I can't stand it much longer... *RANT*

WelshRuby

WelshRuby

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Due to an incident in the field over a week ago (which in NO WAY was her fault)
my horse has been banished to another field out of sight and sound of her field
companions by the farmer (who doesn't understand horses)
I've tried to find a new place but there are none going so meanwhile my poor little
girl is just going mad - and I mean mad. She doesn' "talk" to me or let me touch her and she's very nervous so I daren't ride her at the moment.
I don't expect any answers to this but needed to vent as feel totally sick with worry.
Thanks for reading if you got this far!
 
I'd have another word with the farmer and explain how difficult this is for your horse and ask if there is any possibility of her rejoining the herd. Or look harder for another yard. Try Gloucestershire Horse Riders on Facebook.
 
Poor you and your horse. Speak to the farmer again and explain your concerns, im sure in this ecomonic climate he wouldnt want you to leave??? Is there another livery who could turn theirs out with yours? Or can you fence off some of the original field with electric fence so your horse can go back in with the others?

Good luck x
 
Thank you all for your responses.
There are only two other liveries and one of them caused the problem. Mine was
fenced off from the others and yes I've really tried to keep to her routine plus I've
been sleeping overnight in the car in the field!
I think I'll try taking her out in hand this afternoon.
Flummoxed - I'm not on Facebook.
Thanks again everyone.
 
Flummoxed said:
Which part of Gloucestershire are you? Someone on here may know of something - there are spaces to be found if you can be flexible.
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I can't really be very flexible due to my car frequently playing up, lol.
I know there are no vacancies round here as a few weeks ago a friend was looking for
a place for hers and found the only one!
After going for a walk later with R I will have a chat with the farmer.
Anyway, I really do appreciate all your help, guys. No-one Ive spoken to realises just
how R is affected by this.
 
Oh no, your poor mare! And poor you! Could you loan a pony from somewhere to keep her company? It really is something i hate with a passion, horses being kept on their own.
 
Hi OP, I sympathise with you although my case is the polar opposite to yours. I keep my 29 year old on a farm and when the latest new liveries arrive there will be 11 on less than 2 acres - and we are losing quarter of an acre shortly as they have decided to build a manege there (the wettest part of the entire field, what a joke). There is almost no grass anyway now and that isn't going to change. 3 new ones moved on a fortnight ago, no quarantine, no getting to know you field with the result my poor old girl who is going blind and deaf, plus isn't all that quick off the mark due to arthritis got bitten several times and knocked on the floor. I'm actually glad I'm having her put down in a few months due to her catalogue of infirmities. I had hoped for her to have a nice quiet summer with decent grass to end her days, but frankly I'm now thinking of bring the date forward. YO doesn't want to know. Apparently the newly seeded area in an adjoining field will give us all plenty of grazing - except it hasn't grown at all, and even I know you shouldn't graze new pasture for at least 12 months.

ARGGHHH
 
I would suggest that you find a nice private yard for your horses. By a private yard I mean someone that has some stables and land behind their house and either wants company for their horse or would love to see horses again in their fields/stables.

Finding these places may require some research or advertise in your local tack shops/feed merchants and/or ask your farrier.

You would be suprised how many empty stables and paddocks there are!
 
Flummoxed - I assume you know me and you're right.

fatpiggy - I'm so sorry about your old girl. Hope you can find some nice grass for her. (Hugs)

Bertolie - Pony was a chronic lamminitic and and therefore wasn't much use as a
companion as was on constant box rest so went back.
 
No, I don't know you from Adam but you say your car is unreliable and I'm sure you'd have it repaired if you could afford to do so. ;)

I hope you find an answer to your livery problem.
 
fatpiggy said:
Hi OP, I sympathise with you although my case is the polar opposite to yours. I keep my 29 year old on a farm and when the latest new liveries arrive there will be 11 on less than 2 acres - and we are losing quarter of an acre shortly as they have decided to build a manege there (the wettest part of the entire field, what a joke). There is almost no grass anyway now and that isn't going to change. 3 new ones moved on a fortnight ago, no quarantine, no getting to know you field with the result my poor old girl who is going blind and deaf, plus isn't all that quick off the mark due to arthritis got bitten several times and knocked on the floor. I'm actually glad I'm having her put down in a few months due to her catalogue of infirmities. I had hoped for her to have a nice quiet summer with decent grass to end her days, but frankly I'm now thinking of bring the date forward. YO doesn't want to know. Apparently the newly seeded area in an adjoining field will give us all plenty of grazing - except it hasn't grown at all, and even I know you shouldn't graze new pasture for at least 12 months.

ARGGHHH
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What an awful sounding place. Why do you stay there? If you have no option but to stay, I would have her PTS sooner rather than later. Hardly a nice way to spend her final months. :(
 
Hi Wagtail,

When I moved there I was told it was being kept at just a few horses. Now they have seen it is easy money offering stables and grazing and are expanding hugely. There will be 25 horses there soon - bigger than the yard I came from- and under 10 acres of grazing. They clearly are quite unaware of the acre per horse rule of thumb but then of course if you have to bring your horse in and hay/feed it then guess whose getting extra money for hay and straw???

One thing is for sure, I wouldn't move there now if you paid me to and quite a few of the other liveries think the same. Problem is it is on the edge of suburbia and getting much grazing at all is always a problem and yards are full.
 
Just to let you all know, one of the other liveries has offered to put her pony in with Roo so we are meeting the farmer in the morning to hopefully get the thumbs up!
I'm sooooooooo relieved I can't tell you!
 
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