Dialemma
Active Member
Im a long term poster but dont want to be identified if poss. I am on a smallish private yard which has been perfect in every way for a couple of years. Lovely liveries, great hacking, all weather arena for schooling and close to home. But the YO has always been the only problem. I've just accepted her as being an unfortunate part of being there. But she is getting worse all the time and I don't know what to do.
So basically she is money obsessed. She has always added 'extras' on bills that are annoying but we've lived with it. Things like bringing in because its raining or changing rugs for no reason. If anyone complains they are told it's a 'welfare issue' and she will step in to look after the horses and charge, like it or lump it. Some people have flipped at being told they arent looking after their horses properly! But she just says leave then and lots do. There is a big turnover of liveries because of her. I just put up with it because it was only a quid here or there. But she is charging for more and more now. Things like tail washing no-one asked for or poo picking at lunchtime even though I always do it in the evening. And it is now adding up to a lot of extras every month!
Worst of all she has full grass liveries and keeps putting them into stables when horses with stables are out. So they are using up bedding etc. We've asked her not to and she said well if the grass liveiries can't come off the grass then yours can't have turn out! She won't allow DIY grass livery and full grass livery costs are the same as DIY with a stable. But there is not enough grass! The grass liveries don't want their horses in but she just says they need to rest the paddocks. Half the time they don't even know their horses have been in all day. So they are as unhappy about it as the liveries with stables. The contract does not say she can use stables for other people's horses.
There are now 6 of us with 10 horses between us who have had enough. Question is what do we do? Just leave? Delete unfair charges off the bill and pay the rest and see what she does? Lock our stable doors when we turn out in the morning! Polite conversations about these charges and the stables/turn out problem backed up in writing have had no effect so far. She's a broken bloody record: "you can leave if you don't like it'.
Also how would 10 horses find a new yard? We all get on so well, We help each other out all the time, ride together etc. Splitting up would be awful. And there are literally NO nice yards around us. I can't find any anyway. The ideal would be for us to rent a whole place for the 10 horses and not have a YO at all! 1 of us is an RI and one had horses at home for years so I think we'd manage fine on our own. But no idea how to find places with stables, storage and an arena and enough turn out.
Any suggestions?
So basically she is money obsessed. She has always added 'extras' on bills that are annoying but we've lived with it. Things like bringing in because its raining or changing rugs for no reason. If anyone complains they are told it's a 'welfare issue' and she will step in to look after the horses and charge, like it or lump it. Some people have flipped at being told they arent looking after their horses properly! But she just says leave then and lots do. There is a big turnover of liveries because of her. I just put up with it because it was only a quid here or there. But she is charging for more and more now. Things like tail washing no-one asked for or poo picking at lunchtime even though I always do it in the evening. And it is now adding up to a lot of extras every month!
Worst of all she has full grass liveries and keeps putting them into stables when horses with stables are out. So they are using up bedding etc. We've asked her not to and she said well if the grass liveiries can't come off the grass then yours can't have turn out! She won't allow DIY grass livery and full grass livery costs are the same as DIY with a stable. But there is not enough grass! The grass liveries don't want their horses in but she just says they need to rest the paddocks. Half the time they don't even know their horses have been in all day. So they are as unhappy about it as the liveries with stables. The contract does not say she can use stables for other people's horses.
There are now 6 of us with 10 horses between us who have had enough. Question is what do we do? Just leave? Delete unfair charges off the bill and pay the rest and see what she does? Lock our stable doors when we turn out in the morning! Polite conversations about these charges and the stables/turn out problem backed up in writing have had no effect so far. She's a broken bloody record: "you can leave if you don't like it'.
Also how would 10 horses find a new yard? We all get on so well, We help each other out all the time, ride together etc. Splitting up would be awful. And there are literally NO nice yards around us. I can't find any anyway. The ideal would be for us to rent a whole place for the 10 horses and not have a YO at all! 1 of us is an RI and one had horses at home for years so I think we'd manage fine on our own. But no idea how to find places with stables, storage and an arena and enough turn out.
Any suggestions?
