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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Oh I am so spoilt :rolleyes:

My neddies are at my parents place and as I have trained all 3 ponies to got to their respective stables my Dad lets them out / gets them in (depending on whether they are out in day or night) for me in the mornings. Dad is very well trained :D (well, most of the time)

I do them every evening and at weekends.

As long as I prep stables / feeds and leave Dad a note it normally works out fine.

I do strange hours at work and cobble that with OH doing shifts and us having to do school run it makes it incredibly hard for me to travel the 20 mile round trip in the mornings just for what essentially is to open / close a couple of stable doors.
 
If I want to ride, alarm goes off at 5, I'm up at 5.15 and in the saddle by 6-6.15am, off the yard by 7.45, leaving home by 8.40 to be at work for 10.
If I'm not riding alarm goes off at 6am, on the yard by 6.30/6.45 to poo pick and feed before going off to work. I hate winter! ;) just very glad for a floodlit school and off road hacking so I can ride in the dark!
In summer I ride after work so I get up at 7, go and check he's got 4 legs and sort him properly in the evening- sometimes means I'm not home till 10pm tho!
A friend is on the yard at 5.30am every morning without fail, no need to be (only works 3 mornings a week) but says she likes it, now that is mad! Mind you, it is nice to have a hacking partner at silly am in the morning.
 
Bit of an odd one really . . . I have to be up so I can ferry OH and elder daughter to work/school before I go do the boy (during the week) so although I'm up at 5.30/6.00 a.m., I don't get to him much before 8.15 . . . I could prise myself out of bed/the house at 5 so that he was done before I did my taxi job . . .

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alarm goes off at 7am all year round
apart from weekends
they just have to live with a late breakfast if i sleep in - not the best of sleepers anyway so if i sleep late i enjoy it rather than feel guilty! latest is about 9.30 though
 
Oh, should add, lucky that he's out 24/7 so I get lie ins on a saturday (work on a yard on a sunday so no lie in there!)
Not sure I could cope with anymore than 1 tho, those of you with 4+ horses I take my hat off to and I do admit I marginally envy those who don't need to get up till gone 9am! I am also not sure what I'm gonna do when its too dark to poo pick before work, (first winter of him living out) put headlights on my wheelbarrow maybe ;).
(Can't edit my original post on my phone, sorry!)
 
In winter, alarm goes off at 4.15 and im in the car and on my way by 4.25. Yard is 26 miles away round trip. I muck out, change rugs and turnout with the idea that I could then ride and put to bed in the evening. Must admit though that I gave in and started having them turned out by YO in the end and did all chores in the evening.
 
6.30am to get a ride in before work:)
i ride out on roads/byways so I do make the call on the weather the night before as I'm conscious that if i do meet the odd car they tend to be in a hurry on backroads so i'll only ride if weather/visibility is good.

please please can they stop putting the clocks back so i'm forced to do this in the morning when i'd much rather do it in the evening:(

I obsess over the weather forecast in the winter:o
 
If I'm working it's normally a 7am start (which means catching the bus at 6.30 to work). If I shower before bed then I'll be up at 5-5.30am, if I shower in the morning I'll be up at 4-4.30am! At the yard for 6am to turnout, do my chores after work.

In summer, he's out, so whenever :p
 
Last winter I did them on my way home from work (0700).
Now I'm on days, I'll probably only do them once a day - each evening. One pony uses her hoof to smash her ice, so I'm surplus to requirements, they get adlib hay, and there are plenty people about so they are looked in on, several times a day :)
Depending on how they go, I may need to go up in mornings (doubt it), so it can be any time from 0600-0845 depending on that weeks wok rota.
 
About 7.30. Horses on site, so get up go out and chuck them out. Back in brekkie and then school run. I don't work ( farmers so do all farm books and paperwork and help on farm) so I pretty much muck out at some point in day, although usually mornings :)
 
Dont think it will change too much in winter but as i have a half hour drive to her i have to get up a abit earlier. (will soon change as moving house wheee!)

So for the moment i get up at 6.40 dressed and dinner made and out the house at 6.50 at yard for bout 7.20 sort feed and go poo pick. Leave yard at 7.55 get to work at 8.15 and have breakfast start work at 9 :)

Winter i will replace poo picking in morning with mucking out and poo pick after work. Alarm will be set for 6 though :(
 
Bleurgh, you're all so hardcore! :p

Alarm goes 6am.. I usually manage to roll out of bed by 6.20 but occasionally it's nearer 6.30. At yard by 7.30.

In the hour between I shower; toast/coffee; put on make-up and blowdry hair if it's not a running-late-day; then off by 7.15. Get to yard about 7.30 and at the moment he's out 24/7 so it's breakfast and rug change, although when weather becomes consistently awful (not long then :() it'll be rug change and turnout, with quick skip out (on wooden pellets, phew!). Then head to work and usually need to dry hair again from being out in the rain. My colleagues are often amused with how I manage to be soaked through with rain and decorated with bits of hay at only 8am.

Yard is perfectly in the middle of home and work so it makes sense to go from home to yard to work and vice versa. The other day I forgot something vital and had to go home from work to get it (idiot :() and it was a very odd sensation - I had to sit and think for a moment about what would be the best route to get home from work without going via the stables!
 
I have two native ponies who live just under my bedroom window :D in winter I try and ride the Exmoor approx 2/3 times a week before work but are fairly limited as it doesn't get light til 8ish and I have to leave for work at half past luckily my husband is a farmer so I have a couple of well worn routes around the fields i can do in the semi dark but if they are plough and it's frozen it's not so easy. In the Sumer I do all my road work really early at 6.30 am but I can't do that in the winter but anything is better than nothing for the pony exercise wise. Then poo pick, groom the Shetland etc before breakfast. My alarm goes off at 6.15 :o
 
In the summer I'm up at 5.30 and leave the house at 6.45am.

In the winter I change my hours and leave the house at 8.45 so I get up at around 6.45 and do all the horsey chores in the mornings and ride a couple of times a week. Problem then is I don't get home til 7 pm so horses get brought in and fed and that's their lot
 
Starzaan said:
Out of bed at 4:15am to be on the yard for half past.

Inhaling toast as I go...
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But that's the middle of the night! You guys are way more hardcore than me!

If I'm home I try to be on the yard by 8, ponies come in for breakfast, snooze and then work. If I'm in London working our groom starts at 9.30, easy life!
 
I get up around 7.00a.m. Horse is very close to the house, and neighs loudly if he thinks I am getting late. It is a "where is my breakfast?" neigh, not a hello neigh. Good as an alarm clock as it makes me feel so guilty I fly out to feed him.
 
5.45am to be att yard for 6.10 - takes about an hour for full mck out, make up feeds, haynets, waters and turning out and get home again. Then I shower, do my hair and make up, dressed and breakfast to leave for work at 8.20/8.30.

Leave work at 5.30 - quickly pop home to get changed, back down yard about 6.30 to groom, ride and finish off.

I must admit, if I ride on a Saturday/Sunday morning then leave feed and hay for someone else to put in so I don't get down until 9-10 am ish. But often, I have him turned out by yard manager as I feel I do quite enough in the week to deserve a morning or two off!
 
Not sure how it will be over the winter! I'm currently getting up at 5:30 / 6:00 and struggling to get things done - think I'll just skip the sleep over the winter months ;)
 
Up at 6.30 and straight out the door to ponies... dogs come too for a run.
3 ponies all live out but I feed and poo pick in the morning when it's still light enough ;)
Need to be back home for 7.30 to make sure kids up and make their lunches. Shower and leave for school run and work 8.40 .

When I was on a livery yard I was up at 5.15 and found that a killer
 
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!
 
Alarm at 5.30 but go back to bed with a coffee till 6 when daughter gets in my bed for a morning cuddle, eat toast in bed & watch tv till 6.15, at yard by 6.30. That's only Dec-march when in though. Rest of the year it varies depending if rugs/hay need doing in field etc. Mid summer usually go out 7.15, back by 7.45. Not kept at home but only round the corner.
 
When their in I get up about 8am and get the fed and our about 8.30am then go back in for breakfast etc.
This winter I'm going to be leaving them to roam in and out of the stables though as il be having a baby soon and only shut them in on bad weather nights, then il get up there about 9am to feed them, or mum will!
 
depends.......they live out sooo about 10am?!

:D

if im in work then its much earlier - i always go twice a day unless im working then once... :)

I really couldnt cope with having to do the horses at a specific time - its way too stressful for me
 
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