How early do you get up to do the horses?

What time do you get up to do your horses in the winter?

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I get up around 6:30, leave the house at 6:45 to get to the yard by 7:00. Feed, rug and turnout the horses. Leave yard around 7:35. All mucking out, riding etc is done later.
 
Jaycee said:
Do any YO's who live on site object to owners arriving so early to do their horse's?

I have been on a yard where the YO's lived on site, they would have complained bitterly if anyone arrived before 8am unless you were Hunting or showing and then we had to creep around and make as little noise as possible! And as for being there after dusk......well don't even go there! Needless to say I didn't stay there for long!
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It's one of the (many) reasons I don't offer DIY livery, I wouldn't be terribly thrilled with people turning up before 8 am on regular basis, they might be quiet, but my dogs bark every time a car turns up the drive/somebody walks into the yard. My clients can come up as late as they like, I don't go to bed early anyway, but I discourage them from the early morning visits :)
 
Mine are kept at a farm. The couple have cut down a lot now they're older, but still farmers through & through. I imagine if I made as much noise as possible at 4am they might be a bit narked. But told when I moved on they prefer to be warned if you plan on turning up before 5am, & to keep the noise down before 6am. Tbh though would have to try very hard to disturb them from the yard to the house.
 
I only have to be in work in the morning 2 days a week, the rest is afternoon starts. Luckily my yard is on a rota system so i only have to do one early morning a week.. and by early i mean the yard is breakfasted by 8:30 ;)
Even luckier for me, my morning is the same morning as one i work so i only have to have 2 early starts, not three!
 
5.45ish. He lives in his turnout rugs and only gets fed once a day so I get to the yard for 6, turn out, skip/muck out and do hay+water if I have time. get home around 7 and get ready for school/work
 
Get up around 9 ish if he's on one of his "in" days (between 2 and 3 days a week) as he's on assisted so they give him his breakfast and a haynet in the mornings for me. I aim to be at the yard for 10 to take him out for his first ride (ridden twice on an "in" day), skip him out and give him another haynet. If I leave the yard I'll be back around 3 to ride again, muck out and get him sorted for the night - another livery comes up between 8 and 9 for her horse so gives him a late night net for me.

On an "out" day it doesn't matter what time I get there as he's fed, rugged and turned out for me.
 
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It depends on what time OH is going to work, I get up when he does, that can be 5am or 7am.

The horses don't care, they are out anyway.
 
Winter routine will be alarm at 6am up by 6.15 roll out of bed into some clothes out the door to be at the yard by 6.30am feed/rug up/turnout /muck out/ make feeds and hay nets for evening. Home by 7.30 shower and ready for work, out the door again before 8.30am.. Oh how I love winter! But as winter goes on I get tired and want a lay in bed so changes to being at yard by 7.30 and straight to work by 8.30 smelling of l'odor de horse... Lovely :D
 
I am amazed at how you all get out of bed and out of the door in minutes. I have to have an hour between getting up and leaving the house for tea and generally preparing to meet the day, then I feel up for anything. If I tried getting up 15 mins before leaving home I would feel so stressed and hassled all day. So I'm up at 6 to go out at 7. Maybe it's an age thing.
 
ribbons said:
I am amazed at how you all get out of bed and out of the door in minutes. I have to have an hour between getting up and leaving the house for tea and generally preparing to meet the day, then I feel up for anything. If I tried getting up 15 mins before leaving home I would feel so stressed and hassled all day. So I'm up at 6 to go out at 7. Maybe it's an age thing.
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Not an age thing for me, have been rolling out of bed, dress & go - to zip to the yard (anything from 2 to 4 miles over the years of house moving) for years.
Even when daughter was born 28yrs ago I used to zip off & get things done so was back in time for the (then) husband to go to work. When she was older I would still do same & get back in time to get her up for school :)

Still dont find it a prob on work days even now - nip to yard & do chores, home for shower, cuppa & read of paper & then off to work. I dont ride however on work mornings. Poo-picking by torchlight is a regular experience at this time of the year :D

On non-work days I allow myself a luxury of an extra half hour lie-in & then have a cuppa before going to yard, arriving around 7.30 then :)

I suppose its an ingrained habit for me :)
 
i do alternate weekly starts at work so one week i have to be in for 7.30am and the following week i start at 8.30am

i have stable ocd so HAVE to muck out in the morning i cant leave it for a day so when i am on earlies i go to yard for 5.30am and when i am "late" shift i go up at 6.30am...
 
I don't get the people that are getting up at 8, 9, 10 etc. Do you not work? :confused:

Horse is currently 'at home' (kept at next door neighbours) Alarm goes off at 6.30am, I get straight up, am on yard for 6.40am. Turn out, muck (skip) out (he's on Wood pellets GODSEND) Do haynet, feed and water. Leave 7.10am, home, get ready for work and leave for work at 7.50 as have to be in work for about 8am....but I'm always in about 10 past. :o

Finish work about 10 past 5pm, at yard for 5.40pm. Mon & Wed I don't ride so it's just poo pick and put him to bed. Am home by 6- 6.15pm :)

Tues, Thurs and Fri, ride etc and am normally home by about 7.30-7.45.

Weekends I have a lie in as I leave him out Fri, Sat and Sun nights so am normally down, done jobs and ridden and DONE by about 12-1 o clock and that's it :)
 
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Wagtail said:
I mean actually get out of bed, not when your alarm goes off ;). To do your horse(s) in the winter?

I am not too bad and get out of bed around 6.45 to feed at 7 - 7.15. I feed and turn out and then go back inside for my cup of tea and breakfast before going out again to muck out, ride and do lessons. I know many of you do your horses and even ride before work :eek:
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:-( I did it wrong I thought you meant arrive at the yard.. I am a 5am girl *yawn & rub eyes*
 
This morning I managed to ride for forty minutes, muck out, the farrier came and shod, I turned out and I was still at my desk at five to nine ( I work forty minutes from the yard too!)

I am a bit tired now though :o But I'm blaming that on the rotten cold
 
Alarm off at 7am, stumble out door shortly after, walk to end of garden. Morning feed, quick check over and rug change if required for my horse and my son's pony. Coffee brewing throughout. Espresso consumed, shower, dressed. Son up and dressed and dropped at nursery for 8am.

After that I have a break and just do a full day's work ;)

Thank God they are at home and living out.....
 
I get up at 7.30 get ready for work and leave for work at 8 to be there for work at 8.30. Luckily my horse is excatly halfway between work and home and only 2 miles from work. I feed and turn out. Then go back at luchtime and muck out etc in daylight as have no electric at my yard.
 
Never mind how you cope, I wonder how some of you are still alive.

Personally I find the least time I can get up and ready for work in is about half an hour (I don't function without coffee, the cat is very demanding) but that does involve a more extensive effort at personal grooming than i'd bother with for going to stables
 
This winter it's 7.30 on weekdays. Out the door by 8am, walk to yard, taking dog with me.

They live out so I check/change rugs, feed, hay, poo-pick and exercise one or two (depending on if I ride or lunge), normally back home by about 10/ 10.30.

As our business is more of a summer one, I only usually work 11am - 3pm in winter, mostly from home.
 
ribbons said:
I am amazed at how you all get out of bed and out of the door in minutes. I have to have an hour between getting up and leaving the house for tea and generally preparing to meet the day, then I feel up for anything. If I tried getting up 15 mins before leaving home I would feel so stressed and hassled all day. So I'm up at 6 to go out at 7. Maybe it's an age thing.
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Me too, even when I get up at 2am to drive to London for a flight, I still faff around having coffee and coming round!

Starzaan said:
Out of bed at 4:15am to be on the yard for half past..
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Why?? I can't see why you have to get up at that hour, especially as its your job and you don't have to rush off to another workplace. Apart from the days that you have a string of hunters to muck out and plait perhaps?

We do the horses at 8am(ish) in summer (out during nights) and 6.30 (husband if I'm away) or 7.30 (if I'm home) in winter.
 
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My furry alarm, aka the cat, goes off at around 6is, and I get up at 6.30, leave home by 7.20, arrive at horse about 7.50 but that depends on the weather/traffic conditions - its a 17 mile drive. Do horse and then its a 45 - 60 minute drive to work :( Traffic conditions rule again! Luckily I don't have to work fixed hours and can make up my time by only having half an hour lunch or staying later. Evenings are just as bad and I'm lucky to be home by 7.30pm
 
I get up at 7.30, I leave the house around 8 and get to the yard at 8.10. Turn out, Muck out, do waters and make feeds. Leave yard at 8.40 and come to work for 9. I do my hay nets in the evening.
 
SummerxStarsx said:
I don't get the people that are getting up at 8, 9, 10 etc. Do you not work? :confused:
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You could say I play ponies all day, I suppose... or, I run the yard and together with the farm this IS my job, and I see no reason why I should be getting up at the crack of dawn, the animals don't know what time it is and as long as they are seen to at suitable intervals, they don't mind.
 
martlin said:
You could say I play ponies all day, I suppose... or, I run the yard and together with the farm this IS my job, and I see no reason why I should be getting up at the crack of dawn, the animals don't know what time it is and as long as they are seen to at suitable intervals, they don't mind.
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Well obviously if you're self employed, run your own business it's a bit different. If I was self-employed or ran my own business I think my getting up time would be about 8- 8.30 and horse seen to and turned out by about 9.

Unfortunately I don't have that luxury :p
 
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