would anyone else be mad?

Haha it's this predictive text on mobile.. I rug my 18month old because I show him and to keep him dry and clean as no shelter in field. And others seem to like chewing his mane out. And it's not that the tractor hasn't done any good or bad it could have been a lot worse without me being there and the fact not knowing anything about it. And it's not bad communication between me and yard owner it's either. He knows that we all would have help by even pushing bales in by hand then all the hassle.
 
Like the others I would be very happy that the youngster was getting to see the tractor and although its not nice to have rugs run over and things scattered everywhere if the gap between the stables is not wide enough to get a tractor with a bale on it through without hitting things or running over them then its not wide enough for things to be left there safely. I can see that you are not happy there though so for your peace of mind the sooner you can move the better
 
I agree with other posts re leaving horse in to let them get used to tractor and machinery. If the yard owner had to check with everyone before doing jobs, jobs would take triple the time to do and maybe not get done at all. Also in one post you said when horse is happy he eats his hay, but in another the hay is rubbish. So maybe that's the reason he isn't eating it. I also wouldn't expect an 85 year old man to be turning out/ handling a youngster that sounds highly strung. I hope you find a yard that suits you. :)
 
85yr old man owns 17hands black stallion demonstrater.who can't cover a mare at the right end I don't think my 13.2 18month old is going to be such a handful when he has two horses he bred and brought up on the yard. Which I can say is very dangours and The hay he has atm is nice. The stuff going into barn is rotten which I'm ment to be buying I guess everyone has made me realise that it's not such a bad thing him seeing the tractor which wasnt really my point but there only four liverys and we seen him every morning before he goes to work and didn't know he was finishing at one and wqs shouted at for not being there helping. I guess it has been a miss understanding. We where told when we went there we could have boxes as tack rooms is a stable that leaks. Otherwise I would gladly not have one.
 
Ok apologies miss read or got wrong impression regarding type of horse you have and the hay. Not being on the right yard for you and your horse can stop you enjoying your pony, so I do hope you get something sorted. :)
 
We have been having major drainage works done on our track over the past 3 weeks and have had all manner of machinery in and through the yard .. I also have two 18 month old fillies. They went from doing several circuits of either field or stable, depending on their location at the time, at the sight of all this stuff to hanging over the gate to watch the jcb in action and giving the very large dumper truck parked in the yard a very close inspection every time they passed it.

I could not buy this type of training for my babies and I'm very pleased that they have benifited from it.
 
My babies are turned out next to both a main road, a rail track, and under an airport. Tanks and the like go down the back track. After the first time, they settle...by the third or fourth, they fail to notice.
 
It wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

Then again I am all for exposure with horses, especially when they are babies. The more things that they see and experience the more comfortable that they get with them, I never hide my horse away from anything and I deliberately expose him to all manner of 'scary' things in order to let him broaden his horizons a bit.

And yes, my horse is THE spookiest thing on the planet, hence why I try to expose him to everything and get him comfortable with it.
 
Yeah sure I think there's many other issues I did right a post a while ago wwyd on moving a very lot advised to move to my third option a friends with another youngster and better environment as I think what bugged me was the state of the yard and me left to clean up and my horse blocked in. The tractor has probley done the world of good. I just wish I was there encouraging him it was no bother and wasn't going to eat him lol his whole bed was upside down and YO driving the tractor wouldn't have been to keep a eye on him while doing job God knows what he could have been doing. Yeah yard is flooded but the tractor gets stuck in the hay barn almost everytime even in summer the whole place it falling to pieces. Sorry to everyone for the ranting on last night not much sense made but I think it's a hell of a lot more then I could ever write on this froum i just needed to get something out. My 18month old is pretty unflappable which is probley what worried me if he was stressing cause it not a quick job and he was thrown in the deep end. I will het thingsssorted don't worry
 
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I will share my previous thread about moving yard when I told people what the yard was like and it was ment to come across as my horse being scared but the lack of think through a 85year old man who is ment to have own horses all his life and know my horse from day one as much as me. And he knows how to use a Mobileft I have said many time even when he pinch my stuff ring me and I will probley say yes.
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You expect an 85yo man to handle your 18 month old youngster?
Here's a novel idea, maybe you could offer to help the old fella instead of giving him hassle...
 
When there are tractors on our yard doing noisy stuff, I actively take my youngster out to see them, walk up to them and put her nose on them when they're stationary. The farmer actually brings huge haylage bales and puts them outside my stables with his machinery. At first the youngster had eyes on stalks and panicked, but I left her to it - now she doesn't bat an eyelid. I love the fact that we have noise and machinery on our yard - invaluable free desensitisation training!
 
swintondesire said:
85yr old man owns 17hands black stallion demonstrater.who can't cover a mare at the right end I don't think my 13.2 18month old is going to be such a handful when he has two horses he bred and brought up on the yard. Which I can say is very dangours and The hay he has atm is nice. The stuff going into barn is rotten which I'm ment to be buying I guess everyone has made me realise that it's not such a bad thing him seeing the tractor which wasnt really my point but there only four liverys and we seen him every morning before he goes to work and didn't know he was finishing at one and wqs shouted at for not being there helping. I guess it has been a miss understanding. We where told when we went there we could have boxes as tack rooms is a stable that leaks. Otherwise I would gladly not have one.
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Crikey, I thought Demonstrator died yonks ago :confused:
 
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Crikey, I thought Demonstrator died yonks ago :confused:
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Not sure about whether Demonstrator has died or not, but as for the OP's comment about the fact that it doesn't know which end of the mare to cover, I doubt it's the same stallion.......I think the offspring of Demonstrator sort of prove that he knew which end was which! ;)
 
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No the stallion is by demonstrater. He did die a while ago the stallion is at least 20 year old and I mean by not covering the right end jumping on mares heads you name it and has killed a shetland before. If he can manage him when hes absoulty bonkers my little pony who may I add is no bother at leading tieing you name it would not be a pick of bother. And do not even start talking to me about helping I pay livery everyweek on time and I bring his horses in put his horses out. Ride is his horses if someone is coming to try them. We fill hay nets for him and us liverys pay vets bills to save he's horse who was crippled with laminates and was not being treated. We feed his staving horses that where on deaths door and ment to be put door as could not walk but a girl didn't want him to so is paying him living to keep alive a nag who liverys again are feeding. So if you think this man deseveres anymore help please feel free to come to our yard and be made to be a mug and then after slaving you backside off get shouted at in a rude manner. I said something at the time did not agree with as I knew nothing about it and if my horse was injured he would not have been responsible as his yard is not insured it would have been my problem to claim on my insurance. But if i was there I would have been able to keep an eye on my horse and make sure he was well aware of what was happing and doing it in the safest manner. If you have anymore to say please read my other post and you will actually know how sick I am before jumping to the conclusion that I am the bad guy
 
Tbh, what would have happened if the youngster had seriously injured himself i.e. tried going over the stable door? He certainly wouldn't be the first horse to do it.
I can understand your worries regarding your youngster Op, in this case, just move, find a yard your happy on, and write this off as a past experience.
 
Shadyoak thanks that's what I got mad at as the YO was driving tractor and if horse jumped door got stuck he would have been to busy to see probley would have reversed back not seeing him. It's what could have happened as I was not aware or there. I'm wanting to move him as for a youngster he needs to be with other his age and have more grazing so I'm planning on going to a friends where Thay have a a horse the same age. Were I will be treated like a customer and not a stable hand who is paying to work. I think if it was done in a totally different circumstance like others have mentioned it would have been fine a lot mentioned they where there to watch there own horse I wasnt until last minute. I have know horse to jump stables and get legs stuck and I couldn't bare the thought.
 
I wouldn't want to be doing jobs about the yard, unless I got a reduced rate for it tbh.. personally, just being a paying customer suits me down to the ground, I will help out if need be from time to time, moving haylage round bales (can see that's a hard job even for two people), but mostly it's just me and my horse, and that's just how I like it ;)
I can see it's no fun going to see your horse, and not actually getting round to him, until you've done XY and Z for the farmer..
 
To be honest you sound exactly like the ungrateful type of livery I wouldn't want on my yard.

If your that unhappy then move but I think you will find fault anywhere you go. Yes yards are muddy this time of year. If you don't like the mud maybe don't have a horse? Or if your not keen on their hay ask if you can bring your own etc.
 
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I don't think I'm over reaching when he was shouting saying we all knew he was going to be doing it and we did nothe then said*we said we would help and as far as I know I never new anything about it And he has trashed are stuff like rugs by driving over them are yard is a American barn but very small size one. It's probley because so much down there is becoming a joke and maybe it's the whole lot building up that I'm becoming over the top. He's never really had to come face to face with the tractor it's gone on around outside and in field but never on his doorstep. And I have seen yo knock drainage trees gates down with his tractor not being able to see so I do not trust him on the barn with pliers in his tractor with my horse in. I know if the tables where turned I'd be called a thick idiot who knows nothing. I have been called this before. I think now it's not too bad but you have have thought he could have rang or text just saying what he was doing beforehand at least.
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My yard isn't that big, and we never know (are never warned) when the tractor is going through it. To be honest, you sound like a primadonna!
 
I'm finding it very hard to understand any of your posts, aside from the original question and the answer to that is no, I would not be mad that my youngster was getting a valuable life experience in the safety of his/her own stable.
 
My lovely yard is also a working farm further up, with everything you could ever imagine going on, and I love the fact that Shy is not bothered by ANYTHING until he comes back to the yard after a ride out, and a piece of machinery is not exactly where it was when we left :eek:

OP, your posts are hard to read, but to be honest, I think the only solution is for you to move yards. And maybe accept that when you have your horse on other people's land, you cannot dictate what happens. All yards are different, and you have to go with the flow sometimes.
 
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OP I think I remember your other thread. TBH your posts were hard to decipher then as well. But you have my sympathy. I think your YO is past it and in denial. Neglects his horses whether through ignorance, finances, not caring, or lack of ability to do the chores, its not clear. Seems to be forgetful but won't admit go ever being wrong, seems to have bad eyesight and shouldn't be driving tractor. I'd move if I was you. I'd be cross if my stuff got trashed because he's incapable of driving the tractor in a straight line down the small isle of the barn too.
 
Sorry but this would not have bothered me. Bringing this in was probably for your usage too? Anyhow, it was helping with the bomb proofing of your horse.
 
What a load of fuss over nothing. Personally you could have avoided said situation by turning youngster out naked while you nipped out and bought a rug. You could have even asked another owner to borrow one of their rugs short term?
 
Callyh before you start saying about a my spelling if you read properly in the first place I'm using predictive text so sorry miss if it's not right maybe you want to contact the phone company and explain that instead of being neeby and hhaving nothing else to write.I wouldn't have dared put him out with no rug on in the weather we have had when he has been rug since six months. I put him out in small paddock with nothing on and he was shivering and he wasn't warm at all. Its not the best weather to go from heavy weight to nothing. And it wasn't a big fuss but it does not mean I'm a drama queen because I decided topmost on hho fourm. I wish I didn't post now becausemmaybe I should seek face to face advice instead of using a forum over the internet. If people had read some one the other comments by others it had made me realise that it was a good thing but also others knew where I was coming from Thatcher could have been stuck and with no on there to help. I'm sure if you horse could have got stuck over a stable door with no one around but one person because of something you didn't know about I'm sure it would be a different story. I've been there over two years and not once has it happen. I'm sick of explaining my self to a bunch of noises people who have nothing better to do then right silly sentences. Thanks and in future I will go to the nearest people then seeking bob,, Dick nd Harry's opionin. I seem to be looking at the differences what a 5* bhs yard would have done the a back yard barn.
 
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