what's the silliest thing youv'e ever heard??

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I'd just done my hays for the night when yard busybody came wandering in.....now, I always feed my lot off the floor, my horses, my choice right? WRONG, apparently, feeding hay off the floor will give them colic????????????????? should've seen her face when I asked her where her horse ate from for 16 odd ours a day - UMMM THE GROUND as in GRAZING!!!!!!!!!! she scuttled off after that!! Dear god - I have a whole winter to put up with this!!!!!!!
 
Haha, love it! We had a girl on work experience at my old yard, I was grooming Star and she came over and started talking to me, showing off about her own horse. She was telling me how gorgeous he was, how fantastic at jumping he was, he was amazing at dressage, brilliant temperement, etc... I asked her how big he was, and she said "oh, just a bit smaller than your lad, about 15hh. Star is only 13.3hh
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I heard some one say once "I DON,T KNOW WHY PEOPLE HAVE JUMPING LESSONS I MEAN FOR GODS SAKE IT,S SOOOO EASY" and this was off someone that does not really ride that well in walk and trot!
 
an ex livery who was very up herself (gave advice to everyone) bought 'an event horse' - when he arrived he had huge legs, big fat neck and loads of feather. She told me he was a TB and when I expressed a polite doubt she said what would you know. She took him to an event clinic where the professional eventer told her the horse would never make the xc - too heavy, not enough blood. Oops
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jeeez, that is unbelievable.
i'm sure someone on here posted about someone who thought it was dangerous for horses to have access to as much water as they want overnight, because they might drink too much and give themselves colic.
errrrr....
i do sometimes wonder how some people manage to get up and get dressed in the morning when they are that dense... poor horses.
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These are great, i was at the hairdressers a couple of weeks ago, in my scruffies as you do, and the hairdresser told me how she lives on a farm and grew up competing but now she just rides her mum's horse from time to time, i asked about the horse and she didnt know what sex it was but she did know it was 21 hands high!
 
I went to a recent sale and was asked by a small child whether a particular horse was a boy or girl, the horse was in its stable and at the time and i couldnt see so whilst waiting for the horse to move i read the info on the stable door. Whilst doing so i heard the child say to another child 'i think its a unisex horse.' reading the info referred to the horse as he so i told the child that it was a boy, he then turned to the other child and said 'oh, it musnt be a unisex horse then, its a boy!' Obviously not referring to the child as silly given his young age but it made me laugh all the same! Whats a unisex horse?!
 
A couple of years ago we had a new livery arrive at the yard with a recently purchased ex-racehorse. Trying to be friendly (as you do!) I asked what she planned to do with him.

"Oh I'm going to event" she said "I've got my sights set on Badminton. But there's just one small problem."

"Really?" says me "What's that"

Wait for it.......

"I don't like jumping."

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A lovely novice at my field bought a horse last year. She came up to me and said:

'Monty's a welsh section D isn't he'. I laughed and said 'No, I'm pretty sure he's a tb'. She said 'oh, I've just bought a registered section D and he looks just like Monty'

This is Monty:

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I've heard that one, too, Starsky. Must be the same bloke, lol!

I've had, numerous times, non-horsey numpties ask the most stupid questions. Some things you can forgive, but right up there are:

"Do you have to visit your horses everyday? What about Christmas Day?"

Standard response is, 'No, I call them up on Christmas morning and tell them to get their own dinner sorted.'

My favourite one (said by adults who really should be supervised in society):

"Oh how sweet! How old is he?"....I reply, '16', to which they say, "Oh, when will he be fully grown?" This is about my exmoor, approx 12hh. They genuinely think I'm riding a foal and he will shoot up by about a ft any time now...

A slight deviation on the above:

"Is that a horse or a pony?"...I reply, 'A pony'...they reply, "Oh! So when will he get big enough to be a horse?"

I lose the will to live with these types, I really do...
 
LOL, yes you are in Surrey too, possibly the same guy!!!!
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I used to have 4 geldings in a field. A 14.2hh Sec D and a 13hh New Forest, both black, and a 16.2 crossbred and a 13.2hh New Forest (both grey). Heard from some people walking down the lane "Aaaah look, two mummy horses and foals"
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Know it all on a local yard " my new horse cribs" but doesn't do it when im riding her, so im not too bothered" FFS
 
Why is it that everytime I meet someone out riding...they ask if the horse is a stallion?

Once I answered yes.....when I was riding OH's mare....to see if they noticed and said anything but obviously not...

I'm always tempted to answer ''no, he's a slightly effeminate neurotic horse whose had his bollocks chopped off....why?'
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A rather elderly gentleman who once had my mare on loan from previous owners came up to me...

"Is that L?" he asked

"Yes" I replied

"Hmmmm......was she always chestnut?"

Lol - she is bright orange and I really don't think she used to be any other colour!!
 
I had a new livery arrive in the Spring, all horses were on an in during the day - out at night routine.

New horse could not possibly fit in with that as she was black.... When I asked what this had to do with the new livery scoffed to a nearby livery 'what kind of a yard have I come to? YO doesnt know black horses cannot go out at night.....Apparently her vet told her.

Also overheard same livery telling her daughter that chestnuts are there to hold a foals legs together when still in the mare so the foal cannot move or kick around....
 
Ooo...where to start!
OK, when I was working at a riding school/livery yard, we had a man in his forties come to learn about looking after horses, as he had been riding for a while. I showed him how to pick out hooves and sent him off. Shorlty after I went to check if he was ok. he was kneeling on the floor, and I said it was best not kneel, he said "yes, I can see why, you get dirty knees"
 
Was listening to a know-it-all livery explaining to a new person how, 'you can't possibly feed hay and haylage together as this will give horses colic, they must have one or the other,' - decided not to mention that my two had been on both for months and were perfectly fine!
 
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