Rugging (bit of a rant)

B

berry

Well-Known Member
Joined
20 January 2006
Messages
858
Location
surrey
Visit site
My mare has on a heavyweight with neck cover out in field during the day and at night in stable she has really thin liner with attached neck and heavyweight stable rug over the top.
She is fully clipped out apart from her legs and is a bit of a pansy in the cold weather anyway.
This evening one of the ladys up my yard told me I was over rugging her and that I would only end up putting more rugs on as the weather got colder and that personally she doesnt like seeing a horse wearing more then two rugs at once!!!
I just told her to mind her own buisiness, my mare is'nt over heating in her rugs (which she has been telling everyone else), and that if she does'nt like it then not to look. The said lady always has to have her say in the way the other owners look after their horses, this is the first thing she has said to me and I was'nt having any of it!!!
Do you think I have been a bit harsh???
 
I am so glad I am not on a yard, they're in my back yard. Some people honestly, whre do they get off.

She's a busy body

And it's bl**dy cold tonight and the last two nights.
 
Not at all!! Well done you! It's all to easy to say nothing and brood about it, which can then lead to a huge explosion. I can't stand people like her! She would have had a fit if she'd seen my big lad 2 winters ago! He was fully clipped out - everything off and he did feel the cold! So he had on 2 duvets and stable rug and on very cold nights stable bandages too!
 
A wynstay food rep came to the farm today.. and tried to tell me my horse was going to get laminitis.. i nearly flipped.. Instead i explained to her that she hadn't got a clue about horses and to stick to cows =oP

you did well hunnie
 
Good on you! We had the most aweful busybodying......Is that a word? When we first went barefoot with our Irish Draft gelding, then with our cob cross. My wife and I have moved to progressively smaller yards over the years to get away from this sort of thing.
We always listen to sound advice honestly given, but every so often people will try to air their supposed knowledge just to score a point or make them feel supiorior.........I won't have it either!
 
Thanks everyone feel so much better, just got back from the yard and the lady that was sticking her nose in has turned her horse out in a heavy weight with neck cover and its still got a full coat!!! Talk about contradicting herself!!!!! She makes my blood boil
mad.gif
.
 
Good god, what is it about horses, that makes everybody want to have an opinion!!
Ignore this busybody and look after your horse as you see fit! No doubt she'd be terribly confused at my yard - we rug our horses and liveries appropriately for the horse and the weather.
 
If she had a fit at you then she would have shot me if she had seen one of our horses last night. He has been through some major surgery and will never come 100% right but we do what we can for him to give him a quality of life, he's only 3, he has a weak back end and is built like a razor blade. Anyway, he is not clipped, has a termatex and a polywarm on as he really feels the cold, and last night I left him in rugged up with his heat lamps on in his stable. Poor little lad he was not too bad this morning as he managed to get up on his own, otherwise if he gets too cold he finds it hard to stand up. So you stick To your guns, its your horse not hers so make sure she keeps her nose out of your business.
 
There people are everywhere. I listen to them and either tell them nicely to mind their own business, or use my "drop dead face". I bet she's older than and thinks she knows best.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top