Ticky
Member
I’m a yard owner and have a problem.......my adult daughter has been looking for a horse for literally a year and thought she’d found THE horse in November. Passed vetting and X-rays of feet and hocks. Horse arrived at yard and was seriously chilled. However, cutting a long-ish story short, new mare has become unbelievably attached to mare belonging to one of my liveries and new mare has not only become un-rideable but her behaviour has become bordering on dangerous to handle. She is obsessed. Other mare is very mare-ish and “squirts†in her face over the fence. I always liked the livery who owns the other mare but she has recently had a baby and isn’t at the yard as frequently as she used to be. I had to ask her to bring her two horses in overnight (she’d been leaving them out without my permission) and there were literally MONTHS of droppings in the field, which I pointed out to her. I really liked this livery, but lately she’s changed. I know she’s had a baby but .........ðŸ™. My daughter is now thinking of selling this mare for a pittance (she wasn’t cheap!!!!) because she can’t do anything with her. Livery seems oblivious to the problems (and I’ve only skimmed over them - there are REAL problems!). We’ve put new mare in field furthest away from livery’s mare but she just stands in field looking in livery’s mare’s direction. However, I can’t give livery her marching orders just because her mare is upsetting my daughter’s new horse...or can I? No bitchy comments, please, this a real dilemma! Thank you! I’m not a nasty livery yard owner - my problem is that I’m too soft!