livery yard - am I being unreasonable?

Kat

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Arrived at the livery yard tonight to find that the half of the field my horse is in had been spread with muck. No warning or notification. We don't have much grass and this has cut down the grazing by half. The horses weren't being kept off the spread area.

I feel pretty cross but am I overreacting?
 
No, its pretty rude if there isn't much grass. Not saying it shouldn't be done at all, but if the grazing is now halved, prior warning to get in hay etc would be polite.
 
It might have cut down the grazing by half for now, but it will also make sure that you have grass next year... I assume it is farmyard manure that was spread, as in, rotten muck?
It's not in any way dangerous to the horse, I doubt if it will venture onto that half at all and I suppose the only annoying part is that you haven't been told in advance... Then again, I don't inform my liveries in advance about field maintenance either.
 
The trouble is that now the horses are all in half of the field because they don't want to eat the grass where muck has been spread. The field was rather crowded when they were spread out and there wasn't enough grass so some were causing trouble at the gate. I would have liked to have been told so I could have stabled while it was being done and if necessary kept in over night. One of the liveries decided to keep in but couldn't put down a proper bed as she'd nit had notice to get shavings.

Perhaps I'm overreacting because I'm feeling grumpy.

Oh and I don't know what has been spread but I suspect it is cow manure. Does this mean it won't cause issues with working?
 
It won't cause issues with worming, I spread my horse muck on cow pasture and cow manure on horse pasture, as well as cross grazing.
Manure fertilises better than chemical fertiliser, as in, better for horses as not so aggressive.
 
The cow muck will be better than horse muck from a worming perspective - the horse muck could contain horse worms whereas the cow muck will only contain cow ones, which are generally different ones and cannot live in horses bodies.

It is a little richer than horse muck so watch the sugars in the grass but it sounds as if there are plenty of hungry mouths to share it between.

It would have been courteous to be advised. However theres not a health issue.
 
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