Stupid Yard Rules

All rugs have to be washed 1x per week by owner so horse always looks smart. Err - my washing machine won't take a turnout rug or a big stable rug never mind where would I dry them!! Bit of a cheek if horse on full livery and how could anyone afford 2 sets of rug for every weight required? I am a rug junkie but not that bad
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Needless to say I didn't move to that yard
 
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and does anyone take any notice?
my husband gets INCANDESCENT if people throw sticks etc for his collies.
They still do though.

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LOL so did my dad when we had a working lab and spaniel! i had to train all my friends when they came round
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I win this competition, especially as I was just kicked out! No chiros, saddle fitters or dentist as he thought they were unnecessary. I sold my project horse to one of the clients at the barn and had to pay him 25% com. He is an ex polo player alcoholic and unfortunately the barn has brilliant facilities and there is no other barn in a 10 mile vicinity. Stalls only cleaned 2x a week and horses fed at 8.00am and 1.30pm. Everyone trys to put up with it as there is no where else to go and I worked for him so had to put up with it, but as I'm leaving to come back to the UK I told him today in no uncertain terms what I thought of him. He threw us off the property immediately. So happy moved 30 miles down the road, but we're off the England in two weeks!
 
We were at a yard where the liveries on the opposite side of the yard to us had to sweep the gravel drive. Wasn't for stuff falling off thewheelbarrow on the way to the muck heap, as we had to use old curtains to cover it. Oh no, that was for any whips of straw or hay that a horse may have dropped over his or her stable door and could have blown on to the drive. They also had to sweep up fallen leaves from it etc.


Our side we had to constantly sweep outside other stables as well as our own. Plus sweep the hay barn where everyone's hay was put. As soon as someone filled a net of course there was hay on the floor again. Woe betide if you didn't sweep it up, even when it wasn't your hay.

The YO clearly had OCD but wasn't prepared to do the work herself... We left years ago thankfully and the yard has a constant turnover of liveries. No wonder eh.
 
Some of these are hilarious.

We have no rules as such, pretty much do as we please, but no riding in fields is allowed, if we want to do that we just wait till YO is away...


I know of a yard that insists horses legs are hosed off before entering the yard.
The muckheap is only accessible through a pen of yearlings. If you get kicked / killed en route to the muckheap that's your problem.
Horses who drop hay over the door will have their doors fitted with full grilles.
Liveries must muck out onto plastic sheets, which then must be carried to the muckheap to prevent specs of bedding being blown onto the yard. How you manouver plastic bedding filled sheet, gate and yearlings is down to you... just don't drop any bedding...

another yard that won't let you take your own drinks. Drinks must be purchased from the vending machine.
Horses hooves must be picked out before entering the schools. And before you leave make sure they take no sand with them....
 
I once got told off for pulling some ragwort without asking permission first! At the same yard I also got told off because my mare looked at the YO new horse "funny" - they weren't even in the same paddock. Only lasted 3 months there.
 

I don't call that strange, I would expect it, it is just being clean as well as hygenic

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Err yes ... apart from the fact it doesn't look nice everything covered in [****], washing the tools actually protects them from the damage the urine and manure do to the tools

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is this for real??? its not april the 1st is it?? who does this? who has time to do this?? I really love my yard been there for years rules r there for everyones benefit and r very fair!!! think i mite cry if yo asked me to clean wheelbarrow n tools!! wonder if farmers clean their tools etc??? oh n are tools/wheelbarrows not alluminum isnt than noncorrosive????
 
Golly - what a nightmare some of these yards are!

Mine's all full livery (apart from visiting mares on grass keep in the season), so very few rules, and all of them perfectly sensible IMO.

The YO is very strict with the staff about cleanliness, etc., and the place always looks neat and tidy and clean. But not to the point of silly obsession - horses' well-being always comes first - for example, my boy can't bear missing out on anything that might be happening in the yard, so always eats his hay over the door, looking out. Ends up with piles of dropped hay outside his door, but the staff just cheerfully sweep it up, bless them - and give him a friendly pat while they're there!
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this post make me so glad i'm lucky enough to keep horse at home!
I can do as i please, make as much mess as i want, tidy up when i want. me & my horse are very happy.

and my pitch fork is my mother in laws and is nearly 40 years old! abit of horse poo over the years hasn't damaged it.

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Wheelbarrows last a lot longer if swilled out, ( use whats left in the water buckers) so they dry quickly , and not left with metal fittings etc covered in wet muck, and if clean, they can be used to move hay, bags of feed etc.
Some rules are daft though.
 
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