Weight loss

i would expect a call from the yard owner syaing the horse has lost weight and would you like it fed more or brought in at night, vet visit etc ...
not just left.
what if you were away for a month on holiday?
hopefully with more hay she will pick up again quickly
 
I don't know where about s you are based but how is your grazing? Our grass is really slow growing this year as we haven't had any rain for what seems like weeks - the ground is like concrete and the grass just isn't as fast as normal. My two have both dropped weight recently - have just been putting lw rugs on at night and still giving them plenty of ad lib hay and that has done the trick. Just not enough grass to fill them up and keep them warm at the moment. Is a cheaper and simpler option than all the conditioning feeds.
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And Im 'shocked' at your reply
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. If I was paying for full livery I would expect that my horse was treated as if it was a Derby winner. I am a yo and have a waiting list of which I am very proud-I dont need to advertise either! All of my liveries are monitored daily, feeds are changed as nec and vet called when needed. All of my owners are informed of any problem regarding their horse and I treat THEIR horses exactly as I treat my own. I would hate to have you on my yard but then I doubt if I would let you remain for very long
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. The YO in this case has let down the horse AND the owner and imo, should change job. Mairi.
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Ohhh, hehe. What a farce this thread has turned into
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When my boy is on grass livery its £20 a week - for a field and thats it. And I'm in Scotland, and thats the CHEAPEST I can find GRASS livery at.

For full livery in summer i would be looking at £400 minimum, possibly upwards to £600...........and usually full livery in summer up here includes being stabled at night.

But anyway........I found that veg oil added to feed helped weight gain.
 
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Guys, can we not just droip this now.

IMHO PrincessSpark1e made some commenst that were unfair & harsh. I think we have established that now.

It is starting to now feel as if everyone just wants to have a go at her.

The OP has had some good advice so can we move on?

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Thanks for at least trying to call the dogs off
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but really there no stopping this lot when they get the scent of blood.
 
PS you haven't caused a stir again have you?

You really need to pull that rod out of your arse because you really are quite a knowledgeable person - when you aren't talking absolute bullshit.

Full livery down here is scaggy south wales is £70 a week not £20!!! LOL I want to live in Scotland!! And yeah you better believe if I was paying £70 a week, I'd expect my horses [****] examined and catalogued - let alone to know if it was losing weight or not.
 
Just in case anyone's still interested, haven't read all the thread as I lost the will to live, but Blue Chip. That worked for my pony/cob who suddenly dropped weight like nobody's business before my very eyes, no matter that he was being constantly checked.
Had bloods done, faecal egg count (zero) still wormed for encysted larvae etc, put him on Spillers conditioning cubes and then added Blue Chip, and he is 100% better in fact perhaps a tad rotund.
Seems to have been a metabolic blip, because it's normally such a battle to keep his weight down.
Anyway. Blue Chip.
 
I used baileys outshine for my TB cribber mare to cut out the cereals - it was fantastic BUT incredibly expensive- if you can afford it go for it- you feed by a measured cup and it really does add the shine- mine was a fussy eater so we fed the mint flavoured one! she loved it. Good luck
 
Wow, I made it to the end of all seven pages! Do I get a medal?
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My five year old numpty 16.3hh WB mare that looks like a coat rack on legs, is now on: Blue Chip Pro, Alpha A Oil, Bailey's No. 4, and sugarbeet. Just started to add in soaked oats, and tomorrow I'll be off to hand over the one limb I have left to pay for some Outshine and grassnuts.

Hope your ned comes good
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*off to make up a cauldron of hot choccy, need the energy now
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Actually, I want to thank PS - for such an interesting and amusing thread
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OP, I am currently trying to get weight onto an underweight mare and am finding barley is great, no fizzing. You can feed either crushed barley but may need to add limestone flour or Barley Rings which are ready balanced.
 
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Good grief, it takes one to know one...



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Good grief you ventured out of SB...

Are you going to accuse me of trolling by any chance
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Been on this forum since december 2002 sweetie - before the soapbox existed so, do stop being silly.
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And no need to accuse you of trolling. What a strange comment to make.
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Why would you personally, want to troll, when you do such a grand job of being unpopular and unpleasant with your usual name.
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Now why don't you stop being obnoxious, and let people offer Berkley the advice she asked for?
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Ok clearly my YO is negligent then because if liveries are going to be away during the summer when she is being paid next to nothing for 'full' livery she expects us to tell her so she is aware that she will have to monitor the horse closely. She is willing to do this but she doesn't offer it as standard day in and day out.

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Can't be arsed to read any furtther than page one.............however PS it sounds to me like yours is on GRASS LIVERY through the summer, so totally different kettle of fish to FULL LIVERY.

FWIW I would expect to pay the same for FULL LIVERY all year, even if my horse was out 24/7. The OP hasn't said she is paying any less, so is IMO right to expect the YO to monitor her horses weight, it is on FULL LIVERY so its day to day needs are the YO responsibility.
 
LOL!Wish Full livery was £20 a week up here I 'd have my whole lot on it!!.
Any yard I have been on that offers full livery is same price all year round otherwise you lose your stable
 
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I'm a little shocked that you didn't notice your horse's weight dropping. Full livery or not you should be checking you horse at least a few times a week. It's a real bug bear of mine that people seem to thing full livery include the YO montioring weight, behaviour, soundness etc. They are not paid that much! Your YO took steps for you, steps you should have asked the YO to take rather than the other way round.

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hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......That's the whole point of full livery??? Your horse is entrusted to the yard to be looked after if you cannot be there, the client is paying for the service after all. I know people who live and work in london all week and have their horse's looked after on full livery, at the moment we have horse's on full at my yard dur due to owner having a new baby, the YO looks after them as her own, so i feel your argument is as per usual, silly nonsense, written purely to get a dig in at other people.
 
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You plunged in with your nasty words and insulted me without acquiring an informed view.


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Nasty words and insults? Seriously? You haven't read some of the post on here if you think my post of nasty and insulting!

All I said was that I was shocked that you were not checking the horse over the 3 weeks it has been out. Not one week, you said it had been out for 3 weeks and had lost weight, I'm assuming the weight loss started in the first week and continued, had you been checking the horse you would have noticed the weight loss.

I don't know your situation but if I was going away for 3 weeks (I'm assuming you were away since you are denying the fact you neglected to visit your horse) I would have been asking soemone to check the horse. Be it the YO or a friend, once the horse showed signs of weight loss it should have been brought in.

i wasn't being nasty with my first post but now I am
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You really are a nasty and spiteful piece of work aren't you????
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Clearly we do things differently in Scotland, I'm a full livery no matter what time of the year it is. The stable still has my name on it and no one else can use it BUT I pay less as the YO does not bring in, put out, feed, bed, hay, pick out feet, check legs etc

I have never been on a yard where full livery is the same price year round no matter if they are out or in.

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That isn't full livery then. It's DIY including rent of stable and grazing.

My horse is on part livery in the winter (which is probably what most people think of as full livery...just that full on our yard includes riding 5 days a week). Everything bar riding is done for me - TO, BI, muck out, haylage/hay, feed, shavings, walker 5 days a week, rug change, groom etc etc. I sometimes have to go away for days at a time with work so those times, he is on "full livery" and YO rides him too. She monitors his weight for me whether he's on "part" or "full" livery. A few times over winter, when I've been away for a few days, I've gone to the yard to find a note saying "have cut M's hay as he's getting a bit chubby" or "i've added a bit of extra haylage to his net as he looked a little light"....and so on. She does it all for me, including booking farrier. My YO even has a book with details of when everyone's horses are due for teeth and vaccs. I'm now on assisted DIY livery over summer (she doesn't do part or full in summer)...for a fraction of the cost. Price includes rent of my stable and grazing, a TO or a BI mon-fri and that's it. I have to request anything else and pay for it.

To answer the OP's question, yes if you are on full livery I would expect your YO to notice if your horse has lost weight (or is putting too much on). It wouldn't hurt to have the vet give your horse a once over to make sure there's nothing else going on but personally, I would ask YO to up the hay/haylage (or supplement with hay/haylage if grazing isn't great). IME Speedibeet is pretty good for putting weight on, as are barley rings.

Hope you get it sorted
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