How do you do your horses before work?

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I used to go see the horses every evening, either to ride or just to check them over and someone used to check them in the morning for me, but because of the boggy fields, rain etc i've been trying to bring them in at night and let them out in the morning or vice versa depending on the weather.

But this morning i went to put them out in the field, so now im at work stinking of a horse and i didnt even touch them, muck out or give them hay!! I opened their stable door, they trot off down to the field, i follow in the car and shut the field gate behind them! So i hardly did anything and i smell and am windswept!

If i take spare clothes, i still smell like a horse, my hair goes windswept and needs straighteners to re-tame it - and today is sunshine and a slight breeze!!

How the hell do people go to work everyday on the way to work and gets get cringed at my work collegues!?

I am now doused in Jean Paul D'Gaultier perfume (dont tell my bf ive wasted it on covering horse stench!!) so making people sneeze when they walk into the room :D
 
Several things live in a bag in my car: a hairbrush, deodorant, dry shampoo, wellies, overalls and a can of febreeze!!

I'm lucky in that I'm at a yard so can nip into the tea room and clean up before work though :)
 
Mine are also in at the moment - one of mine has an abscess so the other one is keeping him company ... so feel like its winter again :(

Luckily my yard is only about a mile from home so I actually get up, stick horsey clothes, load dog into car and go up there half asleep but then can get back change clothes before heading off to work but there’s been many a time I’ve gone ‘on my way to work’ and I’ll sit at my desk and keep getting ‘horse smell wafts’ eughhhh luckily I sit near the door so keep it open and douse myself in perfume just like you haha … I work on a building site (in the office) so the lads are used to my sweaty smell now! :eek:
 
I wear gloves and a hat and then get changed in the tack room. Deoderant perfume baby wipes etc. I used to smell ok (i think :)) after a full muck ouut. What bedding are you on I used to find straw made me stink what ever I did.
 
Mine are at home so I put trousers and jacket over my pyjamas, Wellies on and walk through the garden to the yard!
Very lucky, I know, but at least I can then go and have a shower.

Many a time in the winter I have stood in a line at the shops and been mortified at the stink of haylage. I love it but am 100% sure by the looks on their faces that nobody standing within 100 metres of me, feels the same....especially when it is mixed with 'odour de poo'...
 
I'm lucky - work is in the opposite direction to the yard :D

I get up before 6 & fall out of bed - driving to the yard on auto-pilot, do chores & come home. (I do 'everything' in the morning, thus saving time in the evening if weather is crummy after work).
Home again, shower, change, coffee.... then off to work :)
In the height of light evenings, I go home after work have early supper & then go to yard (avoiding rush-hour again :D) - I like to think it keeps me in 'trim' with eating & then going out again :D

By going v early I miss the mad-rush hour on the roads too & in summer its great if its a lovely day (what are those, tho?:confused:).
In winter its dark even on my commute, so I dont think the fuzzies are bothered about being vampires :D
 
...................There's no secret, you just have to get up earlier to give yourself time to do everything you need to do before going off to work.
 
I get someone else to do it!

My alarm goes off at 5.50am as it is (start work at 7am) so although I could do mine in the morning it would involve the alarm going off at around 4.30am everyday- not going to happen!
 
I sometimes do mine on the way to work - if I do I get changed totally at work, deodorant, wipes etc. Usually though I go home and shower after, even though it is in wrong direction (reason why my fuel bill so bad!)

Molly on box rest atm and deep litter shavings, much less smell than mucking out straw. I do like straw but I am not missing the smell!

My collagues are used to the wiff of horse though as my wellies are usually in the corner of the office, however as I'm the boss it is tough ;)
 
When I was on DIY I would do the horse on the way to the office. Due to restrictions on getting onto the yard I would have to get ready before I went to the yard. I would do a full M/O and T/O. I found the following helped:
* Use a floral disinfectant in the stable as soon as you have got the wee out (I use zoflora)
* Wear completely different clothes
* Tie hair up and put a cap on (my hair goes afro the second I step foot on the yard for some reason so I had no choice but to put it up)
* Wash hands and arms on yard then babywipe over the top when in the car
* Plenty of deodorant and perfume!
 
Get up early enough! Yard round the corner so daughter, dog & I get dressed & go straight there, then home for showers, breakfast etc. Summer just check them over, do feet & fly repellent. Autumn & spring take rugs off/swop & hay depending on weather. Dec to Jan turnout & do jobs, so beds just need putting down. Daughter does her own so only one for me to do. She does feeds in exchange for me taking barrow if its deep mud. When daughter was too small to do much she did waters, feeds, fastened rug straps etc while I did heavy jobs.
 
I ride mine before work so eau de poo is mixed with eau de sweat and it is not good. I get up at 5 and do not start work until 10 but it is a waste of time and money to go back home as it is a 20 minute drive the wrong way just to get home.

I take a complete change of clothes, can do a partial wash at the field, apply deodorant, make up and hair brush and dry shampoo. I change my shoes once in the car to keep them clean.

I keep my car as clean as possible too. I don't think I smell but it is a pain and I really want to move closer to make it a sensible use of time and money to go to work via home. Getting fed up of doing this but it can be done. I also work somewhere that takes appearance very seriously!
 
im really lucky in that I work in an office with 6 other girls, four of us have horses / ponies so we are used to horsey smells! none of the other girls mind or comment on it
 
I probably really whiff then. I muck out in the morning, go to work, change in the work changing rooms and keep my yard clothes and boots on a bag by my desk.
No complaints yet though.
 
Here is the MAJOR plus side of working with horses!
I simply turn up plastered in mud and hair smelling sweetly of who knows what but its perfectly normal so does everyone! :-D
 
I get up at 5am in order that I can get back home, showered and changed.
However, on a similar note I do cycle the 12 miles to work a couple of times a week and because of the Derbys hills I have to get up, I am fairly sweaty when I get to work!
I have a complete wash bag, deodorant, make up, brush the lot at work and a change of clothes that I take in each Monday when I am in the car. So I get to work and have a sink wash and have never had a problem with smelling, feel fresh and ready for the day.
 
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