Little things that other people do that bug you

holeymoley said:
This is not an offensive thread but just one for you to say which 'daily'horsey things annoy you that other people do?

Mine just now has to be- putting the horse's feed in stable and then bringing it in for it to barge over you to it's dinner! >:(

Not my horse but there's a girl that does it every day at the yard. To me it's just encouraging bad manners!
Click to expand...

It's not. Her inability to control the horse when she's bringing it to the stable is doing that, whether the feed is in the stable or not.
 
The wheelbarrow thing is easy to solve. First time you warn them. Second time you empty it in their freshly mucked out stable. There's never a third time.
 
orionchristmas_star said:
It's not. Her inability to control the horse when she's bringing it to the stable is doing that, whether the feed is in the stable or not.
Click to expand...

True - my horses feed is in his stable when he comes in because I do his bed and so on in the morning - he comes in and doesn't touch his feed till his headcollar if off and never barges
 
EllenJay said:
I leave my boy's dinner in his stable - but woe betide him if he even thinks about barging me - that is basic manners
Click to expand...

^^ This - at weekends when I'm not there to bring in my boys feed is always waiting for him in his stable - he'll stand to get his head collar off and sometimes his rug changed before making a move for it - that's just basic manners - as is ensuring he doesn't mug me for his breakfast in the morning.

Don't think any of the current liveries at my yard does anything to bug me - everyone seems to have plenty of common sense and good manners!
 
Breath?! :rolleyes:

The only recent one from my yard is that people kept using my wheelbarrow... I'm not normally that anal about such things, but its pink and its mine, and a couple of liveries kept using it, I'd turn up and it wouldn't be available for me to use, or there would be horse poo and another different bedding stuck to the inside of it... I put my hay in the wheelbarrow for my horse and am very precious about it. I bought it when I had my girl, and I suppose that's some of it... I think if I can buy my own tools so can other people, and I want to be able to use my stuff when I want... And if I have to replace or fix it, I want it to be because I broke it, I kept having visions of me coming up the yard finding it broken and no one owning up to who broke it. anyway had a word with both the culprits... On looked at me a bit sheepish and remorseful which is fine, the other looked at me like I had a cheek to ask 'don't use my wheelbarrow:rolleyes:' however, no one uses it now and it's always there when I need it. YO has had similar problems with her wheel barrow and hides it round the corner now;)
 
I'm a little irked about the yard staff using my tools when they do the full livery I share with. Not really their fault, since my pitchfork doesn't have MY NAME on it ;) and won't, because I'm not an ass. And there's only one shovel. And one wheelbarrow.

Covering my wheelbarrow in poostains :D I knew I wouldn't be able to rinse it after every use through winter (yes, I used to!) but I wish it was my horse's poostains that eventually spoiled it, not someone else's!

It is the petty things that get to you, isn't it :)
 
We've currently got a livery who dumps all of her rubbish, ie empty shavings bags in the corner of the yard and leaves them for someone else to clear up. She has eaten Christmasstyle's food that she keeps up there (she's diabetic so needs to keep something up there). She has used my teabags, smashed another livery's mug and left all the pieces laying around on the yard floor by the stables, and she leaves all of the gates, including the main one which leads onto the road, wide open so if any of the horses escape they will have access to a main road. Not to mention that fact that she doesn't bother to fill her horse's water up each night so it ends up with a bone dry bucket by 9pm. :mad:
 
holeymoley said:
This is not an offensive thread but just one for you to say which 'daily'horsey things annoy you that other people do?

Mine just now has to be- putting the horse's feed in stable and then bringing it in for it to barge over you to it's dinner! >:(

Not my horse but there's a girl that does it every day at the yard. To me it's just encouraging bad manners!
Click to expand...

My horse's feed is put in her stable every night before I bring her in. She most certainly is not allowed to barge or show bad manners.

I don't think putting the feed in the stable before bringing in has anything to do with bad manners - it's whether the handler has the ability and nouce to correct the horse if it does show them.
 
How do you teach your horse not to barge you for food? I try to make him stand back when I tip his feed in but I'm always aware that it's timing on my part and a few warning noises that makes sure he doesn't go for it while I'm still in the way!
 
Floxie said:
How do you teach your horse not to barge you for food? I try to make him stand back when I tip his feed in but I'm always aware that it's timing on my part and a few warning noises that makes sure he doesn't go for it while I'm still in the way!
Click to expand...

She is very voice orientated so if she gets too pushy she will get sharp "NO!" and maybe a growl. The louder I shout the more she will react and back off. She is a big girl at 16.3hh so I won't allow any dangerous behaviour in the stable whatsoever. I tend to use the same words in the same tone for different behaviours, and this works very well for her.

I am quite lucky with her, she does have a lot of respect when it comes to stable manners, and I can carry her feed through the yard with her following me loose, add water at the tap, mix it, then tell her to go 'to bed' and she will walk into her stable and then I give her dinner to her. She does try and get it off you momentarily but if I growl even slightly at her she backs of and waits, and just does a bit of a tap dance on the spot in anticipation!!
 
Leaving my mucking out tools outside their stable in middle of yard. I come down yard leading my 2 and 1 is bound to step on the fork. Put it away, it lives on the way out ffs. I also hate the knot mid way round the net. Has to be at the end.
 
Knots at end of haynets do my head in! I'm a freelance groom and all my clients do it and I literially stand there for about 10 minutes trying to undo it LOL

At my yard, the only one is the complete novice who keeps trying to invite himself to ride my (to me, not in real value lol) very precious event horse..literially every time I tack him up "Oh I'd love to have a ride on him one day...." ....err no? He's mine and not really a novice ride - just because I let my partner who isn't a very experienced rider hack him out with me sometimes as he's normally a plod to hack and it helps me out doesn't mean he's fair game for everyone! Partner's mum is the same....

oh and my friend text me yesterday asking if I could teach his friend to ride on him for a christmas present. Seriously, do I look like a riding school lol??
 
piebaldsparkle said:
Not putting electric fence gates back up, when they bring their horse in, so it shorts out the rest.
Click to expand...

I have all the electro gates rigged that they can be left down without shorting out!

Baler twine left lying around, not cut at the knots, (not always possible with big bales)

Doors left swinging, not keeping the muck heap tidy, so many things I could write a book.
 
The_Snow_Queen said:
Breath?! :rolleyes:

The only recent one from my yard is that people kept using my wheelbarrow... I'm not normally that anal about such things, but its pink and its mine, and a couple of liveries kept using it, I'd turn up and it wouldn't be available for me to use, or there would be horse poo and another different bedding stuck to the inside of it... I put my hay in the wheelbarrow for my horse and am very precious about it. I bought it when I had my girl, and I suppose that's some of it... I think if I can buy my own tools so can other people, and I want to be able to use my stuff when I want... And if I have to replace or fix it, I want it to be because I broke it, I kept having visions of me coming up the yard finding it broken and no one owning up to who broke it. anyway had a word with both the culprits... On looked at me a bit sheepish and remorseful which is fine, the other looked at me like I had a cheek to ask 'don't use my wheelbarrow:rolleyes:' however, no one uses it now and it's always there when I need it. YO has had similar problems with her wheel barrow and hides it round the corner now;)
Click to expand...

Gosh you should read my thread over a year ago about a pink wheelbarrow lmao.
 
People who chuck water all over the yard, rather than into the gulley and swept away:mad:
People who think door bangers are "cute" and reward them with a titbit:rolleyes:
 
Re haynets... I like the knot to be at the end, as that is the weakest part of the drawstring, so doesn't get any weight on it when it's at the end. If the drawstring is long enough then it shouldn't make untieing it difficult. However, what does bug me, is people tieing up their nets with a slip knot, then poking the free end through the loop and pulling it tight (or the horse pulls it tight) so it takes ages to untie.
Re leaving feed in stable.... I don't have much grass at my yard, and I like the horses to have a munch on their hay when they come in to line their stomachs and sate some hunger pangs so they don't bolt their feeds. One of my liveries is prone to choke when he's hungry because he bolts his feed and the owner still puts the feed in before bringing the horse in.
Rugs that bug me... over rugging (that old chestnut). I leave my turnouts on in stable for ease of whoever turns out, plus to retain the heat, but they are taken off every day and horses brushed, scratched and checked, But some people think it's ok to leave rugs on for weeks at a time. Also people who worry about the fit of their saddle but don't give a second thought to the rug that's slipped back and is sitting on the withers or rubbing the shoulders.
Beds that bug me... indoor muck heaps which people think is deep littering.
Collecting ring bugs... people who park their horses by the gate, on the outside track, who don't know the rules on passing other riders, those who think that a red ribbon in their horse's tail means they have right of way at all times.
People who scrimp on hay, but feed bags of "go faster, jump higher" feeds to leisure horses.
I used to think I was a tolerant person until I wrote this... :D
 
My biggest peeve is poor turnout for a competition. I've been able to make my pony/ horse and myself look smart since I was 10 (on a budget too- my hacking jacket was £10, my jods and boots were about the same. My chaps were the most expensive thing!) so I can't see why an adult can't manage the same...

Oh. Those rubber riding boots. How can you ride well wearing them? Or any loose fitting thing round your legs, like the 'country' boots (Dubarrys, etc)... They look awful and must hugely affect the way you ride. When Al's gaiters broke, she wore long socks to ride in until she got a replacement... Much safer and easier.
 
Knots at the end of the string on haynets - ARGH.

People who boot up their horses just because everyone else does - your horse doesn't NEED boots, don't waste your time.

People who tolerate bad manners from horses. One of my liveries came to me with appalling manners - bargy, snappy, dragged you everywhere. I leave boxes ready for bed time as soon as I've mucked out. Horses don't go back into them unless they really have to, so feed is always in mangers ready. This livery will now turn around as he's put into his box, wait to have his headcollar off, and wait until I've stepped back before he goes to his manger. All my horses and my liveries know not to barge, and that if I'm popping in and out of their boxes while I'm skipping out last thing at night, they aren't to barge out, and they must stand back while I top up hay and water - snatching drives me insane.

Parelli.

Leaving things in a pile after they've ridden. I had a livery who used to just take her horses boots and numnah and leave them in a pile in the middle of the tackroom floor. That made me SO CROSS.

Not undoing the girth after riding. I take girths off saddles completely, and put each end through the stirrups. Numnahs come off saddles after use and go in the wash. I hate dirty numnahs hanging in my tack room, and girth straps bent out of shape from being pulled up by a girth still attached.

Not putting bridles up properly, ie- throatlash crossed over, noseband wrapped round twice and done up. My liveries now just leave their bridles on the tree in the centre of the tackroom to be cleaned after use, so I no longer have to deal with this!

People who see a horse wearing something, say, exercise bandages, and then immediately go out and buy that thing.

People who are late.

My really unreasonable one is liveries putting horses in their stables after they've ridden. If you're a part livery, you're not paying for your horse to be tied up on the yard and groomed ready for you when you arrive, but I do that because I'm nice. So, please don't then take your horse into the stable and untack it, let it eat it's evening feed and generally make a mess, and then leave me to deal with it. Tie it back up on the yard, and I won't want to hit you.

I could go on...and on.........and ON.
 
Lolo said:
Oh. Those rubber riding boots. How can you ride well wearing them? Or any loose fitting thing round your legs, like the 'country' boots (Dubarrys, etc)... They look awful and must hugely affect the way you ride. When Al's gaiters broke, she wore long socks to ride in until she got a replacement... Much safer and easier.
Click to expand...

Really, isn't life a bit short to be letting yourself be bugged by what sort of boots other people wear? :rolleyes:

And how they turn themselves out, for that matter.
 
Lolos post reminded me of one. Kids riding in smallish stirrups with wellies (or equally thick ridged soled footwear) jammed in the stirrups. It can easily turn a funny, bouncy fall into a dangerous dragged kid fall.
 
Using my supplements instead if buying their own

Using my stuff and not putting it back or putting it back broken

People who bull ****

People who comment on what I do with my horse

People who don't wear hi viz when hacking/ don't say thankyou/ ride along the road texting

Currently my horse is highly irritating as he's being a right knobber atm!
 
oh there's so much!

People 'borrowing' your mucking out tools but not putting them back after, resulting in a hunt to find them. normally by the muck skips or in other people's stables!

People not forking up their stuff onto the muckskips, dumping them all at the front.

People not sweeping up after their horse if they tie up outside my stable for farrier etc.

Horses with no manners that drag their owners all over the yard (seems to be a few).

Parelli.

People leaving their horse tied up outside for hours while they go off and chat.

Haynets with the knot at the end when you go to tie them up.

People hacking out with no hi-viz!! grr.
 
The main one that really grates on my nerves, and it is such a small and insignificant thing too:

Headcollars - hang them up neatly, by the headpiece NOT by the noseband, I re-hang them up the right way every time, after two years it still happens, I now use the upside down halters to see if owners have been up that day or not (full livery so that is actually irrelevant)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top