You’re getting too emotional about someone else’s minor problem and acting like it’s your personal cross.
You had some decent points but you’ve frothed at the mouth so much that now you’ve overstepped and have now lost the plot and are starting to look ridiculous.
Exactly. There are things that are right, or wrong, that are not defined by law. 
For instance, I think it is unthinkably selfish to be an able bodied person who leaves their shopping carts in handicapped spots, or out in the parking lot. I see people who park next to handicap spots do it often. It’s rude, but not illegal. It doesn’t mean its right.
Again, bona fide horse person and multi-generational farmer. I still get irked when I come home from the barn and see the local equestrian team has left four steaming piles of poop right in front of my house/drive way because they were standing there waiting to cross. If it were me I’d come back with a shovel after my ride. But some people are born without grace and tact. 
The world is not so black and white as some posters make it out to be.
It’s that fact of the matter that the horse people are entitled flaming arseholes. Sorry, these horse people deserve no kid gloves and special care: they are awful neighbours and the types of horse people who ruin it for those of us who care about and respect our neighbours and fellow landowners. These people suck in a HUGE way and the way they spoke to the OP? Necks like brass monkeys this lot. Not the folks I’d want to be white knighting for, for sure.
Ding ding ding!!
All those defending these riders give this a think. It’s hard enough out there to hack out anymore. Can we please not support people who pull this kind of 
(literally and figuratively)?
I’m not white knighting for them.
I’m saying the OP’s complaints are totally useless if the horse people are on the [narrow] road in front of the house.
Right or wrong ethically or morally doesn’t matter when the horse people don’t give a flying F. It’s the law that matters at that point, and whether or not it’s worthwhile to continue to escalate things.
I can’t imagine the horse owners saying “we are entitled to poop on your driveway.” That’s setting my BS meter off. They are entitled to ride down the side of the road, where the OP does not own it or it’s a public easement.
They ARE rude by leaving the poop there, but it’s not against the law in any country jurisdiction that I know of. So the OP continuing to escalate things is a total waste of time.
It would have been more beneficial to the OP to remain friendly here than do what’s been done. Because the end result is the same - the poop is still there.
Here, let me fix that for you.
It would have been more beneficial to the barn to remain friendly here than to do what’s been done. They had the option to impact the end result, and maintain their riding access, but chose not to.
They still have access. It’s a road.
If you are using cow, chicken, or other types, yes. Horse manure is pretty inert from the “burning” standpoint. I’ve fed both fresh and composted manure to my daylilies for decades and they absolutely THRIVE. <3
But you can’t kill daylillies with anything short of nuclear weaponry!
I think OP has been really kind to allow the riders on his property momentarily while in route. But I think I would be less generous as I worry about a rider falling off and getting injured while on my property and a potential lawsuit. I was not in camp “create a barrier such as a fence” but I think I’m leaning that way now.
I can:slightly_frowning_face:
I really wish some could see how much their entitlement is showing.
Yet, here you are.
Get outside today, go enjoy the Fall weather. Find something that brings you joy. Please
Which they are not riding on.
This really isn’t that hard.
You must not do a lot of road riding if you can’t understand just how difficult someone can make it to ride on the “public” road around or in front of their property if they don’t want you to!
The fact that the OP wants the riders to simply be courteous and is NOT the one talking about involving law enforcement, intentionally spooking horses, or even fencing off his property etc speaks volumes to how much he is not bothered by the presence of horses, just wants the riders to show basic respect.
They are riding down the road.
This road being narrow, per the OP, indicates it is likely not very busy. They can move further out onto it, that way they aren’t on the OP’s property not one little bit. That’s the only thing he can legally do here is get them up onto the street.
It’s clear that the OP left some time ago after learning what he came here to learn. You get the last word, endless, as desired. Go ride your horse.
Man I wish I could! She’s still healing up from a mega abcess that needed both vet and farrier help. She’s feeling good enough to be a PITA but not good enough to get worked.
Given the fact they they actively are -ing on OPs driveway AND the reaction they gave when addressed, I’d say it’s pretty fair they do think they are entitled to do so…because they are.
The farm was there first and most likely had to get signatures from neighbors before building the barns ( we did).
The big difference is they are fertilizing THEIR FIELDS with the lagoon water/ manure. Not haphazardly spraying it on neighbors property.
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