Livery Yards - Again!!

lisan

lisan

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I pay for DIY which includes morning feed and net.

I get down first and normally just swap rugs, and chuck her out (in my suit!!)

So this morning they are all in for the next week while the fields are fertilized, got down first, tired as working in the pub last night, to get blasted by another livery for not feeding and haying all the horses. I do this at weekends, or when I'm not at work, but do not have the extra time in a morning and as she was in, had to skip out, loose lunged, changed her water, walked her round the yard while I opened her window and put a summer sheet on.

And my leg (broke 6mths ago) has been playing up this week - got docs app next week to try and get some physio.

So, should I leave my own horse stood in poo all day, or get even less sleep so I do everyone elses in a morning????

Thank god I'm moving next week!
 
You pay for DIY for Do It Yourself and you do for your horse. Whatever she pays for is her business and she should keep out of yours, at what point are you supposed to do everyone elses horses, if she doesn't like the fact that you do your horse early and her's has to wait then she should get up earlier in the morning. It's her problem not yours. Chin up chukky not long to go now.l
 
No of course not, if you pay for the net & feed to be done by someone else why would you do it yourself or for other people ? They must have got out of bed the wrong side and decided to take it out on you .....it will all feel better when you are the one in charge and dishing out the tellings off (!) Hope your leg feels better soon and the move goes ok
 
I sympathise with you, totally. When you are on DIY and have to get to work, you do not have time to sort other people's horses out - I felt bad at first, not feeding other horses on my old yard but only my neighbours horse seemed bothered (and i did always feed her) so I got over it.

If your 'yard-mate' is so bothered why doesn't she get up earlier and feed her horse (and the others)? As cazza says, keep your chin up and look forward to your move.
 
I do feel bad, and if no one had turned up before I left I would have chucked their breakfasts in.

Will be moving to the new yard next week with or without stable doors at this rate!!!
 
As has been said, DIY is do it yourself. Most problems are caused by people helping someone out & then that person expects to be helped out all the time & when it doesn't happen they mouth off. Sometimes it's best to just look after your own horse & let others look after theirs. Or isf they want help, get the YO do do it & they can pay.

We help out one particular person on our yard & it works fine, but we are lucky.
 
As a yard owner myself,i make sur that all my clients know EXACTLY what they get for the money they pay and what i expect from them. This is clearly written down in the livery agreement. For me the feed and haynet are the responsibilty of the yard owner not you the client. It seems to me that many yard owners forget that you guys are clients and having a horse is your pleasure that you work hard to fund.
this area becomes grey in the DIY environment. Look after you and your horse if anyone else has a problem with that then maybe they are the one's that should get out of their pit earlier especially if there has been a change in routine.
 
Private arrangements between yard mates is okay, but it has a habit of being one sided doesn't it. There's always one good natured person/s who get walked all over and one who is down right nasty to everyone but everyone seems to cowltail to the nasty one - nowt as strange as folk! We bring in the odd horse in if he/she is the last one left in the field - only cos I'm soft and can't bear to see them whinnying by the gate. But that is as far as it goes - we dont want to get entrenched in yard politics and buddy systems - safer that way.
 
Is the feeding meant to be done by someone at the yard or is it an arrangement btween liveries, that who ever gets there first feeds?

My friend was the first one at the yard, at 5.30am for 4 years and had to feed 30 odd horses! She did get nice Xmas pressies tho, but a pain if you are running late as it really takes quite a long time to get round them all!
 
Well said Cazza!! Couldn't agree more!!

The only horses i feed & turn out down the yard are my friends horses as she does the same for mine but i dont touch no-one elses horses!!

Can you imagine if you had put a net up and it had come loose and got tangled round one of the horses legs!! Then the other liveries wouldn't be so happy about you feeding them would they??

Tell them to stick it
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Is the feeding meant to be done by someone at the yard or is it an arrangement btween liveries, that who ever gets there first feeds?

My friend was the first one at the yard, at 5.30am for 4 years and had to feed 30 odd horses! She did get nice Xmas pressies tho, but a pain if you are running late as it really takes quite a long time to get round them all!

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There is a person paid to come and feed them, but she does'nt come down until a bit later - not good for me as I have to get to work!

It just seems everything is really grating at the mo, knowing I am moving soon!!
 
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Can you imagine if you had put a net up and it had come loose and got tangled round one of the horses legs!! Then the other liveries wouldn't be so happy about you feeding them would they??

Tell them to stick it
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That happens all the time with two ponies in particular - me and another lady have rescued another girls two from their nets 5 occasions in the last 3 weeks
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If either were mine they would have haybars or be fed from the floor!!
 
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