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| is it to check your grain levels and make sure your horse has enough? To summarize, I'm in college and board at a barn largely comprised of college kids. There's about 6 of us that rotate and do chores regularly in the 12 stall barn - only barn horses get grain. We had one girl yelling at us because her horse was out of grain for a night and she didn't know. Whose reponsibility do you think it is to check and make sure their horse has grain?
I've always thought you should get out at least once a week to check on your horse anyway, so why not check grain too? It's not that hard to throw an extra bag out there and I certainly wouldn't get mad at someone if MY horse ran out of grain… It is my horse after all. |
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| This type of board is unique... I board my horse and feed/supplements are in a separate shed. My barn notifies me if my horse is low on supplement.
It's not hard for others to mention it. I agree the owner should be checking but to allow the horse to go without grain is irresponsible. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | If the owner is supplying the feed, the responsibility should fall to the person assigned to actually feed the grain to notify the owner that the feed is running low. |
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Location: Texas | LuckyNGG'sGirl - 2014-11-22 12:19 AM is it to check your grain levels and make sure your horse has enough? To summarize, I'm in college and board at a barn largely comprised of college kids. There's about 6 of us that rotate and do chores regularly in the 12 stall barn - only barn horses get grain. We had one girl yelling at us because her horse was out of grain for a night and she didn't know. Whose reponsibility do you think it is to check and make sure their horse has grain? I've always thought you should get out at least once a week to check on your horse anyway, so why not check grain too? It's not that hard to throw an extra bag out there and I certainly wouldn't get mad at someone if MY horse ran out of grain… It is my horse after all.
This is why most college kids don't need the responsibility of caring for a horse- 1x week? Really? Hard to imagine some poor horse being stuck in a stall all week without any exercise/care from its owner. But I know that's not what the question is-I digress.
It's the horse owner's responsibility.
Way way back when I was in college & boarded a horse (my last semester in college BTW, I got a new horse to celebrate upcoming graduation) we each prepared our own bucket of feed & stack of hay nightly to be dumped each following morning by the ranch hand. (Partial board) If you didn't go out daily & clean stall, feed nightly, ride, etc. then you had to pay FULL BOARD. If you pay full board, then I guess it's someone else's responsibility to get feed. Otherwise, horse owner is the responsible one. |
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| I think the owner should be responsible.... for instance a 50 lb sack of grain should last "X" number of days... so every "X" number of days I need to have another 50 lbs out there... Not rocket sience..
Floyd horse gets 8 lbs grain total per day so if you take 200 lbs of feed to the barn it should last 25 days. With todays SMART phones would not be an issue to put a reminder in that tells you when 25 days is getting close.
A horse missing ONE feeding isn't going to suffer just be jealous. And out of courtesy I would probably have sent a text to the horse owner. |
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | Your horse, your responsibility. It isn't hard to check, besides, the horse probably gets the same amount daily, so each bag lasts the same amount of time. You SHOULD know when you are about to run out by how long it's been since you last took grain to the barn! Would it be nice if the person doing the feeding mentioned the grain was getting low? Sure. But it isn't their JOB to babysit the owner. |
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| LuckyNGG'sGirl - 2014-11-22 12:19 AM
is it to check your grain levels and make sure your horse has enough? To summarize, I'm in college and board at a barn largely comprised of college kids. There's about 6 of us that rotate and do chores regularly in the 12 stall barn - only barn horses get grain. We had one girl yelling at us because her horse was out of grain for a night and she didn't know. Whose reponsibility do you think it is to check and make sure their horse has grain?
I've always thought you should get out at least once a week to check on your horse anyway, so why not check grain too? It's not that hard to throw an extra bag out there and I certainly wouldn't get mad at someone if MY horse ran out of grain… It is my horse after all.
I am a barn owner and board horses. Everyone pays self care. I will feed your horse am and pm but horse owner is responsible for having feed or hay stocked. I tell them to come out every other day to check their horses but I will text when they are running low on feed. If they don't have hay they just don't get it. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I'm more amazed that someone boards their horse and maybe only see's their horse once a week. SMH |
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| tracies - 2014-11-22 5:20 AM
LuckyNGG'sGirl - 2014-11-22 12:19 AM is it to check your grain levels and make sure your horse has enough? To summarize, I'm in college and board at a barn largely comprised of college kids. There's about 6 of us that rotate and do chores regularly in the 12 stall barn - only barn horses get grain. We had one girl yelling at us because her horse was out of grain for a night and she didn't know. Whose reponsibility do you think it is to check and make sure their horse has grain? I've always thought you should get out at least once a week to check on your horse anyway, so why not check grain too? It's not that hard to throw an extra bag out there and I certainly wouldn't get mad at someone if MY horse ran out of grain… It is my horse after all.
This is why most college kids don't need the responsibility of caring for a horse- 1x week? Really? Hard to imagine some poor horse being stuck in a stall all week without any exercise/care from its owner. But I know that's not what the question is-I digress. I t's the horse owner's responsibility. Way way back when I was in college & boarded a horse (my last semester in college BTW, I got a new horse to celebrate upcoming graduation ) we each prepared our own bucket of feed & stack of hay nightly to be dumped each following morning by the ranch hand. (Partial board ) If you didn't go out daily & clean stall, feed nightly, ride, etc. then you had to pay FULL BOARD. If you pay full board, then I guess it's someone else's responsibility to get feed. Otherwise, horse owner is the responsible one.
They're not stuck in stalls for a week - they get turned out daily and fed and checked on by chore crew. But I agree with you they should get out there more often, I'm out there everyday sometimes twice a day. This particular person pays board and she provides grain.
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's not hard to calculate how long a bag of feed is going to last... We are in college for goodness sake. |
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| Barrelracer9906 - 2014-11-22 8:48 AM LuckyNGG'sGirl - 2014-11-22 12:19 AM is it to check your grain levels and make sure your horse has enough? To summarize, I'm in college and board at a barn largely comprised of college kids. There's about 6 of us that rotate and do chores regularly in the 12 stall barn - only barn horses get grain. We had one girl yelling at us because her horse was out of grain for a night and she didn't know. Whose reponsibility do you think it is to check and make sure their horse has grain? I've always thought you should get out at least once a week to check on your horse anyway, so why not check grain too? It's not that hard to throw an extra bag out there and I certainly wouldn't get mad at someone if MY horse ran out of grain… It is my horse after all. I am a barn owner and board horses. Everyone pays self care. I will feed your horse am and pm but horse owner is responsible for having feed or hay stocked. I tell them to come out every other day to check their horses but I will text when they are running low on feed. If they don't have hay they just don't get it.
Out of curiosity how long would you let the horse go without hay? If you own the barn and lets say the owner had a bad accident and was unable to bring the feed out, how many feedings would that horse miss?
I know if instances where the owner just drops off the face of the earth and the boarding facility has to do SOMETHING with the horse left behind. |
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Location: MD | TOTALLY Owners responsibility. But common courtesy to shoot a text when someone is running low. that's what we do here. me and one other girl help care for someone else's horses. It is her responsibility but shes never here so we do the nice then and shoot a text that she/her horses need bedding-grain-hay etc. |
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Location: Texas | It's the owners responsibility. Maybe it's just the way I was raised but I don't believe in relying on others to make sure anything I have is taken care of, horses included. |
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Location: nj | I know that here in Jersey a woman was charged because 2 horses starved at her farm. They were self care and the person who owned them wasn't feeding them. She was charged (I believe rightly) as well as the person that owned them since they were on her farm and she was aware they were not being fed. |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | I really cannot grasp the concept of owning a horse and abdicating responsibility for any facet of its care and well being regardless of whether it is in the backyard or kept at an off-site facility.
I would also be completely embarassed if I raised a kid to college age that was incapable of taking responsibility for an animal kept with or near them at school. When my kid had a horse at college she was at the place she kept them twice a day every day , rain, shine, sleet or snow.
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| We board and seldom do the horses run completely out. Frankly, at my barn if a horse misses grain for a feeding or 2 but has plenty of hay, I don't worry. They are mostly pasture ornaments, are all a little on the 'healthy' side. I think lots of fresh water, and decent hay they're fine for a day or two.
However, if someone does run low I call or text or email, and if it's an unusual situation, I'll feed them my feed. However, my boarders are more like family. Several have been with me more than 10 years. They furnish grain and hay, clean the stall and the auto waterer, we feed AM/PM, turn out, put up, and if they have a boo boo, we doctor it and tell the owner about it. Some come out every few days, some come about 1x a week. We live on the place, and watch them like they are ours.
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| Thanks for all the responses! We do try and do the common courtesy thing and post on the facebook page for our barn to let people know where their feed is at but sometimes things get missed. |
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| We board horses and the owners but and provide their own supplements. We will feed them. The owners should be aware of how much grain they have and when it's about to run out. My mom helps me and she used to feed our supplements if owners ran out. Because she felt bad. Drove me nuts. That's money out of our pockets. She does not do that anymore. Lol. |
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Location: Phoenix | I would say the owners, unless everyne knew that the girl wasn't riding or wasn't able to make it out at all. Ultimately she's responsible. |
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