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Out of pure temper I left an angry note on my alfa a...

Someone has been using it, the yard feed for me during the week.

Someone has being using quite a lot of it! My horsey does not eat 20kg of alfa a in 2 weeks!

Anyway I'm not at yard during week to catch them, and don't know if my note will do anything other than encourage them to take more!!! It was written along the lines that they should quit as as I can't afford to feed their ponies and mine :)

Mwahhhhhh ha ha. I'm sure I will make enemies now!
 
never written one...but recived one....
mum and i were doing a late night check for the owner of a 25 horse yard who was away.
one horse had a late night feed. i knew this and had made it up put it in its place so i could grab it and give it to the horse!
well the owner of this horse - not yo - had never looked in our direction, let alone SPEAK to us, but knew that we were doing the lates. - she didnt have the politeness just to say...'olz give my horse his late feed'
instead she makes ANOTHER feed, after seeing i had already made all feeds for late night horses and morning as well. but she doesnt just make the same feed, she added twice the amount of pony nuts it should have - so 6 small square scoops altogether, and an extra scoop of chaff! she did this everynight, thinking she couldnt be seen!
she then had the cheek to put this feed outside her horses door and put a BIG note saying 'X HORSE'S FEED'.....well i took this feed and spilt it into the tea and evening feed for the next day and gave it the original feed i made
i also told the yo..... :)
 
I've done a few before eg I am aware.you are using me feed, I am aware of how much is in here and WILL know if that changes, I am not buying it for you funnily enough!

However said person/ people never got the hint so bought a lockable box and padlocked all my supplements in it.

Funny they lasted a lot longer after that :roll eyes:
 
Friend did a very long patronising maths equation written on a white board whilst at a livery yard once, starting from how much feed was in the bag to start with, then how much her horse got each day, then how much that was in a week, and then a month etc etc, to prove exactly how much feed should be left [which wasn't] :o
 
Yep, I've left a note inside my feed bin for whoever was helping themselves to the contents. It was quite rude but then again, the only persons opening the bin were me or the theiving wot not who was helping themselves on the sly. It worked! ;)
 
If you use a scoop a feed twice a day you will get through a bag in two weeks. Are you sure it is going missing?
 
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Wagtail said:
If you use a scoop a feed twice a day you will get through a bag in two weeks. Are you sure it is going missing?
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Quite sure... Have fed it regulary in same quantity for a long time. Packed very tightly a bag has 20kg of alfa a, I put it in a dustbin and it loosens as you put it in bin and air gets into it. 1 Stubbs scoop gives just under 500g, so I should be getting 3 weeks out of a bag

:(

Didn't even get 14 days out of the last bag. I did wonder if it was my imagination but did hear someone else say they thought theirs was being taken too which made me watch it more closely!
 
I really dislike notes having had to live with a lot of people who liked to leave them! However I think a note inside the bin is a good plan if you're not there, as said above, its only you and the thief/YO who will know about it!
 
Not hard feed but large bales of hay... a huge round bale at my old yard lasted me two weeks... at the new yard, three months... hmmmm! Suffice to say I save a fortune now!
 
Yes, at my last yard someone was regularly helping themself to my haylage and straw. They evidently hadn't two braincells to rub together as everyone on the yard used the same crap quality straw and I sourced my own good quality soft straw. So all I had to do was wander around the stables to see who else had a lovely fluffy bed of the best barley straw. Suffice to say a stinking note was left on my straw that evening.
 
I dont have that problem, as only my horses at home, but I do know exactly how long the feed I buy should last and if the kids/mum are feeding more or less than normal. Actually my feed lasts exactly a month, I would be very angry if I was paying to feed extras to some one else's horse. A large notice would be more along what i would be utilising rather than a discreet note. Or a mousetrap. :)
 
How about electric fence booby trapping the feed bin?:D

Come to think..my weighed out haylage large square bales that last me 8.5 days each, has not even lasted 4 days with the last 3 bales-so £75 in 11.5 days:-( Mine are on their own..just wonder if any locals are doing some late night shopping....:eek:
 
I could not prove that mine was going missing we have our own tack rooms and although I have lockable feed bin I had not locked it as on my own but feed seemed to be going down too quickly so locked it and found I was right and feed lasted much longer. The staff on the yard have master keys to all tack rooms as there are trip switches in the tack rooms. On my last yard I set a rat trap in the feed bin. Got a comment about it and asked and just how do you know there is a rat trap? She looked suitably embarrassed!!
 
I don't usually write one, but did write something on the board last week.

My ID mare is a good goer and easily gets barrel shaped. She also gets loose droppings from haylage (ours is questionable quality sometimes!) so I buy hay specially, which is weighed into nets. There is an older lady on our yard, who is lovely, and means well, but who does go around putting in haylage if she sees something has an empty net.

Thererfore, my door has a note on saying "please do not feed haylage to this horse". I went up the other day to find LOADS of loose haylage on the floor and some of the string/mesh wrap stuff tangled up in it!! I therefore thought this warranted a "Please DO NOT (underlined twice) feed haylage to Dulcie as she is on a hay only diet!"

Made me mad, not only as my doors says not to feed her, and plus if she had eaten that mesh I could have had a costly vet bill to cope with!!!

(BTW, she is not left without hay for long periods. She gets her nets at intermittent points through the day so that she is never left without for long. But as the other lady comes up before I finish work, she thinks she's been stood all day with nothing! Grrrr!)
 
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I am quite bad for doing this, lots of my stuff has been going missing recently so wrote a note on our tack room board in response to the staffs cheeky note about not having left a head collar or lead rope for my horse when someone took it. :mad::mad:
 
Unfortunately targeted note and theft report at someone who got back at me through littlun.
Never dreamed they would but would be so careful now as for the sake of a bag of feed I had a horse who would shake and bolt when anyone else came in sight for a year. Now they're all at home and don't see them ever going back on a yard.
 
I left a very blunt letter on our yards tea room door last winter. My 2 have to have soaked hay due to allergies and they were only ever given a few slices at night to keep them ticking over in the cold. They had nearly 10 acres to graze but one of the liveries always threw out crappy dry hay to them if they were stood by the gate waiting and the farmer would merrily throw out all his old dusty and mouldy hay that he didnt want in the barn. Cue a letter saying people caught would be held responsible for my next vet bill. Also stated let me feed my horses how i need and want to and dont interfere!
 
Not horsey but when I took my daughter to a hospital appointment I managed to find a nasty little parking space and squeezed in. Other cars obviously came and went either side and made it even more of a tight spot. On the way back to the car I noticed a car idling and a woman looking at us intently before driving off, I saw there was a rather 'eloquently put' letter on my windscreen commenting on my parking. Fair enough it's a horrible place to park and if I'm in the wrong I will apologise FACE TO FACE.
Oddly enough, while clicking on a friend's profile on facebook who should I see gurning in the pics but my poetic friend at the car park!
Now I know her name and where she lives!
What a small world :D
 
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