Is this acceptable to you?

Well I wouldn't do it but in reality it's not that bad. Certainly the hard feed is NOT a necessity if there's enough hay and water. There are several people on here who say that they only give hard feed if the horse has been ridden - I wouldn't do that either but presumably their horses cope with it.
 
Well thanks everyone for your input.

As the woman goes away every other weekend, I think I shall ask her if she'd like me to keep and eye and maintain their feeding regime, certainly for the very skinny one.

It's really bothered me this weekend, and I would hate myself if those horses were laying down ill for days, or had their foot through the wire, whatever. Just don't want to be responsible for ignoring them, even if I am perceived as interfering.

She won't be back until Monday morning apparently, so from Friday afternoon until then is quite long.

Again thanks.
 
Rose Folly said:
I posted on here recently about one of our livery horses, who I found in the field on my midnight check with a broken leg. Imagine if one of hers breaks its leg on the Fri to Sat night. That's a hell of a long time to wait on three legs for your dear owner to come home on the Sunday! I can see why you're upset...
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Do you serioiusly do a midnight check everyday? That is a bit over the top. What time do you start in the morning?
 
Evelyn said:
Do you serioiusly do a midnight check everyday? That is a bit over the top. What time do you start in the morning?
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How can you say its over the top when the person in question found a horse with a broken leg? Surely that proves that it isn't over the top at all.

I know quite a few yards who do a late night check, most of the YOs do it in their PJs and dressing gown just before going to bed ;) I do, at about 11.30-12pm if I'm yard sitting. Glad I did, I found a horse with colic the last time I was house sitting, who had shown no signs at 7pm.

I appreciate its not practical for many people, but to call it over the top is a bit... over the top, really :p
 
Hi Evelyn. Saw your respnse to my remark about going out at midnight belatedly.

Reading what I wrote now makes me sound very smug and, yes, OTT. But the reason that I do it is that my stablling, and my pasture, is literally 20 yards from my back door. I let my dogs out last thing, usually between midnight and 1 a.m. (am an insomniac!!) and you can bet your boots the horses will be waiting on the track to mug me for apples or, in winter, more haylage. And the night the old boy broke his leg I so nearly didn't go over to him. It was piddling down with rain, I was in house shoes, standing on the concrete track, and he just didn't come over to me for his apple. I almost thought "Well, if you don't want it I'm not coming over the mud" and then I thought "WHY isn't he coming?". Thirty seconds after I had my answer.

I'm just very very lucky to have everything so close at hand. But I think the person in the original post is the limit, leaving her horses untended for a weekend.
 
I'd never leave mine even one day without checking on mine or if I can't go then I'd arrange for someone else to check on them.
I know a few that visit once a week or every couple of weeks.
 
I cannot believe the posts about people who only visit their horses one or twice a week or fortnight? Ridiculous, what on earth do they own them for? Do they not give two hoots? I checked on my horses at 9.30pm one night last Winter, went up the following morning and one had had an accident that required veterinary attention, imagine if I didn't bother?

It always seems to be the ones who lack considerably in the care of their horses who seem to get off with it! Sods law!
 
I'm going to defend other party here , how do you know for a 100% that these horses are being left just because you don't see them there doesn't mean that noone is not looking on them , and if there are your dragging them through muck and to be quite frankly can be done
, I know from this situation as I was very much in the same situation I visit my horses ever day 7 days aweek
Uptill Friday I go down at 5.00 in morning and 8.00 in the afternoon
From sat - sun I go down at 7+4
and because someone didn't see me go down in the week they presume the worst , myself was dragged through the muck got to the point the person in said , actually started feeding them I declared my inncents and I still wasn't believed
In the end. The understanding has been cleared up
But all for someone who presumed I was not feeding my horses because I was down early and down late
 
I'm lucky because the man who owns the field I rent cheaply,he keeps an eye as do the people in houses near by. I don't drive so when its xmas he feeds them hay for me.Guess Im very lucky.
 
I'm lucky too in that I have a family who live one field over (But walk their dogs along the footpath twice daily) who also keep an eye on mine and have my phone numbers and also a nearby farmer who has offered to drop a round bale into the field if I can't get there due to snow (not happened yet thankfully) it's good to keep on friendly terms with any close neighbours, they can be a godsend.
 
Erm...am I doing something wrong - I dont feed my horses. They have 7 acres of grass, they only get ridden a couple of times per week and that is only a walk/trot as there is no where else to ride but as I ride with my 4 year old daughter, I couldnt do more anyway. Not trying to create a row but this has made me worry that I am doing something wrong, they are not skinny or fat, as far as the vet in concerned he has never said that they are lacking and their feet according to the farrier are good - they go barefoot.
 
Mine don't get fed if I go on holiday, which is only once a year tbh and normally in mid summer when there is plenty of grass.

My mother keeps an eye on them but she refuses to feed them as my fields are positioned one behind the other. You have to walk through the front field and get mugged by three horses to feed the two in the back - a very scary prospect for a non horsey person. So she just checks the water and makes sure that they all look well. She has the numbers of the vet and a horsey friend who can help in emergencies but who lives too far away to do the checks for me.

But I wouldn't be happy to leave them unchecked for any period of time.
 
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