Nicole-Louise
Well-Known Member
My horse has always been on 24/7 turnout. She's a 3 year old, ISH. In the summer, a qualified vet advised me to take her off feed as she became overweight and the weight caused excessive strain on her legs.
Being the type that hates being stabled, I kept her on turnout with a medium-heavyweight rug on, with the weather being awful, checked her daily when the yard was quiet (as it's complete bitchiness otherwise!), she was fine. When I came up last night, her rug was completely torn, and ended up having to walk her through water that came up knee high on me, and stabled her.
She is on a bale of hay per night, and not on any feed. With turn out and grazing, she has lost a little weight, and her ribs are SLIGHTLY showing, but now have food ordered, as well as haylage.
However, I never thought the horse world would be so incredibly bitchy. I previously stabled on land a friend was renting, and she asked for £40 for the month. I paid this, and sold her a few things cheaply that she was in dire need of. She still has NOT paid anything, and kept all my things. It got to the point where I had to move, and she attempted to drop off my 16hh mare in the street to place in my front garden and leave.
Because I refused to sell my mare to her, they now do things in spite. Because she's lost a little weight, she took her out the field behind my back and started taking photos, and is now using them as blackmail, basically, I either give her my horse, or she reports me? Yet she kicks her foals if they refuse to move, places severely underweight rescue foals in torrential conditions without rugs, in which 1 sadly died.
She is consistently going up searching my horse on a yard that she doesn't even stable on! Takes her rugs on and brings her in without consent, (and she sent me pictures to prove!) She is consistently blackmailing, and threatening. Also found her rug completely cut apart. After looking at it closely, there was no rough edges, it was literally as if someone took scissors to it and cut it apart. The cut was completely perfect and straight, no rough edges whatsoever.
I've already moved once to get away from her, and I fear I'm going to have to do it again. My horse also now has thrush due to her field being flooded the past 2-3 days, and is prone to mud fever (which she doesn't have this time). But she is being treated for the thrush, feed is being delivered tomorrow and all new rugs are being bought also. I'm doing everything I can to sort her, and instead being threatened consistently to either give her up, or be reported.
I feel like I have no hope in this.
What would you do?
Being the type that hates being stabled, I kept her on turnout with a medium-heavyweight rug on, with the weather being awful, checked her daily when the yard was quiet (as it's complete bitchiness otherwise!), she was fine. When I came up last night, her rug was completely torn, and ended up having to walk her through water that came up knee high on me, and stabled her.
She is on a bale of hay per night, and not on any feed. With turn out and grazing, she has lost a little weight, and her ribs are SLIGHTLY showing, but now have food ordered, as well as haylage.
However, I never thought the horse world would be so incredibly bitchy. I previously stabled on land a friend was renting, and she asked for £40 for the month. I paid this, and sold her a few things cheaply that she was in dire need of. She still has NOT paid anything, and kept all my things. It got to the point where I had to move, and she attempted to drop off my 16hh mare in the street to place in my front garden and leave.
Because I refused to sell my mare to her, they now do things in spite. Because she's lost a little weight, she took her out the field behind my back and started taking photos, and is now using them as blackmail, basically, I either give her my horse, or she reports me? Yet she kicks her foals if they refuse to move, places severely underweight rescue foals in torrential conditions without rugs, in which 1 sadly died.
She is consistently going up searching my horse on a yard that she doesn't even stable on! Takes her rugs on and brings her in without consent, (and she sent me pictures to prove!) She is consistently blackmailing, and threatening. Also found her rug completely cut apart. After looking at it closely, there was no rough edges, it was literally as if someone took scissors to it and cut it apart. The cut was completely perfect and straight, no rough edges whatsoever.
I've already moved once to get away from her, and I fear I'm going to have to do it again. My horse also now has thrush due to her field being flooded the past 2-3 days, and is prone to mud fever (which she doesn't have this time). But she is being treated for the thrush, feed is being delivered tomorrow and all new rugs are being bought also. I'm doing everything I can to sort her, and instead being threatened consistently to either give her up, or be reported.
I feel like I have no hope in this.
What would you do?
I have lightly broken her in, but resting her over winter to mature and bring her back into light work again in spring. She breaks all hers in the minute they turn 3, jumps and gallops them. She did break her yearling in to drive at 1 too.
