LankyDoodle
Well-Known Member
Those of you who've followed my yard troubles will know why.
Yard 1 - there 6 years, left because builder (who we are in legal dispute with) and his wife liveried there. We'd also lost our mare and had some bitter memories of that. Time to move on sadly.
Yard 2 - Arrive end Sept 08. Leave end Nov 08. The biggest bunch of charlatons I've met. Mistreating and neglecting their foal etc. Things went bad to worse, no school and promises of friend's school a mile away never came about.
Yard 3 - My OH kept his mare here a number of years ago. I came onto the scene and got my own horse, which there were no stables for, and we moved. My husband can be confrontational and stand up for himself but is generally quite placid. He'd had trouble with this YO but she left him well alone once he stood up for himself. So we moved back here on 29th November. Things have been a nightmare from day 1 for various reasons. This week she has taken in another livery (who also kept her horses there when we were last there, and left) with a horse and a pony. The horse is a gelding which will mean there will now be 11 geldings on the tiny field with no grass. We were on 6 acres but the fence was broken, so we are now on about 4 until the end of May
One of my geldings ended up with a bone-deep wound to his head (between his eyes) due to fights over space and grass; and last week another gelding received a similar cut on his eye - close to losing his eye! Nothing is ever done about it. There is opportunity to split the herd so there are 5 in each, but she won't! She seems incapable of managing the grazing so that it recovers for summer, so she has to set it aside in HUGE amounts. I was also annoyed that on the day my gelding got kicked, she was due to bring them in, which she did, but she smothered his wound with sudocrem and didn't phone me or vet; therefore, a wound which needed immediate vet attention so that it could be stitched, was left open to the elements and bacteria sealed in with sudocrem. This woman then has the gall to lecture me about things as she thinks she knows everything!
So I've had enough and we are 99% going to be moving to a place a mile from our house. It is a bit gutting as the place has no school and the hacking immediately from the yard is pants in comparison (current yard has off-road hacking direct from the yard). However, I would be the only livery, have 2 fields of 1 acre and 2 acres respectively, to use as I like. One field is flat so I can have a grass school and jumps in there; the other field is sloped so I would use it as my winter paddock. There are two stables and not very good storage, but we are able to have our own tackshed up there. It will be £32 a week for both horses, and because it is on our doorstep we will be able to walk/cycle there twice a day, which means no paying the YO for extras. We will save a lot of money, time, hassle and heartache.
We are going to measure up tonight. I just hope we can do it as I really think being on our own for a bit is what we need. We've, sadly, had a couple of bad experiences with YOs in the last 6 months, and while it would be nice to go back to the original yard, too much has gone on there. It will be like having them at home with them being so close by.
So, that's my update for those who have been asking at various points over the last few weeks.
Yard 1 - there 6 years, left because builder (who we are in legal dispute with) and his wife liveried there. We'd also lost our mare and had some bitter memories of that. Time to move on sadly.
Yard 2 - Arrive end Sept 08. Leave end Nov 08. The biggest bunch of charlatons I've met. Mistreating and neglecting their foal etc. Things went bad to worse, no school and promises of friend's school a mile away never came about.
Yard 3 - My OH kept his mare here a number of years ago. I came onto the scene and got my own horse, which there were no stables for, and we moved. My husband can be confrontational and stand up for himself but is generally quite placid. He'd had trouble with this YO but she left him well alone once he stood up for himself. So we moved back here on 29th November. Things have been a nightmare from day 1 for various reasons. This week she has taken in another livery (who also kept her horses there when we were last there, and left) with a horse and a pony. The horse is a gelding which will mean there will now be 11 geldings on the tiny field with no grass. We were on 6 acres but the fence was broken, so we are now on about 4 until the end of May
So I've had enough and we are 99% going to be moving to a place a mile from our house. It is a bit gutting as the place has no school and the hacking immediately from the yard is pants in comparison (current yard has off-road hacking direct from the yard). However, I would be the only livery, have 2 fields of 1 acre and 2 acres respectively, to use as I like. One field is flat so I can have a grass school and jumps in there; the other field is sloped so I would use it as my winter paddock. There are two stables and not very good storage, but we are able to have our own tackshed up there. It will be £32 a week for both horses, and because it is on our doorstep we will be able to walk/cycle there twice a day, which means no paying the YO for extras. We will save a lot of money, time, hassle and heartache.
We are going to measure up tonight. I just hope we can do it as I really think being on our own for a bit is what we need. We've, sadly, had a couple of bad experiences with YOs in the last 6 months, and while it would be nice to go back to the original yard, too much has gone on there. It will be like having them at home with them being so close by.
So, that's my update for those who have been asking at various points over the last few weeks.
