Amanda Seater
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Post by Amanda Seater on Dec 14, 2011 14:10:32 GMT 1
I spotted someone on a thread saying that some livery yards had bizzare rules and wondered what strange ( maybe not so strange to some) rules you have known.
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Post by cbc on Dec 14, 2011 14:27:22 GMT 1
Someone I know who ran a yard wanted the liveries to weed the bits where the concrete joins on the floor outside their individual stables. They politely ignored it of course (I didnt blame them)
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Gingee
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Post by Gingee on Dec 14, 2011 15:14:35 GMT 1
Someone I know who ran a yard wanted the liveries to weed the bits where the concrete joins on the floor outside their individual stables. They politely ignored it of course (I didnt blame them) I do this anyway off my own back, love to see a tidy yard ;D I was once at a yard where mares had to stay in for two weeks when they came into season even though mares and gelding were seperated! And I knew of a yard that didnt accept horses without back shoes on as apparently is was a sign they were kickers.
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Post by horsefeed on Dec 14, 2011 15:36:32 GMT 1
According to my liveries my odd rules are...
1) All horses have there feed at the same time I do them morning and night, if you want to give additional feed you take the horse and bucket up the field or out the front gate completely out of so none of the other see as I gave gelding who get exceptionally bolschy at feed times which I presume is down to going without at some point.
2) Because no one lives on site, if you're not in the tackroom the door must stay shut as I don't want anyone looking it!
3) Check all the water buckets before you leave the yard as a couple of the ponies mine and liveries drag them over and re-fill if needed.
Anyone else think these are odd rules?
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Post by cbx3 on Dec 14, 2011 15:52:51 GMT 1
Anyone else think these are odd rules? As far as I'm concerned all three rules are common courtesey.. When I've been on a livery yard I've always done all that off my own back.. In some situations it would be more difficult, but generally no.. I always fed everyone and checked water.. Other liveries left the buckets outside the stables if they wanted their horses fed.. As owner of 6, trying to feed one in the field can mean sudden death, so I agree with that.. But not if stable kept horses need extra meds etc and have to be taken out the gate, or am I misreading what you meant?? And I'm anal about doors, gates and locks.. If it's supposed to be open, open it.. If it's supposed to be closed, close it.. The farm got burgled last night and whoever seems to have come thro my field and left all the gates open from field, barn to outside.. I have one pedal rotation horse on yard rest and a pony brewing an abscess flat out on her side, plus 2 that are out 24/7.. The turned out ones were also in when the first person turned up this morning.. Lucky lucky horses..
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Post by amber on Dec 14, 2011 15:54:54 GMT 1
Horsefeed,...i assumme in rule number 1) where talking horses out in a field?? If so,..then yup, completely agree with you on that one.
Nothing wrong with rules 2) and 3) either in my honest opinion..
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Post by specialized on Dec 14, 2011 15:58:50 GMT 1
The feeding regime could be reinforcing the problem rather than curing it. All of our liveries feed as and when they want to, and our own are fed when we want to, some are not given feed buckets at all and they all very quickly accept their lot. We had a new livery in recently and he made a bit of a fuss any time a bucket was taken past his stable for the first week or two, but once he realised he was not being fed every time he saw a bucket he soon stopped. eta I am talking about feeding in the stables, none of our liveries feed in the field.
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amber
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Post by amber on Dec 14, 2011 16:12:17 GMT 1
All ours at the yard are feed my the YO's in a morning (stabled) and are given their morning nets.... In the evening, as all liveries are arriving and departing at different times we fed when we want to...
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Post by horsefeed on Dec 14, 2011 16:31:00 GMT 1
None are stabled, they are in yards with field shelters, so are in on own, in pairs, small herds up to 6 depends on horse, size of yard etc. The main problem is Loki if he sees another horse eating from bucket and he's not goes mental, he has run through post and rail fences and jumped gates to get at the bucket, he even tried coming over a stable door when locked in! I always have to feed him 1st and give him enough beat and chaff to last duration of others eating as he will not tolerate it! We have a routine at breakfast and dinner and it must be stuck to! I have tried standing with him while other are ate and he will literally go through you and I have tried working him while others got fed to take his mind of it and he turned very dangerous! I have also tried giving him company and he turned on them before jumping the fence! He is very polite and will step back etc for his bucket and if I need to move him off it once he has it for any reason he will without stressing! He is gent all the other time and isn't top of the hierarchy in field but he's not the bottom either, he has hay and straw adlib so never ever runs out of food! So everything that isn't getting fed by me must be done completely out of site!
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Post by jen1 on Dec 14, 2011 18:22:04 GMT 1
i dont have many , i will not have stressed horses in alone , i dont like horses in 24/7 for no good reason,
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Post by jill on Dec 14, 2011 18:29:23 GMT 1
My only ones are not to use wood products for bedding (can't dispose or spread) and no horse to be stabled on its own in the barn stables. I do encourage them to take them in there to feed though so they get used to being without other horses for a short time, but spending hours alone is too stressful
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Post by cookie on Dec 14, 2011 20:26:39 GMT 1
Well we re on full livery so there are loads of rules but they all seem to me common courtesy.
Ofcourse rules about locking up and when you can be on premises (you can be there outside hours with good reason and notice but otherwise you re only going to set off alarms!)
No picking out feet onto yard after yard swept, so use a bucket...
School rules for the arena, booking if school.
I actually got frustrated on diy when folks didn't sweep up, or places where folks didn't simply let you know when entering or leaving the school.
I like my rules and can't think of one I find 'odd'!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2011 21:04:14 GMT 1
I'd find it odd to not be able to feed my horse myself but I can see why Horsefeed has to stipulate that. Loki aside I agree with specialized that when they're all fed haphazardly it actually teaches them to chill out and ignore others feed buckets.
I've encountered dozens of rules I think are uneccessary and nit-picking but none that I'd say are odd.
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Post by Catrin on Dec 14, 2011 21:39:48 GMT 1
I found a letter from a former livery owner recently the one none of could understand was: "The practice of doing each other's horses when you go away will be allowed up to 1st September. After this I will be employing someone to be on the yard …"
Every one of the seven liveries had been told when they arrived, "I don't offer a service to look after your horses when you are on holiday, but the liveries usually work things out amongst themselves." We were all a bit puzzled at how we'd evolved a practice that we were told to implement. I don't know what happened after September 1st as we left in August!
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Post by shan on Dec 14, 2011 22:29:27 GMT 1
Ours is very laid back thankfully. Though I worked at a riding stables when I was about 13 and got shouted at by the tyrannical freak who owned it, as I was using a broom 'the wrong way'. No thanks for getting 5 ponies out the feed room as one of her lot had left the stable doors open, and I was sweeping up their straw.... :/
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