Maybe having horses at home is a pain?

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I just went out to hay mine for the night. I noticed that Patches had three poops in her stable. I couldn't bring myself to ignore them. All I could think about was how clean she is and how dirty she'd be if she lay in them overnight.

Yup, you guessed it. At 00.30am, I was skipping her stable out! That would not have happened had she been at a livery yard!
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I'll still have a dirty stable in the morning, she's a messy toad. Tweenie's grey too but she doesn't lie in her own poop like Patches does. I'm sure Patches just loves the extra attention to make her "like one new" again in the morning!
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LOL!! I think that is just the tip of the iceberg though. I was talking to one of my boarders the other day and I was chattering away about how it was when certain horses had first arrived; the going out through the night to make sure they are okay; the new sounds that they make and sometimes going out to check that nothing is amiss is the only way; listening to them settling in or bickering during the first few nights.

Oh the joys of owning a livery yard and or keeping your horses at home.
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It is a joy really and I do feel very blessed. I'm sure you knew I was just joking as you totally understand what it's like.

I love going out to do the midnight haying (as we call it). They're all so quiet. It's great walking along the gangway of the barn and just hearing chewing. Such a calming, peaceful and contented sound for any owner.

Duncan always laughs at me though. If he ever does it, I always ask him to make sure there are poops in each stable. Would hate to miss early signs of colic, so like to see the end product of a healthy gut!
 
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so like to see the end product of a healthy gut!


[/ QUOTE ] Yep I know that feeling completely! Especially when it has baler twine in it
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Oh yes I knew you were talking with your tongue firmly placed in your cheek - so was I
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. I wouldn't like to be without my boarding stables and all the myriad of characters here.
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Think that is one of the biggest reasons I couldn't have mine at home. I would be out at all hours, just to be near them and seeing what they got up to of a night!
 
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Oh yes I knew you were talking with your tongue firmly placed in your cheek - so was I
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. I wouldn't like to be without my boarding stables and all the myriad of characters here.
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Absolutely! I might only have my own horses but I love that they are each such different little souls. Makes owning them very interesting.

Of course, I also knew you were speaking tongue in cheek too. Remember, I often tell you that I "get you".
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I remember sulking over something one night with Duncan. We'd obviously fallen out (although I don't recall us ever really arguing! Maybe I was being overly dramatic or hormonal!). Anyway, I decided in a huff that I was going to sleep in the stables on some bales of straw.

I soon changed my mind when I heard scurrying! We did have rabbits and guinea pigs in hutches in there, but I wasn't taking my chances on the scurrying coming from wildlife. Soon hot tailed it into the house with my proverbial tail between my legs!
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Don't say the rat word!!!!!!
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Actually, we really don't have a rat problem here. Too many feral cats! We get alot of field mice in the stables though. Hubby used to tell me they were just baby rats, but I eventually worked out he was trying to put the fear of God into me for his own amusement. Tinker!
 
Get in contact with the Cats Protection League. They ALWAYS have neutured ferals crying out for release in a farming type setting. Just a small donation to the charity is all they require.

Feral cats are sooooo clever!
 
When we're old and grey and can't even remember that place called HHO we once posted on, before our fingers got too arthritic to type and dementia had set in?
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It was banished from here until Dear Daddy Duncan decided his daughter was missing out! Grrrrrr! He bought her a big set with 25 different coloured tubs of the stuff and loads of shape cutter things. I could seriously swing for him sometimes!
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I mucked out my stable and 00:30 on Friday morning...I know i should have been in bed but i couldn't sleep so decided that i would go and muck it out
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And i did took ALL the straw out and put new stuff in - everything i normally do on a saturday
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and got back into bed at 1:30 very tired and slept very well!! hehe!
 
I always check my horses late at night and remove poos, check rugs and water (and colic - fingers crossed, never yet) and I think I have "delegated" it to OH once in 9 years...much too important for amateurs!
 
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