Pet hate at the yard?

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Following on from this thread: http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=498356

What is your pet hate to see or do when you go to the yard?

We don't need lists :D but just try to pick out your most annoying/irritating 'thing' that you hate when you go to the yard?

I really dont have a lots to moan about really, but what gets my goat is the (wonderful) lady who pops in to do mine if I am away, likes to put my lead ropes 'up' in the BHS tidy fashion & headcollars done up.

Yes, it looks tidy, but drives me bonkers as I havent got round to replacing a very servicable rope which is a little stiff - and it stays in flippin coils for ages after :rolleyes:
I also like to grab a headcollar & when in the dark it drives me nuts to spend an extra 3 seconds in undoing it :o

Yours?
 
Getting to the muck trailer and having to chuck someone elses muck up, which they appear to have forgotten they tipped!

last person not turning all the lights off!


People who are filling water buckets and chatting while you stand there like a lemon with two fidgeting horses waiting to wash their feet off (I am apparently invisible)

When it rains heavily and my stables leak and the lights trip!
 
ha! mine is almost the opposite!!

I hate it when people who ride my horse don't put things away properly. i.e such chucking the saddle on the rack without putting the cover one, or hanging up the bridle without putting the reins through the throatlash!! Really bugs me! My husband is the worst culprit!!
 
My stable is at the end of an american barn so everyone walks past mine to get to theirs. I like a nice tidy swept area in front of my stable and am always the first down in the morning. My biggest pet hate is when people turn their horses out and dont pick out there feet first. I wouldnt mind if they swept it up afterwards but they dont so i am always greeted in the evening by lots if poo/straw/shaving piles outside my stable. Grrr.
 
People who don't sweep the trails of bedding their horse has dragged out of their stable in the morning because they are "in a hurry" and other people have to walk their horse over the same bit later and will have to sweep up.

I find a simple solution in to very quickly flick the pile in front of their stable before I bring my horse out. They soon get the message.... for a couple of weeks!
 
Trot_On_Dressage said:
My stable is at the end of an american barn so everyone walks past mine to get to theirs. I like a nice tidy swept area in front of my stable and am always the first down in the morning. My biggest pet hate is when people turn their horses out and dont pick out there feet first. I wouldnt mind if they swept it up afterwards but they dont so i am always greeted in the evening by lots if poo/straw/shaving piles outside my stable. Grrr.
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lol! I posted at the same time with the same gripe!! ha ha! But I'm one of the last up....
 
people 'borrowing' without asking and either wrecking or failing to return said item.

Loud high pitched noises

Gates left open for no reason other than small children want them open

Other people's small children climbing on my car while I ride, can't see car park to watch car and remove small children.

The fact that thier mom is a really good mate and I don't know what to say without hurting her feelings.
 
'borrowing' is my biggest pet hate by far!!! If it is mine, then it means it isn't yours. If it is only such a little thing, then purhaps you'd like to get your own!!!
 
Trot_On_Dressage said:
My stable is at the end of an american barn so everyone walks past mine to get to theirs. I like a nice tidy swept area in front of my stable and am always the first down in the morning. My biggest pet hate is when people turn their horses out and dont pick out there feet first. I wouldnt mind if they swept it up afterwards but they dont so i am always greeted in the evening by lots if poo/straw/shaving piles outside my stable. Grrr.
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Ditto this.
 
I usually have a tribe of followers at my yard, always trying to talk to me & 'help out'.. Usually the younger ones at the yard... Quite annoying when I want to get on with my jobs!
 
Tipping water buckets on the yard when its freezing. Its lethal when you find the yard is an ice rink on a dark morning.

Not sweeping up split feed. Feed the horses, not the rats.
 
Allowing their dogs free roam all over the yard, and not keeping an eye on them, so they could end up wherever! And then they dont see where the dog has done its business so dont clear it up! Also riding in the school and not clearing the poo up after use.





I shall stop now before this becomes an epic tale!!!
 
My horse is in an American Barn and the tap is opposite my stable people chuck water about all over the floor and leave it! Winds me up I have to sweep it about 6 times every night! lol It looks really messy having a flood of water outside my stable and in winter in turns into an ice rink! Thats the other thing that annoys me in winter people chuck water all over the yard when they empty their water buckets/use the taps thats if they aren't frozen! They don't think that it will freeze and get very slippery!
 
People with no control over their horses - they crash about, get dragged up the yard then lots of shouting and screaming comes from the box - drives me nuts!
And horses being left with nothing to eat all night! horses done for the night at 5pm and hay nets are finished by 7pm.
 
Rosie041390 said:
I usually have a tribe of followers at my yard, always trying to talk to me & 'help out'.. Usually the younger ones at the yard... Quite annoying when I want to get on with my jobs!
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I know what you mean :) some lovely young girls who come up with their Grandma they are such sweeties but after a while i do want some peace lol xx
 
Somebody who uses my mucking out stuff - and then doesn't put it back. This means I have to trail around a farmyard in the dark at 7am looking for it!
I really don't mind people borrowing it - as long as it's there for me to use.
Get your own stuff!
 
1)people not pushing their muck back in the trailer so you have a mountain to shift before you can empty your own skip bucket!

2) Also people leaving the brew room a tip with biscuit wrappers, pot noodles, dirty cups etc...for goodness sake the bin is less than a foot away!

3) people not doing their share of poo picking, seems to be the same ones that do it on our yard every week and then you get daggers and muttered.... i did some the other day when you mention it knowing damn well they are lying!!
 
People who let their horses have bad manners because "it's cute."

Maybe it's because I was brought up with big horses and big dogs..... it all goes wrong very quickly if they don't have manners put in at a young age.
 
Some interesting replies. The one about people not putting the reins through the throatlash made me smile . . . now. . . putting the reins through the throatlash drives me up the wall and I could cheefully throttle people who do it as it is so annoying! One man's meat . . . . . I hate messy yards and have a "thing" about being tidy and sweeping up.
 
Pet hate? It changes by the week. Currently it's the state of the yard outside the stables belonging to the new livery. She's a lovely girl but she does not sweep up and it's doing my head in!
 
B*tching and being nasty to other liveries! That is why I left a big DIY yard and now rent stables and land and share with two other lovely ladies. There is NO b*tching, fighting and we help each other out. It is bliss! I would NEVER go back to a yard. People can be so nasty. This is supposed to be our hobby, our fun-time, after all.
 
ScarlettLady said:
Mushrooming of large round bales!!! argh!
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Oh my god i hate this ^^
I was head girl on a livery/racing yard for 3 years and the number of staff i've gone crazy about for this is untrue!

maggiesmum said:
People with no control over their horses - they crash about, get dragged up the yard then lots of shouting and screaming comes from the box - drives me nuts!
And horses being left with nothing to eat all night! horses done for the night at 5pm and hay nets are finished by 7pm.
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Totally ditto this ^^

Luckily i'm now on a yard with just 2 other liverys - heaven :)
 
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