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I should start by saying, I am moving my horse to a new yard on friday. Basically, I went up to yard on Thursday night to find all the pipes to the electric waterers in the stables frozen. No water buckets put in the horses stables, and all pipes in yard frozen. Horses were biting the pipes they were so thirsty! Went 50 yards to YO house with 2 buckets, she filled them (her water working fine) and my mare drank like a demon. YO said she would water in morning.
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So I cracked open whatever water was left in empty stables and lead as many horses as possible over to give them at least some water. Took me over an hour. They were all gagging.
I told several liveries what happened and said they should put a bucket in at night since YO and YM aren't bothering. I was shocked at how many liveries seemed totally unconcerned or didn't say thanks for watering their desperate horse.
How would you react if someone told you this happened to your horse? Would you think I was over reacting? Personally, I don't think I am and I stand by my decision to move her.

PS: the next day YM forgot to feed my horse. UGH! And for those interested in update on my late-livery-paying sharer, she is moving back to Uk so will be finding another one. Sorted.
Sorry it so long! Drama drama drama!
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I don't think you've over reacted at all - I would be furious if this happened to me. At the end of the day, you entrust the daily care of your horse to a YO or YM and you expect to get the service you pay for - especially something as basic and essential as water!

Good luck with the move.
 
No i don't think you are over reacting. You expect them to care for your horse and give them their basic needs including water and feed!!
 
Erm......Having had my horses on full livery,then I would not be impressed(I'm guessing it is either full or part you are on?)then TBH it is the YM or YO who should take care that all liveries in their care have water!
I think the word your looking for is 'frustrating' concerning the other horse owners reaction to the fact that water was not available,and they came across blaazay about it.
For me a 'Thank You' goes along way and cost nothing to utter!
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All the best of Luck with your move!
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i would be fuming if that had happened. i bet you'll be glad to get off that yard.
manners cost nothing. it wouldn't hurt to say thanks.
 
I don't think you are overreacting at all!!! Totally unacceptable and I think under the circumstances (bad weather, frozen pipes) the YO should have provided water for all liveries regardless of the type of livery.
 
Firstly - I would be furious!!

I was in the same situation - but mine was worse, my horse had, had one of his kidneys out as it was failing. After the stint in hospital and the re-hab, I had him on full livery at a so called professional's yard, ex eventer and took on horses for re-hab from the newmarket vets. One day I went down to the yard about 4pm and my boy had been in the field since 8am, it had got to about 30+degrees during the day and he was hot. Looked around the field and guess what? not even a bucket - so he had been out in the heat with only one kidney and no water all day.

YO knew how important it was for him to have water - even a healthy one would have needed it!! Then when I kicked off - he said mistakes happen and he couldn't understand why I was over-reacting! After sorting my boy out i headed for my car before I lumped the bloke. The horse was moved within the week.
 
Oh yes I would be angry all right.

I read all these posts and just thank god that my YO is sane and sensible.

Our Auto Waterers are frozen as is the Yard Tap but she buckets water from her home to the Stables all she asks is that if anyone is down there and she is not to check all the horses buckets in their stalls and top up from the buckets she has left in the gangways. If you are able to take the empties back up to the house and re-fill great.

We know to carry on with this system till we all get the text saying "we have water again" its not rocket science is it?

And no manners cost nothing at all hope the new year is much better.
 
shocking!!
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how can people be so blasay (sp?) about such a basic thing as giving horses water?
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My YO is fantastic, I turned up on saturday and he had been round all 25 boxes and made sure everyones horse had water because the automatic waters had frozen up as well as all the taps, this is a DIY yard by the way! He had brought lots of water from his house and made sure everyone had some extra too.
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Good luck with the move, hope your new yard is better.
 
That's exactly what I wish my YO had done. I think what really shocked my was that her house had running water 50 yards from the yard where everything was frozen solid. She could so easily have filled up buckets from her house but she was too busy watching tv. And she knew they were gagging for water because I called to her door to fill up some buckets. She made it clear she would fill those and no more, and she wouldn't be down to the yard until morning.
How can you sit watching tv when the horses are biting pipes and kicking doors with the distress of their thirst? It beggars belief.
 
It really baffles and saddens me that someone with so little disregard for the welfare of the animals in her care would go into such a business as livery.

Ever since I was little, it was drilled into me to see after the animals before myself. They are so helpless in so many ways and it is up to us and no one else to ensure that they are given such basic things as feed, water and shelter.

It's horrendous that so many people forget that fact - especially as in this case -someone who is making their living from it.
 
I would be mad too.
I have been moving water containers for my lot and just did a quick count 7 horses are drink about 160 Litres daily! They seem to be drink much more with the haylege. I am sure my arms are getting longer!! LOL
 
My YO and her staff have been busy filling water buckets and troughs for almost 40 animals since the cold snap started, three times a day, every day. There's no excuse, any fool would know you don't leave animals without water, you are right to move her. Disgusting attitude.
 
A similar thing happened to me. I kept my horse on a yard that I worked on. I took a 4 day holiday to go watch Badminton 4*, and paid for my horse to go on full livery during the time I was away. Just before I left her auto waterer broke, so I put a big bucket in her stable, and told the YM and YO her water was broken, so needed fixing, but in the meantime my mare would need her bucket filling.

I left the yard on the Wednesday, and returned about 11pm on the sunday night, i lived at the yard so went to go check on my horse before I went to bed. Good thing I did, there was not a bucket in sight, and her waterer hadn't been fixed. My mare was massively dehydrated. I had to get the emergency vet out, and my mare was put on a drip. Due to this my mare suffered kidney damage. Apparetly my mare was given to a new foreign student to look after, who claimed he didn't understand english, so didn't know she needed a bucket. You don't need to understand english, you just need a pair of eyes!

Needless to say I left my job, and removed my horses from the yard. I couldn't believe that the people I worked with could be so neglectful. Over 10 people work on that yard daily, how did no one notice a dehydrated horse, especially as the mucked her out every day, and fed her. I also paid for her to be ridden, which she evidently wasn't. I have never been so angry in my life and the vet was appalled that a well known, fully approved yard left a horse in the state my mare was in.

OP I know exactly how you feel. I would have done the same in your situation. It is pure neglect on the YM part, all liveries should be leaving, not just you!
 
I am on a DIY yard now - and our yard water has been off for about 3 weeks. This morning the horses were being left in as we were falling everywhere on the yard and i had to be dug out twice. Now considering we have had bad weather for weeks now and it is the day after Sunday when hardly anyone works -there were only 8 stables that had spare water left outside them (3 of them were mine). We had no water on the yard at all not even in the YO's out house! So we had a yard of 28 horses that could not get a drink - water troughs are frozen solid and horses are all eating dry hay... I live closest to the yard so YO's and another livery were filling up water containers at 6.30 am - much to the amusement of the OH whom was offering help in his dressing gown and slippers.

Not one person said thank you tonight - in fact i dont think they have even noticed.... as i have said before it is not their stomachs, back or mouth being hurt so why should they bother ?
 
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