Checking horsers at night?

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my horses are, from the other day now stabled at night. they go in at 4.30pm and are turned out at 8pm. Is it ok to leacve them this long? they have a good deep bed and plenty of ad lib hay. my other half normally checks them at 11pm when coming home ffrom work and tops up the water buckets but he's recently changed jobs and wont be home til 5am . they are not kept at home but down a remote lane on the edge of the village.
Advice please.
 
surely if they were out you also would not check them at night?
my horses are in at about 3,30 now and i'm back up at 5.30-6am weekdays, or soon after 7am on weekends.
my friend usually comes up at about 7pm and will drive past mine to say hi on her way out (in a different barn on farm) but that is it. i leave them plenty of water so they have never run out in the morning and hay.
horses can do stupid things in or out and at all times of day! but twice a day is normal i think and perfectly adequate unless you are worried about something
 
I always check before i go to bed to make sure they have hay and water and are okay, so usually about 11-12
 
Ours are checked last thing every night, if they are in or out, but ours are at home, which I think makes a big difference. When they were on a livery yard the yard owner did a last check. I wouldn't like to leave them without, having caught a couple of illnesses at last checks
 
Horsesforever1 said:
my horses are, from the other day now stabled at night. they go in at 4.30pm and are turned out at 8pm. Is it ok to leacve them this long? they have a good deep bed and plenty of ad lib hay. my other half normally checks them at 11pm when coming home ffrom work and tops up the water buckets but he's recently changed jobs and wont be home til 5am . they are not kept at home but down a remote lane on the edge of the village.
Advice please.
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Mine are kept away from home down a quiet lane at the edge of our village. In winter I stable at 6pm and then they are seen again at about 7am. I worry about them being OK but tbh something could happen if they were turned out rather than stabled anyway.
 
Mine is not at home, he is in before dark about half 4/5 ish and not seen before 8am but he has a huge tub trug of water and 2 large nets of hay. There is always hay left in the morning. In the summer he comes in later. He has always been ok :0) *
 
Hi,

as your other half is checking them at 11pm it all seems very reasonable. Does he check that they have water or just that they are present?

Ours are left at 5pm, light off and quick check at 9pm (he likes to admire himself in his mirror until then- yes, really) and are next seen between 5am and 8am depending on my shifts.

He is ad-lib hay and haylage (one each side of his stable so he can choose!) so he is not hungry in the morning, and as no one is on the yard before us he knows not to expect food until we get up (the morning flush of the toilet often gets serenaded with a whinny).

I guess there is always risk in leaving them. I did suggest to my husband that a baby alarm would be great as he could wake me up if he was cast or had colic, but my normally soft as ***** husband point blank refused to listen to the horse snoring and farting all night :-(
 
I leave Kal at about 5'ish most nights and don't get back to him until about 8.30 the next morning . . . YO does a late check at about 8'ish . . . and he is fine . . . he has as much hay and haylage as I can stuff into those really big haynets, plus a trug full, two big buckets of water, a really deep straw bed and we have never had a problem :).

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mine are due to start coming in, im putting it off as long as possible! I'm on the yard on my own, and the people that live in the house are not horsey, so wont check! my plan is to bring them in at 6pm and turn out at 6am, or just before! they won't be checked between that time! but they will have 2 big trugs of water and loads of hay!

the first few nights I will check them coz they aren't used to being brought in but once I know they are happy and dry then they wont have a late night check!
 
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