New horse coming to our yard

K

kizzywiz

Well-Known Member
Joined
27 May 2007
Messages
1,408
Visit site
Sorry everyone, need a bit of a moan. I am at a small lovely DIY yard, for years & years it was mares only as we had a problem when someone brought in rig. The 2 sons have now taken over from their father, & a couple of years ago wanted to bring in geldings, fair enough, although I had bought 2 horses in my time there & been told it had to be a mare!! Anyway, yard meeting held, all agreed it was ok if they were in a separate gelding field. One livery with a mare has been sharing a field with 2 geldings, her choice. Now guess what, a yearling gelding is coming into the field next to my 2 mares, in with another mare!!! "How can this be?" I said, "We all agreed all geldings together" "Well, I bring in so & so's horse" was the reply. What a great idea, lets introduce a youngster who's lived ONLY IN A HERD ON 24 HR TURNOUT in amongst all the mares, these f**** people make me sick, all the fields are next to each other, so to bring one in from a different field would be no problem. Hopefully my 2 lovely competition ponies are far enough away not to be worried by it, & if there are any problems, hopefully it won't involve my ponies. Sorry for the rant!!
 
I don't really understand what your problem is.

It doesn't affect you, so why get het up about it.

It makes no economic sense to have just one sex on a livery yard. Mares and geldings can & do live quite happily together.
 
i used to put my 2 mares out with my gelding and they got on fine. i then moved to a yard where it was mares one side geldings the other. within a couple of days my gelding jumped over to be with my mares who had been waiting by the fence for him. all 3 had been pacing the fence. the yard owner made me have him tested for a rig. i see no problems with mares & gelding together. needless to say he was not a rig just missing his friends.
 
[ QUOTE ]
all the fields are next to each other, so to bring one in from a different field would be no problem

[/ QUOTE ]
How would you manage that one?
crazy.gif
 
[ QUOTE ]
I don't really understand what your problem is.

It doesn't affect you, so why get het up about it.

It makes no economic sense to have just one sex on a livery yard. Mares and geldings can & do live quite happily together.

[/ QUOTE ]
Ditto, I don't see what the problem is
crazy.gif
 
Dont see the problem either?
At my yard we have mixed and it works better than seperate grazing for mares/geldings.
Back at my old livery yard, the mares and geldings used to spend all day talking over the fence and trying to get through it, would have been much better mixed. a couple of times one got over the fence - it was mayhem as they were so excited. My opinion was - mix them and let them be happy!
 
Don't see the problem, they aren't going in with yours. It may have been different if you had to share a field (my mare can't go out with gelding, cos she is a hussy when in season and chases them backwards round the field).
blush.gif
 
I don't see what the problem is either. I have two geldings and two mares, they range in age from 4 to 20 and all live very happily together. I never even notice when the mares are in season - they are just a happy contented bunch. As it doesn't affect your ponies, don't worry about it.
 
At my old yard the mares and geldings were separated, but at one time there were only 2 mares and loads of geldings so all the young horses went in with the mares, and 3 of those were geldings. They all got on fine.

My gelding is out with a mare and they get on really well.

I can see why you would be a bit miffed though, being told you were only allowed to buy mares, then geldings are allowed on the yard.
 
[ QUOTE ]
i think maybe their point is that they were told one thing, and now a new rule...

[/ QUOTE ]

And that is the beauty of being the Yard Owner! My land, my decisions, my rules.....don't like it then move.

And to be honest it sounds like the original rule was made years ago - times change, new management means new rules. Simple as that.
 
Perhaps I didn't explain too well! Have no problem with geldings being there, though as someone said, I was a bit p**** off originally as I had been told to buy 2 mares. However, I am particularly sensitive about this as one of my ponies nearly died after being injured in the original rig problem. The rule about having a gelding field was recent, when they were first allowed in, not years ago!! So why make a rule, then change it because someone is too lazy to walk along the interconnecting walkway, put in especially to allow easy access to all the fields. I am really concerned that having a just cut yearling careering about just over the fence is going to unsettle my 2, leading to an accident. Oh, & by the way, the woman insistent on leaving her mare in with the 2 other geldings was furious a few months ago when 1 of them mounted her mare, attacked it & left it covered in bites & with a broken splint bone. But hey, what do I know, only that I PAY to be there, so surely deserve some consideration?
 
Oh without question you deserve consideration because you pay but as I say, they have obviously considered their situation and have decided that things are to change. If they change to a way you do not like, then it's simple, you just move. You don't have to remain somewhere that you are not happy.
 
Hey, why didn't I think of that!! Perhaps the others who are unhappy & concerned for their horses welfare should join me, we could move somewhere that has rules & keeps to them, especially helpful if the rules were made with the wellbeing of ALL the horses in mind!!!
 
Because your mare was involved in the 'rig' incident I do understand that you would be a little worried and would perhaps over react BUT mares and geldings live together, in adjacent fields etc etc without one iota of a problem. as for a newly gelded yearling, well my newly gelded yearling lived next door to my four mares without incident - he now lives in with the mares - again without incident.

I also understand you are upset because rules have been changed, Tia is right - change happens and we all have to live with it. If you move yards it is very unlikely that you would find a mares only one and you obviously like the yard you are on enough to let them dictate what sex animal you bought in the past, the fact that they are now letting geldings in probably irritates you because of that, but really, life is too short to worry about things that may or more likely may not happen.
 
Merlin has in the past been turned out with a mare who he loved dearly..... but on the last yard he was separated from the mares and spent his entire life either standing by the fence defending his harem, or chasing off any geldings who dared to try to make friends too!!!

If he was turned out with only geldings though, and the mares were not within sniffing distance, he was totally uninterested too!!!

So I would be dubious about a mixed herd as i am really not sure how he would react. He is not a rig or riggy in any other way.... but maybe because he was cut at two he has feelings still?????

I can understand how frustrating it is for rules to be changed around you but also think, as was said by another poster, it is their yard and livlihood, and they have to make their money as they see best.

Anyway, off to pick the splinters out of my backside!!!!
grin.gif
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top