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Can you tell me your daily 'timetable' please - what time you get up, what you do at the yard and how long it takes etc.
Thanks
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Arise at 5:30
Arrive (at yard 6:30)
Depart (for work) 7/7:30 - might nip home first depending how dirty I am!
Work 8ish til 5ish zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Re-arrive at yard 6ish
Home (at last) 7ish

I am lucky that I have someone to bring him in for me during winter, so I just feed/skip out in the evening
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well I work at livery yard where I keep my mare and have to be there for 7.30am to do feeds etc, and I do mins during work hours, but when I was working in an office I would be up at 6am get to yard muck out, t/o make feeds up haynets or whatever needed to be done, If i didnt get chance I'd finish it off when I got back up later, usually bout 6pm...
 
I get up at 5.15.
at yard for 6.30,
leave for work at 7.10 ish
at work for 7.30
finish work at 5pm
at yard 5.15 ride and skip out
back home bout 7 ish.
 
Hi

I work Monday to Friday 9:00a.m. to 5:00p.m & my day starts a litte something like this: -

Alarm goes off 5:50 a.m - shower, get clothes packed for work, sort OH & cats out then off to the yard, leave approx 7:20a.m to be at the yard for 7:30a.m.

7:30 a.m. to 8:20 a.m. = feed, turnout, lift bed up (shavings), fill haynet & water tub.

8:45a.m. till 5:10p.m - work

Arrive at yard approx 5:30p.m. bring in, groom, put bed down,(ride if i get time), feed, head for home. I try to be home by 7:30p.m at the latest otherwise OH starts to feel neglected lol
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Hope this helps
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Up at 5am, turn out at 5.30 muck out if time. In the office at 7am.
Get in at about 4pm, somehow squeeze in mucking out and poo picking.
Use indoor school in the evenings.

Do a proper job of poo picking on my days off.

On days when I work later shifts I do everything in the mornings - feed at 6.30, turn out at 8 and muck out, and poo pick then my son brings them in at about 4pm
 
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Hmmm
I have three, you see, and will be travelling 60 miles to work (no motorways) for a while, to get there at 9.
I think I may have to pay someone to do them
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Bummer. Are they on a livery yard? I know a lot of people only do their horses once a day...have to say I HATE this. What about getting a sharer??
 
Jeez..............you guys are much more dedicated than me. Grass livery rocks!!!!

6.20am get up
6.45 leave the house
7.05 arrive at field, tack up and ride
8.00 feed
8.20 get changed in car and baby wipe bath (nice!
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8.30 walk to tube station
9.30 arrive at work
5.30 leave work WHOOOOP!
6.30 feed horses
7.30 home

In summer they only get fed once a day and I ride after work so I get a nice lie-in
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I have it soooo easy!
 
5.30 - Wake up
6.00 - at farm, turn out all 4, muck out and re do hay and waters, leave beds up if wet
7.30 - home, shower
9.00 - work
6.00 - finish work, home and then change
6.30 - Go fetch in and bed down/feed
7.00 - Home, have tea
 
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I don't think I can realistically manage to feed three, soak hay, check them/change rugs, poo pick the field, get home, have shower, and drive 60 slow miles on poor roads, to get to work by 9am.
Thanks for the answers though, guys.
I think I may have to pay a student to do them in the morning.
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I work Monday-Friday 9-5 and my horse is kept 22 miles away from where I live!

I get up at 6, leave house 6.30, get to yard for 7.05, feed, turn and skip sometimes muck out if I have time. Get ready in our coffee room at 8.05, leave yard at 8.30, work for 9.

Leave work at 5, get to park and ride 20 past 5, get to yard at 5.30, quickly get changed, soak haynets, fill watebucket, groom and ride if I have time, home by 7.30 if I don't ride, 8-8.30 if I do. It's so tiring
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I dont have horses but I do have 50 chickens in 20 different housing arrangements along with a small flock of sheep in two fields and stables close to home, it takes me an hour in the morning and an hour plus in the evening to do all the jobs (feeding, watering, muck out, clean out coops where ness, medication, health check, cover runs with tarps etc..)

My weekly commute works out at 560 miles normally but can go to 800+ sometimes

distance of stables, method of transport, lighting, security, start & end time at work and whether you can change at the stables are all things to think about
 
Get up at 7am, fall out of bed into jeans and fleece. Outside with mug of coffee, make up feeds, fall over fence.

Feed and muck out, change rugs, change water bucket.
Inside shower and get ready for work by 8.30. Get to work between 8.45 and 9am.

Finish work at 5.15pm, home by 5.30/ 5.45. Feed dogs and cats. Then horses seen to. I don't have a school so no riding/ exercising done on work days so they are done by 7.30pm.
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shower!!! no way! no one will have the bad manners to tell you you stink of horse! i'm a teacher - the wee kiddies happily pick any stray bits of hay off 'Miss' while i do the register!
and poo picking can in desperation wait til your days off (unless yard rules dictate otherwise ) of course you will then spend the whole of your day off poo picking (i know as i also have 3 and, apparently, a stray herd of elephants who sneak into my field at night and fill it with poo!)
or if poss....you could pay someone to do it for you!!
 
I keep my horse with another lady who works fulltime too, so we share duties. Maybe you could find another livery person to share with, so you can help each other.
She turns out both horses in the morning, 7.30 then starts mucking out. She leaves for work 8 am and I arrive at same time, finish mucking out and leave beds up, then change for work at 8.30.
I finish work at 5, go over to yard, do hays, feeds, waters, put beds down then bring in. She arrives after 5.30 and we groom, rug and put them to bed or we can ride. Fortunately we don't have to muck pick! I am home by 6.30 - 7pm.
The sharing system works well if you want to go away for a weekend too as you can offer to do your friend's horse for a weekend if they will do yours for you.
 
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Get up at 7am, fall out of bed into jeans and fleece. Outside with mug of coffee, make up feeds, fall over fence.

Feed and muck out, change rugs, change water bucket.
Inside shower and get ready for work by 8.30. Get to work between 8.45 and 9am.


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sounds a bit more like my day!!!

7.30 fall out of bed, throw clothes on.
7.50 leave for yard
8.00 arrive at yard. feed. muck out but keep bed up. Mum grabs him on way to field with hers.
8.30 change in car, pull straw out of hair, go to work!
 
It can def be done. I was worried I couldnt cope as im not a morning person at all, but now i cant actually do lie ins! Ive seen the light haha
 
Agree with trying to find another person - I did when I was on DIY - I did morning and she would bring in late pm and then I would swing past on the way home to finish him off.
 
*Get up, leave house bout 7.05am
*Get to yard about 7.25
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*Throw feed at one, change rugs on 2, throw feed at second one, take one down road to field whilst carrying her feed (5-10min walk to field) come back, grab second one, same trip to the field, throw him out.
*Get back to yard, quick change, leave yard at 8am latest.
*Get to work for 9am.
*5pm leave work, get to yard bout 6pm.
*Tack up, ride or lunge.
*Untack, wash off, rug up, throw into school to eat dinner.
*Skip out, hay both horses.
*Bring mare in from school when finished dinner.
*Quick sweep up.
*20min drive home. Back about 7.30-8ish.
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3 horses at home. Up at 6.30(ish). Put retired cob's breakfast to soak. Let out & feed dogs. Put own breakfast in microwave.
Feed horses. Eat own breakfast. Put horses out. Wash and dress.
8.00am leave for work, drive 12 miles, arrive at school about 8.45
Leave work 5.00-6.00 pm, shop as necessary.
Arrive home 6.00-7.00pm feed dogs, have a cup of coffee
7.15(ish) do horses (hay, water, feeds), rearrange deep litter beds as necessary
8.30 start to cook own tea.
If I were you I would definitely pay some-one else to do the horses while you are working so far away. The travelling will be a nightmare in itself if you have to go during 'rush' hour. The only thing is that you have to choose your help very carefully. We paid someone to put ours out and muck out when our very old horse needed a bit of mollycoddling during the bad weather a few years ago. We found that although it was very nice not to have to spend every weekend mucking out, their manners deteriorated dreadfully, so we had to spend every weekend re-establishing our expectations
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5.30am - alarm clock goes off, get up, shower, breakfast etc
6.15am - leave for yard
6.35am - yard, feed 2, full muck out and haynets ready for night, turn out
7.50am - leave for work
4.30pm - leave work - flexible
5.00pm - arrive yard, bed down, water done, haynets done for next night, bring in 2, feet picked out, groom Pidge tack up and ride - usually an hour - wash off, rug, tea and bed for Pidge
9.30pm - arrive home
9.50pm - eat my tea and then bed
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typical example though if competing in the week add an hour or two on the getting home time
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One horse on DIY livery.
Wake up at 5.30am. Shower and get ready for work (I muck out in my skirt!), leave house by 6.20. Muck out, change rug, feed etc. Leave yard by 7am, 40 mile drive, get to work for 8am.
Finish work at approx 4.30 (sometimes later), get to yard by 5.30. Ellie normally takes me about an hour. Get home by around 6.30/7pm. Begin lesson plans for next day.....and this is exactly what I am still doing now, 3 hours later!
 
I'm just getting into my new winter routine and yard...

this is how it is on paper... i've only been doing it a week and I keep oversleeping!!

5.30 wake up and get organised...or lie in and get up 5 mins before going to yard.

6.30 Arrive at yard (few miles away) although as I keep over sleeping i'm often late
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Once there I get BBEars ready for the day, breakfast, groom, rugs, muck/skip out, I usually lift her bed. Turnout if there is someone around to keep her company if not she's being going out later. I re do her water and leave her some hay, as YM get's her in later about 4pm for me.

7.00 drive home and down the lane to check BBEyes and friends, feed him and make a fuss of the babies. (going to get harder as the mornings stay darker)
Home - shower, quick turnaround...to leave by 7.30.

8.00 arrive for work, long day.......................

6 ish....6.15....6.30....7pm leave work...it just depends.
ideally get home by 7pm get changed - get log fire going (main source of heating bbbrrrrrrr otherwise!)

Then it starts all again, up to yard, settle in BBEars for the evening, (not riding yet) then on to see if I can find BBEyes in the dark without getting mown down by the weanlings!

I like to get in by 8pm so I have a fighting chance getting more logs in and cooking some supper before 9pm.

but in reality...some days don't go to plan and my body clock hasn't adjusted to the early rise just yet so there's often alot of rushing around with perfume, dry hair shampoo and an orange stick to clean the feed out from under my nails!

I used to do 3 before work - but all on same yard and only 30 mins commute and I didn't care so much then if I had straw in my hair. I still don't, but I think my bosses might have some words to say!

Wow - my post is almost as long as my day!
 
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Can you tell me your daily 'timetable' please - what time you get up, what you do at the yard and how long it takes etc.
Thanks
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Up @ 6.30am
Yard by 8am
Turn out muck out and leave for work by 8.45am
Back to yard about 5.15pm
Hay feed and home by 6pm

If I ride Im home at 7pm.
 
Get up at 6.30, have breakfast, get to yard between 7.15 and 7.30 depending on how much I have faffed. Either then ride, then turn back out and feed in field and home to shower and start work for between 9 and 10am, or make up feed, chuck at horse in field (whilst checking it is not obviously lame or bleeding) and go home to start work by 8am.

PM - when I get bored of working, and before it gets dark, go to yard, mix feed, throw at horse in field, get home about 40mins after I left. And that's if I pat him for a bit too to waste time.
 
When I was working full time, i had an arrangement with a girl on the yard. She turned mine out in the morning and i brought hers in at night. I couldn't get there in morning as i have a son and needed to do school run etc. I paid someone to do my mucking out and i just had to do feeds and had a bit of time to spend with them in the evening.
I felt it was the only way to work it without being far too stressed to enjoy them.
 
I've kept horses via various arrangements (currently out 24/7-bliss!) but when I was DIY and horse was in I never went up in the mornings! The £1 to get him turned out was well worth it. For me, it would become more of a chore than a pleasure to be that stretched for time, but then all my horses have always been a bit of a drive away.
 
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