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Location: Arkansas | Lopin' Leopard - 2019-01-09 12:02 PM
Currently have an older lady with two horses, a Belgin cross mare and her 9 month old filly. We ran a special for smaller (10x10) stalls w/limited/no turn out. Perfect for people who'd come often and take advantage of the indoor arena during winter months. Well she sang a good song and brought these two in, a filly barely halter broke and mom drug friend who brought them down barn alley way.
Fast forward a month ahead..... She is now 8 days late on board and horses have only been out of their stalls 3 time, THREE times in a month! Last time she was out she admitted to being scared of them. The mare got away from her with a chain on. It does not help she goes so long between trips out they are rather fresh when they get out. She has a terminally ill husband and it has been holiday season so I was kind and sent her a reminder text board was late. Have not seen or heard from her in over a week.
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Location: Washington | Yes I only off full care. We supply feed and feed/water twice a day and clean stalls daily, usually twice a day.
This special offer was for owners wanting to ride regularly through the winter and not have the hassle of hauling in less then desirable weather. We get snow and frozen rain and most can't ride through the winter on frozen ground and we're one of the few indoors around.
Edited to add: Our regular board which includes turn out and 12X12 stall is $100 more then this offer was. That extra $100 is for the larger stall and my hassle of turn out/bringing in. We have limited turn out space. These stalls were already filled and I had more wanting in, so made a special offer.
Edited by Lopin' Leopard 2019-01-10 4:37 PM
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Location: North Dakota | If you are going to take on boarders you need a solid contract and rules!! I boarded several years ago when we moved and my number one problem was other boarders touching and moving my horse! The first barn I started out at a few specific boarders felt they had the right to mess with my horse, take her out of her stall or turn her out to pasture etc... I approached the owner several times but he wouldn’t do anything about it so I moved to another facility! I will sell every horse I have before I board again!!! | |
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Location: Weatherford, TX | Chandler's Mom - 2019-01-09 7:11 PM Lopin' Leopard - 2019-01-09 12:02 PM Currently have an older lady with two horses, a Belgin cross mare and her 9 month old filly. We ran a special for smaller (10x10) stalls w/limited/no turn out. Perfect for people who'd come often and take advantage of the indoor arena during winter months. Well she sang a good song and brought these two in, a filly barely halter broke and mom drug friend who brought them down barn alley way. Fast forward a month ahead..... She is now 8 days late on board and horses have only been out of their stalls 3 time, THREE times in a month! Last time she was out she admitted to being scared of them. The mare got away from her with a chain on. It does not help she goes so long between trips out they are rather fresh when they get out. She has a terminally ill husband and it has been holiday season so I was kind and sent her a reminder text board was late. Have not seen or heard from her in over a week. So you feed, water, etc daily?
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Location: Illinois | I'm working on getting my own place hopefully this year because of the stress of having to board and going insane when things aren't getting done. And I'm not talking extra stuff, there are days where they skip grain because they don't have time to do it before needing to be somewhere, they'll feed one day at 6am and the next at 11am and they're usually always fed between 5-7pm. Drives me nuts having them go from 7pm to 11am without food. But she says its good for them to not have a set feed time so they don't get antsy if something happens and they don't get their food on time. They still beat the doors and scream for food when she's not out there until 11am too. Right now parents of beginner lesson students do chores to work off lessons, I spent every night watching them and fixing things behind them. One gave 4qts of ProForce Fuel to a PSSM mare, she normally eats a handful of something else. I can't believe she was fine and nothing happened. I've gone out at times with no water. I know now who I need to follow behind and who I can leave alone. It just gets annoying. When you make a complaint she just says if you don't like it leave, but if you leave you have 24 hours to do so. It's just a mess. Started off full care, turnout during day, stalled at night and stalls cleaned 2x a day if they were to be in for weather. Now they're outside with lean to's and if I want them in during bad weather, storms/ice etc I have to clean my stall and provide my own bedding and do the turn in & turn them back out when I want them back out. Still paying the same board and the contract has never changed, but don't bring it up or she'll just tell you its her barn, she does what she wants. So I'm working really hard to get my own place. I can afford to board them, but at the time I bought my house couldn't get nearly enough loaned to me for that type of property. It's been a little over 2 years now and I make more and have raised my credit score, so I'm hoping I can get it done. If not I'll just have to keep going insane for awhile longer | |
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Location: Washington | Gator Bug - 2019-01-11 3:21 AM
Chandler's Mom - 2019-01-09 7:11 PM Lopin' Leopard - 2019-01-09 12:02 PM Currently have an older lady with two horses, a Belgin cross mare and her 9 month old filly. We ran a special for smaller (10x10) stalls w/limited/no turn out. Perfect for people who'd come often and take advantage of the indoor arena during winter months. Well she sang a good song and brought these two in, a filly barely halter broke and mom drug friend who brought them down barn alley way. Fast forward a month ahead..... She is now 8 days late on board and horses have only been out of their stalls 3 time, THREE times in a month! Last time she was out she admitted to being scared of them. The mare got away from her with a chain on. It does not help she goes so long between trips out they are rather fresh when they get out. She has a terminally ill husband and it has been holiday season so I was kind and sent her a reminder text board was late. Have not seen or heard from her in over a week. So you feed, water, etc daily?
No I have not. She did finally reply to my text day before yesterday and said she'd be here tomorrow with money and extra for late fees. We'll see. I also told her if she can't commit to coming out regularly, she should find pasture board for them as this is not working out. | |
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Location: Arkansas | love2ridepre - 2019-01-08 10:47 AM
exactly that!!! for those of you that board horses... what is the craziest thing you have heard or seen done by your boarders? is it too early for a drink? ughhhh
They're driving the Democrats crazy too right now. . . | |
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Location: Idaho | As an adult I have always been a boarder, and for the most part I have been fortunate on boarding at good places.
However, there was one barn that became a problem once a certain lady came to our barn. She had a rap sheet a mile long; she was a 'scientist' but was known as a fraud. She believed that only papered Quarter Horses were the best horses, and anything else was not worthy of being a horse. She would use other people's tack. She was caught feeding a friend of mine's filly that was just being started racing oats, and there were some questionable things happening to some of the other horses. We had a mare come up with something wrong with her, her heart was racing, she was pacing, sweating etc. Doc pulled a blood panel and said her toxins were off the charts.. the horse pulled through.
A couple weeks later, another older gelding, also owned by my friend with the filly, came up with the same symptoms. He passed away. His toxins were off the charts. We all suspected this woman poisoning those horses (First time wasn't enough, so she upped the dose the second time), because she wanted to bring in another mare.. and there were no stalls open. So she made one open on a non quarter horse. After that we all took shifts to watch our horses. All of the boarders banded together and approached the owner of the property and told him, either she is evicted.. or we leave. He had to kick her out. It was a mess, but yeah.
Luckily she moved out of state, but still, she was a nightmare. That was my only horrible experience. | |
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| I lived at and managed a 40 stall boarding facility in the 90s and it was nothing short of a nightmare. Most were racehorses that I had to put on the walker daily and they were cray-cray. It was really the horse owners who were awful though. Most were clueless with a lot of money. | |
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Location: Canada | I think it depends if you have a boarding facility where that is your only source of income or where you have a facility where it's some "extra" money. I have a full time job where I work from home but I also have a number of boarders. The fact that I don't depend on my boarding clients to pay my bills ensures that I can be picky with what clients I chose. I interview clients that fit in with the other clients (as best as possible) and who fits how I care for horses. If your barely handled, green broke horse needs 4 blanket changes a day, 4 lbs of straight oats, and you want it stalled 10 hours a day then I can let them know that I'm not the fit they need.
If you rely on the boarding facility to cover your bills (ie. it's your only source of income) you don't get to be as picky and I think you get some crappier boarders.
That being said... even with screening some of the crazies sneak in. Including a former client who came in the middle of the night (setting off my security alarms) during a thunderstorm because she was convinced her horse would be afraid of the storm and wanted to read him stories to keep him calm. The horse was fine but I was furious... She found her walking papers in a hurry.
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Location: TExas | I own a boarding facility. I use to only offer full care pasture, due to one bad customer when I first started not coming out and taking care of her horse on self care. She would never clean the stall or feed. So I went to full care only. But honestly Im going back to self care for pasture. I make more money since I don't have any money in feed and hay. And with hay shortage that is a big deal. But its funny after about a month of self care they always come to me saying will you feed for me, I just don't have time. Thats fine and dandy as long as they supply everything and I charge extra for us feeding. But my full care are mostly good, but they will rile each other up every once in a while.
Like this week one got mad her horse had a small bite mark on its butt. Now Her horse came in skin and bones complete rehab case. I told her to put the mare on a ulcer treatment, then worm her when we got some weight on her. She has yet to do this, feet haven't been done either. I told her teeth needed to be done, and she was like oh I had them done 3-4yrs ago they should be fine. Another eye roll. I said I can't get a good amount of weight on her without taking these steps. She was like I don't have the money. I paid for the mares teeth just bc they where SO BAD and told her she could pay me back. Also she complains she has lost weight since being at my place, I have pictures when she came in and has put on about 100lbs, but still needs about 300lb more. About the bite mark she wanted her moved bc after 2 mo here she has one bite mark. The horse is with one other horse on 2 ac, has hay in front of them 24/7, which the mare never leaves, not a dry lot. Her and one other boarder where raising hell over the one small bite mark, that is not deep just a little hair missing and about 2" long. They where getting so worked up saying the horses are fighting. Mind you Im there pretty much all day riding and watch the horses and have never seen them do anything to each other. The owner is out about 2x a month. Days like that when they approach me in multiples I get pretty annoyed, if you have a problem come to me personally not with a couple people over a very small thing and start demanding your horse be moved. I told her at this time there where no other options due to her horse and the other horse being on a special rehab diet and getting more feed then all the other horses that are paired.
I have another one which is the one that gets people rilled up that will talk to you non stop, while you are trying to feed, clean stalls, ride she will stop you for hours and talk. I get nothing done when she is around and try and tell her I need to finish and she just keeps talking.
Another lady I have was getting mad at me because her horse was not getting his winter coat like normal, mind you he came from Montana and this is the first winter down here in South Texas. He doesn't need that much of a coat. But WTH can I do about that. And she will be like omg I can see 2 ribs on my horse and didn't see them 3 days ago he needs his feed upped. He is 34yrs old on 1.5sc 2x a day and alfalfa and coastal 24/7. One minute she is lock him up to eat bc her little pony will eat all his feed. But then she gets mad if I lock him up bc he is locked up for 1-2hrs, because it takes him that long to eat. Then she says don't lock him up, I tell her pony eats his feed. She will say lock pony up or he will founder. But then says no I don't want the pony locked up. This is about every month. I just lock the old man up let him eat at his own rate and then turn him out.
And my biggest pet peeve, most of the horses that are boarded at my house have absolutely no ground manners and will run you over. Either bc owners let them or the owners are never around and don't handle the horses at all | |
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| cowgirlup012002 - 2019-01-15 10:01 AM
I own a boarding facility. I use to only offer full care pasture, due to one bad customer when I first started not coming out and taking care of her horse on self care. She would never clean the stall or feed. So I went to full care only. But honestly Im going back to self care for pasture. I make more money since I don't have any money in feed and hay. And with hay shortage that is a big deal. But its funny after about a month of self care they always come to me saying will you feed for me, I just don't have time. Thats fine and dandy as long as they supply everything and I charge extra for us feeding. But my full care are mostly good, but they will rile each other up every once in a while.
Like this week one got mad her horse had a small bite mark on its butt. Now Her horse came in skin and bones complete rehab case. I told her to put the mare on a ulcer treatment, then worm her when we got some weight on her. She has yet to do this, feet haven't been done either. I told her teeth needed to be done, and she was like oh I had them done 3-4yrs ago they should be fine. Another eye roll. I said I can't get a good amount of weight on her without taking these steps. She was like I don't have the money. I paid for the mares teeth just bc they where SO BAD and told her she could pay me back. Also she complains she has lost weight since being at my place, I have pictures when she came in and has put on about 100lbs, but still needs about 300lb more. About the bite mark she wanted her moved bc after 2 mo here she has one bite mark. The horse is with one other horse on 2 ac, has hay in front of them 24/7, which the mare never leaves, not a dry lot. Her and one other boarder where raising hell over the one small bite mark, that is not deep just a little hair missing and about 2" long. They where getting so worked up saying the horses are fighting. Mind you Im there pretty much all day riding and watch the horses and have never seen them do anything to each other. The owner is out about 2x a month. Days like that when they approach me in multiples I get pretty annoyed, if you have a problem come to me personally not with a couple people over a very small thing and start demanding your horse be moved. I told her at this time there where no other options due to her horse and the other horse being on a special rehab diet and getting more feed then all the other horses that are paired.
I have another one which is the one that gets people rilled up that will talk to you non stop, while you are trying to feed, clean stalls, ride she will stop you for hours and talk. I get nothing done when she is around and try and tell her I need to finish and she just keeps talking.
Another lady I have was getting mad at me because her horse was not getting his winter coat like normal, mind you he came from Montana and this is the first winter down here in South Texas. He doesn't need that much of a coat. But WTH can I do about that. And she will be like omg I can see 2 ribs on my horse and didn't see them 3 days ago he needs his feed upped. He is 34yrs old on 1.5sc 2x a day and alfalfa and coastal 24/7. One minute she is lock him up to eat bc her little pony will eat all his feed. But then she gets mad if I lock him up bc he is locked up for 1-2hrs, because it takes him that long to eat. Then she says don't lock him up, I tell her pony eats his feed. She will say lock pony up or he will founder. But then says no I don't want the pony locked up. This is about every month. I just lock the old man up let him eat at his own rate and then turn him out.
And my biggest pet peeve, most of the horses that are boarded at my house have absolutely no ground manners and will run you over. Either bc owners let them or the owners are never around and don't handle the horses at all
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| DashNDustem - 2019-01-11 10:42 PM
As an adult I have always been a boarder, and for the most part I have been fortunate on boarding at good places.
However, there was one barn that became a problem once a certain lady came to our barn. She had a rap sheet a mile long; she was a 'scientist' but was known as a fraud. She believed that only papered Quarter Horses were the best horses, and anything else was not worthy of being a horse. She would use other people's tack. She was caught feeding a friend of mine's filly that was just being started racing oats, and there were some questionable things happening to some of the other horses. We had a mare come up with something wrong with her, her heart was racing, she was pacing, sweating etc. Doc pulled a blood panel and said her toxins were off the charts.. the horse pulled through.
A couple weeks later, another older gelding, also owned by my friend with the filly, came up with the same symptoms. He passed away. His toxins were off the charts. We all suspected this woman poisoning those horses (First time wasn't enough, so she upped the dose the second time), because she wanted to bring in another mare.. and there were no stalls open. So she made one open on a non quarter horse. After that we all took shifts to watch our horses. All of the boarders banded together and approached the owner of the property and told him, either she is evicted.. or we leave. He had to kick her out. It was a mess, but yeah.
Luckily she moved out of state, but still, she was a nightmare. That was my only horrible experience.
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Location: Idaho | love2ridepre - 2019-01-16 11:59 AM
DashNDustem - 2019-01-11 10:42 PM
As an adult I have always been a boarder, and for the most part I have been fortunate on boarding at good places.
However, there was one barn that became a problem once a certain lady came to our barn. She had a rap sheet a mile long; she was a 'scientist' but was known as a fraud. She believed that only papered Quarter Horses were the best horses, and anything else was not worthy of being a horse. She would use other people's tack. She was caught feeding a friend of mine's filly that was just being started racing oats, and there were some questionable things happening to some of the other horses. We had a mare come up with something wrong with her, her heart was racing, she was pacing, sweating etc. Doc pulled a blood panel and said her toxins were off the charts.. the horse pulled through.
A couple weeks later, another older gelding, also owned by my friend with the filly, came up with the same symptoms. He passed away. His toxins were off the charts. We all suspected this woman poisoning those horses (First time wasn't enough, so she upped the dose the second time), because she wanted to bring in another mare.. and there were no stalls open. So she made one open on a non quarter horse. After that we all took shifts to watch our horses. All of the boarders banded together and approached the owner of the property and told him, either she is evicted.. or we leave. He had to kick her out. It was a mess, but yeah.
Luckily she moved out of state, but still, she was a nightmare. That was my only horrible experience.
OMG!!! that's horrible!!!! Did anyone press charges against her?
Unfortunately, because nobody saw anything directly (other than her being caught feeding the filly the racing oats), no charges could be pressed. But we did have a hunch due to her being a 'scientist,' she had access to a lot of things that most people didn't which would explain the horses being poisoned, the vets couldn't say what the toxins were..just that they were off the charts. Thing's didn't start happening until she showed up, and things calmed down after she left. We even looked her up and she had been charged/arrested multiple times for fraud. Last I heard she moved to Arizona. | |
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