What stupid rules do you have on your yard ?

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So come on, share with us all........... what kind of stupid rules do you have on your yard ??

The list of rules on ours seems to be being added to daily!! :

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No hosepipes (even thou ban has been lifted!) cos water bills are too high
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Turn all lights off everytime you come out of tackrooms etc as electric bills are too high
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Not allowed to give horses 'licks' outside stable as makes a mess on the wall !! (even if we do wipe it after!!)
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Not allowed to get hay delivered, either buy from YO or get yourself
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Not allowed to lunge in indoor school
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No allowed to change farriers (if you already have one its ok but now not allowed to change from yard farrier)

Ok so they are not all necessarily stupid .................
 
I own a small livery yard, and me have some but not many rules.

But i wont let them lunge in the menage, as it knackers them up!
 
I have one rule that is enforced - no-one feeds titbits to their horses unless the horse is inside it's own stable.

it stops the business of one horse being fed stuff in full view of a row of jealous faces all then starting to kick, bash and scream - it's not fair on the other horses.
 
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Just a comment on your first rule, your YO should get special dispensation as they have animals to look after!

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We do, I think, equine facilities didn't have a hosepipe ban in the first place - she just brought in upon herself to bring in that rule to save money on her water rates!! m
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One of my Boarders seems to think that my rules of:

"Board to be paid one month in advance" is quite the most ridiculous thing she's ever heard of, in fact, paying at all appears to be a rule to be ignored. Horse is now padlocked in to the field at night.

and.......

"Up to date contact numbers must be made available" Oh right..........
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"No dogs" .........but it's OK for her to bring her bolshy little JRT to fight with my dogs and attack my cats though. (Although last time the dog left with a bleeding face after the innocent looking tabby turned into a tiger!
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No hosepipes (even thou ban has been lifted!) cos water bills are too high
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Turn all lights off everytime you come out of tackrooms etc as electric bills are too high
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Not allowed to give horses 'licks' outside stable as makes a mess on the wall !! (even if we do wipe it after!!)
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Not allowed to get hay delivered, either buy from YO or get yourself
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Not allowed to lunge in indoor school
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No allowed to change farriers (if you already have one its ok but now not allowed to change from yard farrier)


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sounds to me that most of those rules are aimed at maximising profit & minimising workload

fair enough if the livery fee is representative of the restrictions
 
We pay one month in advance - don't mind that! Dogs are allowed as long as under control and cleaned up after! We have to pick up poo from school, sweep our bit before we leave, keep tack and feed rooms tidy etc etc, thats all resonabale enough.

I think there should be rules, not saying there shouldn't as they are safety devices but ours seems to keep changing every week and we currently are all feeling like we don't know if we are coming or going!!!
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what really really annoys me is when liveries bring their own dogs to the yard, which as pp said, chase the cats and hassle the owner's dogs because they let them just run around everywhere and never clean up after them! it really winds me up!
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ok rant over!
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what really really annoys me is when liveries bring their own dogs to the yard, which as pp said, chase the cats and hassle the owner's dogs because they let them just run around everywhere and never clean up after them! it really winds me up!
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ok rant over!
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Dogs allowed on my yard but on a lead, and as long as we clean up after them. Think there is only two people that bring them on regularly and they are well under control
 
Haven't got any stupid rules, I think the yard that I'm at now is the best one I've ever been at!! Used to run my own and know the stresses and strains of being a yard owner, its much nicer being the "livery" now, expecially as our YO is lovely. We have a no dogs rule, which I think is perfectly ok, as they were pooing everywhere and I find that annoying!! The one rule which is annoying but necessary is the horses have to be on 1 weeks isolation when arriving, this would get annoying when I move him away for training clinics etc... but I can see why its done. We have two schools, one jump one flat, you can jump in the flat school as long as they are put away, but in the jump school you can leave them up, which is fab!!!

We need more room for equipment and storage, but thats being sorted as we speak!! So yeh I'm pleased with my yard!!!!
 
Im on the same yard as Lvrees and agree - we dont have any stupid rules. I think we're incredibly luky where we are because its rare to find a big yard that doesnt have something wrong with it lol
 
We are not allowed hosepipes either on our yard due to the water being metered, however I think we go through more water throwing buckets of water over the horse.

But we don't really have any stupid rules, they all common sense/safety rules
 
Hey, I've got a couple for you.

You must poo pick (no problems with that one), then either put it on the poo pile in the corner of the field which was created by the owner OR take it to the trailer which in turn is tipped on the other side of the field?! - Would you say this is "Creative Worm Breeding"!

The other is'nt a rule but a huge bug bearer of the owner! she hates people that put rug's on horses! Quote "Horses are waterproof you know"
Each to their own I say!
 
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I'm not allowed to feed soaked hay. (Pony has lami at the moment and needs to loose weight but I'm still not allowed to feed it!)

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Why on earth not!!! Whats the reasoning behind that ?

Thats what I don't get - I s'pose I shouldn't have titled it stupid rules as all yards have rules but some seem unreasonable when we are paying huge amounts of money for our hobby!
 
The no Hosepipe one should actually be on every single livery yard if the tap is coming straight of the mains. You are not allowed by law to have a hosepipe or any taps that a hosepipe could be attached to unless you water comes thru a header tank. It is to stop contamination of the mains. If you haven't been caught by this law yet you will be eventually. The water board came round our place and we would have had to of changed every single tap on the place, but instead we installed a header tank which wasn't cheap.
 
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Not currently - but in the past we wree no allowed to rider after 5.30pm (summer and winter!). Meant most horses only did anything at weekends!! We moved by the way...

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OMG !!!
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What else can I say !!!
Why ?
 
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Im on the same yard as Lvrees and agree - we dont have any stupid rules. I think we're incredibly luky where we are because its rare to find a big yard that doesnt have something wrong with it lol

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Where are you?
 
I did once keep my horse, with my friend's horse, at a DIY yard, where the YO came out one morning and said to my friend
'I'm sick of other people in my home' (aka the Yard as no one went near their house) 'So just turn out your horse and I want you out of here by 8am. No riding as that takes you longer! '
Needless to say we moved...
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the way the yard rules werent explained to me when i came to look at the place even though i specifically asked what they were!and then got into trouble when i accidently didnt keep to them

the severe lack of turnout-4hours all winter(sept to april usually) even if the ground is dry!can understand if its raining loads and the ground is wet...

the unsuitable grazing- almost all horses got lami last year-we have to put horse into new paddock every 3-7days and the fields are meant for cows.the slightest bit of rain menas horses have to stay off(even in winter paddocks)not allowed to strip graze to restrict-only way is to keep horse in loads and or muzzle them the whole time.

the high cost of the place!20 a week total DIY in summer for stable and field-horses come in at night as grass so rich so have to buy hay and bedding on top.stables small and leaky.

menage is very small and at 30degree angle and you get charged a huge £4 an hour!!!

NO hacking at all-horrible roads you cant avoid plus a couple of bridle paths that are hard surfaces anyway.

people will leave your horse out on its own running up and down screaming its head off if its last one in.

worming programme-there is a strict one thats totally wrong!as advised by feed merchant who advises most expensive one for time of year
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ie one dose equest, one dose equimax, one panacur guard so far this year

am moving to a HORSE yard in 2-4 weeks when i move back home.horses never been in so much or so unhappy and my 17yo got lami for first time despite having muzzle on and in at night on soaked hay
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the grazing is what bothers me most-its unsafe for horses.for about 20/30 horses to get lami is just an awful track record!
 
Um no stupid rules at my yard just sensible ones like:
poo picking the arena after you finish
sweaping up any mess you make
writing any appts i.e farrier, vet etc. in the diary
keeping your area of the tack room tidy
never leaving a horse in the field on its own
using buckets without handles in stables

um that's it really, everyone is really tidy and pulls their weight, it's great and YO and staff are appreciated and thanked.
 
Porkie- The rules are there for a reason- your yard owner is running a business not a free for all, if you dont lay things down like that then you just end up with a lot of liveries doing what the hell they like and making your ife a nightmare.
 
Our YO and yard are fab. The only rules are to pick up any poo your horse does in the menage - fair enough - and no horse must ever be left out on its' own. Which makes perfect horse sense. YO, her hubby and her children are all lovely, will help you out at a moments' notice and it is a great fun and friendly place to be. Couldn't be happier.

We were at a yard where the YO was a hormonal old bag, screamed at anyone and everyone (not just her own husband and child but farriers, workmen, liveries, dogs, the lot). Wanted the money through having liveries but didn't a. want us there and b. didn't want to do any maintenance or anything despite the fact we were paying for it. Final straw came when she imposed a can't be a the yard after 7pm rule - fine, except in the summer and with the heat that is when we were all out riding! Oh, and the fact that if you were on a particular side of the yard you had to sweep her gravel drive... Thankfully we werent that side, but still used to get blisters from all the sweeping the old bag insisted people did.
 
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