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Mrs Vlacq
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Wales
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 Posted - 14 May 2009 : 3:23:59 PM
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Ooh and people who cut purebreds tails level . |
    
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Di Ellis
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 14 May 2009 : 3:37:05 PM
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Gosh, all of this makes me so glad I have my own yard.
There is lots that I would still like to keep up with but am finding it harder as I get older and slower but the horses have a routine and are happy.
Things like keeping the muck heap absolutely tidy; picking up slippers that they have left across the yard; even grooming all of them is beginning to have to slip during the winter months but I have managed to catch up a bit just lately whilst they can go out in the fields for the day; and the weather has been good enough to enable me to spring clean the yard.
I have tried taking liveries here but most of them expect me to clean up after them as well and as you say don't feed at regular times - even worse at week-ends.
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D.S. Ellis
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Lori
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England
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Posted - 14 May 2009 : 4:04:09 PM
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Hiya Angel,
suffice to say "the expert" got up to more than just ruining my nieces pony's looks, she was eventually thrown off the farm but is still continuing to make some of the people lives on our stables a misery even though she has gone.
In fact just recently she has accused myself and at least one other person of sending an anonymous nasty letter to her and has apparently got the police involved. Well all i can say is i wouldn't waste the ink and i have better things to do with my time. I don't do anonymous either!!
Our yard is now a really nice place to be, everyone is friendly, helpful and we all get on very well. I suppose it does only take one to upset the apple cart but fingers crossed we all respect each others space now and there is no interference unless someone asks for help.  |
     
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Honeyb060674
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United Kingdom
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Jamana
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England
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Posted - 15 May 2009 : 8:10:00 PM
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Oh i'm so glad I'm not on a livery yard! though when I was about 12 I would have loved it. I used to dream of going up to the yard and chatting to everyone and their horses, if my friend let me go with her in the eve to get her pony in I would look forward to it all day  now it seems like a living nightmare.........
Mind you seeing as I work with other peoples horses all day, there are loads of theings that drive me mad............inc people like mentioned above who leave lists (really long ones) of normally pointless things that MUST be done, but you kinda know aren't usually that important  but my absolute pet HATE is rugs. More to the point people who need a rug for every occasion, or can't let their darling horse get damp, or have a breeze over it. ARRRGGGHHH let them be horses, I've never seen one yet that has shrunk in the rain, dissolved or blown away...... |
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Evie
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England
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Posted - 16 May 2009 : 12:13:00 PM
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| There was a girl who had a purebred mare at a livery yard I used to be at and she used to cut her tail level and pull her mane so short there was hardly any left!!! I hated it, poor horse. |
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Montikka
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 May 2009 : 4:17:29 PM
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People who don't control their dogs. One (who is an RSPCA inspector!) lets her dog out of her van, and does nothing while this dog runs along the line of stables snapping at every horses' nose as it goes - really trying to bite them. Also the YO's collie, takes to 'rounding them up' and actually drew blood once after biting a rear fetlock.
It's such a shame, as our horses used to be fine with dogs, and our Beagle is very good around them. |
   
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Montikka
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 May 2009 : 5:36:49 PM
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| Oh, and all the girls under 16 must ride their pony/horse in a dutch gag, no matter how placid the poor thing is. |
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kathleen
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England
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Posted - 16 May 2009 : 10:51:27 PM
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I hate it when someone has there horse shod out side my stable and leaves the nail ends outside my stable of my unshod mare
and the whats the other half of your mares breeding is she cob x arab and when i said that she is pure arab with a high% of crabbet i was told that she far too over weight, this person owns a arab and my mare is due her 1st foal in 2 and a half weeks |
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Kharidian
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Posted - 16 May 2009 : 11:49:39 PM
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All the liveries at my yard live out, however we have a lovely, large, undercover concrete area for tieing up with two or three dung buckets, brooms and shovels. Kharidian is a very clean boy and will either dung in the field on a rough patch as I bring him in or will wait until he's tacked up and ridden off the yard (unless, rarely, he gets spooked by something)...but when I want to pick his feet out the buckets are always overflowing with dung! The YO came round the other morning "to check if the dung buckets were nailed to the floor"!
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Montikka
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 May 2009 : 10:58:29 AM
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As Pasha says ...it's nice to share
Being at livery does have some advantages, we used to keep ours at home and it could be very lonely. When my daughter grew up I just stagnated as there was no-one to 'bounce' ideas off, or to share the up's and down's.
Very difficult being alone with youngsters too, as it helps so much to have a schoolmaster and sensible person around.
I can go away and another (carefully selected)livery person can do my horses, I of course return the favour, we share rountine vet/farrier visits and I don't have the hassle of sourcing the hay and straw.
I like the mix too: there are point-to-pointers, dressage horses, pony club ponies, brood mares, ARABS - all sorts.
pro's and con's either way I guess |
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Emma B
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 May 2009 : 12:54:50 PM
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| im so lucky me and my friend are at a private yard so we have company but everything is clean tidy and organised. I hate livery yards when you cant do what you want as someone is in your way and i hate mess - i also hate nastyness. But saying that sometimes you can miss the company there were some lovely people at my yard. |
     
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Needless to say he was told of his cardinal sin & warned that should he go near pone with sharp stuff again we'd do the same to his tresses!
