So mad - what to do?

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I need help, before i completley lose my rag.
My OH owns a 3 acre field in a lovely place in shropshire in a really lovely very horsey village right in the centre. Fot the past year i have kept my 3 mares on there, however theres one big problem - his father in law.
Seriously His father has NO respect for anything, hes a real waster, he has 2 houses (that he dosent tend to in a different area of the country) that look like something from that agy how clean is your house thing - enviromental health have been involved as the houses are lying dirty and empty and it terrible condition - am not talking derelict bit of paper off the walls stuff am talking dirty plates etc really messy, mess about 4ft high in every room and just a path going through to the mouldy kitchen. So you get the picture of the type of man this is, someone who dosent know what a razor is or deodorant , and now hes trashing the field!!!!! has even bought 3 horrible 1970s style concrete garages to put up in the field!!!!! i said you need planning, he just said i will put them up till someone tells me to take em down then they can wait another 12 months till i do it!!!!!!!!!! He leaves pig wire around on the floor in big piles and has even left broken glass in the field before, i have to go round tydying it all up.
Idiot father in law has churned up the 3 acre field with pigs and now today a tractor (knows nothing about farming - just a wally with a tractor with no job trying to sell unseasoned wet logs cause he cant be bothered to get off his arse and get a job like everyone else, not content with living with his mother for free and treating her horribly and shes paying all his bills - because a large branch has fallen off the tree in the field and he had to pull a trailer and tractor to get a lousy branch for a measly £20) 20inch tractor ruts through the whole lot and lots and lots of mega holes from the pigs which he knows nothing about. My OH owns half (it was left to OH only but thats another story) and wants nothing to do with it, i just get, well its not your field!!!!!!!!
I have tried to approach FIL before but he just goes on saying its not my field.

However my OH has said i can have 4 stables put up in the summer and replace the fencing which we will pay for, but his dad just wants to put up pouintless concrete sheds and has even mentioned getting cows!!!!! help!! he never used to feed the pigs and never used to leave them water so guess who was left to tend to them?? me!!! i dont want pigs!!!
Am sooooooo mad!!!!!
I dont suppose there is anything i can do as it isnt my field, OH gets mad when i tell him and it causes major arguments.
Anyone have any ideas or brainwaves to stop him carrying on like this before he totally wrecks it?
Can you tell am mad and need to rant?!
I want to report it or something,
dam - shall i cut my losses and find somewhere else for my girlies?? i dont want to move them as all my horsey friends are there and the hacking is great plus theres a great menage down the road to hire?
HELP!
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OMG!!! phew deep breath......
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wow he sounds like a bit of a plonker feel sorry for you stuck with that for a father in law!!!! Not sure what to suggest maybe it would be best to move although would you then have to pay for livery for 3 horses?!
 
Oh poor you what a pain eh?? Id move tbh and i think your OH will soon be fed up with you having to pay out for livery, when you have your own field so he might sort it out??
 
Am sorry to rant on here but am soooooo mad!
The lovely field has now been ruined, worst thing is i know everyone in the village and its kinda on display all the time and it looks such a mess! its really embarrassing
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there's just loads of crap down the bottom end and the field is really overlooked as its on a downward slope.
I feel like crying it makes me so mad! livery down the road is £60 per horse!! the field is free
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oh dear
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i must say, i wouldnt want to be keeping horses there. i would be asking OH if it is for your horses or for his father, then if father is still to use it, move your horses if you have that option. ((hugs)) thats not a nice situation for you. as said above, he will soon get fed up of the livery bills if he has that much space!

no real brainwaves im afraid, but feel free to rant away....
 
i know its could be hard financily, but i would try and find somewhere else for the horses to go if you can. would take off the pressure and you would have tidy fields that were looked after and above all, safe. if its feesable then i think you should deff move them. xxx
 
Yeah am thinking the best option is to move them on, there is a place about 15 mins away in the car and i think they have grass livery available - so long as they have a stable for one it will be okay. After yesterdays accident aswell i think it could have been avoided if it wasnt for pigs and electric fencing not being on (due to pigs)
OH hates the horses anyway - i have to fund them myself and am paying out for a stable for my mare at the moment anyway.
 
Another vote to move them if you can afford it.

You won't be worried about what your FIL might or might not do next and it might make things easier with OH if you haven't got to get mixed up with him and his fathers relationship.

Sounds cr*p though so sending a hug
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Just called up thats place down the road, 25pw for stable, 35 per month for haylage - i lrg net per night and 13 for straw PW - then theres £17 each for ponies (grass livery) its group turn out all mares together and all geldings together. Facilities include a flood lit menage, no places though till spring.
Price of straw seems steep - i pay £1.50 per bale and use 3 per week, and normally use 4 bales of hay at £2.50 per week......
 
Feel free to rant away your FIL sounds like a prat and will probably shoot himself in the foot one day (not literaly)
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I would definatly move and then report him for not having PP.
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Can you split the field into 2 halves and have "yours" and "his" for him to do what he likes in?

If OH is willing to cause major row with father... find out if you can force a sale, result being either you buy him out, he buys you out, or it gets sold to someone outside the family and at least you get some cash out of it.

As it is, I would not be happy to leave my horses there.
 
We tried the splitting thing last summer, but the pigs kept getting out and rutting up our bit, plus with it only being 3 acres its a bit on the small side as it is
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i just wish he would bog off back up north and sort his life out
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OH wants nothing to do with my side of the story, have had major rows with the FIL in the past over different things but \oh says nothing and just gets mad cause i always bang on about his dad affecting our relationship! (he does) OH doesnt want me to have horses anyway so no way would he go with the selling idea.
 
Sorry to hear he's not being particularly supportive. Family issues can be difficult! Easiest life solution might be to move your horses off then and leave them to it, have nothing to do with issues with the field, not speak about it, not think about how annoying it is to pay livery when you've got a field!!, and definitely not step in to sort out any problems with pigs, junk or anything else FIL dumps on your OH.
 
I guess I have a similar situation with my OH s mother. I am not allowed to put my horses up there and the place is generally a tip with rubbish of all sorts buried all over the place in middens.
She is very quick to pounce on people who encroach on the land , ie the man in the bungalow bordering hers. But the fields are so overgrown,so bad you can't walk through them, the trees in the woods fall down with increasing regularity, narrowly missing the aformentioned bungalow and causing general angst. The outbuildings are full of plastic milk bottles and household waste in plastic bags, and years of junk, muck and there are scrap vehicles and old caravans and tyres everywhere where there could be stables and tack rooms.
Its heartbreaking but theres nothing you can do about it (thats legal anyway !! Ha ha - apart from reporting him re PP) - just wait, and in the meantime move your horses away so at least they're safe from danger of broken glass, lumps of twisted metal and whatever else is down there.
I try not to think about the potential as its just too upsetting and I will soon be paying £100 per month for two field liveries and having to build a new field shelter for new horse coming in Spring when theres 37 acres and stables sitting up at MIL doing nothing.
Your not the only one, if thats any compensation, and just remember it won't last forever!
 
Def move them. As it is your FiL could kick you off at a moment's notice if a row got out of hand (I'm assuming you keeping them there for free means no tenancy/livery type agreement.) You could always try renting another field near by if you don't want to be on a yard, no?
 
TBH I would be moving horses and kicking OH out too, I cannot believe he doesn't support you in something as simple as this. Your FIL sounds like an idiot without a clue of either animal or land management. I really feel for you.
 
I have decided to move elsewhere with them, somewhere less stressful where i don't have to worry about them and constantly tidy round and remove dangerous items and no pigs!
Just put a post out to see if anyone knows of anywhere near by.
Just had a major argument with OH about his dad yet again.....i can't get any sense out of him, he just shouts!! he will get his comeuppance, if he even gets anymore animals i will report him.
He already has environmental health on his case for one of the houses he has abandoned!
 
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