Why Don't You Just Listen?!?!

[TJP]

I no longer bank my stables. Currently 13 horses and previously another 3 over 15 years. I have never had a horse cast in a stable, although two have cast them selves rolling in the field. One got his feet trapped in the hedgerow, another rolled on a slope and found he could not get up going up hill. I rolled him over and he was fine. Daft b*****.

lol giggling at the thought of him rolling uphill & getting stuck. My dad always said that old fashioned horses always rolled downhill

 

[xspiralx]

if you read the op post and read what the owner has/done while she is away and only comes to ride the horse and has full livery then yes i think she treats the horse as a status symbol.


The OP ranted over something that bugged her, just like everybody else would aswell. i am sure somebody has ranted behind your back and 100% behind mine aswell-hence the reason why i left my old stable.its life and by the looks of it thats how the horse community is over here ( i am from germany)

If you pay for full livery then obviously you only go to the yard to ride the horse, all the other work is done! But that means nothing in terms of how much you love the horse or whether you treat it as a status symbol.

As you say yourself, you left your old yard because of people b*tching about you. So why do you condone it in this case?

If there is one thing in the world I cannot stand it is b*tchy, interfering horsey people who love nothing better than to judge and condemn others on how they look after their horses, half the time without even knowing the actual situation. Just creates misery needlessly for people who are just trying to enjoy their horses.

 

[Vikki89]

TBH though I do wonder if they make much difference anyway - he could have become cast anyway.

I agree with this, a horse that used to be on the yard im at got cast in his stable which was plenty big enough for him and he had a big straw bed with banks. His owner was there at the time and we helped her get him up.

 

[sallymoon]

I worked at RSPCA for 3 years and ILPH and none of them bank stables, they use rubber matting and a sprinkling of bedding, banks can cause more probs as they reduce size of stable when thick and useless if not thick so why bother. If the top organisations dont use them I certainly wont, ive seen casts with and without banks.

 

[xxMozlarxx]

If you pay for full livery then obviously you only go to the yard to ride the horse, all the other work is done! But that means nothing in terms of how much you love the horse or whether you treat it as a status symbol.

As you say yourself, you left your old yard because of people b*tching about you. So why do you condone it in this case?

If there is one thing in the world I cannot stand it is b*tchy, interfering horsey people who love nothing better than to judge and condemn others on how they look after their horses, half the time without even knowing the actual situation. Just creates misery needlessly for people who are just trying to enjoy their horses.

Hear hear......... or is it 'here here???'

 

[samtaylor]

If you pay for full livery then obviously you only go to the yard to ride the horse, all the other work is done! But that means nothing in terms of how much you love the horse or whether you treat it as a status symbol.

As you say yourself, you left your old yard because of people b*tching about you. So why do you condone it in this case?

If there is one thing in the world I cannot stand it is b*tchy, interfering horsey people who love nothing better than to judge and condemn others on how they look after their horses, half the time without even knowing the actual situation. Just creates misery needlessly for people who are just trying to enjoy their horses.

i am not bitching about anything or anybody all i am agreein with is that the horse owner moaned about the vets coming out. if i would pay for full livery then i would expect the people who look after that horse to call the vet when needed that is what i agreed with.

there is nothing bitchy agreein with something

 

[Queenbee87]

Bit Of a rant!!!!

Someone at a friends yard had told the YO previously that she didnt want her horse having banks in the stable because it made the bed look 'messy' and was costing her too much money! The YO tried to explain that because the stables were not the best of sizes being relatively small - I think around 9ft x 9ft (dont quiz me on that though!!!) and the horse needed them in the case of him becoming cast - the horse is not tiny either, standing at 16.2 - but she kept on and after a few weeks the horse just had a small flat bed.

From reading a later post, it appears the horse in question is on full livery? In which case, extra bedding for banks should not be at extra cost, especially as they were recommended by the YO.

Something seems not quite right with the story- dangers of chinese whispers?

 

[neeny5]

The use of straw banks to stop a horse getting cast has always puzzled me tbh - never really understood how this can work, unless, as others have said, they are really high. I've got stables of various sizes, never bank the beds and have never had a horse cast - maybe I've just been lucky

i have straw and never bank beds, also never had a cast horse in various size stables. maybe i am lucky too

 

[Serenity087]

I have no banks because Dorey's stable is too small, if I did, she'd get cast because she'd have no where to lie... *facepalm*

My sister had banks at her old yard, and her horse is actually now "dragging off the walls" proof... he just lies upside down until she saves him...

So this whole thread is made of fail.

And why shouldn't I be allowed to have a horse because I can't afford to fill my stable with bedding and bank it?
She's warm, comfortable, safe. What more does a horse need when stabled? (Aside from the poo pillow, but Dorey provides her own...)