Horses and lie-ins ...

I work shifts, neds have got used to random time visits. They are out 24/7 & I'm happy so long as I manage to visit twice a day. They have no regular times but all seem happy & healthy.
 
5.45 during the week - 5 if I want to ride before work in the summer. Weekends are my luxury, 7.30 wake up and then to the yard for 8.30. Couldn't function without my weekend treat!
 
Mines been on full livery for a while now but I still go every morning/evening I can and I stick to the YO routine too. He turns out an hour later every weekend so we all just get that little bit longer. I don't really get a lie in anyway though as we have four children and my partner works a lot of hours! When I do get the odd one I have to admit, I wake up feeling awful because I 'could' of gone and didn't! :o
 
If I am 'allowed to' I get my lie ins when I go away on holiday...which is not very often. Sadly, my OH still gets up early and disturbs me lots and at most I am able to lie in until 8-8.30am before he nags me and disturbs me enough that I get up.
My lad is stabled at night all year due to previous laminitis, so even at the weekends I am up at 5am to let him out, and ride.
 
I feel that I have slept in if it get to 6am! I just cant sleep past 6 as hubby is up at 5.30am. I had a friend do my horses for a few weeks in Feb as I had shoulder surgery, but I was still up at 5.30! It just seems in built that I have to get up early, even when I go on holiday!
 
Sometimes I would love a lie in but I find the having a lie in tricky too - mine has to be in quite a bit over night in the summer to keep him off the grass so very few times is he out overnight. And one of the times he was out I didn't get there til 11.30am to find him hideously lame and felt SO guilty, mind you the fact that there were 10 other geldings in the field which should have been checked by their owners too that morning slightly worried me that no-one had noticed! But then unless he'd walked in their presence they wouldn't have seen how bad it was. I'm the first on the yard at the moment in the week and when I turn mine out check the other horses that have been out overnight, that a) I can see them all, b) that at some point they wander about.The field they're in for the summer has not got many houses overlooking it so the horses can be hidden from view. It's just something I've always done as we've over the years found horses with various, bad cuts, colic, broken pelvis, massively infected leg etc. But I guess in reality anything can happen with horses at anytime (even 5 mins after you've left them) :o Ideal thing would be having horses in your own paddock outside your own premises :) and also like you, earlier hacking on the lanes is better here than later at weekend so have to be up and about.
 
I am the worlds heaviest sleeper and am used to pub hours so can easily lie in until 10 if I turn my alarm off! Pony has now been moved to Part livery due to a medical issue (mine) so it doesn't matter what time I get to the yard.
 
Out 24:7 and I go up once and do him and another livery. She does the same at another time of day for me. Lovely in the winter and im writing this in bed as other half is still fasto and I don't want to wake him up with our squeaky door knob! :-D I can lie in. Just can't sleep in!
 
I cheat because they are at home, I find it impossible to stay asleep past usual silly oclock but if I spy on them out the window and they are happily munching/ sleeping then I can go back to bed and usually get back to sleep or read a bit til I drop off again - summer months are bliss!!
 
I spend my uni term time getting up at unearthly times - 3:30-4:00am so when they are all out and its summer hols im sure as going to lie in, the latest being till about 9:30
 
I have a 3 year old and a 8 year old, so we all usually wake up at 3yearold-o'clock. If they don't wake me up, the dogs wake me up to go out, if they don't wake me up, I have to get up anyway to feeds the horses and let the chickens out.

And then its reversed at bedtime lol
 
Lay in what's that????

I'm up at 5.30am 5days a week normally and then on the weekend I feel guilty if I'm not at the yard by 8 she expects her breakfast and I I am 1 minute pat I can hear her shouting all the way down the drive to the yard mares!!!

I have realised I'm not superwoman and paid the YO to do her on Sundays to give me the day off but it's taken years to accept I need time to myself without feeling guilty and I still wait for the text to say she's TO/BI lol

I'm currently in enforced lie ins as had an op have been horseless for 4weeks and I am totally lost she on the other hand is living her holiday at a friends and quiet as a lamb!!

Typical!!
 
Get 500kgs of horse land on you, break your pelvis and have as many lie ins as you want......


....oh wait, hang on. No, even that doesn't work as I am still waking up at stupid o'clock, 2 minutes before when my alarm would usually go off, as usual. Can't go back to sleep then as the pain kicks in so have to get up.

If I were you though, i'd see if maybe one of the people you help in the week could do one of your weekend mornings for you. Then, even if you do wake up, you can just close your eyes and go back to sleep. It won't work for a while, but after a few weeks, you will be able to nod back off for a few hours. Xxx
 
My boy is outside the bedroom window virtually, I feed hay at 9pm, greedy git then scoffs it until every last bit is gone then stands hayless till I get there, sometimes I go down earlier in my dressing gown and turn him out and sometimes he has to wait for me to emerge, 8.30/9am. He not stressed and his belly is certainly not shrunk any!!
 
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