beingachicken
Well-Known Member
As a slope off from my current thread where Esther and Milliepops questioned why I feed what I feed which got me thinking. Thinking about my first yard (where I suppose I learnt the most) I fed what I fed, or a variation of because it’s what we did there ?
Other things from that yard which I remember now looking back but now are a bit weird!
No horse was allowed to be clipped before the clocks changed, but every horse HAD to be clipped as soon as they changed (wtf?)
We weren’t allowed to buy our own feed or supplies (I’d maybe kind of like a personal shopper nowadays!) but had to tick next to products on a list which then appeared once a week In our feed space!
We all fed weird faddy things, eggs for protein, gelatin for hooves are the two that spring to mind but there were more.
All the horses (25/30 of them) went out and came in at the same time. You could of course ride at any point but if say you finished at 4pm the horse had to be turned back out til 5 ?
Another yard I remember turning up to get my horse in to find he’d been moved to the YO friends house because I looked tired and she thought I needed a break so had turned him away for a month ?
At the time I accepted it ? now I’d hit the roof!
So any weird or wonderful old yard rules/ stories
Other things from that yard which I remember now looking back but now are a bit weird!
No horse was allowed to be clipped before the clocks changed, but every horse HAD to be clipped as soon as they changed (wtf?)
We weren’t allowed to buy our own feed or supplies (I’d maybe kind of like a personal shopper nowadays!) but had to tick next to products on a list which then appeared once a week In our feed space!
We all fed weird faddy things, eggs for protein, gelatin for hooves are the two that spring to mind but there were more.
All the horses (25/30 of them) went out and came in at the same time. You could of course ride at any point but if say you finished at 4pm the horse had to be turned back out til 5 ?
Another yard I remember turning up to get my horse in to find he’d been moved to the YO friends house because I looked tired and she thought I needed a break so had turned him away for a month ?
At the time I accepted it ? now I’d hit the roof!
So any weird or wonderful old yard rules/ stories