How many of you will be doing your horses properly on Xmas Day?

Mine will also have the same treatment as normal, poo pick the field, hay, a warm feed (with extra apples and carrots)

I would love to go for an xmas ride xmas day, but having little ones now won't allow me too.
 
same as everyday for my bunch, some extra carrots in the feed but thats it, will get to have a christmas day ride this year as parents own the yard!
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Mine are on assisted DIY (as he is all the time, generally he is just brought in when I'm at work) - I'll be there in the morning to muck out, spoil rotten, turn out and do waters/hays etc.

I will probably have him brought in - only as I'm spending the day with my family and my Mother has a habit of never sticking to times, so rather than panic that I'll be late, I'll just have him brought in to ad-lib hay and a dinner, as usual.

Will be there in the evening to groom and put to bed - probably with a few relatives in tow too!

The drinking will commence in the evening, after the horse has been seen too!
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Christmas Day is no different to any other day. Horse gets exercised, mucked out and turned out. And brought in and put to bed as usual.


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I will be turning out and mucking out as usual at the usual time of about 7.45, but not riding as I will have hubby and 3 boys helping with the water, haylage etc, then home for the opening of the prezzies, horses must be done first, its the rule on Christmas Day. We will then all go up about 4, again normal time to put them to bed. So they get a rest day same as everyone else on Christmas Day.
 
I'm doing my share horse and the other 4 on christmas morning (so i don't have to do them boxing day, or over new years!) and their owner said to not muck out in the morning (they have been in 24/7 to save field) and just do them at night. But i want them to have a special day too, not a day stood in poo, so i was going to go and give them all a good muck out and i've got them each a swede to hang up.

But now they're going out full time over xmas and new year, so i will go up and poo pick the paddock and check them over. I am going to give them a warm breakfast and maybe a treacle butty. And i'm going to hang the swedes around the field. They can have a nice day too then
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They might not know it's christmas, but they know a good day when they get one (food wise
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I love doing my two on Christmas day...its probably one of my favourite days to do my horses all year.They are at my aunts farm so we all help do horses and around the farm then go and have a drink round the house. I was away in Finland one year and cried because I missed it so much.
 
We have 2 horses at a DIY livery yard. They will be fed at the usual time, mucked out as usual & they will probably be hacked out in the morning & then turned out. They will be brought in at the usual time & bedded down. Everything will be the same for them as it always is. That's the way they like it & that's the way we like it as well.
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Provided I can get to the yard (haven't been able to since Thursday
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Staff will fetch him in, change rugs and feed later on.

He's on full livery, so if I can't get there due to the ice then he will just be done by the staff as normal
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I am planning on going to a friend's for New Years where they have plenty of horses, and I think the shock of having to muck out more than one might kill me
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I don't have a horse any more but when I did I used to spend more time with him on Christmas Day because if I timed it right I got out of preparing the Brussel Sprouts in the morning and the clearing up in the afternoon! I used to do a full muck out, go for a ride with him dressed up in tinsel, turn him out leaving everything ready then in the afternoon bring him in, good groom, natter with the other liveries before going home.
 
Mine will be getting their basics done as normal - feed, turn out, muck out etc. But as I have a full Christmas dinner to cook for guests, I won't be doing any 'extras', ie riding, grooming, sweeping the yard, or tidying the muck heap!

I don't really have a problem with people semi-deep-littering their beds (ie taking out droppings and obvious wet but not chucking the whole bed up) over the Christmas holidays, but it does seem a bit mean to leave a horse standing in that would normally be turned out. As said earlier, they don't understand it is Christmas Day.

When I had my horses on livery, the staff didn't turn out on Christmas Day - if you wanted your horse turned out you had to go up and do it yourself, which is what we always did.
 
My girl will be done as usual. The only difference is that it won't be in her normal stable in Essex, rather it will be in her accomodation in Yorkshire and it will be the weekend routine rather than the week day routine. At the end of the day she doesn't care what day it is as long as she gets her grub!
 
Nothing will be changing for my boys- Solo is on boxrest so wont be going out, but Red will be. I'll muck out,groom etc.
Red will come in early as company for Solo but he will have been doing that all week.
 
I will be making the most of every day off I have and that includes xmas day, going to try and make it out for a nice xmas morning ride and then I'll tuck him up with everything he needs for the day, checking him again at about 6ish before I tuck myself in for the night!
 
Mine won't be done as normal I'm afraid. Christmas for me is a family day, not a 'be a slave to your horse day'

He will, if weather ok, have a quick lunge first thing then get chucked out in field.
He will then get skipped out (and for those of you agahst that someone dares only skip out, I only skip out for 6 days of the week, **whispers it's called semi-deep litter**)

After me walking dog he will come back in after only 1 hr in field (when he would usually get 8) and then he will stay in his stable until I see him the following morning. I will con/bribe some poor soul to lob him extra hay and dinner in the evening.

And guess what he will be alive, and the world be still be spinning
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Mine live out and are being fed adlib hay from a big bale, they help themselves to, so no "doing" needed apart from de-icing the water trough. However, I always ride out on Christmas day as there is less traffic on the roads and then can justify eating a big dinner at tea time.
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Just a normal day for us, the weather dictates what we do every day ! However Christmas is slightly different as we have a big barn & my 3 are in internal stables inside & we have friends who run a walking club & their Christmas walk finishes at our barn for a buffet lunch. The barn gets decorated with coloured lights & tinsel. Last year I left the lights up so after the walk (last Sunday) I switch the coloured lights on at dusk every evening until I do the horses last thing at night. Then they get turned off & horses shut up for the night.
 
normal routine here too, whether I ride or not depends on the weather more than the day, although will ride earlier than normal if I do
 
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