would anyone else be mad?

swintondesire said:
yes newcastle. i could tell you the yard but not where others could see and i bet if you knew the place or anyone who had been there isnt a nice thing said about it but its not a big place.
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Pm me, would you? I don't want my god daughter choosing that yard!

piebaldsparkle said:
Ah explains...........Perhaps she is typing in Geordie!!:D:D:D
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Cheeky mare. My English is quite decent!

FestiveG said:
I thought Geordies all went out in mid winter with just t-shirts on, have I got that wrong?
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True, it's the rule! :rolleyes:

guido16 said:
I thought Geordies all hung about at the shore.
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Please, that is just deeply unrepresentative of Newcastle, particularly the Polish and southern people! :eek:
 
After ploughing through 13 pages I will say this OP, as others have said and you have now taken on board, the tractor incident would have been educational for your youngster.
If the yard owner is being unreasonable and you are unhappy about many issues then I agree you must leave for your own sanity.
So far as the rugging goes, a heavy weight for an 18 month old perhaps is a bit OTT at the moment especially as he is a Welsh ( native breed).
Last winter when I wintered out my youngster who was about 2 he was rugged up.
The main reason was that I moved yards in December and for the previous month he had been coming in at night on the previous yard.
He had been in a light weight rug due to the crap weather and he had not developed a good and proper winter coat.
At the new yard there were not enough stables so he was the one I wintered out.
This year he is wintering out with my big old boy and neither are rugged at the minute.
I left them rug free most, if not all of the summer and into autumn so they would develop a good coat for themselves.
It has worked and they both have winter woolies.
I will only rug them now if either lose a lot of condition or we have terrible weather over a continuous period. They do have plenty of natural shelter from trees and hedges though where they are.
If you had wanted to keep him clean then a lw or mw would probably have worked.
I put my youngster in a thicker rug last winter as he didn't have a good proper coat and access to his field was harder when the weather turned as the yard owner moved him to another.
Regarding the stressed horses though. Mine have had experience with tractors, sanders, drills, electrical cutting equipment you name it as they have had to endure people building stables right around them in an indoor setting ( the usual yard expansion scenario).
Dust and noise aside, they came out of it ok, but tbh the yard owner at the time did not care, or understand horses.
One of the times when I did get annoyed was on reaching the yard to find another livery telling me that one of my horses was very stressed and she had also slipped in her stable.
Her sweating up and poo and urine stains showed that too.
It appeared that the yard owner had decided to enlist some people to move some boxes etc from a storage space that was in the barn above the stables. There was a staircase ( the see through sort) that run alongside her stable and you actually walked right over her stable at some points and you could see her whole body as you did due to where the stairs were situated.
My horse did not know whether she was coming or going as they had been making a noise and carrying large items down these steps over her head and body. She would have seen it all.
The yard owner had noticed she had got stressed but rather than anyone lead her out and tie her up outside where she would not have things going on above her head they left her to whizz around her stable and slip over in a panic.
I was pretty damned angry about it.
It was one of the reasons that I did move from there.

Also to add OP is that if you or any of the other liveries are concerned about the care and health of the horses that this man owns then ring World Horse Welfare and report the issue.
 
To be honest, no, I wouldn't be that bothered. You can't go through life with a young horse avoiding scary situations.. better that he gets used to big tractors now rather than when he's fully grown and you're on board.

If you keep your horse on a working farm, you need to get used to farmers doing things without telling you... they don't always have time...
 
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