Scariest thing you have heard a person say that owns horses

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I have heard/seen some scary things by horse owners. Today I heard a dandy :D

Someone I know had a foal born last night. When I asked the sex they said .. "Well we don't see any balls so it must be a girl" :D

I also remember a lady who had some nice fencing. One sagging rusty strand of barbed wire about 2 feet of the ground. When I asked her how on Earth this kept her herd of ten in she said " My horses are trained well"


I heard a few months later that they were all running down the highway


so let's hear yours :D Sometimes you don't know if you should laugh or cry
 
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Horse colicing and clearly quite distressed, horse has been like this all sweated up for 30 mins, I assumed vet was on way, quote owner after asking me to come over 'should I call the vet?', and also whilst waiting for vet 'I hope she can still go out tomorrow night.' Sometimes I just want to bang my head against the wall, or bang someone's head against the wall.

There's actually loads I could go on and on, but its more the things I see that are scary, than the things that are said, mainly because I try not to converse with these people in case I hit them.
 
This lassie who was extremely novice (although thought she was a great dressage rider) she was riding her horse and she said i'll show you him doing a turn on the forehand and with that she dragged the horses nose round to her knee and forced it to walk in a tiny circle round and round. I was like wtf!?! one of those jaw drop moments and i had to walk away.

This same girl was going to breed from her mare and she'd only keep it if it was a colt as she wanted a stallion!? She also told me her horse was so highly strung it needed sedating for the farrier and even then they had to do 2 feet at a time to get it done quick.......yeah really.
 
Young girl bought her first horse. It was known to have had laminitis in the past and she knew she had to be careful how she managed it.
My jaw dropped to the floor one day when she informed me that if they get laminitis you have to turn them out onto really long green grass!! I kid you not.
Some clever cow on the yard had told her to do that!!
Same person who gave out loads of incorrect advice about all manner of subjects. I can only assume she thought it funny.....
 
Im not turning my horse out overnight as I dont want him getting fat..... Not scary no? Horse is currently very underweight and was bought a couple of weeks ago!!

Ill ride him through the lameness he might be sounder at the end after a jump to loosen up (horse was very lame and only 6 so shouldnt be stiff!)......

Oh I have heard plenty, people leaving there horses with no food all night because they are fat, thinking because they read somewhere to do something that it would be a miracle cure for their horse etc...
 
" He doesn't really need to eat much at all as he thrives on happiness" - that one was from a lady who clearly must have had a very low feed bill each month! Lol!
 
Oh another one, really obese old mare, turned out straight onto really lush spring fields from bald winter paddocks, no muzzle, no restriction. Me being absolutely appalled asked what on earth. Quote owner: 'if she's in she'll only be getting fat off hay, so she might as well be out'. Errr don't feed it too much hay then?! I have no idea how its still alive. It also has really severe respiratory problems and is on a straw bed with unsoaked hay.

I have a headache.
 
Probably:

"She's just a baby" from the owner of a (7 year old) horse who on getting bored of being led would spin and kick out, invariably taking out a rib or two from whoever was unfortunate enough to be leading. :rolleyes:
 
LOL those are crackers! ^^

'I dont like side reins, I want my horse to naturally bring its head down' - said the rider who was seasawing her horse's mouth for half an hour in the school.
'have you seen how much A feeds their horse? They'll kill it!' - said the one who soon came out of the tackroom with a 1/2 water bucket sized dinner for the horse that needed NO food whatsoever!
'I'm learning parelli' - said the girl who put her parelli halter on, and the 9ft rope, and a saddle, and a bridle over the top of the halter, and then SIDE REINS! lol that one was a cracker!
'my horse is being suspiciously whizzy. I'm only feeding it mix, sugar beet and chaff.'
"why do u ride out with a whip youre horse is very forward going!" 'Because he is naughty.'

There are LOADS of them worse than that that I have heard though, I love ear wigging at shows, thats where you get the corkers!
 
'What's a vetting?' - from someone who is constantly being bucked off by the schoolmaster she bought from the local riding school.
 
After a vet had told this person her horse was "morbidly obese" she told me, "Of course these vets are so used to seeing thoroughbreds they don't know cobs are supposed to look like this".
Even my non horsey OH who can barely tell the pointy eating end from the blunt poo-ing end can tell the difference.

When the farrier told her to be careful as her horse had a huge fat crest she got cross and informed him it was muscle not fat. I keep trying that one about my spare tyre round my middle but no one believes me either!
 
Not horse owners, but.. Non horsey parent's in a tack shop getting ready to buy a lunge whip for their daughter to take to the riding school, to ride with, would of been interesting to see..
"He said the long ones"

Maybe I shouldn't of pointed them in the direction of the schooling whips ;)
 
Said to me by a very experienced yard owner and dressage rider when my horse was napping. "Give her a really good thrashing".
 
Lol and I thought it was just at our yard! One girl (absolutely lovely but could do with helpful pointers - and yes I have tried :) ) came back from a local show and informed me and other half that "my mate took her horse to show and it trashed every single fence so I'm going to take mine to next one whether it's ready or not - I mean it's all about having a fun day out isn't it?!" (other half commented on way home "I always thought you had fun because you knew your horse would at least attempt a jump!")
 
not that scary but funny,

this guy who was on our yard, bless him, he meant well but was clueless about horses said, 'how big is this horse? he looks about 15.3hh, or maybe even 15.4hh,' oh how we laughed!
 
Heard at showjumping " my horse jumps too high and fast, thats why we have poles down" and the clasic "The ### horse took the wrong course" thease were at affiliated shows ! Also in warm up after crashing into people " Don't they realise that I cann't stop after the jump!!" I also shan't say where one girl though that the wormer syringe went!!!
 
Hey Hayley, given your location I think this was the same chap who was on our yard for 12 months. Claimed his horse was 16.5hh or something. I have to agree with you about him being clueless but no he didn't mean well at all - in the year or more he was with us his horse saw the farrier precisely twice so you can imagine what state its hooves were in and how it kept the shoes on is a mystery. He had it fully clipped (despite the fact it hadn't been ridden at all in 6 months, then left it out one night naked in November in pouring rain and a gale, then left it in a medium weight in July when he went away for the weekend (without telling anyone). He told me he was going to ride it around Summerfield (again hadn't been ridden in nearly 9 months by this time) - it took me a while to realise he meant Somerford Park. He used to read about something on the internet then spout off all knowledgeably but unfortunately for him we could all tell it was just blarney and he actually knew sweet FA about horses.
 
Have heard the height mistake loads of times.
Been asked for a baboon bit instead of a bradoon.
Unfortunatly got called out with vet to a horse with a horribly broken leg and the owner asked what we were going to do about it!!!
Know people who have a mare and a 2 year old that they bred from the mare and now cant control either. An accident waiting to happen!!! They said this week that they are putting the mare in foal again!!!
 
On showing my surprise that someone was giving their horse a huge meal of hard feed by their horse box after a 15 mile xc ride in over 26 degree searing heat: "we always feed after a hack".
 
Mine was a couple of weeks ago, someone turned 3 horses out in the paddock next to mine. Its a section used at my yard as a hospital paddock, mine was in a small one on her own as she goes on/off lame with advanced navicular and it was her first day out for a couple of days..

They were in there because apparantly they had ragwort posioning..No joke, that field they put them in has more ragwort than grass, I spent 3 hours pulling it yesterday and hardly got anywhere! Apparantly she picked it all >.<
 
From a horsey magazine a few years ago in the advice letters section:

"I know I'm only a novice where horses are concerned but I'm planning to back my four year old soon, can anyone give me some advice?"

Same magazine in feature about towing and travelling horses:

"Motorway service areas offer an ideal place to offload your horses, let them stretch and have some grass!"
 
The best one I have heard in a while - Oh I have entered him for a show in a few weeks time to do the lead rein and first ridden. Not so unusual? Not if it was their own pony! She had entered mine and told me to have it cleaned and ready for her at the show!
 
'My horse is allergic to protein'

Err yes luv and he would be dead if he was


'My 3yo keeps bucking me off, should I give him a calmer - no he does not get turned out as the other horses don't like him'

*head desk*


'I got a 2yo, I thought we could learn together'

This from a complete novice!


There was also the dressage rider who refused to give her horses a haynet after competition 'In case they colicked'

I have loads more of these little gems too
 
A farrier once told me that my horse's shoes were lasting only 4 1/2 weeks between shoeing that I was "over-hacking her".

I hacked twice a week maximum for an hour, she went 7 weeks between shoeing when I moved away from the area (notorious for poor quality of farriers) and she had great feet! It was just that he liked to make more money from re-shoeing every 4 1/2 weeks by doing a poor job in the first place.
 
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