Hedwards
Well-Known Member
I apologise now as i am basically just venting my frustration and anger on this post but anyway... so i was on a great yard for over three years, in the past 6 months or so things had started to deteriorate, but the prices were going up. it was just little things, the YO started to 'add' costs on without warning, the haylage quality wasnt great, the horses were stuck in for nearly 2 full weeks during the snow as they wouldnt grit and the school was frozen solid - like i said lots of small things that slowly built up. so me and a couple of friends (who had been having a decidedly worse time on yard then me as they were being blamed for 'using too much haylage' even though between them they used less haylage then most, oh and for not joining in with the competitions held on site etc.) decided to just look at a couple of yards definitely not looking to move immediately, just wanted to be assured that we were getting a good deal (we'd all been on the same yard for a good few years - and for the most part were very happy). I was on assisted DIY
We looked at 3 other local yards, 1 we didnt like - mainly due to YO, another was just average and didnt match current yard, and a third, we stumbled across was great, DIY pretty much left to our own devices, initially only 2 stables free (my friends and i have 5 horses between us) we really liked it (me especially as it was half the cost of the other yard, and i've had a crappy time recently with a relationship break up, trying to sell a house paying rent elsewhere and half a mortgage - so price v important to me). so we left and said we liked it but no rush to move and not enough stables, the YO phoned us and said, i can clear some of the stables being used for storage, you can have 5 if you like - well we jumped at the chance, handed notice into old yard (giving 2 weeks notice - we paid a month in advance) - old YO then proceeded to blank me until my last day when she said no hard feelings and i was welcome back - i thought fair enough whatever, i told her id enjoyed my time on the yard, and thanked her. we moved and that was that...
until tonight (3 weeks since we moved) i've recieved a snotty text message telling me she was disgusted that i and my friends had been saying horrible things about her yard, her competitions and her staff (the last one really annoyed me as she only has one member of staff, and she's a really good friend of mine!) i was so angry, i've never bad mouthed the yard, when asked i have said i was paying a lot and not recieving the same service as i was 3 years ago and that the haylage wasnt great - but that was only to new YO as we took a couple of nets of old haylage to cross over on first day and she said she wouldnt feed it to her horses - probably not to her cows either!
old YO only sent the message to me, not my 2 friends that moved - and they did have actual issues on old yard - unlike me (i moved mainly due to cost efficiency and the fact my loan horse is connected with my frind that moved too)
Oh and also had a major car accident yesterday, now have whiplash and car written off thanks to a numpty man in his BMW!!
So sorry for rant, thats much longer then i meant! but feel a bit better now!
We looked at 3 other local yards, 1 we didnt like - mainly due to YO, another was just average and didnt match current yard, and a third, we stumbled across was great, DIY pretty much left to our own devices, initially only 2 stables free (my friends and i have 5 horses between us) we really liked it (me especially as it was half the cost of the other yard, and i've had a crappy time recently with a relationship break up, trying to sell a house paying rent elsewhere and half a mortgage - so price v important to me). so we left and said we liked it but no rush to move and not enough stables, the YO phoned us and said, i can clear some of the stables being used for storage, you can have 5 if you like - well we jumped at the chance, handed notice into old yard (giving 2 weeks notice - we paid a month in advance) - old YO then proceeded to blank me until my last day when she said no hard feelings and i was welcome back - i thought fair enough whatever, i told her id enjoyed my time on the yard, and thanked her. we moved and that was that...
until tonight (3 weeks since we moved) i've recieved a snotty text message telling me she was disgusted that i and my friends had been saying horrible things about her yard, her competitions and her staff (the last one really annoyed me as she only has one member of staff, and she's a really good friend of mine!) i was so angry, i've never bad mouthed the yard, when asked i have said i was paying a lot and not recieving the same service as i was 3 years ago and that the haylage wasnt great - but that was only to new YO as we took a couple of nets of old haylage to cross over on first day and she said she wouldnt feed it to her horses - probably not to her cows either!
old YO only sent the message to me, not my 2 friends that moved - and they did have actual issues on old yard - unlike me (i moved mainly due to cost efficiency and the fact my loan horse is connected with my frind that moved too)
Oh and also had a major car accident yesterday, now have whiplash and car written off thanks to a numpty man in his BMW!!
So sorry for rant, thats much longer then i meant! but feel a bit better now!
