[QUOTE=dotneko;7907515]
I’ve only had an extra horse appear once - we had a horse in training from a 1/2 mile down the road. He went home after a month and broke out that night and ended back at my place in time for breakfast :)[/QUOTE]
a nice advertisement for your program
More a nice advertisement for our feeding program :). I’m sure he didn’t come back to keep working on his shoulder in LOL
[QUOTE=Kodiak;7906191]
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]
Seriously??? :rolleyes:
Please don’t show up at 10 pm to visit your horse on motorcycles, just because you met another couple in a bar who have a horse and motorcycle too. And then wonder why we called to cops before we realized who it was!
If a horse is in the cross ties in front of Dobbin’s stall, please do not walk up behind the horse and try to lead Dobbin UNDER THE CROSSTIES.
Not at my barn but at my friends facility:
Please do not pop out from behind the barn to moon the passing traffic. I really do not appreciate having two police cars in my driveway to put a stop to such activity!
Please don’t let your sons throw rocks on the tin roof of the school horse barn while your daughter is in there tacking up.
Please don’t wait until two months into lessons to tell the instructor your child has an intellectual disability. Especially when I asked on the first day if there was anything I needed to know. (“I was curious to see how you did with her.”)
[QUOTE=partlycloudy;7906761]
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.[/QUOTE]
Wow.:eek: That was one ballsy boarder.
Hahaha. I’m just a boarder, not a BO/BM, but these are amazing. I’m sure not for you all, but I’m dying over here.
Don’t turn your horse out or ride in the arena that has standing water after we had four inches of rain… Also please don’t ride in the arena right after it has been sealed before the big rain storm. There’s a perfectly good covered arena and several turn out pastures you could use.
You guys!!! These are insane! I am a boarder, and nobody, but nobody at my barn would ever dream of doing any of these. Where the heck do you find these boarders?!?!?
Do not allow the second horse to run in loose while you lead one horse in because it is dangerous to lead two horses at the same time.
Do not leave your horse in the stall with tack on it without the door shut or the chain up while you run into the tack room to get the bridle or your hat.
Do not run a hula hoop up and down your large warmblood mares back legs without the stall door shut or the chain up.
Do not ride your horse up to horses in turn out because it makes them so excited. We do not want them excited.
Oy oy oy… reading these makes my head hurt. How barn owners/managers don’t run screaming in to the night is beyond me. I’d take a hostage 
We tend to drink a lot LOL
It is also why, when someone asks me if I was taking my vacation in Wellington or doing anything horsey during my time off, I just laugh.
[QUOTE=17handponyrider;7908971]
Do not allow the second horse to run in loose while you lead one horse in because it is dangerous to lead two horses at the same time.
Do not leave your horse in the stall with tack on it without the door shut or the chain up while you run into the tack room to get the bridle or your hat.
Do not run a hula hoop up and down your large warmblood mares back legs without the stall door shut or the chain up.
Do not ride your horse up to horses in turn out because it makes them so excited. We do not want them excited.[/QUOTE]
Um… What?!?
To my boarders;
Please don’t clean your own stall. You do a terrible job and waste shavings. If you see me sneak in to finish it properly, your feelings are hurt.
Please don’t fill up 20 gallon water cans to the top without asking. It was allowed to get low so I could dump it and scrub it without wasting water and throwing my back out. And no, a half full water can is NOT “almost out of water”.
While we are on the subject of water. If a horse DOES dump it’s water can, thank you for refilling it if I’m not around. I really appreciate it. However, could you put it back in the corner? Just setting it up right, wherever in the stall it happens to be and then filling it to the top does create problems.
Please don’t strip your own stall. Please. When you do a fork always gets broken, 1/2 the old bedding never makes it to the pile but is dumped along the way and a good portion of clay floor is dug up and will need to be replaced.
I know you are doing these things to help me. I know you are acting out of honest kindness. I see the hurt in your eyes when I ask you not to do these things. I do. And I understand. But please, please just let me do the job you are paying me for. Your help usually makes more work for me and ends in hurt feelings for you.
I take pride in how I run my barn. I do a good job. Let me do it.
I like all of you and I am glad you are my clients. I don’t want to hurt your feelings. I want us all to be happy.
Thank you for understanding.
[QUOTE=skyy;7907042]
We have a Boarding Horse Procedures sheet that has like 36 barn rules on it. And every single one of them was written as a result of a boarder doing something stupid that anyone with an ounce of common sense would not have done.[/QUOTE]
Same here…mine has grown to be nearly 2 pages!!! All from experience…
I was essentially BM at my last farm… we only had one boarder so:
Please do not let horse graze loose, dragging a lead rope (or with lead wrapped up in his halter!!), next to the stud who is in turn getting really pissed off that he’s on the other side of the fence.
Please do not ‘tie’ - I use this term loosely - said horse to pasture fencing and get all bent out of shape when he pulls back and gets the lead wrapped between his legs and gets a bad burn between his legs.
Boarder was eventually kicked out for never complying with us telling her not to do these things and now does these things at an even larger boarding barn with small children running around said loose horse. The stupid is strong in this area.
Do not show up in the evening after the barn closes (when everyone is gone) with your infant child in the carseat, leave him closed in the car while you go into the tack room and drink until you’re wasted, ride your horse, drink some more, and then drive home with your baby in the car-- still buzzed/drunk.
I feel bad for that lady because she had a problem (pre-divorce she was a totally normal person but then she showed back up out of nowhere as a complete wreck) but she was a scary walking liability and the BO sent her packing FAST even though he had known her a long, long time.
Here’s one from a fellow boarder (when I boarded-) to another boarder:
Please, put your tack away after you ride and pick up the poop from the middle of the aisle! The BM is not your maid, nor are your fellow boarders.
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