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Rob R

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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 7:28 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

He's maintaining everything, the land's in appalling condition there's only one field which you could say looks grazeable. In my pinion it looks like he's had too many horses on there.

One is too many

tahir

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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 7:30 pm Post subject:
The whole place is ramshackle and on the verge of falling over, he's never spent a penny on it.

sean
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 7:33 pm Post subject:
Have you got any chance of getting him off completely?

tahir

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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 7:34 pm Post subject:
He's not interested, he says he wants to be there till he dies, and to be fair we won't even know he's there, the field that he's after are screened by a huge bank of conifers and have their own road access.

sean
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 7:35 pm Post subject:
How old is he?

tahir

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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 8:32 pm Post subject:
In his 70s by the look of him

jema
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 8:33 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

In his 70s by the look of him

So he is probably pretty unhappy with the uncertaintly that goes with a change

tahir

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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 8:36 pm Post subject:
I think so, and most of his horses are in their 20's, he showed us a 30 year old this morning, so he doesn't want to move them

nettie

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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 9:21 pm Post subject:

Sorry hun but that many horses on so little land will be unworkable unless they are all kept in and only let out a couple of hours a day. Not very nice if you're a horse. No wonder he was using the rest of the land.

Remember he will be getting money from the other liveries too, (unless they were paying the owner direct) at least �15 a week per horse, more if he is looking after them on behalf of the other owners.

You could easily charge in excess of �250 a month for the yard and grazing, (and that would be cheap) if the fencing was fixed up and the place tidied, although I suspect he has been paying nowhere near that amount. And I guess you'd feel a bit mean charging that much!

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 9:43 pm Post subject:
What would be the ethical way of dealing with this?

nettie

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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 9:47 pm Post subject:
Depends whether you're talking about ethical for the bloke or ethical for the horses

Lloyd

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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 05 10:04 pm Post subject:
Sounds like far far too many horses are there, which in turn devalues the rentable value somewhat. As Nettie says, you ideally want one acre per horse with one spare acre perhorse.

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 05 8:51 am Post subject:
I assume that the horses must need extra feed brought in then if the land wont sustain them. It can't be too good for the soil. What about of the guy departs this mortal coil, is Tahir then responsible for them?

Lloyd

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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 05 9:00 am Post subject:
Now that really would be a pain, and an expensive one at that! old horses are high maintenance!

jema
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 05 9:49 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

What about of the guy departs this mortal coil, is Tahir then responsible for them?

Legally i'd assume not. But then this thread is not about legal obligations. But even ethically you cannot always run around grabbing responsibility for "other peoples problems"

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