Omarkiam
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My yard owner has totally done my head in now!!
As I said in a previous thread, im being told myhorses are underfed. Cob x arab and a tb, both get 1 and a half scoop of chaff, plus speedibeet, nuts and codlivine supplements once a day.
Both get fat off thin air, and nearly every day both get a massive massive haynet each.
Its lots of things that have built up but today topped it off...
A lovely teenage girl feeds my horses for me most mornings, as she feeds hers anyway, and in return I poopick for her and do other favours for her when I go down in the afternoons.
I turned up yesterday afternoon and said purple feed is scats and the other is omies. She accidentally thought that I meant I wanted them fed then. So they had 2 feeds that day! (which is fine). But then... because she had given them that, and I was unaware, there were no feeds made up for this morning. There is a table next to her bins, which is where I put all feeds, as it makes it easier for her, than going round to where my stuff is, and I assumed it was her table as it had her stuff on it. There were 2 feeds there, that were NOT mine, they were the yard owners goats feeds, which had nuts in, 3 types of chaf, real peanuts, oats and allsorts, and Omie has an intolerance to sugar. (Which explains hy when I took him out today he was in space, spooking at everything and constantly wanting to gallop).
So when I came down to yard owner and asked why there were 2 extra feed buckets in my field (I had assumed she had taken it upon herself to feed them as she says I dont feed them enough), she said you know whats happened dont you, sophia has fed them the goat feed. I asked how that was possible and she said well shes done it before! (Shame noone told me, would explain the dia and the bad behaviour!) So she stood there havinga go at me about ho bad sophia was etc, I text sophia and said dont panic, we all make mistakes, just be warey as I think yard owner will corner you when you come to feed your horse.
She arrives to feed her horse and yard owner is smitten with her, and tells her how bad a person I am for allowing her to feed the goats food to my horses....?!!
Its not just this above thats angered me, its things like, I AM the only one who cleans the yard, Ive watched 4 different people have their horses on the yard and leave hay everywhere, I am the one that takes it upon myself to tidy the entire yard, yet today she whinges that I havent cleaned up.
I had to untack both horses, whilst it was raining earlier, and get the tack into the tack room asap so it didnt get soaked. So I ent and opened the tack room, put the bridles in, and left the door open whilst I went out, checked the horses, and omie had untied himself so tied him up then went to take saddles in, and wouldnt have had to open the door because I left it open for that purpose (as wouldnt have been able to doit with 2 saddles in my hands!), and out she pops...''You left the tack room door open!!
''
I wwas like im really sorry im actually in the process of putting the stuff away but omie had managed to untie himself. ...
Seems I cant do anythiung right...makes me feel like just getting rid of my boys and never going back to horses again.
I do what I can for people, I give most of my stuff away, rugs, chaps, tack etc, and in return I ask for politeness!
As I said in a previous thread, im being told myhorses are underfed. Cob x arab and a tb, both get 1 and a half scoop of chaff, plus speedibeet, nuts and codlivine supplements once a day.
Both get fat off thin air, and nearly every day both get a massive massive haynet each.
Its lots of things that have built up but today topped it off...
A lovely teenage girl feeds my horses for me most mornings, as she feeds hers anyway, and in return I poopick for her and do other favours for her when I go down in the afternoons.
I turned up yesterday afternoon and said purple feed is scats and the other is omies. She accidentally thought that I meant I wanted them fed then. So they had 2 feeds that day! (which is fine). But then... because she had given them that, and I was unaware, there were no feeds made up for this morning. There is a table next to her bins, which is where I put all feeds, as it makes it easier for her, than going round to where my stuff is, and I assumed it was her table as it had her stuff on it. There were 2 feeds there, that were NOT mine, they were the yard owners goats feeds, which had nuts in, 3 types of chaf, real peanuts, oats and allsorts, and Omie has an intolerance to sugar. (Which explains hy when I took him out today he was in space, spooking at everything and constantly wanting to gallop).
So when I came down to yard owner and asked why there were 2 extra feed buckets in my field (I had assumed she had taken it upon herself to feed them as she says I dont feed them enough), she said you know whats happened dont you, sophia has fed them the goat feed. I asked how that was possible and she said well shes done it before! (Shame noone told me, would explain the dia and the bad behaviour!) So she stood there havinga go at me about ho bad sophia was etc, I text sophia and said dont panic, we all make mistakes, just be warey as I think yard owner will corner you when you come to feed your horse.
She arrives to feed her horse and yard owner is smitten with her, and tells her how bad a person I am for allowing her to feed the goats food to my horses....?!!
Its not just this above thats angered me, its things like, I AM the only one who cleans the yard, Ive watched 4 different people have their horses on the yard and leave hay everywhere, I am the one that takes it upon myself to tidy the entire yard, yet today she whinges that I havent cleaned up.
I had to untack both horses, whilst it was raining earlier, and get the tack into the tack room asap so it didnt get soaked. So I ent and opened the tack room, put the bridles in, and left the door open whilst I went out, checked the horses, and omie had untied himself so tied him up then went to take saddles in, and wouldnt have had to open the door because I left it open for that purpose (as wouldnt have been able to doit with 2 saddles in my hands!), and out she pops...''You left the tack room door open!!
'' I wwas like im really sorry im actually in the process of putting the stuff away but omie had managed to untie himself. ...
Seems I cant do anythiung right...makes me feel like just getting rid of my boys and never going back to horses again.
I do what I can for people, I give most of my stuff away, rugs, chaps, tack etc, and in return I ask for politeness!
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I don't think I could cope on a livery yard, there tends to be a lot of back stabbing and gossiping.
