Rockchick_uk
Well-Known Member
You know sometimes i wonder if i can actually trust anyone with my horses.
I usually let my horses out at around 7am every morning before work but i end up putting everyone elses horses out as i know that some people have young children and cant always get down - which i dont mind doing as im there anyway.This morning I had to ask a yard livery to put my horses out as i had to go and put some flowers on my dads grave (its a long drive away), i left her instructions and thought that my pair would be ok as usually this woman is reliable.
Anyway i get back to the yard at around 12ish, walk to my stables and both of them are plastered in poo and well trodden (my two are normally very clean) so instantly i wonder if something has happened.
So i go to call them both up to be exercised and poor poppy just doesnt seem right. Managed to get them in and when i took her rug off i noticed that poppy has a bad cut to her back leg just above the hock. The cut is quite deep and bleeding so i called my mom and washed the wound as best i could, ended up calling the vet as it was very deep and still bleeding, Poor Poppy now has stitches!.
Anyway i called the lady who was responsible for putting them out and im told:
Both horses were not put out until 11am as the livery had wanted to stay in bed cause it was cold outside! So both of them had been left with no hay or water all morning.
She had put their rugs on, Indianas was fastened incorrectly and twisted!.
She then went on to say that while Indi was eating and Poppy had finished (he is always slower than gannet Poppy) and the lady couldnt be bothered to wait so she had loosed Poppy in to Indi's stable (you have to go through it to get out) and of course Indi has lashed out and Poppy had squeezed through Indi's half opened stable door (yes she had left it open) and gashed herself on the bolt!, she had then turned them both out without even thinking about Poor Poppy bleeding!!!
I dont even know what to think or say, one thing is certain i deffinately wont be asking anyone to do my horses again.
I usually let my horses out at around 7am every morning before work but i end up putting everyone elses horses out as i know that some people have young children and cant always get down - which i dont mind doing as im there anyway.This morning I had to ask a yard livery to put my horses out as i had to go and put some flowers on my dads grave (its a long drive away), i left her instructions and thought that my pair would be ok as usually this woman is reliable.
Anyway i get back to the yard at around 12ish, walk to my stables and both of them are plastered in poo and well trodden (my two are normally very clean) so instantly i wonder if something has happened.
So i go to call them both up to be exercised and poor poppy just doesnt seem right. Managed to get them in and when i took her rug off i noticed that poppy has a bad cut to her back leg just above the hock. The cut is quite deep and bleeding so i called my mom and washed the wound as best i could, ended up calling the vet as it was very deep and still bleeding, Poor Poppy now has stitches!.
Anyway i called the lady who was responsible for putting them out and im told:
Both horses were not put out until 11am as the livery had wanted to stay in bed cause it was cold outside! So both of them had been left with no hay or water all morning.
She had put their rugs on, Indianas was fastened incorrectly and twisted!.
She then went on to say that while Indi was eating and Poppy had finished (he is always slower than gannet Poppy) and the lady couldnt be bothered to wait so she had loosed Poppy in to Indi's stable (you have to go through it to get out) and of course Indi has lashed out and Poppy had squeezed through Indi's half opened stable door (yes she had left it open) and gashed herself on the bolt!, she had then turned them both out without even thinking about Poor Poppy bleeding!!!
I dont even know what to think or say, one thing is certain i deffinately wont be asking anyone to do my horses again.