stable angels -do you have one

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I am very fussy who handles my mare given her background and her sight but a girl on yard who i trust 200%( she had a blind mare herself) helps me( for a small charge) when i need it. I had an awful night with baby last night she was stressed like old baby and C saw me sobbing. Tonight I couldnt get to yard till late and got a txt from C" baby last horse out so I brought her in as didnt want others to. sat in barn for half hour to make sure she settled and shes quiet and sleeping- no charge sweetheart " - how priceless is that and well do you have a stable angel like that who loves your horse so much to care beyond money?
 
that's wonderful, what a super friend, how caring. lovely to hear.
no, i don't, but that's because i have my own yard. i do have someone i can trust to come here and look after them on the odd occasion when i go on hols, and i can trust her to look after them as well as i do, which gives huge peace of mind when you're on the other side of the world and hear that they've done something daft...!
 
My friend and I share good deeds with each other. I'm not sure she loves mine like her own but I know damn well she'd always see them settled if they'd been in a tizz up the field or whatever.

I lovingly poulticed her horse's foot twice a day every day last summer because he stood on a nail within two hours of her going on holiday! No charge obviously.

Yours does sound like an absolute peach though OP. She clearly cares very much about your mare.
 
Yep, my YO. She is excellent and I trust her implicitly. If I can't be with my lad and lass, which has happened a lot recently due to illness, then I know they will be well looked after.
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We have someone at our yard who is the oldest person there but young beyond her years. She used to work there for years and was fantastic with the horses. Even though she doesn't work there now and just enjoys riding her own horse she is always offering to help people out if they need it and never wants money or gifts in return but just maybe a turn out of her horse as a return favour. Always cheerful and worked her socks off getting most of the ragwort out of 2 fields recently without getting much help from other owners. I know you can call on her in times of trouble - she came back out from home to help the YO and wait with her for the vet when our YO's horse had cut her knee badly one very wet and dark night in the winter. Solid gold.
 
I am very lucky i have 3 my mum, autie and uncle all retired yet come up every morning (mon-fri) poo pick all my field, repair fencing feed and haylage and do what ever else needs doing as well as giving all the horses a cuddle and kiss every day.
Dont know how i would manage without them
 
I am on my own yard my fmily are down the road, my sister would have to be my stable angel we have had our share of arguments but as i recently posted we bought a yearling we didnt know was in foal she foaled badly and lost foal and couldnt get up we had to get fire brigade out to get her up.

We couldnt bring her in to stable in case she got stuck down again and had to nurse her and sleep in field for a fortnight with her taking turns in my lorry my mum is really ill and dad recovering from cancer so they couldnt help i couldnt have done it without my sister.

We took it in shifts in pouring rain and she stayed with her while i went to take my son to school she went above and beyond and made me laugh in some very dark times.
 
yeah i do :) all the staff at my yard are excellent, never had any issues with any of them (and i'm pretty fussy!!) but one woman in particular is amazing. nothing i ask is ever too much and if she sees something that needs to be done she does it right away
 
My mum - she's 70 years young and in the winter I work 2 days a week and often when I come home all the animals have been fed, field water checked etc & that's as well as looking after my 6 year old son. An absolute angel :D
 
At my old yard there was a woman who was stable manager of sorts, really took to my horse. We're on full livery (just how it works in SA) but she would give him extra grass, and often took him for a graze in hand for half an hour if she wanted to. She'd check he got full feed (YO used to try and cut it all the time!) and would keep an eye on him if there was any worries (sickness etc). It's nice to know that there's someone else who will keep an eye out if I'm not up during the day (at uni or something).

At new yard, stable owner is also my instructor and is fantastic..I had an arm op so am still a bit useless but he jumped on to a wall the other day and she kept his leg bandaged and covered and is always looking after horse's injuries and everything. She's really a great person to have around and I trust her 110% with my horse, would have no qualms at all about leaving him in her care if the need arose. :)
 
It is so nice when your YO/other livery person is there for you. During the really bad weather the YO used to come and pick us up and take us to our horses in her 4 x4 no charge and if it was really really bad would ring us to say she'd do them for us ,give them extra haylage, skip out top up water etc to make sure they were ok at no charge but people just took the pee to be honest which wasnt fair
 
Hi - yes . . . more than one actually.

When Kali was on box rest, several people made sure they checked on him, gave him a scratch (he really missed grooming/being groomed by other horses), gave him a carrot and generally made sure he was fed, happy and entertained when I wasn't there or away.

Last week, though, two of them went above and beyond. Kali has been going out on his own (a) to try and prevent him hooning around/playing with his field mates; and b) to try and keep him injury-free until we move him on the 30th) in a field next to his friends. The first couple of times I turned him out after his box rest, I sedated him a little - now he goes out as he is. Some mornings he does have a bit of a meltdown and yard staff have brought him in early (I've found that just going into the field with him and standing with him is usually enough to calm him down - and then he'll start grazing again and be fine) . . . but most mornings he's just fine. Thursday, though, he kicked off - the herd next door were all the way over by the furthest fence away from him and he felt insecure - two livery angels approached YM and said Kal was turning himself inside out and should probably come in . . . YM's response was "um, well, I'm not supposed to be on the yard at the moment - why don't you leave him and see what he does . . . " and then promptly disappeared for an hour-long hack!!!! My yard angels caught him (he was galloping up and down the fence line nearest the gate by then), took his boots off, cold hosed his legs (esp. the one he injured), put his thermatex on (he was sweating up/steaming) and put him in his box - then they checked on him 30 mins later, took off his damp rug (he was nice and dry by then) and topped up his hay. Lastly, one of them texted me to let me know (obviously, I take a healthy interest in whether he's been pounding around the field on that leg - he's not long been sound). What stars.

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Yes, I have Winklepoker!! When I went to pick up my new horse by the time we arrived back she has put all my tack and grooming kit out of its packaging and in the tack room, got the stable ready and even put together a bridle for her utilising some of her bridle parts as she has a smaller head than last horse, all cleaned and ready for use. She brings her in for me in the morning if she's last one out and stands in the school with me while I potter about regaining my confidence, being very complimentary and encouraging about the baby steps forward I am taking, all with great patience!!! She helps everyone on our yard and for me its just volunteered lovingly - such a star and a great friend - thank you, I am so lucky x
 
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