Griggster1990
Well-Known Member
Sorry for the moan, just need to get this off my chest.
I am currently on a small friendly yard. Well that is what it was when I originally moved on. Just me and my horse, YO and her 4 and one other livery. As time has gone on the yard has got fuller and fuller. There are currently 11 horses and 1 pony on 4 acres of land! All of which (bar 1) live out 24/7. I was lucky in that the paddock my horse was in was only shared with one other horses and the owner of that horse and me had a hay arrangement so although not ideal, it worked for us. I had been thinking about moving in spring as we would then have to supplement forage all year as the field are full to bursting and none of them are rested anymore. I will miss the place as the facilities are great.
Anyway, I digress. I arrived at the yard yesterday all set for a nice long solo hack in the woods. I walk down to get my horse to be met by 2 beautiful big horses, in my paddock! I bring my horse in and collar the YO. Turns out she has taken on 2 more livery horses (16.2 and 16.3) and they now live in my field (which is about .75 of an acre!) So that is now 13 horses and 1 pony on 4 acres of land! This, in my opinion and probably some law somewhere is completely unacceptable!
I was a bit mad that I wasn't aware of these new horses. Nobody asked me or the other lady if our mares with would be OK with these 2 huge geldings? so I probably wasn't as kind as I should have been to the YO, but I told her it wasn't on and that I was looking to move. She told me I was free to stable my horse if I was unhappy and she has a business to run
So the search starts for a new yard today I am really sad as the yard is lovely, the YO has been a massive help to me, but greed has gotten the better of her it seems. I am yet to meet the owner of the big horses but I certainly don't want to put hay out for her horses to eat until I have spoken to her. Seems my horse will be coming in for a few weeks now until I can find somewhere new.
Sorry for the moany post. I don't need to be told to move, I will be. I just needed to get it off my chest
I am currently on a small friendly yard. Well that is what it was when I originally moved on. Just me and my horse, YO and her 4 and one other livery. As time has gone on the yard has got fuller and fuller. There are currently 11 horses and 1 pony on 4 acres of land! All of which (bar 1) live out 24/7. I was lucky in that the paddock my horse was in was only shared with one other horses and the owner of that horse and me had a hay arrangement so although not ideal, it worked for us. I had been thinking about moving in spring as we would then have to supplement forage all year as the field are full to bursting and none of them are rested anymore. I will miss the place as the facilities are great.
Anyway, I digress. I arrived at the yard yesterday all set for a nice long solo hack in the woods. I walk down to get my horse to be met by 2 beautiful big horses, in my paddock! I bring my horse in and collar the YO. Turns out she has taken on 2 more livery horses (16.2 and 16.3) and they now live in my field (which is about .75 of an acre!) So that is now 13 horses and 1 pony on 4 acres of land! This, in my opinion and probably some law somewhere is completely unacceptable!
I was a bit mad that I wasn't aware of these new horses. Nobody asked me or the other lady if our mares with would be OK with these 2 huge geldings? so I probably wasn't as kind as I should have been to the YO, but I told her it wasn't on and that I was looking to move. She told me I was free to stable my horse if I was unhappy and she has a business to run
So the search starts for a new yard today I am really sad as the yard is lovely, the YO has been a massive help to me, but greed has gotten the better of her it seems. I am yet to meet the owner of the big horses but I certainly don't want to put hay out for her horses to eat until I have spoken to her. Seems my horse will be coming in for a few weeks now until I can find somewhere new.
Sorry for the moany post. I don't need to be told to move, I will be. I just needed to get it off my chest