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Where i rent the yard, the lady who owns the stables has said if it snows really bad she will throw hay at them and check on them as its at the end of her garden.

But she comes out for a chat sometimes and tells me how to look after my ponies, only because she used to have horses.

Its just mega annoying.

She goes on about how the horses shouldnt have rugs on... ok i agree the 2 little ponies dont need them, but if they dont have them on the get absolutly filthy, and i dont have the time to stand around waiting for them to dry before i ride.

But what gets me is that she said "the cob doesnt need a rug on either, fully clipped or not!"

I was like whahhhtttt??

How can you expect a fully clipped horse to stand out in snow 24/7 with no rug on?!?!?!?

EEK! Rant over! Oh one quick little rant!! DAm you finances not letting me get my 4x4 sooner!
 
OMG totally sympathise, in exactly the situation only I part loan her horse and keep pony there. She does a couple of days and lets them out in the mornings.

I never feel I can do what I like.

I changed the pony's feed to the mollichaf calmer and she doesn't agree with it and thinks she should have nuts in this weather so when I went to let them in and she wasn't expecting me I found she was giving the pony her horses feed instead.

Very annoying, clearly thinks I'm an idiot yet she puts her 24 year old out in the snow with no rug and doesn't bother that she comes in shivering.

But she does help me out and I don't pay rent so some diplomacy is needed, I'm surprised I've not btten my tongue off at times!
 
yes agree... they are annoying , but im sure they mean well but are bored.

The woman at my yard, wouldnt take their rugs off, but just having the same conversations about it. Oh she also fails to understand the dangers of laminitus in the other pony too, and keeps asking why he gets penned in, when he should be allowed whole 3 acres of lush grass also!
 
LOL mines the opposite we're on constant laminitis watch, everytime she see's me in the Spring I get "have you felt the ponies feet"

She can be great and very supportive other times though I'm just seething at the moment after the "nuts" incident.

Pleased it's not just me though.
 
I've got exactly the same problem with the old boy i rent from, except for he also dictates which field i put ponies in! I'm actually leaving my yard as had enough now. I went to my yard this morning to find someone had been in and fed my ponies without permission.
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it nearly wasted a whole big bale of hay (which is hard enough to get at the moment), thankfully i manged to save half before they trampled it all. Very annoying as he didnt seem to care that someone had been on the land without anyone knowing, and he lives on site! Sorry didnt mean to take over rant, its just been boiling up inside for weeks... (lots of other things have also happened)
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I think people think they're being helpful. Maybe we'll be the same in our old age.

Need a lottery win so can have a house with own stables and land
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I used to ride an old chap's pony when I was a teenager. It was like a loan, I paid for feed, rugs etc & did Pony Club.

He didn't believe in letting them out at all in Winter, so they stood in & we could only ride at weekends. He also didn't believe in the new New Zealand Rugs that came out allowing them out! Said it would get wet & horse would get cold!

The most difficult thing to deal with was that he would 'corn up' an already fizzy pony all week. She got 3 feeds of oats, bran & chaff with boiled linseed a day! He wanted her to have a gutter along her back! She survived though.

Older folk just carry on doing what they've always done. He'd looked after carthorses that worked on the land. It can be very frustrating. I now have my own land & can do as I like.
 
Try not to forget that one day this will be you! Try to imagine all the wondferful "new tech" stuff our grandchildren will be doing with thier horses. And I'm sure we won't always approve either!
 
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