Morning routine - what is yours?

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Bob is now stabled at night, and as I am not working I ride in the mornings most days. Just wondering whether people feed, then wait an hour doing other stuff, then ride.... or whether you ride then feed?

Also what time do you do your horse on non-working days, if they are stabled and if they are out at grass? Just being nosey there
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I don't work but do the horses at the same time every day. Up at 7 and on yard by 7.30, mug of tea in hand. Feed, check field water and mare who is still out 24/7. Turn other 2 out and finish off yard.
I normally ride around 2ish and the fat ginger one comes in 12 to 12.30.
 
None working days i go up about half eight feed muck out etc then ride. He is still out at the moment so go to the farm at about one and ride. I must be mad but i love winter like my lad nice and cosy in his stable.
 
Not normally an issue because I work but on the weekends I would usually feed as soon as I get there and then muck out, do haynets etc while she digests. She's only on chaff though so you don't need to leave as long before exercise.
 
At the moment my morning routine is quick look out the window to check they are ok
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When they are in at night, which will be happening very soon, I basically nip out about 8, while kids are having their breakfast and change rugs and pop them out, I only feed at night when they come in. Would give small feed and hay net and leave them in if I was intending riding after school run, I would still do this at 8. I muck out whenever I get round to it during the day
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Thats the convenience of having nags at home
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i get at yard for 7.30ish, sometimes later, then feed. Tie him up outside while mucking out sorting things out for bedtime ect. then ride + turnout.
Weekends sometimes the same, or feed then turnout and ride in the afternoon.
OR the same but have an extra 20minutes in bed
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I don't see my horses in the morning so don't have a routine. Once they are in at night that will probably change.
 
Damn I feel mean now, I ride then feed at the moment
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Although that will change from 28th October, when I will crawl out of bed, throw a feed at Bob, then go back to bed for an hour as I'll be living at the yard
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Hen is turned out at 6am every morning - during the week I turn out then walk the dog and at weekends I turn out then go back to bed
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I turn him out early as he is a stress head if something goes out before him and I don't want him to stand in too long anyway with his arthritis.
Now I will always turn him out before riding, so he has a walk about to loosen off, but before he was bad I would ride then feed if I was riding early, occasionally I would feed, muck out and faff for an hour before riding.

He isn't fed in the morning ATM but if he was and I was riding early my routine would be..
6am - Get Up, Feed, Turn out and Muck out.
6.30 - House, Change and Breakfast.
7am onwards - Bring back in and ride

The benefits of living at the yard
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8.00 am Get up feed cats. Put kettle on.
Downstairs, make up breakfast feeds and take them across yard.
Check water buckets and lob in some hay.

Go back inside have breakfast, get dressed etc and then either we turn them out about 10.00 am or go out for a ride. then turn them out.

We don't have jobs to contend with though
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I get to yard for 5.30 or at 6 am - if i intend to ride one of my 3 i give him or her a 1/4 of their breakfast. I feed the rest of the yard and then i change rugs on my other 2, and turn out - although now because of how dark it is i wait till i have ridden. I leave for work at 7.30 at the latest and will try to have at least skipped two beds or done all waters and feeds for the night. If i dont ride and really get a move on I can get all 3 stables completley done, apart from soaking hay - but i do tend to wiff a bit then at work (lol)
 
I always see my horses in the morning as I mostly work from home so I don't have to be in an office or anything like that. Horses are fed at 7 and given hay. I like to sleep late
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; I normally wake up at 9 and get to the yard 9.30 to 10. I turn Frodo out in a sand paddock, while I have my lesson on Rauti, then ride or lunge Frodo and turn them out in their grass paddocks afterwards.
 
Benefit of living at yard!!
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Winter -

Alarm goes off
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- swear
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- get up - go to stables in jamas and put food in.

Weekday - change rugs while eating to turn out
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Weekend - go home for a cuppa beofre going out to ride/turnout!!
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Summer -

look out of bathroom window to check both standing - go back to bed!!
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During the week, I feed whole yard at 5.45 and turn out Joe on my way to work, K then turns baileys out at about 7, they both get ridden evenings. If they have to stay in for any reason I am down at 5 so I can go home for a shower after mucking out. Weekends, Normally at yard about 7.30/8, Saturday there is someone who works shifts and normally feeds around 7 so we skip out, soak nets etc and then they can normally be ridden by 8, whoever feeds puts on the blackboard what time they were fed so we know. Ours is quite an early yard, there are lots of early birds and whoever is first feeds whole yard.
 
That is a really good idea about writing what time they were fed Jane_Lou
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It would seem that most people are an awful lot better at mornings than me however
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Mine are kept at home and are still out 24/7. When working, I'm usually up at 7.15. Outside with a coffee by half past, horses fed, rugged/ checked over/etc by 8am then back in to shower and get ready to leave for work at 8.40ish.

At weekends, usually up by 8.30 and horses fed by 8.45. Any later than that and Minz is at the fence hollering his head off for me. I would not get away with riding before feeding in the mornings- we would have a major strop on our hands. The fact that they are kept at home means i can ride at any time so we usaully head out 11am or thereabouts when i'm on days off and early evening when I'm working.

ETA: I should add that I am so not a morning person to the point that before I bought Minz, my OH used that as an argument for me not getting a horse. I would love to lie in longer but am generally awake by 8am without an alarm anyway and the pervading sense of guilt knowing that 2 horses will be standing outside at the fence waiting is usually enough to drag me out of bed...

I admit that Minz is very spoilt and new boy Smith is fast settling in to, and becoming accustomed to Minz's routine! I don't begrudge Minz at all considering what he has done for me in the past three years, he's one in a million.
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Mine are at home.

Summer - look out the window and check they all have 4 legs still

Winter - 5am (as work at 7am) - crawl out of bed
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, get v large mug of coffee, waterproofs etc on over PJ`s, throw dogs out, feed horses, rug change and throw them out (much to their disgust
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Get everything else (mucking out etc) down when I get home from work


Days off - well the problem of getting dogs into an early routine means that they dont give a stuff if its your day off and demand that early morning pee and chance to chase imaginery bogey men away from the field
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, so get everything done as usual then back to bed for an hour or so!
 
Well as I am a slovenly unworking person I don't get to the yard until 9.

I feed mine and next doors, turn next door out, give neddy a haynet, throw bed up then ride.

I guess time elapsed between breakfast and leaving the yard is 45 minutes.

I have a lot of roadwork to get anywhere though so I do a lot of walking first off.
 
Drive to field (which is between home and work), minimum is check all horses, sheep and poultry are alive, and let the dogs out to run around and do their own thing. They all live ou 24/7, and only one will be rugged, and not for a while yet anyway. We can certainly be done in five minutes! I love having horses out all the time, and the bonus is that my boy is much less stiff when out.
 
During the week, I get up at 7am and move horse & ponies about (1 pony lives in yard with hay and literally gets 5 mins of grass twice a day, other pony stays with her during day and out at night with my horse who in turn goes out into the big field during the day!). I feed them all, give hay and muck out the yard and stables (which the ponies have permanent access to whenever they want).

Weekends, I dont have any set time. They're normally done between 9 and 10am unless I have an event and they may get done much earlier. I tend to ride whenever the weather is at its best during the day or not at all if its peeing rain (I have paddocks to ride in!).
 
Although I only have 3 horses, if I am doing them, I tend to do the whole yard, as does my friend who owns the other 5.

Routine is up at 6, feed cats, shower, pull on jeans and T-shirt, iron uniform if not already done, quick brekkie and make lunch.

Drive to yard for 7 am (4 minutes away) feed all 8, change rugs while eating, turnout, take down haynets and wash buckets. Check troughs.

I rarely muck out before work, unless someone is on box rest, as I'd go to work smelly!

Get changed in tack room, go to work.

In the evening, I then muck out, put hay in and fill up water, if it hasn't already been done by my friend at lunchtime, when she usually goes up. We both go in the evening, unless one of us is going out.

This arrangement works well, as it means the horses are usually seen 3 times a day.

On the weekend the routine is the same, except we all get a lie in, and the stables are prepared for the evening in the morning!
 
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I always see my horses in the morning as I mostly work from home so I don't have to be in an office or anything like that. Horses are fed at 7 and given hay. I like to sleep late
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; I normally wake up at 9 and get to the yard 9.30 to 10. I turn Frodo out in a sand paddock, while I have my lesson on Rauti, then ride or lunge Frodo and turn them out in their grass paddocks afterwards.

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OMG your routine sounds soooooo lovely and civilised
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