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Old 23rd Dec 2006, 07:19 PM
kelly11 kelly11 is offline
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Serious ? Health And Wellbeing Of Horses, at the livery yard im at!

well this is a very long story that i kinda need to no if i can ring anyone (ie health and safety)or do anything along those line.

i have been at the same livery diy yard for about six years now.when i first arrived there was jane who ran the yard as manager and the yard was perfect clean tidy health and safty of horse always looking out for them two weeks isolation if you was new to the stables in a paddock up the lane those kind of things.

for the last two and a half years ????? (not going to tell the name)has been running the yard and it has just gone down hill first starting with clean and tidyness of the place then having big lunch breaks is only there 9 till half 10 then gets back at 2ish and leaves at 5ish where as there was always someone on the yard for the whole day looking out for the horses.the menage is never rolled and there is concrete coming to the surface because it wasnt made properly (there is supposibly ment to be a yard meeting about this with the owners who are not horsey in the slightist)and now is the big big problem that is driving me insane.

a horse came down with a bacterial infection and was told to keep the horse in but the owner put it out two days later not many people new about this happening (30 people on the yard)

so then Amber my horse came in two days later with the samething vet told me to keep her away from the other horses and not to walk around the yard so she was in and then later started having half days out up the lane three little paddocks.

but the first horse then came back in and had it agian so he stayed in for a week and was then put out with the rest agian even thought the vet had told him to do the same as me with isolated paddocks and to not walk around the yard.

the yard manager new this and still let him walk the horse around the yard morning and night and letting him stick his head in peoples feed buckets and touching noses with other horses. the horse finally gets better and so does amber but amber is still up the lane and the other horse is still out in the other paddock with the rest of the horses

another 3 horses get it one of the girls keep her horse in a put it up the lane with mine and the other two keep putting them out with the rest
and the yard maneger is still letting them do it even thought the vet has said to isolate the one that have had it,

so now there is 12 horses that have it including my other one Twinkle who i was so carful for her to not get it of amber but where she has had to go out with the others she has now got it.

is ther anything i can do alot of people on the yard feel the same as me and no matter how much we tell the manager that we need to do something like isolate all the ones that have had it (like the vet said in the first place)from the ones that havent,she just keeps saying there is no point they are all going to get it.

well how bout she pays for all the vet bills

i am so mad and i just dont no what to do or say.

i would ring the owner but her husband has just died and as it christmas ahe is proberly feeling down anyway let alone if i tell her my troubles

what can i do?
sorry for the longness of it .
tryed to make is as explainable as possible hope you can understand it!
there is so much more i could wright but i think we would be here all day
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Old 24th Dec 2006, 07:59 AM
poppynurse poppynurse is offline
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what an awful situation - I think you need to educate the yard owner - perhaps get the vet to speak to her? And a yard meeting where you all tell the YO your concerns, failing that - move.
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Old 24th Dec 2006, 10:50 AM
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Yes, get out quick!!!!
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Old 24th Dec 2006, 11:32 AM
Ptaty70 Ptaty70 is offline
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What a flipping nightmare and what sort of care is that???? well done you for being sensible but it must be so frustrating to see the other horse being put back out all the time.

Surely the yard meeting will bring to the fore the problems of putting horses out who are ill with all the others. If I didn't know about the instructions from the vet and then the ill horse was put in with my horse I would be livid. Do the other owners know about it yet? it could be that this meeting will sort things out. You should run it like a proper meeting, i.e take minutes and then come up with an list of actions you would all like to see happen. Then show it to the owners - otherwise they will have a mass exodus on their hands.

Even if they aren't horsey, they will understand if their 'clients' complain and won't want to lose them. The best thing that could happen would be that they employ someone competent to look after the yard!!
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Old 24th Dec 2006, 02:07 PM
kelly11 kelly11 is offline
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i have decided that i am going to ring the owners on wednesday and let them no exsactly whats going on (need to write a few things down so i dont forget)

i just am so annoyed over it especially when it hasnt had to get this bad

i dont think the yard meeting will happen anytime soon as she nows what everyone is going to say so i think she will try and make the meeting ages away (she is very slippery)


i hate having to do things like this but when my horses health come in to things and 500 pound vet bills (that just for my first horse) it just takes the mick

thanks for all your replys
 

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