just for fun...rubbish advice?!

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its come to my attention that horsey people are great at chatting rubbish and giving advice on things that they know NOTHING about as if they are experts...what are the most amusing/shocking pieces of advice that you ave been given or have heard being given?
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its something that is a constant source of amusement to me
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pmsl because there was a post from someone fairly new earlier this week asking for advice on here. She got several responses, and posted to say how lovely it was to get such "good advice" - and I had to sit firmly on my hands because I was dying to say "not all of it's good!!"
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I think it's scarey reading on here sometimes
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ages ago, when missy had put on her weight and was in good condition, i had some trouble with her getting 'hot' and was having trouble finding the right balance between feed, exersize and rugging (dont worry we've found it now) and a lady at my yard said, feed her 4 meals a day, two of oats, lunge her in the morning and ride her during the day and lunge her at night and put 3 rugs on her. :S i didnt listen.
 
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pmsl because there was a post from someone fairly new earlier this week asking for advice on here. She got several responses, and posted to say how lovely it was to get such "good advice" - and I had to sit firmly on my hands because I was dying to say "not all of it's good!!"
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I think it's scarey reading on here sometimes
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i heard the other day that ALL warmbloods are highly strung and you should therefore expect and ACCEPT a certain amount of bad behaviour from them....
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When I first moved here, I heard about an elderly horseman who was well respected locally for his knowledge - I think he has said something suspect every time I have met him, but one particular classic was "horses never get laminitis, only ponies get it".

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And people listen to him
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I'm forever being told at the yard by just one person that because Lace is a 4yo 16.2 and I'm only 5'4 I should be leading her on a bridle, not a headcollar and that I need to put her on some hormone balancer right away because she is a mare.
Needless to say I won't listen, she doddles on the headcollar like a little puppy and why should I feed a hormone balancer to a perfectly sensible horse? Some people confuse me
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Just out of curiosity can youngsters get laminitus?? i thought all horses and ponies are prone to it?? but was since told otherwise?
 
as far as i'm aware (and i'm not an expert
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) any horse or pony can get it....potentially...if the contributing factors are all there
 
Not just rubish, but down right wrong, we also have someone here who has" forgotten" more than i will ever learn about horses, and advocates pulling foals over backwards when they rear, when being halter broken. I have one of her foals who is now about ten, and he is a nervouse wreck!! In her words if you do this they never rear again.
 
Worked with show horses when I first left school and they suffered a lot of laminitus.

I was told my horse needed a good gallop when he was misbehaving due to pain related issues. Um yes, great idea!!
He has bone spavin which was causing back problems...
 
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Not just rubish, but down right wrong, we also have someone here who has" forgotten" more than i will ever learn about horses, and advocates pulling foals over backwards when they rear, when being halter broken. I have one of her foals who is now about ten, and he is a nervouse wreck!! In her words if you do this they never rear again.

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This is still done regularly, not the way I halter broke mine and not the method I would choose if I had to do another but from witnessing it in the past its always seemed a quick way of doing it, not a nice way but I know lots that were halter broke this way or from tying to something solid, all good animals now with no ill affects.

Much worse is bog breaking. Lunge them for ages so they are knackered, put them in a bog and get on them.
 
I was told by an old yard owner that my pony with a severely busted tendon (couldn't put weight on it, and hopped in from field) just had mud fever and I would be stupid and time-wasting if I got the vets out. Suffice to say I ignored the silly old bat - this woman was 60+ supposedly a very knowledgeable horsewoman and all the other liveries took her word as gospel.
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[quote ] i heard the other day that ALL warmbloods are highly strung and you should therefore expect and ACCEPT a certain amount of bad behaviour from them....
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In my experience over here it is the owners of the Warmbloods that are highly strung the horses are fine
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I got some great advice from my vet, who also owns her own horse, so should know her stuff. When Kai was diagnosed with arthritis, partly due to a confirmation fault, I should either breed from her, or use her as an endurance horse.
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Not only ther arthritis, but she's a heavy weight hunter, not the perfect type for endurance!!

Needless to say I changed practices pretty quickly.

I will be putting her in foal soon, then taking up endurance once she has foaled
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[quote ] i heard the other day that ALL warmbloods are highly strung and you should therefore expect and ACCEPT a certain amount of bad behaviour from them....
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In my experience over here it is the owners of the Warmbloods that are highly strung the horses are fine
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but are they badly behaved?
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i heard the other day that ALL warmbloods are highly strung and you should therefore expect and ACCEPT a certain amount of bad behaviour from them....
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Who said that??
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I was told as a young teen that if I jumped in the paddock my pony would get red worm....

I'm not sure if they were telling me the jumping itself would do it, or grazing the pony in around the jumps....
 
i bet this one wins: (i got this second hand though.)
some old boy went to my former RC to give a talk, and a lad who used to keep his horse with me asked for a way to cure his boxwalking horse, as the messed up bedding used to annoy him. this guy said that the answer was to leave pitchforks and forks in the bed, flat, so that the horse would kick the metal handles and learn to pick his legs up higher as he walked around, and not disturb his bed.
surely this is the most MENTAL advice you have ever heard? punctured foot or worse, anyone?
as you can imagine i quashed that idea as fast as i could.

stupid advice i utterly stupidly took:

"the best way to put right a horse's back is to take it in the sea until it is swimming, and when it isn't weight-bearing any more its back will realign itself".
okay, so i took my advanced eventer swimming, in the sea, in February... we both nearly carked it with hypothermia, the first frigging wave broke straight over my head (only wearing waterproofs to waist level), poor mare nearly had heart failure, and surprise surprise, it didn't put her back or neck right...

god, i used to be so dumb. any wisdom i have now i really have earned!
 
'She has to taste the carrot during carrot stretches' Yeh, be too slow with the carrot and she will take your hand off and won't complete the stretch! There is a reason why no titbits allowed
 
While I was giving advice on a worming programme to a customer in store, another customer butted in and said "don't bother with that rubbish, just feed garlic it kills all worms" Thankfully the customer ignored her!!! BTW the garlic woman has the rankest looking horses ever - not welfare cases or anything but they just totally lack shine and sparkle..........
 
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i bet this one wins: (i got this second hand though.)
some old boy went to my former RC to give a talk, and a lad who used to keep his horse with me asked for a way to cure his boxwalking horse, as the messed up bedding used to annoy him. this guy said that the answer was to leave pitchforks and forks in the bed, flat, so that the horse would kick the metal handles and learn to pick his legs up higher as he walked around, and not disturb his bed.
surely this is the most MENTAL advice you have ever heard? punctured foot or worse, anyone?
as you can imagine i quashed that idea as fast as i could.

stupid advice i utterly stupidly took:

"the best way to put right a horse's back is to take it in the sea until it is swimming, and when it isn't weight-bearing any more its back will realign itself".
okay, so i took my advanced eventer swimming, in the sea, in February... we both nearly carked it with hypothermia, the first frigging wave broke straight over my head (only wearing waterproofs to waist level), poor mare nearly had heart failure, and surprise surprise, it didn't put her back or neck right...

god, i used to be so dumb. any wisdom i have now i really have earned!

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OMFG at the pitchforks!
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sorry to say i actually had a bit of a chuckle at the sea story...can just imagine you all blue trying to swim around in the north sea in winter
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i heard the other day that ALL warmbloods are highly strung and you should therefore expect and ACCEPT a certain amount of bad behaviour from them....
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Who said that??
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oh some random nutter...lady on my yard having heaps of trouble with her horse, was going to sell, but decided not to because of above advice....she now thinks her hiorse is normal when its just rude and badly behaved....
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I've had " your cob is too thin - he's got extra long hairs growing to try & keep warm he is so poor". Well, he was a condition score 3 in Feb (he'd been on box rest with soaked hay & stupid lady kept giving him likits & haylege after I had been up in the morning I later found out) & I was worrying about getting him down a bit before the grass came through. And the extra long hairs? As I wiped my hand over him they came off - they were his winter coat shedding! Same lady has 13 cobs & shetlands all of which are obese & most are laminitic. Naturally the laminitis is because the farrier cut them too short/ they got an abcess etc.
Same lady also told me that I should ignore Vet advice & turn horse with an infected leg out in a very muddy field as "Vet's don't know anything".
 
I'm old enough to remember the advise to starve horses and then give them loads of carrots to get rid of worms
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When sitting on a rearer , smack it over the head with a bag full of water , the bag bursts and the horse thinks it's smacked it's head on something and is bleeding , never to rear again !
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When the first horse I owned as an adult, a thin-skinned TB, came in from the field with a nasty bite on his neck, my YO told me to put Stockholm tar on it. I knew nothing about Stockholm tar, did as I was told, and the result was a violent skin reaction, lost all his coat for about a foot square, the wound went septic and I had a vet's bill. I left that yard soon afterwards ...
 
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