One for all Yard Owners! - You'll like this one!

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As a diy'er I pride myself on my tidyness, I clean up after myself, poo pick every morning before I go to work, chuck my muck up (& everyone else's) on the muck cart etc, - you know, the usual jobs (that I think you should do.) You will make mess - you will clean up after yourself.
This morning, after sweeping up and chucking muck up after the one culprit that doesn't, I had a little moan to a fellow livery and I asked "why wont she do it"? The reply was....
"She doesn't see why she should, as we pay what we pay,she thinks that we should have a yard care taker to do it"!!
We only pay £100 per calender month including hay & straw!
See - told you you'd like it!
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haha oh dear... unfortunately, that's the reason why i don't have liveries on my yard any more. liveries like you are few and far between (and the ones i had like you at my old place, are still friends) but the "expect a lot for very little" brigade are legion. i had d.i.y liveries not bother turning up for 3 days running, once they realised that i'd do their horses (because i felt sorry for them - waiting for their feeds, standing in filthy stables, running out of water, not being turned out till 2pm, etc etc) if the owners didn't turn up. the "nightmare livery" stories i could tell...
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disco, like you I do take pride in my horses and their surroundings - in fact I have some mammoth blisters on my hands from a major poo picking session yesterday - and they weren't even my paddocks.

As far as having a yard caretaker thrown in for £100 a month? What planet are they on? More likely the horse owner is too lazy or simply thinks that yard duties are below them.
 
Yep had one of those! Wait for this- £10 a week, stable, arena, good grazing and hay (mates rates). But fortunately there was a muck fairy on the yard who magically put the muck on the muck heap! Looked very like......ME!!!!! At one point I felt like drawing a map to show where the muck heap was!
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No longer a mate!
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But to be fair we did have a nettle problem and it is hard to go near stinging nettles when you are wearing shorts and halterneck!
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haha oh dear... unfortunately, that's the reason why i don't have liveries on my yard any more. liveries like you are few and far between (and the ones i had like you at my old place, are still friends) but the "expect a lot for very little" brigade are legion. i had d.i.y liveries not bother turning up for 3 days running, once they realised that i'd do their horses (because i felt sorry for them - waiting for their feeds, standing in filthy stables, running out of water, not being turned out till 2pm, etc etc) if the owners didn't turn up. the "nightmare livery" stories i could tell...
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Ditto!

Thats why I closed both the livery yards I had
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Which is why I would so love to own my own paddock/stables.

There would'nt be a scrap of straw or poo anywhere!

Maybe one day hey?! - If I win the lottery
 
Ooh, I know of a yard you'd love, it's immaculate, not a blade out of place
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I try to be as tidy as possible but have yet to meet a yard caretaker. Is that meant to be YO? or YO's husband??
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I also know of a yard with lots of pretty flowers, plenty of staff, everything painted and swept

but the horses are 'numbers' - not individuals - and sometimes you wonder if anyone would notice (or speak enough english ;-) ) to identify that a horse had a leg hanging off....

yard fairies are very common you know

they not only work round muck heaps, they are very good at taking dangerous objects like forks off the yard and putting them in barns...

yard fairies also freely allow all their kit to be borrowed without permission and if returned or ever found again will be in a broken condition
 
I'm one of those liveries that gets mistaken for staff now and again as I am usually found with a broom in my hand following someone around! Our yard is quite messy at the moment as its been sooo windy you cant really sweep up, but I am jsut dying to get a rake out and tidy up all the loose straw! They are going to think Im mad come winter when I go sweeping mad!

We just have to dump our muck on the ground next to the trailer and the tractor scoops it up
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LMAO!

People think YO's should pooh pick the field when they're on DIY as it's part of field maintenance and as the YO owns the land, they should do it. That winds me up terribly.

Do liveries think the YO should clean out when the horse is in the stables too?

Livery is relatively cheap really for the service that is provided. Field with unlimited turnout, stable, some-one living on site, auto water drinkers in, hoseipe for washing off, electricity and sockets for farrier and kettle....blah blah all for £20 a week.

Take a family for an hour swimming at Waterworld and you'll have little change from £40. A cheap meal at the chippy can be £20, as can MacDonalds and the likes.

Nothing in today's society is cheap and yet people expect livery for next to nothing when the YO has to pay rates on the land and £150 a year rates per stable...including their own private stables. Not to mention increased rates when they have manèges.
 
Disco and The_Watcher can both bring all their horses and ponies to my yard for free - well in exchange for a bit of sweeping up. Oldest son has the muckheap under control.

Patches - are there any yards out there which have poo-picking rules? My strict everything every day regime is blatantly flouted by girl child and middle boy.
 
ha, thats the same thing the other liverys at my yard say, £65 per month and they dont see why they should tidy up, puck pick or ragwort pick, as thats what theyre paying for. and yes, here is another mug that ends up doing everything for no payment because i cant leave a mess.
 
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