How do you fit your horses in ?

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How do you fit your horses into your daily lives? I get up at 5.30am weekdays so that I can be at the yard for 6am to turnout, muck out and leave everything ready for the evening. I then go back after work at 6pm to bring in, ride etc. At the moment my horses are out 24/7 so everyhting is a little more relaxed but I still go up early to check, poo pick and feed them. However by the end of the day I'm knackered and have to go to bed by 10pm!

Life is slightly more plesant at the weekend but I am still at the yard in the morning for 8am.
 
When it isn't school holidays or weekends - up at 5.30 to muck out/feed before school, returning after school to ride, feed and skip out.

Of course, during the summer life is a bit relaxed when Star is out at grass, but during the winter, when she is in, that is our routine.
 
Mine go out at night, so in the morning I bring them in, then work, ride and turnout in evenings.
 
I think the question for me is 'when do i fit work in?' I am lucky and work part time. My jobs fit around my horses and i can take a day off or change my work days at any time so i can compete during the week or have lessons. I dont earn a fortune but its enough to keep my boys and compete every week.
OH says he will keep me but not the horses!
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Mine go out at night, so in the morning I bring them in, then work, ride and turnout in evenings.

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Ditto.

And I suspect that with a lot of us it's not about fitting the horses in - but rather, fitting everything else in........
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I am lucky because my boss lets me work 9.30 to 6 so that I can always ride in the mornings, even through the winter when it's dark in the mornings. Still means I am up v early, but at least at the end of the day, most of the work is done as I am definitely more of a morning person!
 
I pay to have mine put out in the morning =D


But then I have to get a bus to stables as OH has the car for work which is opposite direction to stables.
 
up at 5.30am, at yard by 5.50am, muck out, ride,feed, start work at 8am, finish work at 4pm go and do up for the night and home by 6.30pm. We have no turn out at our yard at the moment so evenings are spent hand-grazing for hours!!
 
I'm lucky in that I only have to ride but I have a hell of a lot of riding to fit in around a full time job! I get home from work at 7pm then will go ride and get home at about 10.45ish. I do that 4 evenings a week and have Fri night for partying (I don't ride any before work as have to get up at 6.30 anyway but may have to start riding one before when the new one comes). Then Sat and Sun I will be riding/competing all day and social life in the evenings. Sounds as though a few of us could do with a 36 hr day
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i'm lucky the yard is 15mins max from home and 3 mins from work, i do 9am-5pm so i tend to get to yard 7.30am and ride or 8.15 if not riding, then back to yard just after 5pm, in summer go hacking get home about 8.30pm, in winter i'm home around 7pm.
 
Like the others - fit everything else in around horse.
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But I am extremely lucky in that I have the MOST amazing Dad who is unhorsey, but helps me soo much and who my horse loves, so thats a bonus! I couldn't do most of what I do without the help of my dad, especially lessons, comps etc after work as he will get her in, hitch up trailer etc for me ready to go
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(and muck out ready for when we get back!)
I've found that rubber matting helps to save on mucking out time!
Sorry not much help for suggestions (Dad not for sale!)
 
with great difficulty!!

having two jobs and 2.5 horses has made things a little tricky. thankgod for a brilliant sharer.

Due to having to quit 2nd job it is going to be slightly less frantic
 
I am up at 5 30 in the morning feed muck out turn out mine and others so people get my boy in then off to work then back at 6 have something to eat then out to ride!!!
 
I work full time but horses are stabled in my village. I have mare and foal and half share in companion, no riding, but loads that has to be done with 6 acres. I seem to be constantly mending fencing, removing foliage from fenceline, picking ragwort, checking for rabbit holes, etc. etc.

Gosh, if I was riding I would never see OH at all!!
 
I get up between 5.00 - 5.30am during the week to do ponies before work and with them again after work - I usually fall asleep on the sofa by 10pm
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I thought I would have a slightly easier time when I moved my ponies from a DIY yard to a rented field and out 24hrs but find I am doing more - there is always something to do, poo picking, moving electric fencing as well as general feeding, grooming etc and now Chum is back in work after the injection for his arthritis, the vet wants me to exercise him 5 times a week ideally - though it is just gentle hacking at the moment.

However, I do allow them a lie in at the weekend
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they don't see to mind me turning up a couple of hours later than normal.

I would still say it's better having them on your own because you are working to your own timetable and no-one else's but you need some sort of back up if you are away etc.
 
i'm very lucky as my filly is kept on the yard where i work so i check on her before i start and if i want to do anything with her, i do it when i finish.
she's only 14 months old so not like i have much to do anyway
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mine are at home. We have four between my Mum and I, during term time (when I'm working - teacher) she does rug change and turn out in the morning. She does her beds and rides in the day (she work pt from home), I do mine and exercise after work and then bring hers in and change rugs, do feeds etc. I ride both 5/6 times a week but I have reduced hacking out because it is too time consuming. I reckon I spend about 3-3.5 hours a day.
I work quite quick though, I can muck out, bed down, sweep, fork up muck heap, do hay nets and waters for all four in about 45mins - which is not bad if I do say so myself!
 
Well I plan to have my boy out all year round as he has access to a field stable all the time. So I get up at 5am to ride, fill haynets, water in time for leaving for work at 7.30am. Then in the evening I poo pick, feed, hay, water at 7pm.
In the winter this will all be done in the dark with a head torch as I have no lighting at all!
 
I work nights, I go to the yard in the morning after work to turn out and do jobs, then the YO will get him in for me while I have a bit of a life in the evening.

My cousin rides/mucks out for me twice a week to help as well.
 
I work shifts so:

Earlies 07:00-14:30 go to yard after work as horses fed and turned out as part of the livery. Get to yard at about 4pm and do all the usual.

Lates 14:00-21:30 get to yard around 8am and do the usual and pay for him to be brought in.

Nights 21:00- 07:00 go to bed at 8am ish and get up at 4pm, rush to yard and usually only muck out etc, usually too tired to ride
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or if competing, pay for mucking out for the week and then I can ride
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Weekdays go like this....

My friend does morings as as I work full time and it takes me over an hour to drive to work, I finish work at half 5, drive to yard, bring the horses in, muck out mine, ride, then off to job number 2. I get home about 10 PM.
 
Horses on DIY, so Oct til April is out 6.30 am and home 8pm, wiht full day at work in the middle
But its only 15 mins to the yard and then 20 mins on to work, so its home- yard- work- yard- home
Haivng somewhere to get washed and changed is helpful.

I;d be out just a long hours if I oommuted to London, as some neighbours do.
 
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