Enfys
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If there is snow on the gound take hay out to the field on a sled.
Sled also works for frosty ground or mud :0
If you are using a wheelbarrow in muddy ground - pull, don't push.
If there is snow on the gound take hay out to the field on a sled.
Keep a large plastic sieve by water troughs, useful for clearing all kinds of stuff out of troughs, leaves, drowned creatures, ice ...
Someone has just shared a brilliant idea on my FB newsfeed .... a pair of over gloves draped over a saddle (when not on the horse, of course) with the stirrups curled back and tucked into the padded bits at the end where you would stick your hands to protect them. Keeps the stirrups secure and doesn't mark your saddle. Inspirational ....
Anyone else ... ?
I've just bought a plastic garden sieve from Aldi to hopefully pick out the tiny bits of poo in my pellet beds (not every day! Not that fussy!). Thought I could have a good sort through a couple of times a week and the holes look big enough to let the whole pellets through whilst catching the small bits of dung that fall through the fork. If it works, it will be £1.75 well spent!
put a brick or similar in the water trough, with a bit of bailer twine up and over the edge. When it freezes simply lift out the ice with the string.
Put a brick or similar in the water trough, with a bit of bailer twine up and over the edge. When it freezes simply lift out the ice with the string.
The blue plastic barrels that most yards seem to have can be used for numerous things. Cut the lid off & then drill 3 holes equal distances apart around the top & put a long nut & bolt through the holes. Once done you can hook your hay net inside the barrel holding it open for stuffing it with hay. It costs you nothing & speeds up hay net filling.
It works, Cornish - I borrowed one for a while for my pellet bed, and then bought one of my own, and it's massively cut down on pellet wastage and those annoying little bits of poo! I can get a night's waste into about a third of a barrow that way, and love that it's possible to get it really tidy.
Does have the side effect that my yard neighbours call my mucking out 'panning for poo' but that's a degree of mockery that I'm prepared to take!