What's your YM/YO like?

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The mad TB

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Was just pondering this as mine are amazing!

The YM is slightly scary but deadly efficient and i'm pretty certain she knows everything. She looks after a yard with 35 horses on it ranging from hacks to hunters and always sorts out squabbles ect. I have seen her get into work at 8 and by 9.30 she and the rest of the staff have all horses turned out and 6 hunters on their ways to two separate hunts, washed, plaited and tacked up!
My YO is also amazing. He's the ex master of the West of Yore an still hunts most weekends, as well as being a gentleman farmer, yet if you aak him to do something, he'll sort it right away! He put in a new school surface, 2 horse showers and a cross country course just because he wanted to make the yard nicer. He always leaves strips around crops to ride on and the fences are perfectly maintained!

So there's my appreciation to them, let's hear yours, good or bad!
 
my horse is kept on a farm and the farmer and his wife are amazing,one example is the horse decided he was bored one night so he trashed his door completely destroyed it,so he got up and moved a cow and her calf to tempory shed,mucked her stable out and put him in and then apologised to me, and replaced his door for free they are the most amazing couple ever,so i will feed the cows if they are on holiday save them getting anyone in
 
He's a farmer, offering cheap basic diy. Knows nothing about horses unless it can be related to cattle, eg needing forage & water. But he & his wife are lovely. Any important stuff like fencing is always sorted asap. They've seen us with the lights on at 2am & known its an ill horse, & come out with drinks & a shoulder to cry on. He's used his tractor to bury horses who have lived there happily for years. Doesn't interfere but would step in if an animals basic needs aren't met. I had an issue a while back, long story but couldn't use field or lami paddock because of an issue with horses overnight, not his field. So he let me use the area his birdhouses are in to turn out in overnight, rather than have the horses stressing. Once when daughter was a bit unwell I had been leaving her in car near field, & doing flying visits in to do basics as it was summer & out 24/7. Farmers wife told me if I was ever stuck with daughter ill, she would mind her in the house if I had stables etc to do. Really couldn't ask for better.
 
Well Yo is my best friend and YM is me as i do all the 'needing doings' and running of yard lol!!!

My last place was a farm and I was there for 5 years and had to say again was just me and my horses and they were great. i paid them, and that was pretty much it, ran it to suit myself :D
 
Lol pinball, you have! My friends horse walked through his solid brick stable wall, for which she was massively apologetic & said her dad would rebuild & of course she'd pay for materials, & meantime as only us two were on there, we'd agreed to clear out the box we used as a tackroom. Farmer just mumbled something about strong ******s aren't they, & having a few spare bricks somewhere. Then told us a funny story about when he was a kid a calf going under a gap someone had cut in the hedge, cue its mum flying through after it, followed by the entire herd, who then, out of what was then virtually nothing but farms, found the only neat garden with a mown lawn & flowerbeds within 5 miles to congregate in. Next day he'd rebuilt wall & reinforced the corners & sides with steel girders.
 
Mine and Mileaminute's YO is fantastic IMO. He knows nothing about horses but he really cares about maintaining the grazing and won't let the fields get in bad way. By the same token he is extremely fair with turnout and its very rare the horses are kept in for long periods of time, the most being this winter, one day in one out. He is very efficient with repairs etc, but also very on the ball with damages done by your horse! :-/ I find this fair though.
 
I'm on a small DIY yard (5 horses) the YO knows nothing about horses & does nothing down there.

When we first got there (about 5 years ago) it was a lovely little yard, nice school, fencing etc. Now the school doesn't drain properly & is unusable, 90% of the fences have broken/fallen down and he uses it is a dumping ground for various objects that really need to go to the tip. And essentially he doesn't really care, he was down there for about 3 hours this weekend doing some weeding, god knows why when it is quite obvious so much stuff needs doing down there. But if we want anything doing we all have to text him about three times each before he bothers to fix anything.

But it's a private yard, the other liveries are good friends, he leaves us alone so I guess we will be staying for a while.

We have been discussing getting the fences fixed ourselves & not paying rent for a couple of months as its now at the point that we come down & with or without electric fencing they have escaped and there is one of them in each field.
 
Mine are AMAZING. I rent a small yard at the bottom of their land - just my 2 there. If anything is broken they fix it, they do the school, sort the fencing, harrow the fields, everything! Since I have moved in they have moved the generator from behind the stables in a field to the front of the yard in the car park, purely so it's more 'convenient' for me. I love them to bits and thank my lucky stars every day!!!!!!
 
My girl is on a small farm, I have been there for twenty seven years so it must be ok. The farmer has very few rules, and really just lets us get on with it, which works well as there are not that many of us. The farmers wife treats me like a daughter and always makes me tea,gives me home made scones cakes, soup in the winter bacon sandwich the list is endless. They are fantastic but getting on a bit now, does worry me where I might have to go should anything happen to them. Been spoilt for too many years.
 
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