holeymoley
Well-Known Member
This is more a rant than anything else, purely to get it off my chest as it's really been bringing me down so thanks to anyone who takes the time to read or comment.
We've all came across one. Unfortunately out of a livery yard of 30 (where miraculously everyone gets on) we now have ours who has appeared in the last few months. Short of being irritating but not directly, I tend to just let them get on with things and go with the flow. Until now. Where they now effect me.
Basically in the shortest description possible, they are novices and they've bought a rather large youngster. Every week has been a problem with one thing or another, either with the horse or with something on the yard. I say 'they' as it is a couple who have bought him and share ownership. It has been everything from being unable to mount- so they need to buy a new mounting block, horse is a headshaker (??) so they buy different reins, horse is 'strong' - they put in dutch gag, 2 lessons each per week- instructor told them to sell- fall out with instructor and go through another 2 in the meantime, horse is sour in school - then feed horse high sugar feeds.... etc etc the list goes on. I'm all for helping and guiding if necessary but they think they know it all. They have upset everyone individually for one reason or another, little things like emptying their water bucket outside the stable when its to be freezing temperatures to taking up more space than allocated.
So let them be, like I say they've not annoyed me directly, until now. They have sprung that the horse is now moving into the field with our very settled geldings who all get on. So that he can PLAY.... as he's not getting a chance to play in the current herd... (herd consists of mixed oldies and youngsters). Horse is known to chase the older ones of his old herd and double barrel, he's also bargy and drags if being lead.... so brilliant! I have expressed my concerns to the yard owner as half of our guys are older and tend to just want a quieter life grazing. The response was that he's not been known to be aggressive however I've heard from others that he has been. A lot of the others have expressed concerns too. I'm just wary of a repeat which happened at my last yard, a larger sports horse type came into to the herd and picked on the older ones at the bottom of the herd to the point that mine went lame with concussive laminitis as he'd been chased around and bitten for hours at a time. In the end up it was mine who got moved out the herd to a field on his own as sport horse owners claimed their horse couldn't 'socialise' or 'play' with the others when he got moved out initially.
I honestly can't go another year of that. I'll be dammed if it happens again, more so because of the ridiculous reason they gave for wanting it moved. I totally despair. One way or the other mine will get penalised as he'll either have to move field or he'll have to stay in. I refuse to move- this yard has been perfect for me and my guy in every way.
Why is it that one person can ruin so much
We've all came across one. Unfortunately out of a livery yard of 30 (where miraculously everyone gets on) we now have ours who has appeared in the last few months. Short of being irritating but not directly, I tend to just let them get on with things and go with the flow. Until now. Where they now effect me.
Basically in the shortest description possible, they are novices and they've bought a rather large youngster. Every week has been a problem with one thing or another, either with the horse or with something on the yard. I say 'they' as it is a couple who have bought him and share ownership. It has been everything from being unable to mount- so they need to buy a new mounting block, horse is a headshaker (??) so they buy different reins, horse is 'strong' - they put in dutch gag, 2 lessons each per week- instructor told them to sell- fall out with instructor and go through another 2 in the meantime, horse is sour in school - then feed horse high sugar feeds.... etc etc the list goes on. I'm all for helping and guiding if necessary but they think they know it all. They have upset everyone individually for one reason or another, little things like emptying their water bucket outside the stable when its to be freezing temperatures to taking up more space than allocated.
So let them be, like I say they've not annoyed me directly, until now. They have sprung that the horse is now moving into the field with our very settled geldings who all get on. So that he can PLAY.... as he's not getting a chance to play in the current herd... (herd consists of mixed oldies and youngsters). Horse is known to chase the older ones of his old herd and double barrel, he's also bargy and drags if being lead.... so brilliant! I have expressed my concerns to the yard owner as half of our guys are older and tend to just want a quieter life grazing. The response was that he's not been known to be aggressive however I've heard from others that he has been. A lot of the others have expressed concerns too. I'm just wary of a repeat which happened at my last yard, a larger sports horse type came into to the herd and picked on the older ones at the bottom of the herd to the point that mine went lame with concussive laminitis as he'd been chased around and bitten for hours at a time. In the end up it was mine who got moved out the herd to a field on his own as sport horse owners claimed their horse couldn't 'socialise' or 'play' with the others when he got moved out initially.
I honestly can't go another year of that. I'll be dammed if it happens again, more so because of the ridiculous reason they gave for wanting it moved. I totally despair. One way or the other mine will get penalised as he'll either have to move field or he'll have to stay in. I refuse to move- this yard has been perfect for me and my guy in every way.
Why is it that one person can ruin so much