Part livery etiquette

Hossrider said:
It wouldn't bother me having to muck out someone else's wee so weeing in the stable doesn't bother me.

now pooing on the other hand......
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Yes this. As I said, I wouldn't be remotely bothered to muck out a stable that someone has peed in, so until this thread, it wouldn't really have crossed my mind that someone else would be bothered. I still can't quite see why people are bothered. Unless you have to muck out without tools or something, or people were pooping!!

In fact, the first yard that I worked on had one loo way away in the house, so everyone peed in a stable, so all of us probably regularly mucked out each other's pee!
 
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Not all yards provide toilets. I've been on a few that didn't so kept a bucket for emergency wees. Kept it rinsed out and sprayed with stable disinfectant.
I'm amazed that people admit to using stables as toilets. Fortunately, there's a toilet near my stables so I hope no one uses mine. Yuk.
 
Honey08 said:
Yes this. As I said, I wouldn't be remotely bothered to muck out a stable that someone has peed in, so until this thread, it wouldn't really have crossed my mind that someone else would be bothered. I still can't quite see why people are bothered. Unless you have to muck out without tools or something, or people were pooping!!
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I honestly didn't know people pee'd in stables, or in lorries until this thread. I'm not bothered that you pee in your stable, or that you don't mind anyone else peeing in your stable, or that your whole yard pee in their/someone else's stable, I am just saying that I wouldn't, ever and I would be annoyed in someone else had.

Why would I be bothered about wee in my stables? Because I think it is unecessary. Because my horses lay on their beds, I spend a lot of time touching my horses, scrubbing stable stains, scrubbing rugs, washing stuff and then drying it out on the stove in the kitchen and the whole thing is a lot more pleasant without having the thought that I am also washing someone else's pee off my horse/rugs or swilling them out of my stables every week. Like I say, I'm glad I'm not on a yard.
 
RunToEarth said:
I honestly didn't know people pee'd in stables, or in lorries until this thread. I'm not bothered that you pee in your stable, or that you don't mind anyone else peeing in your stable, or that your whole yard pee in their/someone else's stable, I am just saying that I wouldn't, ever and I would be annoyed in someone else had. .
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How do you manage during a day's hunting Rosie? You mean to tell me you've never peed in the lorry after a long day out?
 
You can rest safely as I mostly ride my own nowadays, and would only pee in someone else's stable if there was no loo and I was desperate! I also don't do pees big enough to noticeably dirty a bed, or to compete with the dirt and stains that are already in a stable..
 
WelshD said:
I have a chemical camping toilet - £25 from ebay
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And your discrete place for keeping that is ..... ?? The good thing about the stable is that it's quick and there's no evidence (definitely not a time for loo paper!) which reminds me, I think this has been on a thread before about someone finding loo paper in their stable. Now that really isn't on! It's all coming flooding back. Someone said 'if you don't use loo paper, what do you do?' as if we'd all walking around with wet knickers all day! It made me think perhaps their technique for wild weeing needed a tweak.
 
I am lucky enough to have a cheap caravan (few hundred quid from ebay) with a toilet cubicle for the loo Blurr but I would imagine I could whip up a cubicle made from scrap wood in twenty minutes or so

Once a year I have a huge party at the field, it lasts a weekend and not one of my guests feels the need to pee in a stable, we have two chemical toilets in makeshift cubicles under the trees
 
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WelshD said:
I am lucky enough to have a cheap caravan (few hundred quid from ebay) with a toilet cubicle for the loo Blurr but I would imagine I could whip up a cubicle made from scrap wood in twenty minutes or so
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Feel free to come and do mine! We have no space for one in the barn, so would need to be outside, and able to withstand the NE Scottish winds (we are on the side of a hill).
 
Blurr said:
And your discrete place for keeping that is ..... ?? The good thing about the stable is that it's quick and there's no evidence (definitely not a time for loo paper!) which reminds me, I think this has been on a thread before about someone finding loo paper in their stable. Now that really isn't on! It's all coming flooding back. Someone said 'if you don't use loo paper, what do you do?' as if we'd all walking around with wet knickers all day! It made me think perhaps their technique for wild weeing needed a tweak.
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do they not 'shake the drops off' as my mother used to say!!
 
amymay said:
How do you manage during a day's hunting Rosie? You mean to tell me you've never peed in the lorry after a long day out?
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Oh yes, all the time, when I'm out hunting I will happily squat behind a hedge, and if I need one in the lorry when I get back I will use the toilet in there!
 
Oh wow! This thread is hysterical :D

I've wee'd in my stable before & would do again, if the circumstance arose - I keep a pack of baby wipes in my stable anyway (not for that sole reason, but handy all the same).

I personally don't consider it an issue.
 
Lol im another finding this post hilarious. Of course i would respect others stables(there again all my horsey friends wild wee when ness ) but gosh i cant belive people just wouldn use a stablee or trailer. my daughter learnt to use stable/trailer from day one. she also learnt to pick your spot carefully when hacking having found nettles on her bare bum lolAnd preference at a show was always trailer over the loos:) much cleaner lol
 
My boss and I (YO and groom) both pee in the stables because there's no loo and if the farrier, vet, liveries or any other visitors to the yard want to pee in a stable then that's fine too. I'm the one who mucks out and I couldn't care less if someone has peed in there - I wouldn't even know if they hadn't said something, a human pee barely even registers in a bed of wood pellets! I can't believe people would be so offended by a human peeing in a stable, how petty can you get? But then again, seeing how pristine and perfect some people like their horses' beds to be, I'm amazed they think it's acceptable for the HORSE to pee in there ;)
 
Broke_But_Happy said:
On a couple of previous yards there has been no choice as no loos and no private bushes!
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It wouldn't bother me if I was mucking out. Its not as if you would a) see it, b) smell it, c) handle it with your hands! For goodness sake lets get real here.

I was on a yard for six years and had no choice but to wee in my stable. When your at a yard for ten hours a day (as I was when I had my first horse) what other choice do you have in the heat of the summer when your fluid intake is doubled????

This is PC gone mad!
 
applecart14 said:
It wouldn't bother me if I was mucking out. Its not as if you would a) see it, b) smell it, c) handle it with your hands! For goodness sake lets get real here.

I was on a yard for six years and had no choice but to wee in my stable. When your at a yard for ten hours a day (as I was when I had my first horse) what other choice do you have in the heat of the summer when your fluid intake is doubled????

This is PC gone mad!
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It's nothing to do with PC!

I haven't got an issue personally about peeing in my stables and have been doing so for years - in fact on the yard I work at I'm quite happy to pee in the stables that I am responsible for. I would just feel slightly guilty about someone else having to clean out a stable after I've peed in it :)

Would you pee in someone else's stable and leave it for them to clean up?
 
Broke_But_Happy said:
I would just feel slightly guilty about someone else having to clean out a stable after I've peed in it :)

Would you pee in someone else's stable and leave it for them to clean up?
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If they pee on the bedding, why would they have to clean it up? I doubt anyone would even notice it. If one human pee meant having to take out a fork full of bedding, I'd suggest you needed to reconsider what bedding you use...!
 
We don't have a toilet at our yard (could run down the track to my friends nans house but too lazy) but have no problem peeing in a stable. There is 3 of us we all do it in our stables but I wouldn't care if someone used mine. God its not like they are going to soak the horses whole bed is it! A tiny dribble will soak up instantly theres no way you could tell someone had wee'd in there if you didn't know!

However a number 2....no way! I would drive home lmao. As for the vet putting hers in a bag omg, thats hilarious but gross :eek3:
 
We are lucky to have a toilet on our yard but even if we didn't, I could pee in a stable, certainly one that was due to be mucked out by someone else! Granted, they might never know, but it just doesn't sit right with me.
 
OMG! I find it hard enough using a public toilet, I couldn't possibly go in a stable! Ok I know I have a slight 'issue' there but seriously?! What if someone pops their head over the door to ask you something and catch you with your knickers around your ankles? Mortifying! Regarding other people peeing in my stable, I'd be incensed; my horses rug gets gross enough lying in his own mess, I don't want to be washing other peoples business out of it. Surely grown adults can plan their toilet trips around visiting the stables without finding their caught out.
 
Depends, I have nerve damage which that sometimes when I need to go, I need to go *now*. My stable is a 5 min walk from the loo so I end up using the field!
 
applecart14 said:
It wouldn't bother me if I was mucking out. Its not as if you would a) see it, b) smell it, c) handle it with your hands! For goodness sake lets get real here.

I was on a yard for six years and had no choice but to wee in my stable. When your at a yard for ten hours a day (as I was when I had my first horse) what other choice do you have in the heat of the summer when your fluid intake is doubled????

This is PC gone mad!
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The fact that I have never wee'd in my horses' stables is not due to me being PC gone mad, I'm not quite sure how you get to that?

As I've said, I'm not bothered whether other people do it, I'm not going to judge you for weeing in your stable, I don't find it an issue - I just wouldn't do it.
 
In your stable I wouldn't care but if someone done it in mine id be raging. Like the poster above I try to only use public toilets when necessary . I was once at a yard with no toilet snd was bursting so drove home ! Have known people to do it in buckets though ....
 
We've got a toilet on our yard, so it isn't an issue now, but not had one on previous yards. I have a muck bucket, and if I've needed a wee, little bit of bedding in bottom of bucket, had my wee, then chucked it on the muck heap with all the horses muck. Would never have a poo though, but then, I find it difficult to poo anywhere but at home, or at my parents house.
 
We've got a toilet on the yard but a lot of people do wee in their horse's stables because its quite a far walk to the toilet and its not that nice, but for me, it's worth the walk. I don't object to other people doing it in their horse's stables but I don't do it myself.
 
MileAMinute said:
We are lucky to have a toilet on our yard but even if we didn't, I could pee in a stable, certainly one that was due to be mucked out by someone else! Granted, they might never know, but it just doesn't sit right with me.
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You COULD pee in a stable, certainly one that was due to be mucked out by someone else?!! Namely me?!!! I am NEVER mucking out your stable again!! ;-) ;-)
 
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