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bushbaby28

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grrrrrrrrrrr really getting fed up now!!!!! ALready in search of another yard as YO is constantly changing rules, rude, loud and agressive, put the horses in starvation paddock as said she wanted to rest the field. then put them in one with lush grass and unsuprisingly my horse then had to go on box rest for being at very high risk of lami. and thats just the some of the things that have been going on up there

So now he's in during day with hay thats been soaked for 12 hours. Go up there tonight and they;ve left him all day with no hay as it was still soaking. So angry! poor thing is on really restricted grazing at night so have left him in for a couple of hours to actually have something to eat!!!!!!

what would you do- kick off or just take it as genuine mistake? YO is away for the week so it was lady who works up there who did them.

ok rant over. feel a bit better now.
 
I would have put a muzzle on my horse if he'd been put out in a lush green paddock (although it's the stressed, shorter grass that's higher risk for lami-prone horses); and was he out 24/7? How many horses were on this paddock?

Anyway, I'd get out of there ASAP as you're clearly not happy and there are plenty of other yards around.
 
dude i know exactly how you feel having similar problems at my yard....dont even get me started! in an ideal world we'd all be able to afford stables and a field right behind our houses solve all my problems. why do some folk insist on treating every horse thats not theres as 2nd class citizens?? makes me so mad. good luck x
 
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I would have put a muzzle on my horse if he'd been put out in a lush green paddock (although it's the stressed, shorter grass that's higher risk for lami-prone horses); and was he out 24/7? How many horses were on this paddock?

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yeh i know. no excuse for leaving him out in that and i blame myself. he was out at night and in during the day to keep his weight down. He;s a cob x ID and never been laminitic so didn't really think about it enough. Stupid i know and again i say, no excuse for it.

what do you mean by short stressed grass?
 
yeh don't worry, looking around. Think i'm too fussy as looking for somewhere which offers part livery or assisted diy, has a floodlit decent school and is within 10 mins of my house. There's loads of yards round me but most of them are DIY with a field to school in but lots more hacking than we have currently.

Also... bit worried its actually no better elsewhere. This is the only yard i've been at. Ahh how I wish I could find a rich farmer who would give me acre upon acre of land and barns and stables......
 
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I would have put a muzzle on my horse if he'd been put out in a lush green paddock (although it's the stressed, shorter grass that's higher risk for lami-prone horses); and was he out 24/7? How many horses were on this paddock?

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yeh i know. no excuse for leaving him out in that and i blame myself. he was out at night and in during the day to keep his weight down. He;s a cob x ID and never been laminitic so didn't really think about it enough. Stupid i know and again i say, no excuse for it.
<font color="blue"> No point beating yourself up, but now you know for future that if she puts your horse onto lush grazing, put a muzzle on the horse and restrict the grazing to a few hours a day, giving soaked hay the rest of the time. </font>

what do you mean by short stressed grass?
<font color="blue"> I mean grass that has either been cut back (a lady with a laminitis at my old yard, used to mow her paddock to make the grass shorter!). While longer grass is obviously going to be higher in energy = fatter horses, shorter grass is stressed and very high in fructans (so that it can grow!), which is what is very dangerous for laminitic or lami-prone horses.

Sorry for being so to the point, but I lost my mare to laminitis last July and it was agony watching her go through what she went through. We called it a day while she still had a bit of spark about her, but she went downhill very rapidly. Hers was caused by an infection and the meds/box rest associated with that, but one of our vets did implicate that the low level lami could have come before the infection and then she got worse, leading us to think the infection caused it. She was a good-doer cob, and got fat on fresh air. She was the most wonderful horse I've ever known, and if not for the lami, she'd still be here. </font>

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