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I have a course tonight after work so can't get up to the yard to do Jack. Hubby has very kindly agreed to do him for me and I've left a list of instructions on everything that needs doing. I am very grateful to him for doing it but at the same time am a bit worried he'll not give him enough hay, or a deep enough bed etc etc. I've sneakily texted one of the other liveries to ask her to check on him if she's about when hubby is up there to make sure he's coping etc - am I an ungrateful cow? This course is supposed to run for the next 4 weeks so I don't want hubby to think I didn't think he'd cope and had someone spying on him cause then he'll take the huff and not offer for the next time.
 
Haha not at all! When my boyfriend does my horse I always get someone to have a sneaky check up on her...once he had forgotton to put her haynet in so I was glad I had a backup plan
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No, think id do the same (just in case)
Once you know he is managing, then he wont need checking up on!
At the end of the day just make sure he doesnt realise he is being 'watched'

good luck wif course. xx
 
probably shouldn't agree, but am sorry!! would have done the same!!!
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love my hubby to bits, but couldnt stand it if poor horse didnt have enough hay!!!!!!!
 
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You'll just need to tell your spy to be super sneeky to make sure your hubby don't find out he's being checked up on. I'd do the same thing so I suppose that makes me a right cow too!
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NO!!!! Just that no one can look after your horse as well as you. I'm the same. Water has to be to the top of the tub, haynets full, and I mean full!! and tied high enough, beds have to be clean and deep and patted down, bankings to bhs standards, the list goes on. PS it goes without saying, a Spy!! just in case. Soon he will be as bad/good as you.!!
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Yes I would do it, I tend to phone up later in the evening and go through it all again. I don't use a yard so I can't do the sneaky texting! Just make sure to text that kind spy again, and say, don't let on.....
 
I would definately have no probs in asking someone to check he was ok - I just wish my OH wasn't scared of my boys as would love him to be able to help me!! lol he's just brave enough to give them a carrot bless him!
 
Um... NO you are not!! I asked mine to get my ned in and put a rug on her (he has done it a few times when I am there) as I was running late. God knows how he did it, but he managed to put her rug on back to front
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. I laughed for about 10 mins!! I asked him if he thought he had done it right and he said he thought it looked odd?? So yes, I check everything now...
 
good action plan I think (so long as his pride isnt dented by spy being obvious!!!)...I can be terrible if my OH comes down to see my horse - don't stand there, don't do that you are annoying her, hold her like this, don't touch her there she's sensitive, brush her like this blah blah blah...he now stands with hands in pocket or he will go and help someone else!!!!
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PHEW - had a bit of a panic on that I was being some overcautious pain in the ar$e (you know the sort who laughs at those that have a fleece then duvet then heavyweight stable on their cob and won't turn out in a little rain -
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I have a course tonight after work so can't get up to the yard to do Jack. Hubby has very kindly agreed to do him for me and I've left a list of instructions on everything that needs doing. I am very grateful to him for doing it but at the same time am a bit worried he'll not give him enough hay, or a deep enough bed etc etc. I've sneakily texted one of the other liveries to ask her to check on him if she's about when hubby is up there to make sure he's coping etc - am I an ungrateful cow? This course is supposed to run for the next 4 weeks so I don't want hubby to think I didn't think he'd cope and had someone spying on him cause then he'll take the huff and not offer for the next time.

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OMG - (very nearly exactly) snap!!!

I go to college every thursday evening so my OH looks after Murphy. He's been doing it since september, for the first couple of months I sneakily asked my friends and the YM to keep an eye on things for me!! YM did, I believe, once catch his trying to put a rug on back to front, as in, trying to do the buckles at the front up round Murphy's bum...
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but they're fine now!!
 
oh yes - don't expect you OH to take any notice of "the list". I wrote a page long email the first time mine looked after Murphy. He emailed me back and said "not reading that. just going to pick feet out and give him food"
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which reminds me...Murph decided he wasn't going to pick his feet up for my OH (a fun little game of his). OH rang me saying "I can't do it" and I jokingly said "Do you want me to have a word with him?!" OH's reponse was to put me on speakerphone, so I had to sit there in the office sayin "UP Murphy, UP!" in a loud authoritative voice....
 
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which reminds me...Murph decided he wasn't going to pick his feet up for my OH (a fun little game of his). OH rang me saying "I can't do it" and I jokingly said "Do you want me to have a word with him?!" OH's reponse was to put me on speakerphone, so I had to sit there in the office sayin "UP Murphy, UP!" in a loud authoritative voice....

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PMSL ALOT!!!!!
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I have trained my OH so he doesn't need checked on. I can go away for days, and he'll do our three, and my friend's boy too.
He takes ages though...because he can't walk past one of them (they live out) without fussing them...so poo picking takes an eternity for him.
He's great though, can feed, hay, water, groom, change rugs, take temperatures, pick out feet, treat injuries, and identify lameness, colic....not bad for an IT person.
Initially though, he did make a few errors...the memorable one being headcollar on backwards...so you're wise to enlist a spy
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I think that's natural TBH. What a lovely man to be helping out. You lucky thing. I'm sure the other liveries will keep an eye out. Definitely not a cow!!!
 
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Im actually the opposite , Im not saying your a "right cow" either lol .

I trust my hubbie to do the horses right , he knows exactly how I like them done and what to give them .

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Ditto that, OH does them the way I do them cos he knows if he did it wrong there would be hell to pay!!!
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My OH is fully trained now too, and on my birthday he got up and fed them all without being asked.

Only trouble was he came back, made a cup of coffee and then thought to ask which ones didn't have sugar beet? Ah, that will be the two with the runs then.

He had also turned them out, and while some have dual purpose rugs, three ponies were wandering around the field in their pjs having a great roll in the mud. But I praised him alot anyway and told him what a good boy he was (positive reinforcement always required for OHs).
 
My oh is very capable infact he started to help as he said i spent more time chatting than mucking out!! lol so he did it himself, ive taught him well and now trust him completely to do my horses and my friends at the yard trust him with theirs too he is a star!
 
My OH is fantastic! He mucks out spotlessly - has a minor obsession with making the perfect bed, knows what feed and hay they have even down to spooks handful of this, little scoop of that and dollop of the other. Is happy pick feet out etc and wont let them take the piss out of him, knows what temp to adjust the layering of spooks rugs and even remembers to feed the chicken!!

I trust him completely and I know that if he ever came across an injusy, he wouldn't hesitate to phone me or one of my horsey friends to find out what to do!

Every girl should have one like him!!
 
Once upon a time I would have agreed BUT my OH does mine every morning and most evenings through the week. And we are not in livery so I have to trust him.

I'd be very careful of getting someone to covertly check up on him and just tell him x is going to give a hand if needed.
 
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oh yes - don't expect you OH to take any notice of "the list". I wrote a page long email the first time mine looked after Murphy. He emailed me back and said "not reading that. just going to pick feet out and give him food"
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which reminds me...Murph decided he wasn't going to pick his feet up for my OH (a fun little game of his). OH rang me saying "I can't do it" and I jokingly said "Do you want me to have a word with him?!" OH's reponse was to put me on speakerphone, so I had to sit there in the office sayin "UP Murphy, UP!" in a loud authoritative voice....

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Hahaha that made me chuckle
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PHEW - had a bit of a panic on that I was being some overcautious pain in the ar$e (you know the sort who laughs at those that have a fleece then duvet then heavyweight stable on their cob and won't turn out in a little rain -
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speaking from experience of 'getting the list' it can sometimes come across as being a bit condesending, mind i did cock up one night which got posted on here but that was a combination of lack of knowledge and the yard owner yelling at me rather than helping or giving better advise ( i had tied horse up with a chifney dotn shout lol i can see you all cringing) but the yard owner ran up yelling at me to take it off without thinking i did and before i could put the head collar on betty ran off to another stable to say hi to another horse, YO again ran up yelling at me not to let betty whinney at the other horse, resulting in the horse having a spook, trying to kill the yard dog and running off to eat the grass in the corner my OH was not very amused.
I know better now however.
the irony with that situation was i actually had caught betty when she got to the other horse but in the commotion she got away
 
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