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just wandering what everybodys routine is over xmas and on xmas day , mine is early am as normal and they get the day off and play out in the field , feed a little earlier around 4pm extra hay and yard do late pm check . boxing day off out to local forest with horses and dogs for nice hack before heading back to work on the Wednesday .

has awful few months one really bad with cushings and lami 25 years old and never had it before

my showjumper was really sick in vet hospital for 2 weeks diagnosed with ulcers/ irritable bowel nearly lost him , fighting back and responding well to treatment , THOUGHT OF LOOSING 2 AT THE SAME TIME WAS HEARTBREAKING .

JUST SO GLAD TO HAVE BOTH ALIVE AND DOING WELL

HAPPY CHRISTMAS XXX
 
I usually go up about an hour earlier than usual TO time and put my 2 out, and usually offer to help out a couple of others. So this year I have 4 in total to do in the morning. So I'll TO around 6.30/7am, then do the stables for all, make feeds and fill nets etc. One of the other liveries will bring in then at usual bringing in time, around 5/6pm. I actually love going up on Christmas morning, it's lovely and quiet as I am usually in and out before anyone else appears :)
 
The yard opens a little later - 8.30 ish - we all turn out and get all of the horses mucked out hayed up and feeds made.

They all have a spare net made and outside their stables with night feeds in the feed room then bring them all in.

The YO will then skip out and hay up/feed in the evening :)
 
Will take a walk down with the dog when i wake up, give them some hay and might poo pick and then walk back up and help with lunch. 9 coming this year!! Both now have shoes off so I doubt i will ride and as I've not ridden the mare for a couple of weeks now I think Xmas day will be safer if I dont attempt a hack although its traditional to ride on Xmas day so that will be a bit sad.

When I've had enough of people in the later afternoon I will walk the dog back down to the yard, give some hay and a feed and walk back up. Like every other day off really!
 
It's going to be a bit different this year, because full livery no longer covers Christmas Day/Boxing Day/New Year's Day. (Came as a bit of a shock to my share horse's owner, who's out of the country over Christmas. Thankfully, I was able to rearrange plans to look after him.)

YO will give morning feeds/nets, so I'm planning on getting up about 9.30 to muck out, and do some hard schooling in an attempt to wear him out a bit before the yard hack at 11. (Last year, his owner took him out for a gallop in the morning, and he was still a bit bouncy for the hack.) They don't get turned out on Christmas Day, so I'll be leaving him in with plenty of haylage, and YO is giving evening feeds/nets.
 
First Year being stabled and on an actual yard as previous years they've lived out 24/7

Christmas Day

Turn out an hour earlier than usual at around 6.30am

Go home go back to sleep for a few hours haha

Go muck out, make feeds, hay and bring in around 4.30ish

Boxing Day

Normal in and out time but might try and ride as Ted has had a few week off and I have a lesson Jan 1st :)
 
I'll be hacking out in the morning but keeping in on Christmas Day so will just pop him out in a paddock to stretch his legs whilst I do jobs. I'll back in the late afternoon to do jobs/hand graze and put to bed.
 
Our routine is pretty rough depending on what time relatives usually decide to descend and when i need to escape for my sanity.

Christmas morning - Bundle the dog in the car and aim to be on the yard for the usual time of 8am. Then Big Ginge will be thrown out for an hour or so to stretch her legs while i muck out, do feeds/haynets/waters and walk the dog round the back of the paddocks. She then spends a rare day in with a massive haynet.
Christmas afternoon - I usually get back up for 4pm. She'll be lunged quickly for 15 minutes just in a head collar to stretch out with nothing being asked of her. Then its skip out, haynet/water + feed early so im leaving around 5pm.

Boxing Day; a little lie in so her turnout will probably be 8:30. Back to usual routine though she'll come in early once relatives have left and i'll go for a hack for a couple hours to relieve my expected heachache.
 
Normal but with tinsel! Go up 7am, turnout 2, decorate other pair and go out for hack, then turnout those two and bring in first pair, decorate and go for hack. Do all yard jobs ready for evening. Spend from 12 til 5ish with family, then back to yard 6pm to bring in.
 
I've got the relatives turning up at 11. So turkey will be put in oven, OH briefed on supervising turkey, horses hayed and then abandoned. YO will throw another pile of hay in at about 4.
 
Luckily I keep my 2 at home. Slightly depends on the weather but will put turkey on before going out to yard. Boys will go out while I muck out unless it is pouring. Then back in their boxes by lunch time, OH has to do the morning church service (organist) son will see to all the cattle & pigs. Family are turning up from about 12. Come 4-4.30 pm I will escape the house with the excuse I need to put the ponies to bed. Boxing day..... well when I was a child it was always the boxing day meet on horseback now I wont be straying too far from the sofa! Having done the ponies of course.
 
Unfortunately I live in Sussex and my family lives in Manchester, so I don't get to see my ponies on Christmas Day as my flat is too small to host Christmas. I'm very lucky though in that they live out and the YO is happy to do them as usual. They just get a small feed and checked am/ pm.
 
Normal morning for me- be on the yard for 7.30am and girls will be fed, rugged and turned out as normal. All work will be done ready and I'll chuck the speedy beet in to soak for evening.

Think we are eating at 2.30 so it'll be about 4pm when I'll go back to bring in, rug up and feed.
 
Go to yard about 8.30ish and ponies get guinness in their feeds, poo picking is done and then home to get dogs out for walk before going to mother-in-laws for dinner and then visit more family
 
Yard of 30 horses, half my staff will come in at 8am to help (the rest do New Year), horses are all fed, fully mucked etc, night feeds made up and left with a big pile of hay. We finish around 10am and the staff go home. Family have a late breakfast and exchange gifts then I'm going to see my aunt in her nursing home. About 3pm all horses will skipped and fed by the family then about 6.30pm we'll have Christmas dinner with the family and son's fiancee and FiL and BiL to be. Stables check to top up hay etc later and slump in front of the TV. It's the first time we'll have had dinner so late, we used to do it before finishing the horses but it'll be nice to know they're all done apart from the evening check when we sit down to dinner.
 
Mine stay in as its what the yard do. Up about 7am muck out and ride, make feeds for the evening. Go up to Essex from Sussex to see the family. YO will feed about 5pm. I will then muck out, hay and walk them out about 7pm. Then home to crash!
 
My two are out 24/7 but I still go up twice a day to feed, poo pick, do their feet and remove raincoats if it's warm and dry enough. Nothing will change on Christmas Day except they will get a few carrots in their breakfast with their usual apple. I will show them their new matching headcollars though.
 
EventingMum said:
Yard of 30 horses, half my staff will come in at 8am to help (the rest do New Year), horses are all fed, fully mucked etc, night feeds made up and left with a big pile of hay. We finish around 10am and the staff go home. Family have a late breakfast and exchange gifts then I'm going to see my aunt in her nursing home. About 3pm all horses will skipped and fed by the family then about 6.30pm we'll have Christmas dinner with the family and son's fiancee and FiL and BiL to be. Stables check to top up hay etc later and slump in front of the TV. It's the first time we'll have had dinner so late, we used to do it before finishing the horses but it'll be nice to know they're all done apart from the evening check when we sit down to dinner.
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We eat in the evening & I much prefer it :)
 
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