Most annoying things at a livery yard..

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Ah, how glad I am not to be on a livery yard
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I know, i keep begging my boss to let my horse live at my work but i'm not getting anywhere
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Where shall I begin...many already mentioned in others posts...the muckheap thing, know-it-alls, coming up late in the AM to their horses, borrowing my stuff without asking plus:

People who pick out their horses hooves nowhere near their own stable and just leave the mud there assuming the magic yard fairy will come and sweep it up after they've gone.

People who leave it as late as possible to come get their horses in in the winter for the evening in the hope that some other sucker will have got their horse in for them and they won't have to get their little feeties muddy.

People who don't pay the yard help for odd jobs she's done for them even a month after she's presented them with their bill and then moan endlessly when yard help leaves them a snippy note refusing to do anything else for their horse until paid.

Where's my gun?
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The window lickers who spend hours faffing with there animals and getting nowhere in the process. And the ones who think a tiny net 4 times a day is better than 2 decent sized ones
 
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1. people who think they;re horses can wait til miday to be seen

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Mine can. He's in a field, I reckon he probably can cope if I don't get up there to feed him breakfast until 11.30 on a Sunday.
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((When they've been in all night))
 
All of the above + most recent pet peeve is people who have all day to ride, but sit around drinking tea until you turn up, with 45 mins to muck out, get muddy horse in, de-mud horse and ride and THEN they decide that they HAVE to ride in the school with you. Even better if you have a lesson booked.
 
Oh God, I've been at a few yards, and without meaning to be negative, I could fill a page with this!! And, really, I am fairly easy-going
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One of the worst things is having to share a space with someone you just don't get on with. I have had to share a barn with a much younger person (teenager) who is very spoilt and considers only herself. She will turn her back on you when you say hello, she NEVER asks how YOU are, it's all about her own horses. She knows next to nothing and I feel sorry for her horses. She never picks up a dropping from school or barn, despite notices....leaves her stuff all over the barn floor so you have to weave around it.....need I go on!? There, I feel a tad better now. I am afraid no manners/consideration just do me in....
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Other things really irritating;

People stealing your stuff and livery yards saying they are giving your horse x food, or x is happening but you find out it is not (full livery)

People getting too involved in analysing/bitching about another horse on the yard

People stood glaring outside the arena when you are exercising and wish for no eyes - esp when you are having a lesson

People taking advantage of your offers of help.

Loads more, but that will do! There are of course many good things, esp with the yard that I am at now.
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My yard is fab, I love everyone on it, we don't have any know it alls, nutters or anything like that. We don't book the school unless we're having a lesson and just share if we want to use it at the same time, and the only gossiping we do is with each other about other people who aren't on our yard! Maybe it's because there's only 9 of us and at 31 I'm the 2nd youngest so we're all slightly more mature.
 
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I'm in livery yard heaven at the moment - so not much bothers me at all.
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Me too
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But I have been on yards where the spreading muckheap, not sweeping, my stuff being 'borrowed' and then either disappearing forever or found dumped in a corner have all been issues.

Strangely it is usually one person who is a serial offender on all fronts.
 
I hate it when I leave everything swept up, wheelbarrow empty etc.......then return to find theat people have cleared up horse muck/mud from hooves/farriers trimmings and dumped it in my wheelbarrow. I then have to empty it so that I can use it.

Another wheelbarrow rant! People who don't empty their wheelbarrows - and then complain endlessly about the flies, wondering why I don't have flies....

People who complain that my horse kicks the stable wall - when she's actually reacting the the kicks given by the horse owned by the complainer.
 
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The most annoying thing I have found is when everyone else on the yard seems to hate your horse for no apparent reason.

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ditto this, ok my mare reared when i rode her but this affected nobody but me she was an angel on the ground.

also people who think there helping when they give you horse things they cant have for example, i had purposely left my horse with no rug on and someone though she needed one 15degrees at night so decided to rug her got down in the morning she was sweating like a pig and same one decided that my gelding who is fed half a bale of hay a night (24lbs) needed more unsoaked hay in a haynet (big nono on strict vet diet)
 
Expert in "alternative" techniques who decides to "teach" my horse how to be caught (gee, thanks for that - set back all the progress I'd made with project horse in one fell swoop), wave their hands above their heads in the direction of my horse's head to get him to move back out of the field gateway, and also insist on passing far too close with their horses while I'm leading mine up the lane in the opposite direction, particularly when the other person could have waited 20 seconds where the lane widens out and avoided the issue completely.

Cantering past with no warning in our woods while my young loaner was walking my pony - loaner got kicked full on on her thigh by other livery's "well behaved" horse and was lucky not to break her leg.

Abandoning young child at farm to cause havoc.

Being the expert on everything having acquired first horse.
 
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The window lickers who spend hours faffing with there animals and getting nowhere in the process. And the ones who think a tiny net 4 times a day is better than 2 decent sized ones

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Worse still are those who think ONE tiny net is enough. You know the ones; they hang up a tiny net in the evening, sod off for the night and 20 minutes later their horse has scoffed the lot and you know it's going to be left standing there for another 14 hours with nothing else.
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I personally hate yard groupiness (sp?). You're doing your horses, totally minding your own business. Person or persons' A come up and start bitching about person or persons' B. They finally take the hint, only for you to have person or persons' B wander over to start moaning about person or persons' A. Then before you know it, and without having ever said a flipping word about anyone to anyone, you're thoroughly complicit in their petty disputes by the mere fact that persons A, B, C, D and so on have bitched within your range of hearing. I'm investing in a flaming iPod.....
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People not shutting the yard gate, not doing their share of trough cleaning/ragwort pulling and always leave it to the hard core of those that always do it, also not sticking to basic requests from yard owner like, dont drive through field when it's wet, like "it doesn't apply to them" only everyone else.
 
I am an OCD tidy freakkkkkk!
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probably enough said lol....

People who have the farrier outside my stable - either don't sweep up at all, leave the mess in a pile, or if they do 'attempt' to take away the mess, leave bits everywhere!
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People who over fill the barrow and muck spills everywhere.... stop being lazy and make an extra journey - or don't take as much out - and then you won't mess the yard up!
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People who don't sweep up. Actually I don't know what's worse, those who don't bother, or those that make a half hearted attempt and leave bits everywhere grrrrrh!
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In general I just don't do mess! Oh yeah.... and yard politics grinds on me
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The perfect livery yard would be - 'all us together!' We would have;
Tidy yard
Gates shut
Talk to people
Won't talk about people
Love every other horse - no matter what!
Pay our bills on time
Help out when asked
Leave others to do their own thing
Take and give advance when offered
Empty wheel barrows
Keep the muck heap tidy!
Share and not hog the arena
Offer to do the 'boring stuff' - like ragwort pulling
Ask to borrow stuff always returning it after cleaning it!!
Paying for damage done by your horse/owning up to it

Oh - we could have an impressive yard folks, now, I need to win that lottery so I can get us a yard - how big, and what facilities shall it have?!!!
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I hate it when people say one thing to your face and another behind your back. I know it happens all the time not just on yards but the yard is where I want to be happy and have fun not hear nasty comments about others, all the time wondering what said person says about me behind my back.

Not so much on current yard but another one is when someone thinks their horse is so much better than everyone else's just because its well bred, oh and they keep repeating how well bred it is when in fact its pants and most people would not want if it was given to them
 
Also people who use the hose** in the winter when it's freezing.
They don't come up til late morning, so ice has melted by the time they have to walk on it agian, but as I'm up early I'm sliding about all over the place!

** To wash mud off feet, which is actually not the best thing to prevent mud fever as ur just making legs wetter. To prevent mud fever you then have to make sure feet really dry afterwards (which of course not many people do).
If you have to do this - use a bucket!
 
OMG!! you are sooooooooo right!! I am actually a quailfied BHSII but we have not 1 but 2 know it alls!!Drives me bonkers with the c**p that is spouted!!Grr! The latest fad is riding horses in a mega tight Market Harborough to "train" them to carry thier heads right!!and this coming from a supposed dressage "expert"
People not poo picking the arena after them...not forking muck heap back..it goes on and on!!! in fact why do we keep horses on livery at all!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh I almost forgot..yard owners who dont know 1 end of a horse to another and insist on driving their quad at amilion miles an hour past the paddocks..then wonder why every thing is going mad!!!!
 
God you lot make me laugh!! along with the usual people making a mess, taking without asking, kicking up a fuss when one LO skinny horse gets put on good grazing and their fat beast stays on the bare paddock and they cant understand why! I have yet to be on a yard that doesnt have a know it all who knows everything you should do with your horse but is too scared to do anything with there own!
People who label horses as dangerous heaven forbid they should act like a horse and be a little giddy in the wind and yard owners who are not horsey but will insist they are right and you are wrong when you insist that a horse is too sweaty to go out after the lesson but 'the wind will cool them and they are safer out in the field' yeah righto its dark and winter!
 
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