Youngster in stable and people tieing up outside

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Hello don't post very often on here, but I'm having a bit of trouble. I have a youngster who is stabled at night and if weather is bad then in all day. but people keep tieing there horses outside her stable when she's in there they feed there horses outside hers, then wonder why she kicks the door, she even nearly got kicked in the head the other day! I put a polite notice up to say please do not tie up outside this stable and have had nothing but trouble from it, I can't take the ring down coz then I would have no where to tie my horse and its outside my stable. I don't understand why people don't understand that she is a baby and I don't want her to pick up bad stable habits like the kicking the door and biting. anybody had anything like this done to them? or any ideas how to stop them doing it? I have spoken to yard owner but he hasn't got a clue about horses so doesn't understand!
 
id have a screaming paddy and scare the crap out the fellow liveries. Polite is obviously not working.

kick the feed buckets away.

I know, not nice but theres one way to make people understand. or move their horses yourself.
 
I'd take the ring down and work out another way of tying my horse outside the stable (if I couldn't work out how to tie it somewhere else). However I'd think really hard about keeping a young horse in a situation where she might be kept in 24/7, and where people had no consideration about what they did around her. You're setting this horse up for the rest of her life.
 
Blimey - my mare would probably savage a horse tied outside her stable! Don't people understand it is their 'space' and your horse should feel happy and safe in his box, not stressed out by other horses invading it.

I would try removing the string from the ring as a start, you can keep a bit in your pocket for when you want to tie yours up, but chances are other people will go and find a different ring rather than bother to go and find string - hope that makes sense.

I would go back to your yard owner and try and get them to understand......how would the other liveries react if you tied outside their stables?

Good luck
 
I also have a baby that arrived this week and is stabled at night. I am very lucky that I don't need a notice. Everyone on the yard has had it explained how, as a youngster she needs careful handling and management so unless I am there and they ask me first, they need to leave her alone and all are doing so. They all give her loads of cuddles and kisses when I am there, but they respect that she is a baby, respect that they don't know how to handle her and so take the lead from me in everything.

In your situation I am afraid I would have to get a bit more serious. It isn't just bad habits...what if they are telling your baby off when she kicks? How would they do that? Would you end up with a headshy horse because someone has smacked her? I would be livid at the ignorance and I would remove the tie up when you are not there or put a padlock through it that makes it impossible to use. I would also tell everyone that you have done it because your polite request has been ignored and you will not have your horse stressed because of their ignorance!

Good luck with this issue and good luck with your baby. X
 
Some people have no idea, and I too would have been ranting. like a looney by now.

Take the ring down and TELL people to use their own stable to feed their horse and not do it outside your stable.
 
I would have to say something, very loudly probably. If they persisited I would start tying my horse up outside there stables to see how they liked it! Why can't they tie up outside there own stables? Is there a good reason, or are they just being difficult?
Rather than removing the tie ring, I would just remove the string, so that they don't have nything safe to tie to.
 
I would remove the tie ring, you can put a bit of baler twine through the bolt hole when you want to tie her up out there.
 
Found out someone had been doing the same outside my mare's stable; Tieing up to feed theirs right where my mare stands to look out. Only found out once my mare had mysteriously damaged her hock in her stable and someone mentioned to me what had been happening. I was told said horse was a real PINA tied up outside my stable because it blocked the gang-way in the barn and made it impossible to pass by when said horse and mine were squabbling. :mad: When I asked the fellow livery to please not tie up outside my mare's stable I was told they NEVER do it and what was I on about? :mad: I explained to them that more than one trustworthy person had mentioned a couple of incidents they'd witnessed when said horse had attacked mine when tied up and was eating outside mine's stable, but added that if they never tie up outside my mare's box then it wont be a problem them not doing it any more, will it? I think they got the message. Still, I am now left with a vets bill and a mare with a capped hock and possible ligament damage. Can't ride until March at the earliest :(
 
horserider said:
Remove the ring and use a V-tie which ca be attached to stable bars or similar and can be removed after use.http://moorlandrider.co.uk/vtie.php
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In my case, nothing like this would work because people aren't tieing to a ring - they wrap bale twin around the stable post or barn gate beside my stable. I cut these strings off regularly but they reappear the next day. Everyone looks innocent when I ask who keeps on tieing string up there. :mad: One day I'll catch 'em :D
 
I think youngsters need to learn to cope with situations like having a horse tied up outside its stable, but feeding any horse in front of another that closely is asking for trouble and very selfish on the part of the person doing it.

Have you tried actually talking nicely to the people tieing up and feeding? Sometimes notes can be interrupted in the wrong way and just p*ss people off, and make them do it more. Sometimes though people just don't think through their actions, don't care, or don't think it's their problem so why should they put themselves out. Fair enough, it's not their problem, it would be nice to think that people would think beyond themselves, but in my experience there are always one or two that don't.

So assuming you get no co-operation I would try leaving stuff in the way outside your stable, wheelbarrow, pile of trugs, that sort of thing. Stuff that easily moveable for you but for others would be a pain and make them tie up else where.

A fellow livery was I suspect doing similar to my youngster, his stable was a whirlwind every morning when she was at the yard first. This winter I have been leaving my big hay soaking trugs outside my stable and I no longer find traces of food on the floor so think she's no longer feeding right in front of his noes - though probably still within his eyesight! I find it annoying and think she's being selfish but I expect she thinks I'm being pedantic about my youngster, she as much as told me so the previous autumn when I found out she was giving the horses apple pulp in the field and I asked her not to.

Failing this working I would have a long good think about this yard going forward - is it going to be the best place for your youngster - or rather has it got the right kind of fellow liveries in it to make it the right place for your youngster? After nearly 14 happy years on my yard its now a question I am asking myself more and more.
 
Take the ring down and fill the holes so they can't just put another up..
They clearly need educating on how NOT to raise youngsters :rolleyes: When she takes a chunk out of one of their ponies, it's a "I told you so scenario"..
It sounds as though they're thinking "Awe, cute baby, let's take XXX to go and meet her, I'll just tie XXX outside stable and feed her whilst they 'meet' over the door"..
Tbh, they sound 'thick'.. I think it's going to take an incident to happen for them to back off.
 
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