Why are people peeing in hay lofts and trailers is there are stalls (assuming there are not actual toilets available?
[QUOTE=AliCat;7906057]
Why are people peeing in hay lofts and trailers is there are stalls (assuming there are not actual toilets available?[/QUOTE]
I have no clue, especially as my old barn had a heated bathroom and this was during the winter!
I used to occasionally visit one barn that only had an outhouse, so it was general practice among the inhabitants to use the stalls rather than go out into the rainy darkness. When my husband would come to a clinic with me, there’d be a call of “Man on the Floor!” to alert one and all that it was outhouse time.
This barn was also very sparing with the sawdust bedding on their mats. The horses were taken out to the indoor several times a day so they could pee freely in the dirt.
“Please do not drive your car into the dressage ring to use the headlights in an effort to find the whip that you think you dropped there. Go back to the barn and get a flashlight for #$@#'s sake”.
Not a BO, but a BM;
Sweep up your mess in the wash stall, don’t just spray all the manure/arena footing/mud/shavings down the drain - I have to clean that thing out!
Don’t walk horses through the hay room, the floor is very slippery for shod hooves.
Don’t allow your children to play sword fight with dressage whips in the middle of a busy arena.
You’re boarding a horse, not renting the farm. It’s a little weird when someone comes out every single day, spends 10 minutes longing, puts the horse up, and then futzes around the property for hours.
As a special subset, WTF is with coming out (without permission) in the middle of a drought to wash your car with the barn hose? You have city water at home. The barn is on a well. Do you want your horse to have drinking water??
I can only think of one reason why someone would keep ‘forgetting’ to clean the manure out of their trailer into the poop bin and instead keep scraping it out in the driveway in front of the BO’s house.
I don’t care that a different horse was cleaner/already at the gate/otherwise easier to get than yours. You’re supposed to ride your OWN horse.
The worst I had was HO riding her DSLD old ASB double with his fetlocks touching the ground. The ONLY reason I did not ask them to leave is because I really, really liked this horse. Stupid owners did not care though, horse came to me (owned by them from another boarding facility) with a body score of 1. I nursed him back to health and just thought the world of him. When he finally became lame enough she could not ride him, she euthanized him and had another horse within 2 days. She was gone within the month.
Threads like this always make me really appreciate my barn, my BO, and the wonderful people and horses I get to work with!!!
[QUOTE=Kodiak;7906191]
You’re boarding a horse, not renting the farm. It’s a little weird when someone comes out every single day, spends 10 minutes longing, puts the horse up, and then futzes around the property for hours. [/QUOTE]
I’m wondering about this one. Now the barn I’m at now, I’m both boarder and employee (as I work there daily Sunday - Friday) to work off some board. But I’ve always treated the barns I’ve boarded as as my second home. (Although my hubby would say its more like my first home some days) I try to stay out of the way, but I will find things to do (pick stalls, clean paddocks, watch lessons, chat with parents) I don’t believe I’m a PITA to the b.o or b.m or trainer. I try to watch a couple of lessons of fellow riders to learn from them - this is encouraged by my coach… so not sure why this would be an issue. I wrote a posting once on how important your barn family and barn support is - if I was only there to do the required pre-brushing, ride, post-brushing… it seems rather industrial and cold.
[QUOTE=Abbie.S;7905871]
So, I am guilty of doing this :o …our barn entrance has a “horse-sized” door and a “human-sized” door…however, in my defense, it was one of the things I purposefully got my mare comfortable with. A handy thing it is to have a horse who can calmly squeeze through narrow openings without panicking. But I wouldn’t do it if I hadn’t prepped her for it.
But man, compared to some of these, I am not feeling so bad about my transgression![/QUOTE]
I also did this fairly often. 
The horse sized door was heavy and pinned shut in bad weather- people door was easier. But I did stop after they refinished the lounge.
I putz around at mine, esp in the summer. But I am either hand grazing or sitting out in the field with my guys. Not socializing.
As a former BO and BM, don’t wash your dog in the water troughs. Duh right? Yeah.
[QUOTE=Kodiak;7906191]
You’re boarding a horse, not renting the farm. It’s a little weird when someone comes out every single day, spends 10 minutes longing, puts the horse up, and then futzes around the property for hours.
As a special subset, WTF is with coming out (without permission) in the middle of a drought to wash your car with the barn hose? You have city water at home. The barn is on a well. Do you want your horse to have drinking water??
I can only think of one reason why someone would keep ‘forgetting’ to clean the manure out of their trailer into the poop bin and instead keep scraping it out in the driveway in front of the BO’s house.
I don’t care that a different horse was cleaner/already at the gate/otherwise easier to get than yours. You’re supposed to ride your OWN horse.[/QUOTE]
Corollary to this one, NO CAMPING! Do NOT bring your extended family with beach chairs and a picnic cooler and ensconce them in the field for the DAY, complete with kids, dogs, and family retainers. The barn is NOT Coney Island!
Please don’t picket your horse to graze using a longe line tied to a water hydrant.
Board does not include long term parking/storage for your extra vehicles in the farm parking lot.
Please don’t bring all your oversize garbage from home and fill up the farm dumpster with it.
If you know your horse is going to pee every single time after he is ridden, please try not to have it happen in the grooming/tacking area every single time.
Boarding fees do not include the right to help yourself to fruits and berries from the orchard or to vegetables from the garden.
The rule “no dogs” is still in effect when I’m not looking. Actually, so are all the other barn rules!
Translation: “I don’t care what you think/want/say/do. MY agenda is the only one that counts. I cannot be bothered with you (doing things your way.)”
These kind of people are rude beyond belief and should be corrected on the spot. They must be given a choice: Do what I ask, or leave. Now. Once they get over their hissy fit tantrum, they will begrudgingly do what is asked. Some of them are stupid enough to try ignoring a second time, and when given the same option of behave or leave, they will in fact start behaving or they will up and leave, which will make everyone else happier. BTW, this “immediate correction” works even better if there happens to be witnesses around :winkgrin:
The water hose hog needs to be given a new barn rule: ONE animal (horse or dog) to be washed and then give up the hose for whoever is waiting in line for water buckets. Period. When the line is done, you may do another animal, then give up the hose for however is waiting in line… Make it a posted barn rule for EVERYONE to see. And then enforce it (with witnesses :yes:) so everyone knows you aren’t kidding.
Boarders dogs are my biggest peeves… those that attack my elderly (somewhat grumpy) border collie, those that poop everywhere (owner does not pick it up because it’s a farm!) and finally the worst, those that allow their dogs to high tail it through the arena while there is a lesson or somebody is riding. Of course the alternative is tieing the dog so it cannot run and listening to it bark incessantly which somehow does not seem to bother the owner at all. Dogs are NOT allowed. Posted on the door now…no exceptions.
Not a (boarding) BO myself (and from reading these posts I will chew off my own arm before considering it) but I have seen:
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JRT allowed to run loose in the arena while dogowner rides.
Fine - not really - if you are alone in there, but other riders should not be expected to look out for your little heel-nipper or be upset if their horse squooshes him into paste. -
Loose dog running in the aisle causing horse in crossties to rear, slip, fall and break its neck. This was at a show and teen owner of horse had the “learning experience” of euthanasia instead of showing that weekend.
and to show I am not totally anti-dog:
3) Horse allowed to stand in the aisle untied while owner is nowhere near, because - even if others need to pass w/their horses “He’ll be Alright”
- Mareowner ignoring the fact that monthly cycles make her horse into a screaming banshee who serenades the entire barn, rushes the front of her stall, projectile-pees into the aisle & otherwise is as far as you can get from Happy Camper.
Consider Regumate or other chemical help?
Why no, because “It’s natural, she’ll be Alright”
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We call “nooners” the horses who get a lunch. :lol:[/QUOTE]
:lol::lol::lol:
Surprised I haven’t seen this one: Leave the gate/door the way you found it.
If I specifically call you and tell you ‘NOT TO COME OUT’ during a snow storm, do not ignore me and come out anyway. Do not under any circumstances try to hand me a shovel to dig your car out of the snowbank at the end of the lane after such a phone call.
and also, if you ditch your car on the way home THE SAME DAY, do not call me to rescue you. I won’t.
Do not bring your niece. nephew, neighbor, neighbor’s kids out for “pony rides” .
My insurance company takes a very dim view of it!!! I don’t care if you are certified by Teachers, Anonymous. You are not covered on MY policy.
