Re: Silly and stupid mistakes we make..Fess up fellow Your Horsers!

Yep I've locked myself in the stable too when the kick bolt went, luckily I managed to jump over the door.  Would have had to sleep there if I didn't get over it as it's rented so no one to shout for, I now always have a broom or fork in hand!

Re: Silly and stupid mistakes we make..Fess up fellow Your Horsers!

 This is going to sound really random, but once when out riding, we stopped at a chip shop for chips.  So we parked our horses in the car park (lolol) and looped their reins around some bars (less dangerous than it sounds as the car park was fenced off).  One stayed outside to watch the horses whilst the rest of us went inside to buy chips.  I went outside to find my horse just sort of chilling in the car park, no longer wearing her bridle, which was still attached to the bars lol.  Lucky she was so good and didn't rampage around :).  But we didn't park there for chips again :P.

Re: Silly and stupid mistakes we make..Fess up fellow Your Horsers!

A few years ago I was putting a rug on Grouse, flung it over him, did up the chest buckles and surcingles, was starting on the near side leg strap when something spooked him and he started moving off.........

he'd been standing next to the electric fence (not on, thank goodness) and I'd managed to get the surcingles OVER the tape so the two strands were inside his rug.....

when he realised he couldn't get away from the fence he just went bananas, bucking, jumping, and finally a couple of fence posts came out and he was broncing round the field trailing tape and posts until I managed to catch him and calm him down.

I've never put a rug on near a fence again.....

Re: Silly and stupid mistakes we make..Fess up fellow Your Horsers!

Another is mucking out in front of my late mare Lara an ex-racehorse who for such a large horse could silently come up behind and nipped my bum, now Sabrina the new girl has started to do this as well as turning over a full wheelbarrow then running off with my walking stick. Tonka loved people especially females in white tee shirts as he would wipe his nose on them and they would rub his ears and say white a good boy he was, so being cheeky asked if they would rub my ears if I did that. Then a mistake a new groom did at when I had Tonka at livery before bringing him own that was putting all the horses out as a mixed herd, normally geldings and mares did not mix, this problem I only found about when I walked into the local saddlery when the owner asked how Tonka was, suddendly I was started on by a lady who said so you are the owner of that horrible piebald cob who it turned out had molested her TB mare in fact had 12 mares that day and hers had gone back for seconds, and what was I going to do about it. My answer upset the lady was as far as I know Tonka was a Gelding but if proved wrong could be stud fees, the owner of the shop was killing himself laughig this did not help matters as it made me worse and the lady going red in the face.

Re: Silly and stupid mistakes we make..Fess up fellow Your Horsers!

The latest thing in stupidity is walking into things when going from bright sunshine into the feedroom as my glasses are those type which darken with Ultra Violet light so will also react in cloudy weather as well. Then buy a black bucket from the £1 shop as when filled with water leaks due to a crack in the base caused by water pressure on the feeder mark where the plastic fed the mould to produce the bucket, now I remove the extended mark with a knife. Also like everyone else not paying attention using a metal curry comb to clean the brushes you have been  using on your horse instead you put grooves up your arm, since I only use rubber curry combs. Remember the Engineers rule if anything can go wrong it will.