SO angry! Warning long rant!

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First abit of background. We moved our horses into a different paddock at the weekend, main reason being Mum has a heart complaint and was struggeling with the long walk up the hill to our paddock, and also that paddock wasnt drying out and the gate way it in a right state, mud up to your knees!
So, we were told that we could move them to another paddock much closer with no mud. This was on Sunday.
Then last night I was called into the office and was first told off for putting hay out in the field and if theres no grass why are we even putting the horses out! I told the farmer that we only put hay out while there was a frost as its not good for them to eat forsty grass. He then told me that my horses had been running up and down the field ALL DAY!! (which I know for a fact they werent!) and have trashed the field and they will have to go back up the top paddock. I tried to explain to him that horses do run round around some times, and he proceeded to tell me that cattle dont need to go out and neither do horses!!!!!!!!! He told me all about cattle and their needs, to which I responded about horses and thier needs. He seems to think that we only turn our horses out so we can ride them and if we ride them they dont need to be turned out! I told him thats not that case, but it got me know where.
He said that he doesnt even want the horses out at all, but he is letting us, how good of him! I have since found out that another livery at the yard has been putting hayledge out in the field and has had permission to do so!!
So anyway, I went home VERY upset in tears last night and was fuming by the fact that we have to move out horses back and any new livery that comes will get the nice close none mudding paddock. Thats seems to be the way at that place, the new liveries get treated so much better than the old ones.
Its just been one thing after another in the last six months and Ive had just about all I cant take. First the trailer, then the dog, then people bitching about me. Enough is enough, Im off!!

Sorry for the long rant, but I know you lot will understand how Im feeling. I had to polish off two bottles of wine last night to keep me calm!!!
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Hey ! sounds like the farmer where my friends keep their horses, he has just freaked out because a field is getting muddy and told them that the cows stay in so the horses can too, she told him he doesn't try to ride his cows after they have been in for a week !
Of course he'll give the good field to any new livery, or else they wouldn't come, like that bank advert its a big juicy worm and he'll reel them in !
Seriously though have another bottle of wine and try to ignore him, hopefully spring is on its way and things will get easier.
 
I'd move to a horse friendly yard. Majority of farmers dont make allowances and expect horses to be like cows or sheep! Those that are horse friendly are fab and few between!
 
Know exactly how you feel......last weekend the YO son let their two young dogs off their leads in our paddock....my horse is currently lame from bruusing and had a tendon injury last year, his companion has just been given the all clear for a collateral ligament injury and has just begun canter work. The two dogs who are not familiar with being around horses - funny enough - chased them about, running through their legs and someone having a lesson in the nearby school had to hang on as complete pandomonium broke out. I was absolutely fuming but the only comment i made to the bloke who just turned on his heel and walked off, was the "one of the horses has an injury). Hwen I approached the YO the next day after I had calmed down and asked if she could ask people to keep their dogs on leads whilst walking through horses fields, I was promptly told that he has every right to let his dogs run where he likes as he is the landowners son and that the son apprently didn't like my tone (crikey if that offended him, he needs to get out more!) Priceless - there was me thinking that as a paying livery that my horse was entitled to a safe environment and that most farmers would not encourage anyone to walk dogs in a field with any sort of animals grazing in it........let alone ones in recuperation ....but remember, you can't reason with the insane!!! Funny enough i find red wine works too!!! Good luck and keep your chin up!
 
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Can Arch come and stay with you till we can move to our new yard??!!

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There are spaces ar MC but not allowed to turn horses out atm
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No space at yard we keep our horses and a very long waiting list
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Oh MW your far too nice to have someone upset you!
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Move Move Move!!, Shame that stable had gone where you enquired.

I'm the same as you, I hate upset & I'd rather go there & then. If we were closer you could of come to our yard!
 
Oh dear Erica.....why the hell are you still there. I would be out sharpish and tell that farmer to stick it when you find a new place.

Keep your chin up for now and try not to let misserable old men up set you!xxx
 
Same at our yard, new liveries virtually get a red carpet rolled out to their lorry when they arrive, old liveries like me, (been there 18 years) get told to stop F**** moaning if I ask politely for anything. We are allowed to divide our grazing, my field had to be divided acrossways, meaning a long walk down a muddy track & problems with one pony being left alone when I take her friend to shows, other field, hey guess what, are allowed to divide lengthways, no long walk or problems for them then, & their horses gallop about much more than my 2, yes a farmer runs ours too!!
 
hi i am a YO not a farmer but a competition horse owner, we actually own 20+ of the 40ish horses on the yard, i really think more people should consider the state of the field they are using, i do not allow turn out, other than the odd 20 mins in a sacrifice piece of land because come spring i want grazing for my horses, and i want them out 24/7, i have had people come to me in summer complaining that the yard they have left is no good because the fields are bare and what green there is is weed, it would turn out they have had their horses out all winter, and totally trashed the land destroying the root system of the grass and allowing weeds to take over, my horses do not suffer from being in infact they are only too glad to get in after their leg stretch, some will even barge the gate open and bring themselves into their warm stable with a big net of haylage, yes they can be a bit fresh sometimes but if ridden 2-3 times weekly even our highly strung competition animals stay sane, or a quick lunge, if really over the top, obviously if the are pinned in any length of time without work the hard food is drastically reduced, which i have found liveries do not seem to understand the need for, sorry but rant on the side of YO who cannot up sticks and move if no grazing left in spring
 
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