Went to yard today and what do i find!!

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The adult only yard has been changing for a while - today it has changed not just by a little bit but by a huge amount - now desperate to move my three.

Stabled next to me is "new mother" who thinks i am happy to have 4 year old run round, screaming whilst being left in charge of its 3 month old sister(could be brother i really dont know or care) in a pushchair that is being wheeled up and donw the block and into the back end of my horse. I was asked to put my horse out of the way because it may hurt the children WTF i thought i was on a livery yard not a creche. Frantically looking for somewhere to move too and thats after day 1. Dont livery yards care about long standing customers anymore?
 
I have a VERY strict no children policy on my yard. It is dangerous for them and the horses. Also I don't have kids (by choice) so I object to having tp put up with other peoples in my own home!!
I am soooo laid back aren't I?
 
Sounds a nightmare, surely the YO has a duty of care to keep the yard safe for both humans and horses? Have you tried talking to them?
 
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I have a VERY strict no children policy on my yard. It is dangerous for them and the horses. Also I don't have kids (by choice) so I object to having tp put up with other peoples in my own home!!
I am soooo laid back aren't I?

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Just out of interest... what do u mean by kids... young ones or literally anyone under the age of 18?
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I love kids at the yard
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. But that could be because when I'm around kids tend to behave
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I am indeed The Evil Witch lol.

I think the kids bit is okay, it's the parents who allow them to act like OP has experienced
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. Stupid and dangerous.

Speak to the YM? Good luck in getting it resolved hun.
 
The new livery was told yesterday that the yard owner did not "do" children, but she is one of the "new lot" that move round yards, ruin them and then move on. Sorry sound like a snob but they have mouths like fishwives, have no thoughts about rules - the first "team leader" was put on a warning for smoking in her stable, even though the yard is totally no smoking - what she does now is sit in her car with the door open right by the open barn with all the hay in ! They have now taken over the yard and their is only 3 of them - i have been their along with many others for 15+ years and we are the ones that feel "out of place" - they are loud, rude, dont clear there muck out of the school, book it for peak time all night every night and leave the gate open - and that is just a months worth - apparanlty a few more of them to arrive next Saturday !
 
Dont have a problem with kids, Daisy knows she cant go near mine, and at least 4 others as they will kill her.

However why arnt the parents telling their kids to be quiet and stsy away, as a parent who does allow her child to be around horses, the bare minimum I instill is to be quiet and not to rush around the horses.

If you chose a yard becasue it says no kids ( although not sure I understand why) you should make a complaint
 
Young children who require supervision. To be fair I do not run a livery yard as such. I have stables and grazing where I live. If somebody asked to rent a stable and they know what they are doing then they are welcome.
I just don't do children I'm afraid!
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The new livery was told yesterday that the yard owner did not "do" children, but she is one of the "new lot" that move round yards, ruin them and then move on. Sorry sound like a snob but they have mouths like fishwives, have no thoughts about rules - the first "team leader" was put on a warning for smoking in her stable, even though the yard is totally no smoking - what she does now is sit in her car with the door open right by the open barn with all the hay in ! They have now taken over the yard and their is only 3 of them - i have been their along with many others for 15+ years and we are the ones that feel "out of place" - they are loud, rude, dont clear there muck out of the school, book it for peak time all night every night and leave the gate open - and that is just a months worth - apparanlty a few more of them to arrive next Saturday !

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Kids aside, that is sooo ride, you need t kick them out
 
We have the exact opposite in the bottom block. Mum comes up - occasionaly with 5 year old - child is a quite as a mouse, walks never runs and is being taught how to behave round animals and humans, she is a pleasure to have around.

The new lot think everyone wants to look at, hear and look after their children, how would you like to pay for a school and all you can here is a child screaming its head off and mum's not around as she has gone to get the horse out the field! Or fill up your water buckets to find that a child has just put mud in them.

Lady yard owner does not see most of what goes on as she goes off site to teach and to be fair she dosnt act on "hearsay" she will only act is she sees it hereself. Gent yard owner is always working on the farm and the kids really do not want to have anything to do with the yard if they can help it.
Having a glass of wine now, will look for a new yard again tomorrow and hope in between times that the "new gang" annoy the Yard Owner!
 
Well I think you have to talk to the YO in the first instance if there's a no kids rule.

I can't stand the type of parents who don't keep their kids under control, and I don't care what the parents say if, as today (kids swinging on guy ropes of marquee) I have no qualms in telling off other peoples kids if what they're doing is dangerous - I tend to do it in a question 'what would happen if ?' way so they think about the consequences then tell them with a bit of a bark I don't want to catch them doing it again. .

Have been shouted at in the past what the hell I think I'm doing scaring their kids by yelling at them and I wouldn't want my own kids to be scared like that - to which I replied I'd be asking my own daughter what she'd done to deserve being yelled at!

Hope it's quickly resolved by YO.
 
Going to work on hubby now - hes been saying we can get a house with land for sometime now, but I really enjoyed being part of a yard. Question is do i just want my own there or have additional stables for letting out too??? then i can be a right witch of a yard owner and insist on horses being looked after properly, no dogs, no kids and clean up properly after using the place !!! oh and i could have the school every night at 5pm (LOL)
 
It always suprises me when new people move on to a yard you can usually suss them out within a day or so. You have the lot that really want to keep themselves to themselves but are polite and ask what goes on around the yard, the normal ones who take there time building friends up, the "i will be your new best mate and take over you life" brigade and the "at my last yard we did this, this way" and then you get the ones i cannot stand "the swaggering big heads, who dont care who they upset, what the rules are as long as they are ok and doing what they like, you know the ones that just use your kettle, and coffee and cups and dont even ask whos they are and when you say anything they look at you stupid and say "i didn't know" when you know damn well they were told about it the night before !
 
My "yard" (where I work and where Scooby will live when we get him next Friday
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) is a riding school first and foremost, so we have kids around all weekend and most evenings! But obviously anyone who decides to keep their horse at a riding school expects to have kids around, and the majority of the ones who are there a lot have horsey parents who keep them under control - and our instructors are not afraid to yell at other people's children! Sometimes they can be annoying, especially the odd one or two who assume that because I work there I am in fact their own personal slave...
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