Liveries stealing from liveries!

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So, am lunging my mare and know I have left my haynets up full with haylage and two more in feed area for tomorrow.

So, come out from lunging and guess what!? Haynets on the floor in my stable empty! Then 3/4 of the one in my feed room have been stolen too! WTF!

Seriously that is some nerve and if I catch whoever it is! GOD HELP THEM! The YM really didn't care, but isn't the greatest YM.

Another lady says her haylage has gone down too.

If you cant afford a horse don't have one! Simples.

Rant over.........
 
that is disgraceful!! I couldn't be at a yard like that it would drive me nuts. I like having friends around me and I obviously wouldn't want to be friends with someone who stole from me

If I were you I would find a way to padlock the haynets together and buy lockable bins!!
 
I'd be furious
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I am pretty sure who did it, but no way of telling for sure.

Have padlocked my feed area that I share with 3 others. The haylage bales are in a stable that me and another share, so we will padlock the door. You can climb over it, but you'd have to be pretty desperate to do that!

I am seething! Maybe they use my saddles when I am not there too! Getting them padlocked this weekend.

Good thinking about padlocking haynets together. Hadn't thought of that.

Wilkos will be all out of padlock and chains this weekend! :)
 
:mad: That calls for a big notice on the notice board (if you have one) "Watch out, watch out there's a thief about...mind your hay nets "

I would have flipped my lid and made a huge noise about it and made sure that everyone knew exactly what was going on. I am not a subtle person at times like that. The more people that know the more eyes the culprit has to avoid. ;)

Before you use them, tie knots in your nets so that it takes a while to undo them, or, easier for you, padlock the stable door whilst your horse isn't in there.
How does your hay system work? Everyone helps themselves or do you have your own bales? Lots of threads on deterring sneak thieves on here if you do a search.
 
Happens on my yard occasionally. Luckily, I have a pretty good sense for hunting down the guilty parties. It's usually not very difficult as they're usually not very clever ... Sometimes it's unintentional/thoughtless, in which case it can be forgiven once or twice with an apology, but if it's intentional (i.e. another livery didn't buy but then magically has hay while someone else is missing hay), then it's the gate!
 
the cheek of it, a yard i kept my horse at briefly(due to theft) two girls were caught 'borrowing' my dressage girth(i had put an announcement on the board two weeks prior about it going missing) and they claimed that they had found it and the didn't know it was mine so were going to quickly borrow it, then the same two girls(they share a horse) i personally caught taking my feed(and i had noticed that i was buying it more often than i usually had), LIVID, i was only 16 at the time and i was younger than one of the girls and i blew my lid, the YO thought i was being over dramatic, the problem is i pay for everything myself and can't afford buy the horse tack let alone feed it! i left that yard quite swiftly.

some people shock me
 
Our yard fees has been disappearing at the rate of knots. Bins have been padlocked tonight, turns out its the grass liveries and sharers who have run out of feed or forgotten to bring it from home. The thing is we wouldn't have minded had they asked and it been a one off but It's costing the yard 3 extra bags of feed a week! They think the yard can suck it up but it can't. I'm a grass livery there as well as work there but I have my own feed and never run out!
 
Some time ago my feed was disappearing. Knew who it was as it always happened when she'd been at yard before I arrived. I left a note in the bin addressed to her, suggesting that she keep her thieving hands out and go and buy some feed herself. Next day the looks from her could have killed but she couldn't say anything about the note as it would have been an admission that she'd opened the bin. Surprise, surprise the thieving stopped.
 
My yard owner moved 100 bales of my hay to a different shed. She helped herself to ten bales. I kept counting it and recounting becvause I knew how many bales I had used. Was really upset to think that she would steal from me as I had been getting the yard wormers at a discount and offered to lend her money for vets fees for her dog.
 
I think I have the same problem with haylage. I know who it is but how to prove it? We are getting through loads. It's a small yard with only 4 of us, so very easy for the person I think is doing it to take a bit when no one else is there. I think I nearly caught her one day - I left the bale wrapped up, and came round the corner as she was walking away and it was all open. It's not proof though...

I know it's not the other 2 taking it, as it's shared between the 3 of us.

How to get definite proof? Short of installing CCTV...
 
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I caught one of the liveries coming out of the shed with an armful of my hay. No one else on yard had any hay. We were leaving by then and YO had the cheek to tell me off for accusing one of her liveries of stealing my hay. What the heck. I caught her red handed.
 
A girl i was on a yard with once would wait for the night hay to be put into stables and then go and fetch it out for hers ! - now steal off me, but do not take off my poor horse - she was also amazed that she was challenged when we were only allowed to get hay on a Saturday and on the monday she had half a bale of hay, the horses were all kept in due to the weather and when we challanged her on the Friday she still had the same half a bale - and in our block we seamed all to be missing some.

We made fuss, put "traps" on our hay piles, padlocked hay bales together, and left notes in all our bins.... it stopped when she left ????
 
Can't you leave a note saying something like

"please don't leave take my stuff I know exactly how much there is, please stop now before I take things further"

cover your stored hay and leave the note pinned on it and put the notes inside the bins etc.
 
Victoria1980, the problem with this is that sometimes we do legimitately take each other's haylage. When we are putting it out in the field we put it out for all 4 horses, so we take 3 portions (1.5 sections) from our bale and one from hers (half a section). So at some point she would see the note.

We have tried tying it in a particular way and have later found it undone, seemingly with less haylage there (very hard to tell on a big bale only partly used, and three of us taking hay from it). But this isn't proof and I can't go accusing her based on this rather flaky evidence.
 
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