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Just a quick question really so thank you if you reply!
I work full time 8.30am so need to leave at 7am until 6pm and get home around 8pm I have my boy on DIY which yea it is early starts and late nights but I get him done no trouble! (Crazy I know!)
What does everyone else do with there 4 legged friends?
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I work 8:30am - 6pm with a 45-50 minute commute each way. Fortunately stables is half way between home and week! Horse is on full livery (not including exercise, grooming, tack cleaning) so either ride before work which means I'd be leaving the house about 6am or on my way home and would then get home about 9pm. It's certainly do-able!

Been put off DIY though because of the time I finish work as would always be relying on someone else to bring for me.
 
One is on 7 day livery without exercise included. The other one lives out with a friends horses and I either do morning or evenings dependant on shift times that day.
 
I work full time (shift work) and i have no option but to have my boy on full livery, although i do all my own exercising (3-4 times per week) and tack cleaning
 
I work 8am till 5pm but work is only 2 mins from the yard. She is on DIY so gets turned out at 7am and brought back in just after 5. I have 2 days off a week so ride her then and we go to training sessions on a Thursday night and I have just started paying a friend to ride her once a week for me.
 
I work in a school so need to leave at half 7 so put horses and muck out at half 6 and then ride and bring back in 3 45.
In trying to get a new job with different hours as I used to prefer shift work!
 
I work 8-4, 5 days a week and am studying as well, my girl is turned out in the morning for me as it's cheaper than the fuel to get there and it's too much time in the morning. On a night I tend to go as soon as I finish work then eat later
 
I work 9 - 5 ft and am on diy - up at 5.30 OH and I at yard by 6am, two to feed rug and t/o, ours to fully muck out back home 7 latest so OH can get 7.30 train.
Other end of the day I have a friend who brings in my boy with horse so he's waiting warm and snug in his box when I arrive at 6pm.
I wouldn't be able to do the AM if we didn't live 5mins away from yard and it would certainly be challenging if work wasn't 20 min drive! It's demanding but I love diy and rewarding watching my boy doing well on it.
 
I'm on part livery. Theoretically I work 9am - 5pm, but there are lots of evenings and some weekends involved, and I can be called on without notice if there's a crisis, so it's better all round if neddy's basic needs are guaranteed. He gets super care from the yard, and I still see him nearly every day, and my limited time can be spent on grooming / fussing / working him instead of chores.
 
I work 8 - 4.30 Monday to Friday, so go up in the morning before work. I am on DIY grass livery so only need to do one trip a day and it doesnt matter what time. I bring him in and check him over/pick his feet and give him his feed and cuddles. I ride at the weekend as we dont have a floodlit school. Yard is completely opposite direction to work and home though but I love my yard so cope with the travel :D
 
8.45 - 5, mon - fri with a horse on diy. I am studying too....

I have teamed up with the owner of the horse in the next field so that we share the t/o in the mornings (giving us both one lie-in at weekends) and to fit around meetings which take me further afield and require an earlier start. The first one to get there in the evenings gets them both in.

I've a very understanding OH who tolerates me getting in at 8-8.30pm every evening. It is very tiring and if I could afford it I'd reduce my hours at work so I could do more during the day and spend more time with the OH but you can't have it all!

Its the household chores that are the battle ground. I am a 'blitzer' and the OH is a 'do-it-as-you-go' kinda guy...he finds it hard to leave half the work for me to do at weekend and when I am competing I don't always keep up my end of the deal...
 
I am at college full time in the week and work 26 hours at the weekend. Myself and 3 other liveries all have a rota so we share t/o and bringing in.

I do my boy myself every day during the week - I am in college 2 full days and 2 half days and have a Tuesday off, so I turn out all the horses Monday and Tuesday and ride before college, go to the yard after college on Wed and Thursday and then ride in the afternoon on a Friday. On Sat morning I turn out all the horses and muck out my boy before heading to work for 10am and a 13 hour shift and on Sunday my fellow livery mucks him out for me and sees to his feeds/hay/water. Sunday is the only day I dont see my horse. He is brought in for me every night, I turnout most days in return. I muck out my fellow liveries horse on my day off too in return for doing my boy on a Sunday.

Its a great wee arrangement - the YO fully supports it and should anyone not be pulling their weight, she sorts it pretty sharp - last livery to fail to do their fair share of t/o was asked to leave - its how I got my stable.
 
I am on grass livery and just go after work. I work 9-5 but have an hour commute to work with yard being in the opposite direction so normally get to yard about 6.30. The winters are tough due to the darkness.

If he could not live out he would need to go on to full livery as I could not get there early enough to turn out or bring in and as the tube is not alway reliable I can get delayed or worse still stuck in the evenings if there is there is signal failure.
 
I am currently horseless (until next weekend!) and work shift work, 10.45 - 5.30 is a normal day, plus any evening shifts in the week (usually atleast 3 a week). When I did have a horse, I would be at the yard at 8am and ride and muck out beofre work, then would go and bring in about 6. Sometimes I'd have to be back at work for the next shift about 7/7.30pm. Makes me feel lucky reading that some of you are up at 5! :eek:

I'm just about to start a 9-5.30 job though and reading these is giving me confidence that it will be fine!

Do any of you find it really hard in the winter though..? Not seeing your horses in the daylight except at weekends!? I won't be used to this!
 
A mate does mine mornings, I do his evenings. I'm at work from 8am, I leave there about 4pm (5.30 some days) and get home by 6 (or 7). I must say I don't ride and the I is out of work currently anyway, so I'm basically catching in, mucking out, feeding.

I used to do mornings, but I'd always fall asleep in the evening, the OH was not ecstatic and something had to give!

I do find the dark hard to cope with, I love seeing my horse properly in daylight, but everything can be done in the dark and the school is well lit for those who ride late.
 
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Muckypony - I always find the first few weeks of winter hard, then settle back into the routine and it's fine.

In some ways I prefer the yard in winter. People hang around longer doing chores so it is more sociable. We have a floodlit school so I can still ride in he week. I think without that I wouldn't cope.
 
I work 8:30 - 6pm, 5 days a week. Need to leave the house at 8, and have a stupidly high maintenance horse who needs daily workouts - so I get up ridiculously early and go inside ridiculously late!
 
I feel sorry for my friend who works 9 to 5 with an hours commute each way in winter. She only sees her horses in the dark and can only ride at weekends.

As much as I hate some of the times I have to start work, it does mean I can get home to ride or ride before I go to work, which makes winter a little easier.
 
I work full time, including commute 7-5. I also have 4 children. My horse is on diy though tbh I'm struggling. I never have time to ride. I'm hoping to move him to full livery shortly when a space comes up. If it wasn't for having the kids I would have no problem coping.
 
Copperpot said:
I feel sorry for my friend who works 9 to 5 with an hours commute each way in winter. She only sees her horses in the dark and can only ride at weekends.

As much as I hate some of the times I have to start work, it does mean I can get home to ride or ride before I go to work, which makes winter a little easier.
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I'm the same as your friend, I'm up at 6am to feed, TO, muck out and set square then go home and catch a train at 8am. I've a very well trained dad who brings my girl in during winter weekdays, he's just turned 76 and loves his new career. I also pimp him out if others need theirs brought in, though only the polite ones. I go up after work and arrive around 7pm, I ride in our floodlit school or strap a headtorch on and go for a wander around the farm ride.
 
My 2 are on diy and live out 24/7 except for the odd night in when the fields resemble lakes. Work full time and generally work 8 till 5 but can start at 7 am or finish at 7pm. Mornings i feed, release from their night paddock, fill and soak haynets and poo pick their field and their night patch. Evenings put in night patch, throw haynets and feed in. A head torch is proving to be a saviour this winter!only ride, give a thorough groom and re oil their legs on my days off but my 2 don't mind living naked, resembling mud monsters and having a bit of exercise once/twice a week!!
 
My friend doesn't even have a school :( she does get a lie in when I'm on afternoon shifts now as my retired one is living out with hers, so I do them all in the morning.

I'm thinking we all need a well trained Dad :)
 
I work 9.30-6 plus an hour commute each way. Rent a yard so ours are efffecively DIY. Do mornings by myself, OH "helps" in evenings, but is very selective as to what he will do, e.g. Will NOT muck out, but will empty full barrows! Oh and we have 7, all in night/ out daytime.....
 
My friend and I have our own little yrd for 4 horses. I go up every morning before work just to check / turnout if they are in and then get to work by 7.30am. We then share the evenings, each doing the 'jobs' 2 nights each and Sharing Friday - I go up every night bar Monday's still and usually finish work between 5&6pm so it's a long day.

Luckily my yard, home and work are all within 10 mins of each other which helps.
 
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