Ragwort in fields

[lhamm]

I am on a Part Livery basis at my yard. I pay for 5 day livery Mon-Friday and its DIY at weekends. I have been asked to contribute to the cost of de-ragworting the fields. Is this my responsibility or the yard owners / yard manager ?

 

[L&M]

What does your contract say re pasture maintenance? Tbh I would only expect to deal with issues like this if on a 100% diy basis.

However I would not want ragwort where my horses graze, so would be pulling it myself regardless of 'whose job it is'.....(or in your case making the contribution!)

 

[asmp]

I suppose it depends on how big your fields are. I’m on DIY and I do my own fields (mainly because if I can’t stand seeing the stuff)

 

[AmyMay]

I’ve always been diy, and have never been asked to contribute to any sort of maintenance. That’s what I pay livery for.

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

When I had DIY liveries I asked them as part of their livery, to pull any odd plant whilst poo picking, as there is always the odd one popping up each year. They knew this before they came.
No way would I have asked for contributions! How bizarre!

 

[poiuytrewq]

When I was at a yard we had the odd ragwort evenings. Bit of a bbq after mass pulling.
No one minded doing it this way and if for some reason someone couldn’t make it it didn’t matter as long as they didn’t try and skive them all! (No one ever did though)
I’d not expect to be charged extra, certainly not on full livery

 

[Polos Mum]

I'd rather chip in than have it in the field with my horse.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

I am on a Part Livery basis at my yard. I pay for 5 day livery Mon-Friday and its DIY at weekends. I have been asked to contribute to the cost of de-ragworting the fields. Is this my responsibility or the yard owners / yard manager ?

I don't charge my liveries, but appreciate their help in pulling it up which half do

 

[cindars]

On diy for years at same yard have always pulled it in fact just finished doing the two fields because I hate the stuff

 

[JennBags]

On DIY we'd pull it ourselves. On part or full livery I'd expect the YO to organise and pay for it.

 

[PapaverFollis]

I've been on yards where fields are fully maintained in the cost or where weed pulling was our responsibility as well as poo-picking. I've never been asked to contribute extra for field maintenance though. Where it has been done the cost was I assume covered in the livery.

 

[Surbie]

I'm on DIY - I remove it from the fields my horse is in (just spent an hour tonight taking small plants out of the resting half).

At the last DIY yard I was on, all liveries were supposed to help clear it, but in reality it was just a few of us.

I'd expect clear fields if I were paying part livery.

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

Like others, we have individual paddocks for each horse, we poo pick & remove any ragwort we find. It you keep on top of it there's no problem. Our yard has a contract, but for years it didn't have one, we used common sense & all ran smoothly then a certain person moved onto the yard & wanted a contract & everything in black & white. So a contract was done & we ll signed. In a few months the person left our yard, he was a pain in the ar$e, and wasn't missed. We still have a contract but it's kin of dormant, we are back to using common sense & everything runs swimmingly.