Gingerwitch
Well-Known Member
I am so so so dissapointed in my yard this festive period - not the yard owner or manager by the way but the other liveries:-
1. Horse on grass livery - i shamed owner into taking hay into the field for the poor little mite - i had hayed it the night before - Christmas eve - i did not even know it existed until i caught a girls horse in whom was stuck at home with a flat battery and this poor thing shot out the gate and stared trying to eat a twig - apparantly its been out in all this snow and ice for 7 days and when i caught her on boxing day i did tell her at thing or two - all she said was she was "thinking about taking it some hay !" - i could wack her one
2. Some liveries hiding the yards tools so they could have a shaving fork or brush to use on the days they did their own pony
3. Water butts being "stolen" after folks like me had spent the day before filling them up
4. Hay being "stolen" from peoples round bales
5. More hay thrown onto the muck heap than was eaten by folks who have no idea what their horse eats, and "objected" strongly to the "tiny" amount poor "duchess" was left by the scrouge of a yard manager - I was even more upset as the poor little mite in the field would have given his high teeth to get some of this
6. One familly managing to use 3 wheelbarrows to do 2 horses - 1 for clean straw, left filled all the time they were pratting about, one being used to muck out with - that was filled with muck and then we had to wait for them to turn out the horses and eventually empty the wheelbarrow, the 3rd was - wait for it- used to put hay into - so it could then be put into haynets "WTF" ! - two hours for three wheelbarrows -
anyone else had one of these weeks?
I would not be a yard manager for all the tea in china or india -
1. Horse on grass livery - i shamed owner into taking hay into the field for the poor little mite - i had hayed it the night before - Christmas eve - i did not even know it existed until i caught a girls horse in whom was stuck at home with a flat battery and this poor thing shot out the gate and stared trying to eat a twig - apparantly its been out in all this snow and ice for 7 days and when i caught her on boxing day i did tell her at thing or two - all she said was she was "thinking about taking it some hay !" - i could wack her one
2. Some liveries hiding the yards tools so they could have a shaving fork or brush to use on the days they did their own pony
3. Water butts being "stolen" after folks like me had spent the day before filling them up
4. Hay being "stolen" from peoples round bales
5. More hay thrown onto the muck heap than was eaten by folks who have no idea what their horse eats, and "objected" strongly to the "tiny" amount poor "duchess" was left by the scrouge of a yard manager - I was even more upset as the poor little mite in the field would have given his high teeth to get some of this
6. One familly managing to use 3 wheelbarrows to do 2 horses - 1 for clean straw, left filled all the time they were pratting about, one being used to muck out with - that was filled with muck and then we had to wait for them to turn out the horses and eventually empty the wheelbarrow, the 3rd was - wait for it- used to put hay into - so it could then be put into haynets "WTF" ! - two hours for three wheelbarrows -
anyone else had one of these weeks?
I would not be a yard manager for all the tea in china or india -
