How much do you rely on others?

I do them myself twice a day. My dads happy to feed them on his way home from work but i worry with all this mud he wouldnt spot lameness in the dark with his non horsey head and id hate to think of them squabbling around him whilst the grounds so bad.
 
Not much :)
I rent a field with a shelter so its just me. Im there before work, after work, and twice a day at weekends.

Every other tuesday I have to work late until 8 so mum goes and checks them/feeds them for me.
If Im lucky she'll do a bit of poo picking while shes there too :D

But apart from once every 2 weeks, Its just little old me :)
 
Very rarely. OH or I do them twice a day. Daughter or YM step in if we go on holiday, otherwise our routine revolves around the times we need to be at the yard.
 
I dont at all. My friend lives opposite my yard but she has only helped once since i have been there.
I just enjoy doing them myself :D
 
My hubby helps me out quite often - today he has helped me do the whole yard and last night went up to feed my boy for me s i wasnt feeling too great. The YO is a saint and looks after my horse like he's one of her own, so I never have to worry. Winters are always difficult, and every yard I've been on always has people helping each other out. At my last yard, I would go up first thing in winter, feed and change rugs on mine and a friends horse and turn them out. I would then do all my jobs so that my friend would bring in my horse later on if I couldn't make it back down again after work. Then we would swop and take turns with the early starts! I think it's important to have others to help you out, and I'm lucky that I've had trustworthy people that I can ask, and return favours to.
 
Not much. Yard doesn't have any proper paid support we can rely on anymore (used to be a sort of assisted DIY person) and we're just getting morning and afternoon turnout and bring in weekdays. So we're all a bit stuck at weekends and if you have to go away, holidays, etc - everyone's timings are different but someone usually will do a small favour if needed but few other liveries around to do such things at the time you need them. There's one or two I wouldn't want doing stuff for my horse anyway. But I do really worry at the moment if I was ill and really couldn't get there as there'd be no-one to do it regularly for a few days.
 
I work at 25 hour shift once or twice a week, so on those days I see to Mollie before work but have to rely on others to do the evening shift and see to her in the morning as I'm still at work.

Usually she's out during the day so I can leave her stable, haylage and feed ready for the evening.

Mollie's field mate's owner and I take turns to bring in/put out, also I now have a young girl and her Mum who help in return for riding. There's also a very competent young woman on the yard who will see to horses for a fee.

I do find I'm a bit of a control freak about my horse though. I like to know things are done "my way" and I really fret if people don't text to say she's been done and is tucked in for the night, or has been put out for the day. :o
 
I dont whatsoever, I hate relying on other people. Someone turns out for me but I dont rely on her to do it, infact I cant because she often texts me saying they havent been turned out! Bah.
 
stargirl88 said:
I dont whatsoever, I hate relying on other people. Someone turns out for me but I dont rely on her to do it, infact I cant because she often texts me saying they havent been turned out! Bah.
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You are lucky your working hours allow you to do everything yourself. :)

I do think it's a good idea to have a "back up plan" so that in case of illness, accident or family crisis, there's someone you can call who knows your horse's routine and can step in.
 
we have a girl who turns out for us weekdays because the traffic back into London is mad in the mornings.

My field mate does 1 eve a week (mucking out my 2 and hers and catching in) catches in sat night and does both ends of Sunday. I do the other eves and Sat morn, but i could do it all myself if i had too
 
I dont really rely on anybody and do my horses myself everyday, however because of my daughters problems I do have a fab friend in reserve as a "back up" plan if I struggle for time. This is rare though to be honest. She keeps her horses with mine so we mainly do them together :)
 
I work for an airline, so go away for three-nine days at a time. My wonderful husband does the horses, dogs, cats and hens, plus schoolruns on the day stepson is with us (40min drive each way) and running a business that is already long hours. He is a star. We have a groom on Sundays so he gets a lie in if I'm not there.
 
I have a girl that does mine Mon to Fri evenings as I don't work reg hours and don't know what time I'd be home due to traffic. She rides, skips out, rugs up, feeds, grooms and any other jobs. I don't charge her as others have said I should as it's my choice to have horses and she's doing something I would get charged for by the YO.
 
FionaM12 said:
You are lucky your working hours allow you to do everything yourself. :)

I do think it's a good idea to have a "back up plan" so that in case of illness, accident or family crisis, there's someone you can call who knows your horse's routine and can step in.
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Well, I'm at the yard at 6.30am and again at 8pm, but fortunately work nearby so could swing by on lunch and turn out ;)

You are right though, it is important to have someone that knows your horse. I do have someone but I feel nervous and twitchy whenever I ask them to do her for me :p ....................... I maybe need to get a life.
 
YO turns out Monday-Friday for me, OH sometimes turns out on his way home from work, otherwise I do them myself. Going away for a few days in February, and not sure how that's going to work out!
 
Well... normally I pay for full livery but still feed and turn out and catch in and finish off everyday ..... but I am having to have 100% support at the moment as I am just immobile... looks like another 3 or 4 weeks at least to go :(

I hate it, I hate having to ask anyone to help with my horses... I hate not seeing them - I especially hate it when the vet has been out to little lad, and i have not been able to be with him.

But the gang on the farm have been 2nd to none - I am so so appreciative of everything they have done for me - they have all been wonderful.
 
I don't 'rely' on anyone, a friend keeps her pony with mine so we can cover each other if needs be. When we move on Monday it will be just us on the yard so if we're both ill it will be the husbands who have to step in:eek:
 
I rely on my OH a lot! I leave for work at 6.15 am and often aren't home until gone 6.30pm. I work from home 1/2 days a week and can get home by 4pm on the odd day but without the OH I wouldn't be able to keep them the way I want - I am very grateful to him.

The one time we've been on holiday in the last 3 years we had a friend over to stay but that was more for the dogs/pigs as horses are out 24/7 and need little attention (for a few days) in the summer bar disasters!
 
I'm at a small yard so we help each other out a bit however I would/could move if I wanted to

YO feeds in mornings but again if this wasn't agreed when we moved there, I would do it

I don't have a horse box etc but if I wanted to go somewhere I could borrow/hire one

I don't rely on anyone for anything as I could do it all myself if I pleased, it's just more convenient right now the way things are
 
very little - in fact prob about once a month if that

husband occasionally helps me if im looking pathetic (like today fighting a horrid something - wheezing, coughing, muscle aches, temp etc) he came out just now to help do the heavier stuff - but i try not to involve him that much as horses are my thing
 
I rely on my YO fulfilling her role during the week when he's on part but I do him at the weekends. If I go away I either put him on full or MiL does him :)
 
I must really get a backup plan worked out. I have six at home and do them myself through the week although husband likes to help at weekends. We're trying to make it efficient and easy for us as we get older but at the moment we're just settling in so things are all over the place and the horses are still settling and it's a bit of a nightmare. I'm on a ban from doing anything dangerous because, as he points out, he couldn't manage them by himself if I were out of commission.

I've already been run over by an escaped geriatric Welshy whilst leading a mare and foal, resulting in two chipped teeth and concussion from a kick in the head by the foal whilst I was on the ground, a badly bruised ankle where the mare trod on me in her panic, and bruised ribs and shoulder where the Welshy knocked me over on the frozen ground. Systems still need sorting :D
 
I try not to ask others for help as I do prefer to do things myself. It's only really if I go on holiday and as they live out that's only haying and checking they are ok. I try to catch up on poo picking when I get back rather than leaving it for others to do. But my husband does come up quite a lot and does bits and bobs :)
 
Outside my family, very rarely. My mum is a saint as is my OH, we go up to the yard together every day. I go at 6am, feed all 3, give hay to 2 and turnout and muck out 1. Then go to work.

Mum and OH come at about 8am, turnout and muck out the other 2. I come back earlier to ride them, then mum joins me to put them to bed. OH is still at work then. It's a little system :) mainly because 1 of them is my old retired horse who has kind of become my mum's pet and she loves looking after them so it's very much a family thing for me.

If one of us is ill we can sort it between us ect. I don't know what I'd do without them!

Aside that, the only time I can think of anyone helping us is once someone chucked feeds and hay in as I had a work party the night before so wanted a lie in and my mum couldn't get there before 8 and I felt bad about them not having early feed and hay.
 
Not much. Friend & daughter are on a yard nearby, we are both each others back up for emergencys or holidays. And we swop wkend ams, so one day I do theirs (either throw out or hay) & the other wkend day they do mine. Not essential, just handy. Very occasionally one lady on our yard & I will do the odd favour for each other, but our horses have different routines so its not something we've ever planned ahead for, think we've maybe done small favours for each other 3/4 times this year.
 
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