violetblush
Member
Hello!
My mare foaled last week. We are in a livery yard where the owner has never had a problem with our mare being in foal or providing for them afterwards. Last week this changed. Suddenly the yard wasn't OK for a foal and we've been asked to look for something else. In the meantime they have been stabled which has left me in bits. It seems there is a contingent in the yard who are feeding the owners head raising concerns over everything from electric fencing to some ancient arthritic horse jumping a 5 bar gate to get at the foal. We have single sex fields and no grass. The plan was for the mares to go in one field, freeing up the other for our mare and foal with haylage on tap. All hell has broken out and everything is being done from shouting at our son to putting so many obstacles in our way we cant get them out (clipping horses outside her box etc etc) to make us feel uncomfortable. Yet, they are all being soooo nice to our faces. So today the plan is to stamp on anyone who gets in our way and put them first in the school to run out steam and then take them up to a free field that "we'll never get to' (its up a hill .... foals walk miles in wild right?)
If I am stopped what grounds do I have to stand on? How does the Welfare Act apply to livery yards? We have spent 7 days looking for a new yard but its like the whole world bought a horse and the only yard we've found had a stallion blowing down his nose at us so probably not the best for a foal! So we are stuck .... please help x
My mare foaled last week. We are in a livery yard where the owner has never had a problem with our mare being in foal or providing for them afterwards. Last week this changed. Suddenly the yard wasn't OK for a foal and we've been asked to look for something else. In the meantime they have been stabled which has left me in bits. It seems there is a contingent in the yard who are feeding the owners head raising concerns over everything from electric fencing to some ancient arthritic horse jumping a 5 bar gate to get at the foal. We have single sex fields and no grass. The plan was for the mares to go in one field, freeing up the other for our mare and foal with haylage on tap. All hell has broken out and everything is being done from shouting at our son to putting so many obstacles in our way we cant get them out (clipping horses outside her box etc etc) to make us feel uncomfortable. Yet, they are all being soooo nice to our faces. So today the plan is to stamp on anyone who gets in our way and put them first in the school to run out steam and then take them up to a free field that "we'll never get to' (its up a hill .... foals walk miles in wild right?)
If I am stopped what grounds do I have to stand on? How does the Welfare Act apply to livery yards? We have spent 7 days looking for a new yard but its like the whole world bought a horse and the only yard we've found had a stallion blowing down his nose at us so probably not the best for a foal! So we are stuck .... please help x