So I am thinking I may have to move yards again which. I could really do without however I cant keep on doing this.
So as some of you know my big boy had lami last august as because he wouldn't box rest I had to make do with 16x16ft pen and slowly increase this. However this caused a lot of issues with some other people on the yard. Them thinking sox shouldn't be in a pen or it should be increased in size even though the lami was active and I was doing everything in my power to find a balance of limited his movement and keeping him calm.
His pulses have increased and decreased all winter, mainly when I restrict his movement they decrease. However again this restricting has become an issue as sox shares a field and the horses are both attached, one more then the other. This all came to ahead this weekend. When I was trying a happy medium and trialled sox out for a few hours and in the rest ( as last week sox came in with very hot feet and very strong pulses). However, I was called every name under the sun ( by a fellow livery owner). Told I was been cruel. Bringing various professionals involved,saying lies about their practise and underminding professional diagnoses .Then stating I would have to pay for any damage or vet bills if their horse injuried themselves or caused any more damage to the partitioning wall as its my fault as I am causing their horse stress as there horse would have to be in as sox is.
To be honest the vet bill talk along with bringing my vets in was the last straw. I can't be doing with this. I have a lot of shit going on in my personal life at present and I can't be doing with this as well as seeing to my horse.
Also my current yard has mentioned putting up the prices. And I am unable to strip graze the field. I can get away with a pen in the summer but that's only in the summer.
However I know sox isn't the easiest horse which makes finding a suitable new yard hard.
Though I have put my name down on my old old yard which me mean I could section and strip graze his field if I needed too. I have 2 fields for the year. There is plenty on horses I can have him in in a day and generally it should make his lami much easier to manage. There is someone to help me if I am working as well. The hacking is amazing and the schools are good sizes. It is more money though, but it is closer. There are ok with soxs cribbing as long as he isn't on the main 2 yards.
I have found another yard which is 5 mins away from me. Much cheaper, the hacking and school is ok. I can come and go when I need to. It is fully DIY. Sox would get his own field for summer and winter and I am allowed to manage it how I need to . Eg strip graze etc. Its mainly straw bedding though there is another lami pony that is on shavings, so I could maybe go onto shavings. The cons are that the stable is two small stables with the partition knocked through though one half of the stable is level and that other part there is like a foot drop or half a foot! The YO said the old livery used to use that side as a bed and build it up. And because it was made for ponies the stable frame height is only about 5ft 8/ 6ft at the max. I will be asking if he could maybe increase the height though there is guttering above so I aren't sure if he could. And there is no lights. Total diy though I could pay someone outside to help. or ask a livery.
There are 2 other yards but one wont take cribbers and the other yard is full, ( on waiting list)
There is another yard which does part or full livery but whether they would take and be willing to have a horse with soxs issues I aren't sure.
Move to the yard that has spaces or hold off?
So as some of you know my big boy had lami last august as because he wouldn't box rest I had to make do with 16x16ft pen and slowly increase this. However this caused a lot of issues with some other people on the yard. Them thinking sox shouldn't be in a pen or it should be increased in size even though the lami was active and I was doing everything in my power to find a balance of limited his movement and keeping him calm.
His pulses have increased and decreased all winter, mainly when I restrict his movement they decrease. However again this restricting has become an issue as sox shares a field and the horses are both attached, one more then the other. This all came to ahead this weekend. When I was trying a happy medium and trialled sox out for a few hours and in the rest ( as last week sox came in with very hot feet and very strong pulses). However, I was called every name under the sun ( by a fellow livery owner). Told I was been cruel. Bringing various professionals involved,saying lies about their practise and underminding professional diagnoses .Then stating I would have to pay for any damage or vet bills if their horse injuried themselves or caused any more damage to the partitioning wall as its my fault as I am causing their horse stress as there horse would have to be in as sox is.
To be honest the vet bill talk along with bringing my vets in was the last straw. I can't be doing with this. I have a lot of shit going on in my personal life at present and I can't be doing with this as well as seeing to my horse.
Also my current yard has mentioned putting up the prices. And I am unable to strip graze the field. I can get away with a pen in the summer but that's only in the summer.
However I know sox isn't the easiest horse which makes finding a suitable new yard hard.
Though I have put my name down on my old old yard which me mean I could section and strip graze his field if I needed too. I have 2 fields for the year. There is plenty on horses I can have him in in a day and generally it should make his lami much easier to manage. There is someone to help me if I am working as well. The hacking is amazing and the schools are good sizes. It is more money though, but it is closer. There are ok with soxs cribbing as long as he isn't on the main 2 yards.
I have found another yard which is 5 mins away from me. Much cheaper, the hacking and school is ok. I can come and go when I need to. It is fully DIY. Sox would get his own field for summer and winter and I am allowed to manage it how I need to . Eg strip graze etc. Its mainly straw bedding though there is another lami pony that is on shavings, so I could maybe go onto shavings. The cons are that the stable is two small stables with the partition knocked through though one half of the stable is level and that other part there is like a foot drop or half a foot! The YO said the old livery used to use that side as a bed and build it up. And because it was made for ponies the stable frame height is only about 5ft 8/ 6ft at the max. I will be asking if he could maybe increase the height though there is guttering above so I aren't sure if he could. And there is no lights. Total diy though I could pay someone outside to help. or ask a livery.
There are 2 other yards but one wont take cribbers and the other yard is full, ( on waiting list)
There is another yard which does part or full livery but whether they would take and be willing to have a horse with soxs issues I aren't sure.
Move to the yard that has spaces or hold off?
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