left one with 4 days notice.
I had taken a new job and the plan had been to keep loan pony at previous yard but 2 days riding a week wasn't enough so I started making phone calls, arranged to buy horse from YO and 4 days later, moved horse to new yard. Stayed on good terms with yard including going up once a week and helping with their 20 horses etc.

Another one, I was on yard and only when I was leaving did I find I was paying £30 a month extra (for at least 5 months) and I'd left with 3 weeks livery paid upfront. Pony was stressed and bordering dangerous due to people playing musical fields. The last straw was when she went over a fence because all horses had been moved to a field away from hers, without me being notified. I did try to talk to YO but he wasn't interested in hearing I was moving and wanted to help me to stay.
I was beyond considering staying and took pony for a hack as planned and then moved all our stuff.

This was done in daylight and ponys safety is my main concern.
 
I was on one yard that started brilliantly but the YO appeared to have mental health issues that meant she could turn very nasty.
She started making my life hell & got to the point where I didn't want to ride...several years on I'm still struggling with confidence issues that started there :(
Myself & another livery paid our month in advance then a week later when she'd gone out shopping moved horses & everything.
Turns out that we weren't the first & most people had previously left either not paying notice or owing money.
She had never had a livery last more than 6 months!
 
Left a yard/field quickly when told that I was expected to pay extra for a 3rd pony in my field or else said 3rd pony would appear tied up in my garden one day soon :(. Original deal had been a so-called field share, but I was actually paying 3/4 of the rent (not that she knew I knew that). If I had paid her what she was asking then woman would have been making a tidy profit out of me, which was not the deal I agreed to. The woman then stalked me for a couple of months for the "extra rent I owed her" before finally giving up. Incredibly nearly 2 years later she offered to rent me the whole lot! What she didn't know was I had been on a charm offensive with Landlord ever since I moved out, cultivating him so I could hopefully be offered first refusal when she gave up the field. Which I was, and I took over tenancy in my own name earlier this year. Yard is down the road from my house, which is why I was so keen to be there. Ultimately some good did come out of it...

But yes, there are some really strange people about in the horse world.
 
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I went to see my horse earlier than usual one day, she had only recently been backed and I was bringing her on slowly, when I got to the field she wasn't there but there was a strange guy hanging round so I asked him if he knew where the horse from the field had gone and he said 'yeah my girlfriends out on her' I went mad...it turned out she was the daughter of the yo girlfriend, way to heavy for my mare and had been riding her everyday for a couple of weeks ( after I had been up in the morning,so there was no evidence when I went back later) She then asked if she could ride her and pay some towards livery costs, I found a new yard and left 2 days later. I did ring that evening and say they could ask the daughter for any outstanding rent as her 'share' towards the riding she had already done!
 
I have done once.

I kept my horse & worked on the same yard. One night I finished up as usual & tootled off home after saying goodnight to both male & female boss.

Not long after getting home I got a call from female boss saying she had an argument with male boss, ending with her being thrown on the floor, so she had taken her horses & done a runner.

After some thought & discussion me & my mum went up to the yard next am, packed up ponies stuff & I walked her round to female bosses house at other end of village.

I did see male boss while packing & he was v calm about it but think he expected me to say!

Did I mention that at the time he was on bail for a murder charge?......
 
Wasn't a livery yard but was a field and a stable I rented privately off a lady who no longer used them.

I was paying her £20 a week for 2 horses. It was all cash in hand which didn't bother me in the slightest (ask no questions get told no lies, and all that) but of course this meant that I wasn't getting any receipts or had any proof that I had paid her.

Turned out that the woman had a bit of a drink problem. She kept demanding money off me when I'd already paid her, and even drove to my Dad's house once and demanded money off him (which he paid because he thought I was in trouble).

And then one day she decided to lock my horses in the field with a bicycle chain and padlock and then demanded more money.

We went down that night with the trailer and some bolt croppers and got them out. Luckily, we knew a farmer who let us put them at his for a couple of months while we found somewhere else.

The woman was a nightmare.
 
I have never moved horses without giving notice, but was extremely pissed off when after giving notice, the YO hid one of the rugs, in case i left without paying the last week. I had always paid in advance, and I had to wait until she was there so I could recover my rug before leaving, which was inconvenient, as required a seperate visit.
 
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I went to see my horse earlier than usual one day, she had only recently been backed and I was bringing her on slowly, when I got to the field she wasn't there but there was a strange guy hanging round so I asked him if he knew where the horse from the field had gone and he said 'yeah my girlfriends out on her' I went mad...it turned out she was the daughter of the yo girlfriend, way to heavy for my mare and had been riding her everyday for a couple of weeks ( after I had been up in the morning,so there was no evidence when I went back later) She then asked if she could ride her and pay some towards livery costs, I found a new yard and left 2 days later. I did ring that evening and say they could ask the daughter for any outstanding rent as her 'share' towards the riding she had already done!
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fair eough
 
One left my old yard without telling anyone. We saw her out on a hack one evening & she said nothing. It wasn't until I went round to her house at 6am to tell her her horse was missing that she told me that she had moved him the night before. It was me that told YO!
 
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