It's official - I've been kicked out.

I have a theory that on a livery yard the behaviour of the horse is interpreted through the social standing of the owner, to a certain extent anyway. Its annoying. Good luck with your new yard, onwards and upward
 
at the last yard I was on, I wasn't allowed to do certain things with one of mine - the reason I was given was that he was a good deal bigger than all of the other horses and very green when ridden, which would intimidate the riding school clients. It wasn't a problem to let other livery clients with smaller green horses do them, funnily enough.

it was rather upsetting at the time. We spent a large amount of money on livery for three and lessons (and not to mention the fact that we bought them new equipment) for the YM to turn around and go 'he's too big to do that'

Sometimes people take a dislike to your horse(s) and there's rarely anything you can do about it.
good luck with the move - Sometimes it best o have a fresh start.

All of us have benefited from moving yards - should have done it ages ago
 
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It's clear that the YM fancies you and is jealous of your love for Ned, if she can't have you then she won't have Ned either and that's why she's kicking you off
 
skint1 said:
I have a theory that on a livery yard the behaviour of the horse is interpreted through the social standing of the owner, to a certain extent anyway. Its annoying. Good luck with your new yard, onwards and upward
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I think you're right, and the less and less I do for her, the worse Ned appears to get! It's very odd!
I no longer muck out her horses and I don't take rides out either! That hadn't actually occurred to me before!
 
If you hadn't said 5 mares, I'd think you were my friend posting anonymously! I call her situation constructive dismissal. She had the same. Perfectly happy gelding until hormonal mare joined the yard. Suddenly he's at fault for everything, even though the mare has hassled every gelding on the yard and manager won't have her with her own horses! When I moved there at the end of Feb, mine were swapped with this gelding into the mare's field. Sure enough, she hassled my gelding, too and became dangerous towards me and my own mare. It came to a head one night when I was alone and couldn't get my gelding out of the field and I was gone within the week (my choice). Still the manager refused to accept her herd setup wasn't working. I left in May and since then two liveries have arrived. One has had his ribs broken by the same mare. The other has been kicked repeatedly. Both liveries are moving, understandably. My friend's gelding hasbeen isolated for months on a postage stamp, despite it clearly being this mare. Friend is also leaving. I think you're better off out of there. My ponies settled again as soon as I moved. My mare used to plant going back to the field! Sometimes the manager has trouble accepting they might have got it wrong and it's not worth waiting for a serious injury. It could so easily have been my pony or me with broken ribs. Get yourself and him out and enjoy the autumn! I relaxed as soon as I did. My friend is practically ill with worry as her gelding is still being hassled over a flimsy fence. You couldn't make it up!
 
I cannot understand why YM/O insist on mixing mares and geldings in herds on small fields. It's fine if there are acres and acres for them to graze on in small groups, determined by themselves and some owners find that one mare and one gelding will graze together quite peaceably but in the main and definitely if you are taking money for the service you should be providing safe facilities for everybody.
I'm sure you'll be better off out of it, Nah. But make sure that YO knows what has been going on.
 
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