LIKE SERIOUSLY???? **bit of a rant***

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Just got my livery bill 2night and included in it was a letter from our accountant on our yard...

Now my yard is in like a healthcare park with buildings where there are clinics and residential hospitals nd things. Yard has been open at least 17years now and apparently people have been complaining about the ''droppings'' everywhere!!

SO we've been asked to pick them up IMMEDIATELY instead of, and I quote, 'simply walking away and leaving them'.

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Um what? HOW are we meanta hack with a shovel and wheelbarrow in tow?

we've been threatened with hacking having to be 'CEASED'

grrrrrr

so basically everyone is oging to either avoid all the roads and lanes (and this letter comes shortly after a complaint of us cutting up the grass and ordering us to stay off the mowed grass i.e. EVERYWHERE)...OR we'll have to cut hacking time and walk around on foot after hacking and clean up!!!



grr

kay RANT over...i think...for now

thanks for reading XD hada get that off my chest!!!
 
Tell them to feck off. You are a paying livery and they can't tell you that you can't hack. If they do the yard won't be open long.
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How ridiculous, horse poo isn't at all dangerous.

If they are public roads they cannot stop you from hacking on them. If it gets to the point where it becomes an issue, I would be moving as I would not be dictated to by ignorant poeple or yard accountants what I can & cannot do with my horse.
 
I know- but don't wanna move! Lol LOVE my yard as it is and have been there nearly 12years now! It's been showing lots of improvement since we got a new manager last year... *sigh*
I'll see how things go I guess :S

Reckon I should write to them? Anon course as don't want to make myself a target! But I'm tempted to- to outline dangers etc!
 
I had the same thing happen to me, although when other horses i.e. from further down the village leave droppings they never get contacted. Also if it is on roads they cannot stop you from hacking
 
I'm off to get my thinking cap on, I could make a fortune if i can come up with the first horsey poopa scoopa, or even invent a nappy for horses, pmsl bloody world has gone mad
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OMG people really need to get a life, and get over their manicured lawns!!!! Very tempting to tell them to 'eff off!
How about in a forigen language?

More helpful suggestions:
Launch a campaign on the value of horse manure as a green, enviromentaly friendly fertiliser.
(Stress the GREEN and ENVI. friendly aspect)
Nutritinally = to most other green fertilisers (like mulch, chicken manure), less smelly and FREE!!! ( in the GFC this has to be a selling point...)
Re-invalids: horse manure as based on a grass diet has relatively few microbes that cause health issues for humans compared to a canivores droppings (UNI microbiology assignment =) )

With regards to the Healthcare park I suggest an offensive** PR compaign. I am sure there is info. out there on the theraputic effect horses/animals can have on the sick. And the esthetic values for people stuck in beds of having something to look at.
May be ask who ever has the quietest pony to 'take one for the team', and do a round at the weekend letting anyone who wants to feed them a carrot/pat them.

Goodluck with your dealing with stupid xxxxx people!

(** read later thought I should clarify : I mean you take up the attack not rude...)
 
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I'm off to get my thinking cap on, I could make a fortune if i can come up with the first horsey poopa scoopa, or even invent a nappy for horses, pmsl bloody world has gone mad
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They already make horse nappies
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Reckon I should write to them? Anon course as don't want to make myself a target! But I'm tempted to- to outline dangers etc!

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It wouldn't do any harm - a polite note explaining that horse poo isn't harmful and why clearing up isn't a viable option might educate people. I suppose if someone doesn't know anything about horses they might think of horse poo in the same way as dog poo, which does carry a health risk.
 
As YG, private or council roads?

As to not riding on grass, unless there is something in the local bye-laws about not riding on verges about horses not using them, you have every right to! If it's a case of house owners cutting the verge outside their boundary, well tough, they have no right to cut it, and bye-laws apart, you have every right to be on it.

As someone recently asked on here, whatever happened to the days when people dashed out with a shovel to pick it up and put on their roses?!

It's part of the village appeal to have horses be ridden through villages: just watch any programme that has a village in it, always a rider or two
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Two thoughts on this:

First, why not take the matter up with the Yard Manager. They are, I assume, a member of staff and will be able to talk to those who have 'received complaints'.

Second thought is that the world is going mad. Some idiot who does not know the difference between horse poo and dog poo has written a nasty letter and instead of the chief exec writing back and pointing out that horse poo is harmless and can actually be used by the grounds staff, they cack their pants and write to the horse owners telling them to 'pick up', assuming it to be much the same as people with dogs.

Oh dear, what are we coming to?
 
me and OH were laughting the other night about the whole 'picking up horse poo' thing......we had thoughts of dustbins strapped to our backs and pooper scoopers like jousting knights.

Seriously though, yes - when I was a kid and my pony poo-ed in the road there would be about 3 people fighting over it for their gardens....

Couple of years ago my horse dropped one in the road...lady came out gesticulating at the steaming pile....I smiled and said 'Thats ok love.....no charge today, help yourself' and rode off......
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Have you also noticed it is often the older people that make a fuss! How bizarre is that, surely they are the ones who should know that horse poo is good for the garden.

My grandfather used to delight in running after the rag and bone mans horse to pick up the poo with his hands. As children we thought it was disgusting, but grandad had been a stable lad when young, so he knew a few things us young uns didn't.
 
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