un- educated horse owners!

silvershadow81

silvershadow81

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Following on from a previous post based on people (mainly stupid ones) owning horses I thought i would share a story which happened at an old yard about six years ago....

Bloke buys some horses (including a stallion and youngstock!) puts them into livery... it gets to October and he drives to the feedroom and started unloading a car load of racing mix......

when asked what he was doing simply said..

''its getting close to winter and i want my horses to be fed a more heating mix to keep them warm as they have been on cool mix over the summer months''

can you believe it!!!!!
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if he was on diy or had them at home (which i think he does now!) then these horses qould have been fed racing mix all winter (when we didnt get turnout!) that would have been fun to ride!!
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lol, that is pretty scary though eh?!
When I worked on a livery yard in scotland, a lady walked onto the yard with a horse, with a belt wrapped around its neck - no headcollar, and asked if we had lost it? She had found it loose on the road.
Soon noticed it was entire! Put it in a stable, tracked down owners somehow. Man and son turn up with a pony headcollar (it was about 15.2) and don't even have a clue how to put it on! Shocking! There was something really fishy about them, wouldn't give us any info on it, where they got it from etc..
We lent them a headcollar, put it on for them, then watched the boy walk the stallion out of the yard and down the road.
YO starts panicking about the kids hacking out from the yard, in case it got loose again (which it did!) and contacts the police and SPCA. A week later, thankfully, we found out it had been removed from the incompetent owners. PHEW! Have a suspiscion that it was stolen, but never did find out
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How about two teenage girls, both studying NVQ's in equine care, having their ponies out 24/7. One pony had sweet itch so badly it had very little tail left and open bleeding sores on it's face. The other was left with a fleece stable rug frozen to it's back. Its turn out rug had previously been removed, as it was ripped to shreds and dragging on the ground.

Both horses were tended to, i.e. sores treated and frozen rugs removed, by other people, as the owners could not be persuaded to visit the field.
 
Nothing susprises me with people anymore!

I heard a girl i know giving advice to a lady saying something along the lines of " Well when she gets all stressed out and worked up just chuck a cooler rug on her" Yet they was asking about feeding? This is a girl who is also at an equine college who should know a hell of alot more.

I've also heard of people feeding race horse mix to ponies because pasture mix makes them go wappy? The list is endless to stupid people around here in Leicestershire specially a few certain yards one being were i have my mare from i personally think is awful kids are left to run riot with horses etc is an accident waiting to happen for the horses and kids.
 
Woman on our yard took 13 h pony to Ipswich to sell yesterday 50 mile trip she should have asked for more info(another story).Turned up with pony and woman was going to keep it in her back garden which was small square back yard .The entrance was down narrow corridor and it had to walk down 10 steps all 2ft high with sheer bank 10 ft drop.When they refused to leave pony she went into tantrum said it was her pony she could do what she liked with it.Money hadnt exchanged hands at that stage then offered to take it to diy yard round the corner.When they inspected yard something really fishy going on they wouldnt let them talk to yard owner so they turned round and brought him home.The woman had no hay feed buckets or any other equipment.I think the rspca will need to inspect property incase she manages to get hold of someones horse.
 
a new person on our yard asked what she should be feeding her horse and was told 'try it on some nuts and chaff'. She was later found feeding it with a bucket of brazils, peanuts and hazelnuts! (it survived)
 
We've some of those at our yard.... they went to a show at the weekend (with horses perfectly capable of jumping 2ft 9 class) put them in the 1ft class, fed them before they went and did no warm up just went straight in.... and then wondered why horse misbehaved and they fell off...
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