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The 2019 mood is not taking any shit. I have been patient, but I'm not fucking around anymore. I'll still be polite, but I'm not gonna tip toe around it anymore, and in getting to the point im ready to move barns.

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Her ears are so active, I love her personality

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I literally stayed at the barn yesterday until I couldn't see anymore, the sunset was so pretty

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Oof, this was January 2019 vs December 2019.  We still have a way to go muscle wise since shes a glorified pasture puff at this point, but geez, she's looking so much better.  I moved Mary to her current barn in April when a spot opened up and we’re now at a place where good care is the highest priority, and it shows.  Moral of the story, don't waste time trying to resolve issues with people who care more about themselves than the animals and expect it to change anything.  I spent months arguing with the barn owners about pasture maintenance, quality hay, and a consistent feed schedule, and it didn't do any good long term.  

I was there for two and a half years, and they hadn't reseeded or treated for weeds once, even after my horse got really sick in the previous spring from one of the weeds.  They never dragged or picked the pastures, and even moved the fenceline at one point to cut out 1/4th of the pasture and got rid of the only trees the horses had for shade/protection and didn’t put up a shelter to compensate.  They wouldn’t put out hay if it was too cold or rainy out, and there were days it was below freezing and the horses didn't have any hay whatsoever.  They wouldn’t let anyone else put out the hay either, and we had to sit there and watch the horses shiver with the round bale just sitting 30 feet away from the fenceline.  Half the time when they put out hay, they didn't bother to put it in the feeders, so half of the hay would get ruined in the very deep mud that they made no effort to mitigate.  The pasture was one large hill and they always put the hay at the very bottom, right where all the water and mud drained into, again because that would be too much effort to drive the tractor up another 20 feet. Oh and the boarders had to pay for the hay too, so we would all spend money to watch the stuff get ruined, and they wouldn't put out the next bale until it was the next scheduled time, so even if the horses finished it early or it got ruined from the mud, they wouldn't put the next one out, again leaving sometime days without hay.  There were no water heaters, and you’ll never guess who couldn't be bothered to break the ice when it was cold.

I’ve been pretty detailed in my issues with Mary and the foxtail, but I will also say when I tried to buy Mary hay separately, they wouldn’t let me move her to a different pasture that I could feed it in, despite one being open.  I tried to work around this and put her in smaller turnout most days, but it wasn’t secure enough fencing to leave her in overnight unsupervised, so she could only go in it when people were around the farm. The vet agreed that the foxtail ulcers led directly to the $600 surgery she had to get this year, too. If I could have resolved the foxtail issue sooner, versus fighting with them for months about it, she probably would not have had to get put under anesthesia and had that risk. 

So anyways, learn my mistakes, don't resign yourself to subpar care because they convince you its the only option, it never is.  The farm started out very nice when I first got there, but the current owners had only recently acquired the property, so it was mostly great because the last owners had maintained it.  It got progressively worse as time went on because the new owners kept buying  things for themselves with all our board money instead of reinvesting anything back into the property. The other boarders and I did what we could (feeding outside hay when they were refusing, breaking water whenever someone was there, etc) but we were still really limited because they wouldn't let us use any of the equipment and didn't provide any supplies.  One of the other boarders bought a shelter for Mary’s pasture, and the barn owners refused to let them put it up.  Another boarder literally loaded up his personal lawnmower into his truck and drove it to the farm to mow the weeds down in the pastures, because the barn owners refused to do it or let anyone else use the farm mower. Most of the other boarders and myself also lived pretty far away (minimum 30 minutes) and work full time, so we too were limited timewise what we were able to do.

Oh, and the pasture at my current barn is so much better maintained that the horses literally didn't start on hay until this week, and they still are only picking at it.  Mary is this fat on grass only and is also eating 1/4th as much grain now and with no additional calorie additive or chopped hay like she was in the first photos. When I moved her in April, the other barn was still feeding hay because there was zero spring grass, and the current one had stopped haying in March because the grass was already so lush.

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