what annoys you about other liveries

Nothing I'm on the perfect yard

No one touches your stuff, everyone followed the rules as owner runs a tight ship which is great as that's what makes it the perfect yard.

So everyone gets along fine.
 
Bright_Spark said:
I'm not even on a livery yard as such, and try to keep myself to myself, but people still try to draw me into yard politics!

And tell the YO about the day my horse napped with me (apparently he tried to sit down)- they were watching me from their field. The point of that is...?
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Sounds very familiar!

  • When your doing your own thing and then others STILL have to get involved, just because they are obviously soooo much more experienced ;)
  • When others have no respect for your things, saddles dropped on floor, paint splashed on new tack etc
  • Over rugging!
  • Control freaks that feel the need to tell you about your own horse :rolleyes:
 
People who don't tidy up after themselves!!

I have a bit of a complex when it comes to keeping my stable and the area around it neat an tidy, and it really annoys me when the part of the yard outside my stable is spotless (as are some others who bother to sweep up) and other people leave the rest of the yard a mess!

Oh! When people have the farrier out and don't sweep up the trimmings after.. grrrr.
 
Bullies and gossip
People who don't sweep up
LEAVING DOORS AND GATES OPEN. OMG. RAHHHH.
Leaving stuff outside stables
Leaving horse's stable lights on at night
Leaving the radio on ALL NIGHT!
People showing up at 11 a.m. to feed their horse... Come on...
People not turning out because it's "too far to walk". Yup. Not making this up.

I could go on and on.
 
The fact that the other person in my field never muck picks.
Also knowing my horse can not be left on his own and leaving him on his own.
Oh and people not returning favours.
The fact that the yo has put a note up to ask everyone to keep their area in the tack room tidy and the person next to me ignoring it and slowly encroaching into my space.
 
applecart14 said:
People that never offer to let you ride their horses yet you'd offer yours up on a heart beat.
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Really?! No way would I let anyone upon mine unless I really really liked their style and I would never dream of expecting to be offered a ride on someone else's'. Rather odd!

I'm a bit sick of being asked for favours, once in a while, ok, three times a week to catch in, muck out etc is a bit much. And if you want a bale of shavings from me, then ruddy well pay for it without me having to ask for the money, it's embarrassing!
 
When the people with the horse next door to mine use the corridor which is just wide enough for horse + me to walk down as a dumping ground for headcollars, grooming kit, shavings fork and feed buckets. I literally have to clean up before I can bring my horse in.

Second is the fact the YO would take the grazing muzzle off my laminitic shetland because there was "pretty much no grass" in her paddock (no ***** sherlock). I'd find it hooked tidily on my stable door when I got there to feed her despite asking repeatedly that it be left on her.

My horse apparently ran into/smashed his head off a tree hard enough to knock himself over, but nobody told me until about three days later when I walked in the tack room to find YO and a few others talking about it.

Hate when things like whole bales of hay go missing (especially when its your last bale!)

Probably most annoying of all is turning up to find someone else is using my wheelbarrow/shavings fork and its whazzing it down outside and I have to wait to use my own stuff. I wouldn't mind but its got my name on it and they just can't be bothered to repair the tyre on their own stuff.
 
omg and we do this for fun !!!!
i can sympathise with all of the points made by the other posters infact ive totally agreed with the majority of them.
but my pet hate is stupid people doing stupid things !!!
( oh and of course not sweeping up etc etc lol)
 
I have loads of pet hates!

I HATE it when people don't sweep under the doors/frontage of stabling (Monarch style) as they're raised off the floor about 2 inches, so much cr*p get's stuck underneath, it's not hard to turn the broom upside down & sweep underneath, just that little bit of effort makes the yard/barn look so much tidier.

Fellow liveries 'suggesting' things what are not welcome, 'I think you should use draw reins' etc, I'm not going to hoist my horses head into it's chest thankyou very much, I will retrain it correctly!

Can I borrow your broom/feed/wheelbarrow/soul? No, I'll never get it back!

Negotiating...I hate when people say something like 'Can you bring my horse in if I get your haynets?' do your own horse!

Cluttered stables is another thing. Water bucket in one corner, feed & hay in another and that is how it should be ha ha.

Does anyone have a contract which they have to abide by? I'd definitely introduce one if I had my own yard
 
Annoys me when people feel they need to point out that they believe a horse is "molly coddled". One persons definition of it might not be another's.

No one knows your horse and the management it needs better than yourself.
 
applecart14 said:
Quite a large collection from the many yards I have been a livery at over the years:

People that never offer to let you ride their horses yet you'd offer yours up on a heart beat.

People who would never dream of going with you to a show yet have to take an entourage of fifty if they venture from the yard themselves.

People who demand you let them have a third of the menage whilst they have a lesson (or won't let you jump when they school) and then only use up half the space where there are eight people trying to ride in the rest of the school.
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I would not let just anyone ride my horse, I have spent years schooling them to the level they are at - why should I offer them up to a random person to ride????

Someone else's entourage is none of my business.

If I had booked the school for a lesson, I would not want anyone jumping in it either.

Thankfully it is all academic - I have my own yard.
 
Currently, my biggest bug bear is fellow liveries that voice their opinions on, well. just about everything!

This morning, for example, I had to listen whilst another livery voiced their opinion that 9.30-10.00 am is too late to see my pony on a Saturday or Sunday morning - FWIW, he has been fed breakfast, had his hay bar topped up with fresh hay and had an extra bucket of fresh water given just in case - and no, it doesn't even inconvenience another livery as I pay my YM to do this for me, knowing the chances of me getting out of my bed any earlier is slim! In fact, he is clearly so concerned by the whole affair he is asleep snoring at the back of his stable :rolleyes: Or last week, how they don't think starting Parelli is a good idea or the week before, how they much prefer leather headcollars to my pony's new turquoise headcollar ... honestly, I barely have enough time to worry about my own pony, much less what other people are doing with theirs. Three words - Get a life! :D
 
My pet peeves...

  • Encroaching into my tack space! Seriously, ive had people remove my bridles from it's hook...just to put theres on there,when they already have there own hook?! I PAY for that area and i will bloody well have it an all!

Over-rugging. I know,to each his own, but many a time ive come in the evening to my old yard to see the fancy warmbloods lost underneath 3 medium weight stable rugs...poor things where sweating and looked so uncomfortable!

Disapearing items. I have no problem with people borrowing my items if asked...but please return them! 3 pairs of scissors, a wooden spoon and a spade have disapeared off the face of the earth...

My new yard is wonderful,only myself,one other livery and the yard owner and we all share and help each other out - if one is late in the evening we will do each others stables etc which is amazing. :3 Everything is returned, help is plentiful as well as a relaxed, friendly atmosphere - heaven!
 
Well let me be the odd one out and the voice of dissension....I LIKE my other liveries! What a shock! I like the fact that people support each other and are genuinely interested in what you are doing, how the show went, that there is frequently a bottle of wine bought up to drink with who so ever is there...
 
When my horse doesn't get fed in the morning and goes all day until 6:30pm with nothing to eat.

Disclaimer: Our yard has a feeding rota system, we all do one morning each and feed everyone. Saturday morning my boy was the only one left unfed :(
 
Not on livery anymore.

But...
Mess left in communal areas, esp if in American barn isles.... When I had liveries all their stuff was in their own lockable store....I didn't care if that was messy only rule was no feed left out of bins....

Poo left in arena or people lunging on a really small circle at canter cutting up the arena.

Lights left on.

Muck, farrier visit leftovers etc left in communal areas....

People leaving horses in for hrs on mess with no food and dirty water.....
 
Hence why i dont do livery.

I prefer just to keep myself to myself and do things myself. Means nobody can then maoan or mump that I dont do things the same as them or the way they would do things.

Also means I can just do what suits me and mine and not have to conform to what are sometimes quite frankly ridiculous YO rules.

I used to work on a livery yard for ten years and These days some yards lose sight of the simple things and make things far to complicated for liveries or themselves.
 
I am amazed only one other person has mentioned people who don't do their share of poo picking it has been a bone of contention at every yard I have been on! Except my current yard where when I found out that neither of the 2 other liveries I shared my field with has done any poo picking for a month (I have no idea who they expected to do it!) my YM put a rota in place to make sure they did their share :)

I love my current yard and all the people on it. Yes not everyone is the tidiest but being in the top stable no one's stuff comes in my direction so when my OCD would rather be late leaving than leave outside my stable unswept I can sweep away and it pretty much stays like that! I have even guilted my friend who is next to me into making sure her's is swept (never say anything she just feels guilty) :D
 
People who don't turn up to do their horse until after 10am at weekends because they wanted a lie in!
Folks that use my fork, wheelbarrow and broom because they are lighter and better or theirs are the other side of the yard and they can't be ar3d to go and get them... Buy your own and look after your own stuff
People who leave horses at night with only a handful of hay.
People who leave a wardrobe of clothes around the yard and their stable, jumpers, tops, jeans, jodhpurs, various pairs of boots etc etc
People who moan there is no grass in winter and their fields are just mud...well yes, it's called winter and if you had looked after the field in the summer by poop picking and not leaving your horse out in all weathers running up and down the fence like a loon then you might have some grass left?!
 
people that steal and lie, and also expect to have priority for everything over everyone else.
you lend them stuff and then find it in the bin broken, oh the other thing is a bully
 
People that don't sweep.

Refusing to poo pick fields.

Not clearing poo up from the roundpen/school when used.

Leaving their saddles/bridles to get kicked about on the floor.

Blocking up gangways.

Leaving stuff outside my stable so I can't access is properly.

Again, know it alls that know nothing.

Being told I'm Molly coddling - its not your horse, you don't know. Mind your own business.

People that walk past and give your horse a handful of treats - if there's no one to ask, assume the answer is no.

I could be here all night. Yes I understand that people are busy and in a rush sometimes but so am I and yet I manage to sweep up and tidy up after myself.
 
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