Guilty confessions?

[shortstuff99]

My secret confession is I pretend I don't shoe or boot because I'm 'natural' in my horsekeeping. But really it is because it is cheaper not to shoe and I'm far too lazy to boot/bandage.

I also feed really simply and basic because it's cheaper too ?

 

[Jellymoon]

I have a confession, though there’s no guilt attached! ?

I did an experiment with my horses and put down a patch of shavings in the outdoor hardcore area, to see if they would wee there, instead of using the indoor big bed they lie-down on.
They both share this open-to-the-yard big bed, and so them both peeing in it meant the deep-bed had to be mucked out fully every 6 weeks winter. Each full re-bed is 12 bags pellets/3 bags shavings - to start, then each week add shavings and pellets.
The outdoor pee patch was a way to save on bedding….and it works! They pee there and poop, the rain is almost daily here to wash away and dilute the pee into a nearby grass area and a drain further along- so that area gets fertilised too along the way.
The stable is much cleaner, yet still use it for some pee’s and poops….but most is outside, and im using less bedding, saving the friggin’ planet one pee at a time! ??

Ooh, I have same set up and may try this ??

 

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My secret confession is I pretend I don't shoe or boot because I'm 'natural' in my horsekeeping. But really it is because it is cheaper not to shoe and I'm far too lazy to boot/bandage.

I also feed really simply and basic because it's cheaper too ?

same lol


also the shetland is currently on the most shockingly awful diet imaginable

 

[Cragrat]

I collect all the uneaten hay and floor scrapings and give it to one of my mares. who eats every last bit. We call it her "kebab hay", because we reckon shes the kind of girl who'd eat kebabs out of the bin after a big night out.

I have an ex-racer who was bred at a very posh stud and lived a jet set lifestyle before coming to slum it with me - he won't touch hay which has been in his manger more than 8 hours - so it gets moved on to my homebred, who sorts through it, and anything left by him goes to my daughters Irish-bred exracer, who is a equine dustbin. The posh TB also demands that his water is changed more often than Putin comes up with excuses.

 

[PurBee]

I have an ex-racer who was bred at a very posh stud and lived a jet set lifestyle before coming to slum it with me - he won't touch hay which has been in his manger more than 8 hours - so it gets moved on to my homebred, who sorts through it, and anything left by him goes to my daughters Irish-bred exracer, who is a equine dustbin. The posh TB also demands that his water is changed more often than Putin comes up with excuses.

??
i have a cat at the level of your posh tb. 10 different types of crunchies i bought, all A grade stuff…does she like any of them?! Of course not! ? luckily i have an eat anything boy cat ?

 

[Auslander]

My rescue/ feral thing eats anything. If I drop hay on the yard he’ll kick the hell out of his door until I give it to him. I’ve watched him eat hay out of a bush before after it blew in there ?

I can trump that! One of mine was eating hay out of the muck skip earlier! One of the liveries mucked out yesterday and didn't sift out the kebab hay - so the long necked beast in the pen near the skip dealt with it!

 

[MereChristmas]

I can trump that! One of mine was eating hay out of the muck skip earlier! One of the liveries mucked out yesterday and didn't sift out the kebab hay - so the long necked beast in the pen near the skip dealt with it!

In my experience all horses will eat from the wheelbarrow, muck heap etc having left the pristine hay in the stable just as they always drink the mucky rainwater from the old barrel on the way to the field.

 

[dorsetladette]

I've given up clearing the hay from the mud/mats round the hay feeder. I'm pretending its because its giving them some thing to stand on (out of the mud) while they eat but really its because its a horrible job I really don't want to do.

 

[Sealine]

I don’t change water daily as long as it’s clean. I top up as necessary and scrub the trug once or twice a week. I only scrub feed bowls once a week. My horse is very good at licking them clean. Despite this he has survived ?.

His hay is soaked so anything not eaten has to be thrown away. I’m obsessed about keeping his shavings bed immaculate so nothing to confess there.

 

[usaequestrian]

Here's my confession:
I spent $20 on fancy treats for Angel.
In my defense I was hyped after winning my competition and wasn't really thinking...

 

[Sossigpoker]

When I eat a banana or apple in the car , I chuck the peel or core out the window into the hedges I drive past.
I reckon a fox or a badger or something will have it as a snack.

(I don't litter , ever,.this is my only exception as it's just fruit and I'm in the countryside )

 

[HG95]

When I eat a banana or apple in the car , I chuck the peel or core out the window into the hedges I drive past.
I reckon a fox or a badger or something will have it as a snack.

(I don't litter , ever,.this is my only exception as it's just fruit and I'm in the countryside )

I eat bananas and save the skin / peel as my lad loves it absolutely no waste here

 

[Sossigpoker]

I eat bananas and save the skin / peel as my lad loves it absolutely no waste here

I usually have them on the way home but that's a good tip!

 

[Nasicus]

I eat bananas and save the skin / peel as my lad loves it absolutely no waste here

The groom at a yard I used to livery on would always give my mare her left over banana peels from her morning break, she loved them!

 

[dorsetladette]

I don’t change water daily as long as it’s clean. I top up as necessary and scrub the trug once or twice a week. I only scrub feed bowls once a week. My horse is very good at licking them clean. Despite this he has survived ?.

His hay is soaked so anything not eaten has to be thrown away. I’m obsessed about keeping his shavings bed immaculate so nothing to confess there.

I rarely shrub water buckets just top up everyday. If we had an auto water trough that is all that would happen. No ones died! It gets emptied, rinsed and refilled if there is anything suspicious lurking in it.

Feed buckets get a rinse out as and when they look like they need it. Sugarbeet bucket get a rinse and wipe round after every batch just because I have to take it to the tap for water anyway.

I must be a terrible owner as I didn't even realise this needed to be confessed!

 

[exracehorse]

I haven’t groomed my retired mare for 4 years. She’s actually being clipped on Thursday as she’s a wooly mammoth. Not sure what I will find under that coat.

 

[Fransurrey]

I throw poo into the hedge when I’m poo picking too avoid barrow emptying. ?

I think a lot of people do this. I throw a lot of mine into the woods. I have superb bluebells!!

 

[catembi]

I can trump that! One of mine was eating hay out of the muck skip earlier! One of the liveries mucked out yesterday and didn't sift out the kebab hay - so the long necked beast in the pen near the skip dealt with it!

I caught my Dartmoor eating hay off the broom when I left it unattended... She did a good job as I had been vaguely thinking about getting round to doing something about the state of the broom...

 

[smolmaus]

Sadie has been known to reach over the wall of the muck heap as we walk past and snatch old haylage that has made it all the way there. By the time the muck heap is high enough that she can reach it, goodness knows how long it's been sat there ?

Maybe the wrong thread for that, as she feels no guilt or shame.

 

[Annagain]

I recycle water in the same way that others do bedding. Charlie doesn't seem to like fresh tap water and Archie is a weirdo. If I give him two buckets, he'll drain every last drop from both buckets. If I give him a third he'll still drain two buckets but won't touch the third (always the bucket furthest from the door, even when I rotate the actual buckets). I obviously can't leave him with two as he needs to have something left just in case so I use the third one to top up Charlie's water and fill A's with fresh. Even when I scrub Charlie's water trug every weekend I have to put at least 1/2 old water back in or he won't touch it.