Least favourite horse related task and Why?

Anything to do with electric fencing. I hate the stuff but it is a necessary evil for Fatty. And it doesn't seem to matter how carefully I put it away it still tangles. And you end up with a million different pieces of it as you never seem to make the same size pen ever again and none of the bits you already have seem to reach.

And filling haynet, particularly from the big bales as it's harder to judge how much to use and a pain to pull apart.
 
Cleaning under rubber mats, only did complete washout two weeks ago and tonight it was so stinky again in Mr Pissies stable
 
Rasping the minis' feet. They are SO hard, so tiny, and so low down!


I often get quite a buzz out of electric fence mending :D
 
Emptying/scrubbing out the hay-soaking dustbins
They are heavy and unwieldy, and I always end up with wet feet.
Scrubbing out the muck inside is just tedious
 
I don't mind poo picking, it's just so time consuming. Very few jobs I don't like, I just wish there were more hours in the day.

Not keen on clipping, that hair gets everywhere and I always end up in a stress about it. Also hate unpacking the lorry when you get back from a show, that's probably my most hated thing, when you're shattered and hungry and you've been out all day.
 
Without a doubt it has to be mending an electric fence after the f'ing things have wrecked it. Or trying to get the posts in hard ground, sorting out the tape that you just wound up only for it to manage to get into the most horrendous tangle seconds later. I have to admit to taking a pair of cutters to it on many occasions!!!
 
Worst has got to be soaking hay. I only do it if absolutely necessary which luckily isn't often.
Next is poo picking. It's never ending, especially in summer.
Then filling haynets from a big bale. It takes sooo long.
 
Unpacking the lorry and cleaning the lorry after any kind of outing. You get back unload horse, sort him out and ensure all is well and he is happy munching away. Then I go back to the lorry and feel like crying! Takes ages when all I want is to click my fingers and be at home for a coffee/gin/wine/nap/hot bath (delete as appropriate for different types of outing). Loathe unpacking the lorry and would happily pay for someone to do it for me, however it's something that has to be done :(
 
Not wild about sheath cleaning, and loathe dealing with anything that goes on underneath a rubber mat.

No poo picking at our place, or that would be right up there I'm sure!
 
Hand weeding the arena and painting jumps/barn/fences. Also loathe cleaning up after other people who should know better, but that's more the principle than the actual activity.
 
Alf's mane. I hate it with a passion, especially looking like it does at the moment. I keep begging people to take him off into a quiet corner and bring him back with 2 inches of mane left. No-one seems to want to...
 
Cleaning feathers on my piebald youngster who has masses and masses of feather!!! That and trying to keep his shavings bed clean...
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Anything involving lugging buckets/containers or water around. Nothing gives me frowny face faster.
 
Tack cleaning - my own; happy to do other peoples as part of a repair job (because no one has the manners to send their tack clean to be repaired :()

I don't poo pick but have in the past and quite enjoy it. I don't use haynets routinely but do hate filling them. I don't mind putting up an electric fence but hate moving them and taking them down although these are both easier now I use rope rather than tape.
 
Poo picking ,filling haynets.
Ditto the electric fence tape that is always about 6 inches too short, wouldnt be so bad if it was several feet short !
Trying to find the place where the leccy has stopped travelling through the tape on a big field.
 
Oooh lots!

Weed control. A soul destroying neverending task in summer.
Trying to keep my fatty slim(ish) to avoid the dreaded laminitis. A daily battle which is similarly disheartening for all concerned. Now he has just been diagnosed with COPD too its even more difficult (because exercise makes him cough).
Mud control. Bane of my life. Hopefully we'll get somewhere with putting in reasonable hardstandings this year although we discovered last winter the fatty is very good at destroying any fortified gateways within minutes.
Getting horses in or putting them out when its dark. Am looking at installing field floodlights as its very spooky when on one's own in a pitch black field at 5:30am (and then the headlight duly flickers off... eeeek).

Poo picking - nahhhh I just harrow.
Mucking out - easy enough - except when you have sore back/shoulders then its a painful slog.
Haynet filling - I use compressed small bale haylage now (because of horse's COPD) and its thankfully a lot more pleasant. However moving the bales of haylage from the road to my container is a bit of a pain.

But seeing my horses expectant faces every morning / evening and hearing their nickers of greeting - pure joy!
 
Depends on the season.
In the winter I hate fixing electric fencing. It's covered in mud, my hands are wet and cold and I can never get all the knots out of it.
In the summer I'm perfectly happy to waste time faffing and fiddling with electric fencing.
 
I thought I hated poo picking but picking up shed rubber topping off my school (all over one of my paddocks) is soul destroying. It's everywhere
 
Clipping because I am allergic to horse hair.

Weed digging especially as our ground is so hard at the moment.

Moving electric fencing in long grass as I get bitten to death by insects.

Don't mind poo picking - do 9 horses daily with a quad bike and trailer and use a gardener's shrub rake which is so much easier.
 
Filling haynets, soaking haynets, dripping wet haynets; poo picking in winter, filling the field troughs with water.

Mainly because I have some nerve issues with my right arm, and lifting anything heavy usually results in neuralgia for the next few hours.

Poo picking in summer usually isn't too bad, as the grass is way short, and they only occasionally poo in the longer grass. Plus I use a shavings fork... much easier than trying to use one of those skip thingies ;)
 
ANYTHING to do with hay...I detest the stuff..!!!
I'm also not mad keen on anything that involves bending due to my back...picking out hooves, ragwort pulling and so on.
I don't mind poo picking, grooming, tack cleaning etc.
 
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