Don’t feed the extra grain I buy to the birds.
Don’t tell me my horse is fat when he is thin.
Don’t charge extra for shavings then still only put in four shovelfuls because my horse is messy.
Don’t charge for shoeing unless the horse is actually shod.
The medication that the vet marked, “Give daily” while you were standing in front of him, nodding your head, is meant to be given every day. When you say “water troughs in every turnout,” I assume you mean, “filled” water troughs. When you said “horses out all day every day,” I assumed that meant not just for the hour it took you to clean their stalls. While 30 years ago, you may have learned x or y or z, it would have been nice if you had opened your mind to learning new things over the past 30 years.
funny, because i was thinking of creating the same spin off :lol:
if my horse acts out, please smack him, or dont let him get away with it
i cant really help it if my horse plays “too much” during turn out.
please do not change my horse’s diet without telling me because you disagree with my and my vet’s opinions of how my horse should be fed.
please do not turn out my horse with a rope halter or an unbreakable nylon
the peed on shavings need to be mucked out too
please dont keep the heavyweight on when its 65+ degrees because you dont want to have to put it back on tomorrow night
if a horse is absolutely covered in mud, i would not put a blanket on that…and keep it on for a week without checking on the horse or calling the owner
also id appreciate if you didnt smoke in the barn !!
…this isnt all from the same bar 
its over many different places with some other friends concerns as well
[QUOTE=SharonA;7908539]
The medication that the vet marked, “Give daily” while you were standing in front of him, nodding your head, is meant to be given every day. When you say “water troughs in every turnout,” I assume you mean, “filled” water troughs. When you said “horses out all day every day,” I assumed that meant not just for the hour it took you to clean their stalls. While 30 years ago, you may have learned x or y or z, it would have been nice if you had opened your mind to learning new things over the past 30 years.[/QUOTE]
:yes: I boarded at a place like this once. rage face
I was one of those boarders that stops by to check on her horse Every. Single. Day, so its not like I wasn’t going to notice.
Please don’t leave my horse tied to a tree in the paddock for several days without access to food or water while I am out of town, just because he wouldn’t let you catch him one night.
Please don’t leave the stall door open and expect the rubber/chain stallguard to contain him when I told you from the get-go that he has anxiety in the stall.
Please don’t charge me out the ying yang for things like feeding him his probiotics/ulcer meds, storing my cart, storing my tack, etc, when NOBODY else has to pay for these extras and my contract says that it’s all included.
Don’t take my money for said “extras” and then a day later inform me that I have to remove my cart and harness from the property within 24 hours or you will “dispose of” it for me.
Definitely don’t tell me that I MUST ride my horse in order to stay at the barn, simply because you aren’t willing to let your horse (that YOU don’t ride either!) get used to my horse being in harness.
Don’t go around telling people that you are the only reason my horse is touchable/rideable when you have done nothing but cause him stress and anxiety.
Please actually FEED my horse his probiotics/ulcer meds (that you are charging me out the ying yang to give him). And no, having explosive liquid poops/farts is NOT “normal” and I am NOT “overreacting/seeking attention”.
Please don’t tell people that I am going to ruin my horse and should give him to you or his main rider because I am “wasting his potential” and am “too fat and will break his back” when you weight FAR more than me and ride a petite pony who clearly struggles to carry you.
Please don’t refer to me as “she” when I have VERY clearly told you that I go by “he”, and definitely don’t call me “faggot”, “tranny”, “pervert” just because you disagree with my identity and lifestyle.
Unfortunately these were all the same barn/BO too… And after I left, she bought a pony sight unseen/without a vet check, turned it out with the boarders’ horses, and the pony ended up spreading a nasty virus that nearly killed 3 of the boarders’ horses…
Yep, that one was quite a piece of work…I packed my pony up ASAP and got him out of there as soon as I found a space elsewhere and a way to get there.
Please tell me that my 19 year old horse hasn’t eaten since she arrived three days ago after traveling 1100 miles to get here.
Please let me know that my horse now has projectile diarrhea and liquid farts, as a result of the ulcers she developed from not eating.
Please do not charge me for full board when I am supplying all of my own hay. If other people who buy their own feed pay less, then I expect to pay less too, even if I am new.
Please do not tell me that board has “gone up” 3 days prior to the next month being due. And since when does board increase in July?
That was all at the same place. We are no longer there, for obvious reasons.
I cannot give my horse his meds when he is in a different state.
My horse cannot stand in the same standing wraps for 72 hours. And yes, I will notice when I get home.
The daily medication I buy for my horse is, in fact, important and meant to be given.
The horse is lame. I repeat. The horse is not sound.
We do x/y/z with this horse because we’ve been doing it for the past three years and it’s worked. No seriously, you were here for all of those years. And we talked explicitly about it yesterday.
I am not paying you for something that I had no intentions of you doing, you had no intentions of doing and that you didn’t do.
The footing cannot be frozen if it is 60 degrees outside and has been for the past few days.
That would be against USEF rules/that’s a cross entry violation/I’m not eligible for this class. Yes, I’m sure.
That is not how horse shows work. (This was a show barn that showed 2 - 3 weekends a month).
I’m not coming back
If you make sharp turns with the drag, especially tight circles, you will make deep spots.
You need to put a lock on the arena gate to keep people from riding in the ring when it has been sealed for rain or is too wet to ride it.
Um, it’s 7pm, the horses haven’t been fed dinner.
Leaving a two big open holes on the edges of the wash rack is dangerous. The piece of plywood covering the holes is not much of an improvement.
Making the far end of the washrack higher than the end near the tackroom will make the tackroom flood. Putting a berm of gravel across the resulting flooded area in gront of the door does not fix the problem.
Arenas built with beautiful walls and fences in a lovely location may look nice, but without drainage, they don’t drain…
Horses fed the same amount when the arena is flooded are not “strong” and “macho” they are fat and under worked.
I know the difference between “rain! points to the sky” and the water pooled in the corner mud swamp from you persistently emptying the 100 litre water bucket there (but thanks for the nice fresh water IN the bucket!)
Sometimes you have to pick your battles, after all, there is plenty of choice
These are from different barns over the years, some I’ve boarded at, some I’ve taught people at.
Does a text saying: “My horse is a little bit off on the right fore. Please leave her in her stall tomorrow and I will be up in the morning to check her again,” mean “Put her on a lunge a few hours after I’ve left the barn and then send me a text saying she is a little off on the right fore?” No, I didn’t think so.
My horse being stiffer on one side than the other does not mean she has EPM.
I don’t know why my horse is fencewalking, but I am pretty sure her coat being “too shiny” is not the reason. (It’s true! I had a BO suggest that the reason my horse was pacing the fence incessantly was her blood being “too hot,” the evidence being her brilliantly shiny coat).
The single strand of electric tape strung on plastic fence posts that stands between your randy stallion and the rest of the world, which has to walk past his field in order to access the arena, is rather unconvincing.
Putting your ungelded yearling colt into the same field as his mother, who is ragingly in season, is not a good idea. No, he is not too young.
I’m obviously not there any longer, but I made the assumption that my horse would be fed on a schedule. It never occurred to me that he might be fed at ten a.m. one day, six a.m. another and really odd and different times in the evening too. Turned out “whenever” and left out all night when she didn’t feel like going to get him. I assumed there would be bedding in the stall too - and hay. Huh.
It also never occurred to me to have to insist that the barn owner not perform her version of Parelli on my horse.
Other things too - but…wow. Within 48 hours of being at that lovely-from-the-outside barn he went from quiet to completely bonkers. After being removed from that farm he went back to quiet. My poor horse.
I learned a lot from that experience. Never assume that someone is going to follow good horse keeping practices because you do.
Please don’t tell me my horse is being turned out in a group when you are actually sticking her in the indoor arena by herself for the time it takes to clean her stall. I was suspicious, and showed up in the middle of a weekday to find out…
Please feed my horse. Kthanks.
This was at two different barns. Didn’t look back after leaving.
Please do not clip my horse w/o asking/telling me first, including his eye whiskers, ears, and half his forelock (because you thought his bridle path was too far back). I appreciate that you run a show barn, but still …
Please teach your feeders what moldy hay looks like (and hire people smart enough to actually understand)
Please teach your feeders to check that they watered ALL of the horses. Oh, my horse drank an entire bucket of water to the point of being totally clean and dry, in a hour? Sure he did.
When I say my horse can’t have alfalfa because he will gas colic and I repeatedly find that he has been thrown a flake of dairy-quality alfalfa “as a treat” I reserve the right to yell at someone.
When I ask you to make my horses’ halters off in turnout, I mean it. I have had to pull a dead horse, hung by her halter, off of a fence before and I’m not about to do it with one of my own. When you did it repeatedly anyway and I duct taped my leadropes to the halters, I thought that would solve the issue, not that the dumb tween that you had cleaning stalls would turn them out in the indoor wearing the halter and dragging the rope! (My horses are not hard to catch!) :mad:
When I tell you that there is a lessee girl who does dangerous things with your pony and is very aggressive with the pony, I’d appreciate if you’d not let her work with the pony without supervision. When I end up walking the streets around the farm in the dark trying to find the pony after the girl punched her in the face with her stall door open and the pony took off, I’m not super pleased!
If you turn my horses out in an isolated paddock and they freak out and run themselves into a frenzy, please don’t leave them there. I understand that they should get over it, but when I come to the barn and find that my horses have been screaming and running all day and are soaked in sweat and exhausted, with only 1 shoe left to show for 2 horses and the lame horse now on 3 legs, I will say things that will make your ears bleed.
If I say that I want my horses led in from pasture, I mean it. I don’t want my horses in their herd of 6-8 running madly through 20 acres of mud, cramming through gates, clobbering their hips as they run through barn doors, slipping and wiping out on the concrete barn floor, or kicking the **** out of each other when 3 horses are crammed in one stall and trying to eat the grain already in there. It is not my fault that you designed the least efficient turnout pasture arrangement known to man kind. (Left the barn for this one).
And for the love of god, don’t run the horses into the barn loose when 1) no one has checked that the perimeter gate isn’t closed and the horses are free to run into the road or 2) WHILE MY FARRIER IS IN THE AISLE WORKING ON MY HORSES! “Oh, they know where to go.” (hand to god, all of this actually happened in the nicest and by far most expensive barn in the area).
Your Border Collie chasing the horses and swinging off their tails IS NOT CUTE! :mad:
Make sure that the barn staff actually latch the stall doors shut.
I have 2 grey horses that look nothing alike, and they eat totally different things. Please double check which is which before throwing them in their stalls. One is a mare. This isn’t that hard. (That was another colic).
When you are running low on grain, buy more before you run out. Don’t feed my horse 5 lbs of sweet feed “to tide them over”.
When your tween barn worker is doing turnouts, it is nice when she remembers to put all of the horses out. (How about you just hire competent people?)
Don’t encourage your alcoholic boarders to party in the barn, and don’t let them keep all kinds of ramshackle propane-powered heaters in the barn, either.
I appreciate that you don’t use bits on your horses. I’d appreciate that since you take a lot of my money every month if you could quit with the snide remarks about how miserable my horses are every time I put a bit in their mouth. Seriously, shut up.
I think that’s enough for now :eek:
Horses don’t do well on goat feed. Especially horses prone to ulcers and prone to getting high as a kite on feed with mostly corn.
Asking me to lie for you when someone comes to try a horse causes me to lose respect for you.
Posting pictures of your ski trip on FB while your ex and I are taking care of putting down your horse at home is really going to p*ss me off.
Yep, I was a gone girl!
[QUOTE=Caol Ila;7908907]
Putting your ungelded yearling colt into the same field as his mother, who is ragingly in season, is not a good idea. No, he is not too young.[/QUOTE]
Yeahbut, it’s his MOM. He knows. :winkgrin:
[QUOTE=CrowneDragon;7909143]
Please teach your feeders what moldy hay looks like (and hire people smart enough to actually understand)
Please teach your feeders to check that they watered ALL of the horses. Oh, my horse drank an entire bucket of water to the point of being totally clean and dry, in a hour? Sure he did.
When I say my horse can’t have alfalfa because he will gas colic and I repeatedly find that he has been thrown a flake of dairy-quality alfalfa “as a treat” I reserve the right to yell at someone.
When I ask you to make my horses’ halters off in turnout, I mean it. I have had to pull a dead horse, hung by her halter, off of a fence before and I’m not about to do it with one of my own. When you did it repeatedly anyway and I duct taped my leadropes to the halters, I thought that would solve the issue, not that the dumb tween that you had cleaning stalls would turn them out in the indoor wearing the halter and dragging the rope! (My horses are not hard to catch!) :mad:
When I tell you that there is a lessee girl who does dangerous things with your pony and is very aggressive with the pony, I’d appreciate if you’d not let her work with the pony without supervision. When I end up walking the streets around the farm in the dark trying to find the pony after the girl punched her in the face with her stall door open and the pony took off, I’m not super pleased!
If you turn my horses out in an isolated paddock and they freak out and run themselves into a frenzy, please don’t leave them there. I understand that they should get over it, but when I come to the barn and find that my horses have been screaming and running all day and are soaked in sweat and exhausted, with only 1 shoe left to show for 2 horses and the lame horse now on 3 legs, I will say things that will make your ears bleed.
If I say that I want my horses led in from pasture, I mean it. I don’t want my horses in their herd of 6-8 running madly through 20 acres of mud, cramming through gates, clobbering their hips as they run through barn doors, slipping and wiping out on the concrete barn floor, or kicking the **** out of each other when 3 horses are crammed in one stall and trying to eat the grain already in there. It is not my fault that you designed the least efficient turnout pasture arrangement known to man kind. (Left the barn for this one).
And for the love of god, don’t run the horses into the barn loose when 1) no one has checked that the perimeter gate isn’t closed and the horses are free to run into the road or 2) WHILE MY FARRIER IS IN THE AISLE WORKING ON MY HORSES! “Oh, they know where to go.” (hand to god, all of this actually happened in the nicest and by far most expensive barn in the area).
Your Border Collie chasing the horses and swinging off their tails IS NOT CUTE! :mad:
Make sure that the barn staff actually latch the stall doors shut.
I have 2 grey horses that look nothing alike, and they eat totally different things. Please double check which is which before throwing them in their stalls. One is a mare. This isn’t that hard. (That was another colic).
When you are running low on grain, buy more before you run out. Don’t feed my horse 5 lbs of sweet feed “to tide them over”.
When your tween barn worker is doing turnouts, it is nice when she remembers to put all of the horses out. (How about you just hire competent people?)
Don’t encourage your alcoholic boarders to party in the barn, and don’t let them keep all kinds of ramshackle propane-powered heaters in the barn, either.
I appreciate that you don’t use bits on your horses. I’d appreciate that since you take a lot of my money every month if you could quit with the snide remarks about how miserable my horses are every time I put a bit in their mouth. Seriously, shut up.
I think that’s enough for now :eek:[/QUOTE]
:eek: is right. Oy vey!!!
So very very thankful that I self-care board at a private farm, where I’m the only boarder.
Please do not feed my horse moldy hay.
Please feed the horses at inconsistent times.
Hitting my horse because you think he is ugly is not okay. Ever.
Hitting horses with a pitch fork is also not okay. Ever.
When my vet says he needs to be kept in a stall, please do not turn him out. I told you specifically that he needs to stay inside.
Please throw enough hay so all the horses to eat and please do not throw all the in one corner. The less dominant horses do not get to eat.
All the same place. I got out quick… I am sure there is more I could say.
Just remembered these .
Don’t trim my fillies beautiful blond tail, at the top, with scissors. I plait that. She came for starting, not for your bizarre grooming ideas, who does that?!
Don’t decide that my FEI horse who is with you for safekeeping while I go away for 2 weeks, does not need his allergy medication. See that mane? No neither do I because he no longer has one 
Don’t leave my newly imported 4 yo till last in, then let a 9yo lead him cos she just loves him so much and he’s usually so good, then tell me how he took off, and nearly wiped out on the concrete.You taught him a bad thing,yes, YOU!
Oh, and he doesn’t need “to run” he needs halfway sensible handling.
(seriously, I would not TELL someone these things happened, i’d want to hide the fact I was actually that stupid )
Please do not put my blankets on other horses, my name and my horses name are on multiple places on each blanket.
Please do not tell me that my horse was turned out when he wasn’t. I’m not stupid, I can tell.
On the same note do not tell me he was turned out when in reality he spent 10 minutes in the indoor while you mucked his stall.
Please hire staff who are attentive and know horses!!! I should not be showing up to the barn at 6pm to a horse that is so stocked up his bell boots look like they’re cutting his legs off without being notified.
Do not turn my horse out in the mud with just his baker! Especially if the barn does not have its own washer/dryer.
Don’t try to charge me extra for shipping because your horse broke the trailer and my horse had to stay at the show an extra night.
I can tell if you aren’t feeding extras. That includes meds, they don’t magically last forever.
Do not continue leaving my young horse inside because every time you turn him out he bucks and plays for two minutes. You’re making it worse!!! He’s a horse, he’s allowed to play, if he hurts himself I’ll deal with it. I have explicitly told you this!
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