The "Borrowing" thread!

Gosh these stories are dreadful!!!

I'm at a private DIY yard, I've known the owners and other livery since I was 10 (25 now). I spent 13 or so years riding the other liveries horses to help out in terms of excerise and when I could finally afford/had time for my own they've been nothing but helpful. The other livery doesn't have a lot of spare cash but we are always lending each other stuff if required, infact I had to borrow a girth today as I left mine at home...

Once I lent her my sheepskin girth cover as her mare had a rash and the next weekend she had brought me a brand new one as a replacement! Which sadly I have never used. I would have happily just given her the cover, but unfortunately (or rather fortunately) we are both too polite and kind! She may be a little daft and a pain to hack out with (think panicing and stressing at every little thing that might spook the overweight, bolshy cob that she spoils rotten), but I always remind myself that she is brillant in many other ways and that I'm very lucky. Infact after reading this thread, feeling very happy with my lot.

I honestly can't believe the audacity of some people.
 
When I was at my old yard the YM and her daughter really liked my mare and I lost count of the number of times I was told I should give her to them as she was wasted with me, I'd never be good enough and that I was wasting her.

One day I wasn't at the yard all day (had an arrangement with one of my best friends and she was sorting her that day - she had the spare key to my tack room) and YM rung me to ask if they could take my mare out for a hack. No, I said, as I'd had a strenuous jump lesson the day before and she was having a day off.

Later my friend went for a hack on her horse to a nearby river, and the YM turned up in her car, having followed her, to demand the keys to my tack room. She told my friend that she had permission, and was so pushy that my friend felt railroaded into handing over the keys.

I didn't even know they had basically stolen my horse out of the field until my friend rung in a panic, and apologised profusely about handing over the keys but felt so pressurised since it was the YM etc.

Moved very quickly after that, with lots of bitching, backstabbing and lies spread - but I'm now happy at a lovely new yard that I've been at for 6 months now and have no intention of leaving :D
 
we have a livery that will borrow habitually and if they break what the have "borrowed" throw it away. if you catch them in the "borrow" then it is always your fault. they borrow out of arrogance/ignorance not because they can not afford what they have stolen
 
Some cow who used to be at my yard "borrowed" my £20 per pot global vite and £35 per pot Windgall. Due to this I bought a lockable box, funnily enough the supplements started lasting longer, maybe because I was no longer feeding someone else's horse!

Have had various whips "borrowed" and not return, I then find them lying broken somewhere :mad:

Would go apocalyptic if someone borrowed my horse though!
 
i cant believe some of these stories :o


id love someone to "borrow" my horse - they would be in hospital by lunch time!!! she is a evil cow when she wants to be.


but seriously - im shocked..... ive had stuff go missing (not on this yard i hasten to add)! id feel happy leaving money/iphones knocking about etc as i trust everyone on the yard....

if i couldnt leave stuff lying about id move....! i am very lucky :)
 
I went away on holiday for a week and as all my feed was running low I decided to buy fresh bags of everything- chaff, mix, blue chip and sugarbeet. I left all of these bags un opened in my freezer in the tackroom and left my friend in charge of feeding the horse. Day 4 of my holiday, I get a phone call from her saying that all my feed has run out and what should she do... I got home at the weekend and went ape at everybody for taking my feed. Found one of my wellies full of mud in the tackroom as someone had borrowed them and lost one in the mud and just fished it out and put it back. Brushing boots were constantly being borrowed, coming back filthy and worn out so I bought white ones (the only ones on the yard) and sprayed the inside with purple spray so I could see if they had been used and on which horse. Often "lost" whips and bits of tack, finding them broken a few days later. I left soon after all of this and am now at a lovely yard where nobody touches your stuff and always asks before borrowing, there is only 9 of us there regularly so its a really nice and peaceful atmosphere :)
 
Friends pony was on box rest, she asked to borrow mine (mine was just coming back into work after nine months (five months of complete box rest) I said she could under the strict stipulation that she only walked her with a tiny little trot. She agreed. For some reason I ended up going back to the yard early that afternoon to see my pony in the school being launched over a 3ft fence. My friend got off pretty sharpish however when her friend laid into me saying she "wasn't doing any harm" I went into orbit. We made friends again eventually but I have never let anyone borrow my horse ever again unless I'm stood there to see what's going on!
 
I've been on a couple of yards where things were constantly "borrowed". I had one front and one back brushing boot taken from the back of my mares stable never to be seen again.

Another YO was a complete thief and would take my Cortaflex, feed, use my saddle etc etc. She also used to regularly use my friends pony to give lessons on without permission. We found out the exact extent of her "borrowing" when the yard groom got sacked and told us eveything! It also included not giving our horses night time hay and sharing 1 bag of shavings between 3 stables tho we paid for a bag each! We all moved the same day!
 
Nothing serious like my horse or a box, just little things (but I find equally annoying!):

Brushing boots, mucking out tools, brushes, wheelbarrow, hay, saddlecloths, rugs, headcollars and ropes...

It got to a point where I wrote my name on EVERYTHING. Love the yard I'm at now, just me and 4 other mature girls who respect each others stuff and ask if we need anything.
 
Ive always been on yard where I have shared with one other person (Who just lets me get on with everything as they don't have the time!) so very fortunate to have no worries leaving things about or having anything go missing as I keep an eye on everything :)

When I was quite a bit younger, I had a little 13hh pony on loan- he was a nippy little thing but one day slipped in the field and his leg blew up where he'd pulled a tendon (presumably) . The owner had a friend with a young (13 ish) girl- who used to turn up to shows in her jodhpurs and hat :rolleyes: . One day I was there and told the mother I wasn't riding because he had hurt himself... so she tacked up the pony and put her child on him :eek: the kid was confident.. and proceeded to 'barrel race' him round the cones
 
Not so much borrowed but went out in the field to catch my mare and another liveries mare in (we helped each other out) to find other liveries mare in my HW TO. Not a problem but it should of been on my horse and it was 3 sizes to big for this mare. Turns out the liveries sharer had turned them out and was told to put the blue rug on, as our horses were stabled next to each other and shared a rug wall they put my mare's rug on (I guess they didn't realise it was huge on her) and then falling to find my horses HW put her in the next thickest rug. :rolleyes:

My friend took my horse hunting one day with permission and I chucked her stable rug in the lorry in case she came back to the lorry early (travelling with a Master). She stayed out all day so only needed her thermatex to come home but they gave a lift to a other hunter and he didn't have a rug so borrowed my stable rug. I got it back 2 weeks later, after I went at his yard to collect it, it was damp and starting to go mouldy :(

My mare was borrowed to keep a horse having to stay in for the day companion. I started work early so had turned her out as normal at 7am and returned at 5.30 to get her to find her already in. Thinking someone was being helpful and brought her in for me, which is fine but I leave her bed up during the day and do her hay and water in the pm. I looked over the door to find bed still up about 5-6 poos and no hay or water. Thinking it was odd to have so many poos I asked another livery if they knew what time my horse came in, to be told she was brought in at 8.30am to keep the other horse company as she was the quietest. When I asked the owner of the other horse if anyone gave her hay and water they said they thought it was already in her stable!!!! :mad: Nice of them to check!
 
bumper said:
A few years ago, I had my cob gelding on part livery at a yard @6 miles away, and stored my trailer on the yard. The YO had the keys to the hitch lock/immobiliser clamp, just in case it needed to be moved. You know what it's like: sometimes trailers/lorries have to be juggled about in the car park.
As it was part livery, I was on the yard for, usually one end of the day only, on weekdays, but one particular day I unexpectedly had the afternoon off.
I arrived at the yard, and brought my boy in. I had him tied up on the yard, grooming him, when another livery drove in, with her 4x4 towing a green 505, passed by us, and went to park up in the field. I'd only glanced at it, and commented to someone that it was JUST like mine, and was it new? (I knew the other livery had a lorry) Oh no, it WAS mine!
The other livery's lorry was in for a service, the YO later explained, when I did my nut, and she had a dressage comp to go to. YO didn't think I'd mind, apparently......
I moved yards, without giving notice.
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Yep had this:(

niagaraduval said:
Kept seeing my horse that was on box rest have a 'girth' sweat mark. Borrowed all my tack but borrowed my sick horse as well !:mad:
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and this:(

and clippers taken and broken , whips and first aid kit stolen and brand new rugs found on yard owners horse the same day..... I have been on nice yards too but much prefer my own yard.
 
Previous yard I was on the YM moved her horse from her home (where she had a field) onto the yard and right away our feed started going down very quickly. Said something about it along the lines of 'wondering if someone has the wrong feed bin' and the overreaction was stunning - we left pretty soon after.
Yard before that we're pretty sure the yo (we were the only DIY's) were using our feed. We were sharing feed with a friend (she put money in) but when we left she stayed. We went from feeding 2 cobs and 3 tbs to feeding 2 cobs and 2 tbs but our feed bill halved - now I know tbs eat a lot but not the sames as another 2 tbs and 2 cobs put together :rolleyes::rolleyes:

This is what I love about our current yard no-body steals stuff. We do borrow and share things and my friends know that if they ever need anything out first aid kit to help themselves but everyone would then replace anything they used.
 
I had a friend who asked to borrow my mare for a lesson i said yes no problem.

However YO then decided to take my brand new Albion K2, as she wanted to try it on her horse! As i had another saddle she didnt think it would be a problem. I was leaving the week that she did this and refused to give back the saddle making some wild claims about money i owed from the previous year- I didnt and she had never mentioned it, was till BF turned up in his police uniform that i got it back.
Then turns out that YM had said it was another livery and YO had muddled it! All very uncomfortable!
 
It definitely depends on the yard and the overall attitude. Only ever had things disappear on one yard I was at - over the years have been at four in total. That one yard was sadly very chaotic...headcollars, leadropes, feedbowls all went walkies. The main problem was the people who borrowed them would leave them lying around, and then someone else would borrow them, and so on. On the other hand, everyone was very friendly and happy to help search or to lend replacements, so it worked out!
 
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