Following on from post down there, what do you actually DO with your

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As title really
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At the moment (as the school is boggy so we are not using it)

My 9 year old

Hacks out x 2 mornings before work in the near light looking like a christmas tree
Goes to livery yard up the road and has a 45 min schooling session mid week
Has a 45 min private lesson 1 x week or competes
Goes on a long hack with lots of trotting 1 x week

My 4 year old

Hacks out 3 times a week

And that is on DIY, with no school as such, and working full time, and running a yard of 12 horses between me and a part time groom
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So, what do you do? Is doing an "activity" 3 times a week with your horse REALLY that much bother?
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Not a lot ATM!
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Before Xmas I was working him 5-6 times per week. Probably 2 hacks per week (or one hack, and a lesson then hack, or a party the other), one schooling session, one long reining/lunging session, one in hand schooling session and a jumping/poles session.

Now he's getting 2 hacks per week, maybe one schooling session plus a long reining/in hand session.

I also do the odd bit of groundwork (NH/IH type) which he enjoys.
 
Turn them out, hay and water, muck out. More hay and water in pm. Bring them in
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We are under the gun rebuilding a house, in filthy weather and with strict time lines, so yes, doing anything with them activity wise is out of the question at the moment. They're not bothered.
 
At the moment, he goes out twice a week, for half an hour to an hour at a time, usually once ridden, once walked in hand, but sometimes both the same. We have no school, can't use out riding field as it is drenched, and I have no off road hacking until my toll membership comes through, so am very limited in what I can do atm.
 
We have a school, but no floodlights, so at the moment its hacking Saturday and Sunday only (I live too far away from the yard to ride in mornings - I would have to be there in the pitch black in order to get to work on time!!). But as of lighter nights it will be 6 days a week riding with a mix of schooling, jumping and hacking + competition once a month. (Of course, she will be introduced to this gradually!!!!). I do see my horse everyday tho and she has daily turnout too.

And in answer to your question, no its not a bother at all, however, I've owned horses for over 25 years and don't want or need to be told what to do with my horse, when what I actually pay for is the provision and use of facilities ie: stable, grazing, school etc. (Obviously there is a difference between actual abuse, neglect, welfare issues etc and then YO's should be encouraged to deal with individual liveries in these cases).
 

When my girl was in work I hacked 4 times a week, had one lesson a week (involved travelling to a hired school) and a small show about once every 3 weeks or so.

Now trolling around the field naked fat and happy.
 
Nothing.

The ground is as hard as rock with sheet ice under the snow, and it's flipping freezing too. My riding horses are either in foal, or too green to risk a crash on this going, basically I don't fancy riding right now, so I don't.

Everything is out so they do their own thing and don't care as long as food arrives at regular intervals. One foal is in by night, and she has her leading, handling, tying lessons etc as she is being turned out/bought in.

I do walk the minis though, sometimes, when the mood strikes. Pegs enjoys long reining and Charley enjoys practising his tricks and running around the forest loose chasing after the dogs and the goats.
 
Not a lot here either - the frost and the loss of my sharer knocked me right back - so this will be a normal week for the next 3 weeks

Hacking 3 times a week
Schooling twice
Jumping Once

One lesson a month
 
Horsie is building up muscle on one side so not riding him at the moment, instead lunging about 2/3 times a week and just started long lining so hoping to do that twice a week and once I'm more confident with it we can start going out for hacks doing it so he doesn't get too bored going round in circles.
 
Currently she gets 1 day off, we are out competing/riding club at least twice a month, my sharer schools/hacks/lunges/loose schools two days a week, and I ride four, a mix mainly of hacking and schooling.
 
I don't DO an awful lot with mine atm so they are just being horses . They are my pets so just like my dogs, they don't have to DO anything
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Daughter's pony gets ridden five times a week at present. We have no school and field is too wet to ride in. Typical weekly schedule would be a couple of schooling sessions in friend's arena which is 10 mins hack away, a couple of hacks, and boxing out to a clinic, rally or competition at the weekend.

My own horse is turned away for the winter because I can't be arsed to ride in the wet and the freezing cold, although my attitude was much different when I was younger!
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They all get plentiful turnout though, so makes no difference to their health whether they are ridden or not! I can understand that if horses are kept on restricted turnout then their ridden exercise becomes more crucial, and obviously if you want to compete or hunt then you need to keep fitness levels up, but otherwise it is not compulsory to ride your horse every day!
 
Diamond, 6 year old general riding horse, on part livery with school. Ridden 4 - 6 times a week including lessons/ trips out in the lorry/ occasional dressage or pleasure ride etc.

Flame, 30 year old retired pony, on DIY livery at work being kind of a companion. Muck her out whilst avoiding getting bitten. Put her in and out of the field whilst avoiding getting jumped on.

Debbie, 8 year old unsound ex showjumper, on grass livery with haylage and daily feed and checks by YM. I go and pat her about once a fortnight and feed her polos. Should I be wracked with guilt?
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Mine is turned out every day and will get one lunge session,3 sessions in the school(mixture of flat and jumping and two hacks a week - would love it to be less but he tends to use any spare time or energy to try and hurt himself in as many ways as possible :P
 
Polo, 6yr old connemara that I'd like to event in the future:
3 x flatwork for 45mins
1 x jumping (either gridwork or a course)
2 x canter work (20-30 mins trotting and cantering)
1 x hack (45 mins walking on the road)

Once a fortnight hunting instead of hacking (usually until 2nd horses but sometimes all day)
He gets the day off after hunting so that's one day off a fortnight.

Last time he went hunting he came out in lumps a few days after so since then he's just been wandering round the school in hand and I've lunged him a few times.
 
all 3 of mine are tunrned out in the day with hay and haylage as required for the field they're in, and then TB Bo is stabled at night and the my Sec D Spring and Dartmoor Megan are put in a little patch with a field shelter at night next door.

Bo is hacked out 4 times a week atm, building up fitness, when weather is better will take her to a school twice a week for schooling and a lesson and will be hacked out 3 or 4 times.

Spring is retired due to a severe tendon injury year before last, but is sound and comfortable so hacked out 4 times a week though looking to reduce it.

Megan is lunged/long reined up to 3 times a week, being backed so lookng to increase this with good weather!
 
We typically:
- hack twice a week
- two lessons a week (1 jumping, 1 flat)
- three schooling sessions a week

Mine doesn't get a day off as he's the kind of horse that needs a good workout every day. Then we'll compete about once every 2 weeks once the weather sorts itself out.
 
In winter until the nights get a bit lighter it's hack twice a week, one session in the school and every other week I have a one hour lesson - either flatwork or jumping.

Horse is turned out most days but as field a bog at the moment they are sometimes only out for a couple of hours and maximum time they get out at mo is 5-6 hours on a good day.

From change of clocks in March onwards across the summer he's ridden 5-6 times a week.
 
My riding horse is in foal so is doing nothing work wise, when she was in work she was hacked out around 4 times a week.
My youngster has not been broke in yet but is due to be done this summer so again no work yet, and my minni shettie just stands in the field looking good.
 
At the minute our youngster is being hacked out 1-2 times per week and schooled 1-2 times per week with one of these sessions sometimes including jumping.

My pony is being hacked out 5 times per week at the moment as I am giving him a break from schooling at the moment. But his regular routine will include 2-3 hacks per week and 2-3 schooling sessions per week (1 of these might include jumping or a lesson)

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We don't have a school so in winter my horse gets ridden at weekends. Well, actually that's not 100% true, my mum rides him one or two times in the week but really he's not 'worked' at all until the weekend.

The work they do then is just hacking with the odd bit of leg yielding etc chucked in if we feel like it!

One day we may be lucky enough to build a school........
 
My old girl was hacked twice a week, as light meant nothing else. In her new loan home she is hacked about 3 x a week i believe, but it's flexible. She lives out and is happy as anything
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Potential new horse, well will depend how old etc but if in full work it will probably be 2-3 schooling sessions, a flat or jump lesson, and 1 or 2 hacks.
 
the 19yr old and 3 year old are out in the field 24/7 doing their own thing

the 6 year old is out all day, in at night. ridden most days for about 30-50mins schooling or 20mins lunging or 30mins hacking. normally has 1 day off in 9. compete once a week on average
 
My mare typically hacks out three a times a week - two will be short hacks in the morning before work, one will be for longer more like two hours. At least one of these hacks will involve galloping about on the beach, paddling and jumping breakwaters! the other two are usually roadwork.

Then I'll school or lunge 2/3 days a week depending on how much time I have and how motivated I am feeling to ride! Haven't jumped for a while but do this occasionally.
 
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