How much are other peoples horses being worked in the winter?

I do my best to do 5 days a week. Its hard because mon-fri I have to school as its dark and I don't want him getting bored! So I do 3 days schooling, vary it as much as I can, 1 day hacking at weekend and 1 day competing. He's still super fit!
 
Once or twice a week with my sharer and I can only get out if I have a baby sitter so I have only ridden myself three or four times since September :0( I am hoping it will get easier now LO is getting bigger.
 
Twice, three times a week if I'm lucky at the moment, it's rubbish, school was flooded, now just boggy so it's lumpy and horse struggles- try and school once though generally in walk perhaps trot- it's rather depressing for him and me though so don't want to make him sour about it! Try and hack on Saturdays but weather has put paid to that a few times now :(
I'm not very motivated at the moment, don't seem to be getting anywhere!
 
Not at all in December! It's always such a busy month so I never get stressed about not riding. They are out every day so they are getting field exercise and socialising. As it is if they get ridden more than twice a week normally it is a bonus! Late getting to the yard in the dark with everyone else gone doesn't make me want to climb on board so during winter mostly only hacking at weekends.
 
I am still schooling about three times a week, but really missing hacking! The roads round the yard are too busy on Saturday mornings because there's a little retail village nearby. This is shut on Sunday mornings, so it is quiet enough to hack. But the last few weeks it has either been torrential rain and gales or frozen solid! And evenings are too dark, of course.
But as long as my boy is ticking over, I am happy enough. I put music on sometimes when I school, which he seems to enjoy :)
 
I exercise 3-4 times a week, and gets used as a semi working livery once or twice a week with suitable riders in the riding school which works well.
 
Two main ones are getting worked 5-6 days a week, the younger one is just building back up with long reining ect, so doing maybe 3 days of varied work. Very hard in a winter though,even with a lovely big floodlit arena, doesn't make it any warmer!
 
Ride? In winter? Eh naw! I have show horses, shows don't happen in winter there fore I don't ride - that's my excuse and I am sticking to it lol! I ride more than enough at work to not feel the need to ride at home. Plus I have no where to ride - no school and the only hacking is straight out onto a very busy main road between 2 bends and I ride by myself all of the time so that's a no go!
 
My lot get lots of downtime during the winter months. My thoughts are it's good for them both physically and mentally to "just be horses". 24/7 turnout with shelters and the odd hack when the ground is decent.
 
OP, if you've got Glandular Fever then put yourself first, providing your horse has adequate turn out he shouldn't suffer from reduced exercise and a bit of a holiday.

I recently started a new job which requires me to work away from home Mon - Fri. As such, my horse is currently getting exercised 3 times a week (Fri, Sat, Sun) and a friend lunges him once a week when she can. Less work doesn't seem to do him any harm but I do wish it could be more spread out rather than three days on, four days off. If it wasn't for the fact he's only recently been brought back into work following an injury, it would probably be less than three days.
 
Power on through for another week and I'll come and do your horses whilst you sit at home and write my dissertation for me and get better!! sound like a plan? Okay, plan!!
 
Been in the saddle very little since December. Every time I decided 'ok I'm gonna ride tonight'...the blummin' weather was always against us!! He's taking no harm fortunately and does go on the walker a couple of times a week before going out for the day, so at least that's something! That, and I've been fighting off coughs and colds too for a good few weeks now so that's not helped my motivation. This is the first week I've actually felt quite 'normal' health wise!

He'll wonder what the heck the big piece of leather is on his back when I finally get the chance to tack up,..hopefully in the near future! LOL
 
last rode mid December. Dont expect to ride now til March. Am enjoying grooming and cuddling the horses and generally just being with them TBH.
 
My eventer had a biopsy last Monday right where her girth sits, which unfortunately has gotten infected, so by the time that's cleared up and the stitches come out etc it will be a good month before I can start gently riding her again.
I have been pretty slack with my 5yo, hasn't been ridden for nearly 2 weeks due to my car breaking- can get a lift to and from yard to turn out/bring in and treat my other horses wound, but my lift doesn't have time to wait for me to ride! Picking up new car tomorrow and then I will be cracking on with her :)
 
Big lad went to equine college with his sharer who has just bought him from me... Polocrosse horse of my sons gets ridden twice by him at weekends, and twice by another young girl at the yard who is a sharer, so she gets about 5 hours of work in a week... Normaly has mon to wens off.. Due to my work hours.
 
Bit hit and miss with mine at the moment due to health reasons, so am pretty much leaving the mare and just hoping on my gelding when I feel I can. Typically changed my working hours for the winter so I could ride in the mornings and have hardly been able to ride at all due to illness, so frustrating.
 
Mine get school work 3/4 times a week each - I hire next door's school, and by the time you allow for two horses it gets a bit expensive otherwise. Fergus gets in hand work, hacked if possible, 2/3 times a week so he does something every day bar one off. He also averages 2 lessons off site a month (disasters aside). Dae has every other day off because he's young and I feel like that's enough for him at the moment.
 
My pony is hacked once a week by his sharer and I've been trying to ride my horse at least twice a week. We don't have a school so only hack but I'm not that bothered as they have stayed fairly fit considering they aren't doing much
 
Happy hacker 3 times a week combination of hacking and some school and lunge work.
Competition horse 5 times a week schooling combination between flat and jumping and competition couple times a month.
Husbands horse 4 times a week combination of hacking, schooling and lunging.

We are very lucky with two indoor schools and 3 outdoor schools.
In our case it is not the facilities or times that sometimes makes it difficult. It is the cold and wet and mud that sometimes makes it difficult to keep up motivation.
 
Not as much as I would like! My horse, max four times a week - mostly groundwork due to not having a saddle atm. My pony 5-6 days depending on weather and if the arenas frozen or not!
 
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