How many horses do you have?

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babeandbessy

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Started the year with one and somehow ending the year with 5! :p how many does everyone else have and how do you cope with having more than one? I love all mine to bits but they cost so much and are virtually a full time job
 
Just the one - I don't want any more whilst confined to a livery yard. I've not got the time or desire for any more, as I enjoy having a life outside of horses too and personally couldn't do that with any more :)
 
I only have one now, if I had my own land I would love to expand on that! :D But my livery bill is enough with just the one! In times of past we had as many as 9 at one time, but we had our own land so much easier to manage then if at livery or travelling to a field
 
I have 3 -

One is my first pony who is kept at home and my newest horse is kept in livery 20mins away for facilities/comps and the other one lives at home in winter and livery in summer.
My horse in livery is on 5 day livery so not as bad! And then the other is there in summer he is on grass livery but has a stable in case if emergencies :)
 
I have one. I dont know how anyone copes with more than one :D. I struggle to work full time and look after and ride just the one, I am also lucky to share the chores with another livery meaning only once a day visit. Really strugling at the moment with lack of daylight. Not seen my pony in daylight since Sunday :( least shortest day today and it should get lighter now :)
 
I have 8, only 3 actual riding ones at the moment, 2 to back next year as 4 yr olds, 1 with KS and retired, 1 retired, 1 kids pony for my nephew/nieces.
I wish i could find someone who wanted to help exercise them though, its a struggle trying to get them all ridden in winter.
 
10... oops.

To be fair, one lives with my mom, and 6 are tentatively for sale, though of course when 1 goes I always get another...
5 OTTBs, 2 Connemaras, and 3 TB-crosses.
 
two and a half - my 14.3, then we got a shetland for the kids and I've just moved onto a place of my own but found it to be quite lonely riding on my bod all the time so we've just been gifted a fab 15hh which means I have something sane to ride on the road and can hack offroad with my mum or my sis in law.
 
I have two.

1. 12-year old 17hh Hanoverian mare who has recently stopped her jumping career due to Kissing Spines but has started a new dressage career, at the moment winning and second-placing at Elementary level!

2. Recently bought (rescued?) a 12-going-on-3-year old 14hh Welsh-cross-something mare, only broken since February, scared of everything but the sweetest little girl ever.
 
10 - not quite sure how that happened. I teach full time, but close to retirement, 25yr old daughter works part-time, and husband is retired. We rent a yard and fields. One 18hh ShirexTB retired with atrial fibrillation, two bought as projects that we couldn't bear to part with, two bred from a TB bought as a project, the daughter of a pony we lost some years ago, so we bought her, her foal, a welsh A (not sure why) and the miniature shetland a friend (!) gave daughter for her 21st. Oh, and a pony that's out on loan. Full time job between the three of us, and there's never any money for anything else, but I wouldn't change it - husband might!
 
11 - tb filly foal, 2yr old tb filly, 4yr old tb gelding, 5yr old wb x, 5yr old 7/8 tb , 6yr old 3/4 tb, 7yr old ex racer mare, 12 yr old web gelding, 14yr old web who is retired, 19yr old ex racer retired, 19yr old new forest pony ( my first pony!). Luckily we have our own land and cut our own hay, 4 are for sale and I'm banned from having anymore freebies until the foal goes!
 
I have 3!
2 in full work and the other is 3 years. Then next year she will only be ridden 4x a week as a 4 year old. And when she is in full work, I will retire the older mare.

However, will have my first full time job next year so will have to see how I manage.
 
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