Own Yard - Several Horses & Full Time Job

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How do people cope with their own yard - several horses and a full time job?

How many have you got? Do the horses live in/out etc?

What is your routine? Especially during the winter?

Do you have anyone to help you/ paid or unpaid?
 
I do this
Have 2 horses and a pony. They all live out as a rule, else I spend all my time looking after them and the yard/field and no time riding them, which makes the whole thing a bit of a nonsense!
No, I don't have any help, I go at least twice a day, every day, whatever the weather, however ill I feel.
 
During the winter, my aunt has 7 horses that are are full livery and she also has a full time job!

She gets the help of one of her sons (she has to pay him of course!!), but I don't kow how she manages it. I certainly couldn't do it!!
 
Not got all of that but

rent my own place have 3 and 4th one coming this week and one mare is going into foal next year so will end up with 5.

2 have to live out all the time as never been stabled or dont like stables, 1 demands to be stabled and want to get youngster used to living in this winter.

Help wise have help once a week and on holidays from girl who used to loan one of the mares but she only really plays with that mare.

Work wise at the moment working part time 2 jobs, so have daytime free between 10-2 to get everything done. My nan has cancer so care for her as well as she only has few weeks left, after will go back full time.
 
I dont have my own placee but I freelance as well as having a full time job.

At the minute (for example) I have 2 full liveries in at night 2 full liveries out 24/7 just rug changes and feeds and then my own horse who gets worked 6 days. I work 9-5 in the office.

Here is how today went....
Up at 6.30, feed x4, t/o x2, rug changes x4, lunge India and put to bed (in during the day)

8.30 leave for work
5.30 back at yard -
2x on walker whilst m/o beds, water, nets etc
India out and m/o
Home hopefully by 7 :D

Sometimes I will m/o in the am and exercise India at night depending on how awake I am!!
 
We have our own yard. This year have 3 horses, last year had four. Both of us have full time jobs, and mine takes me away for three of four days a week. We struggle in winter. Would turn them out with field shelter ideally, but land too wet, and they get mud rash, so end up all being stabled, and going out in an acre turnout paddock that has hardcore underneath for an hour or two a day, or being ridden. We have a groom who comes for the days I'm away, who does two hours -either riding or mucking out - or a mix. We had tons of snow last year, so water froze, and were snowed in nearly a month. It wasn't fun. This year I've got to have an op, so DH will have to do even more. Not looking forward to it at all!
 
we have our own yard and 8 horses all stabled over the winter, yard is 7 miles from home, this is our routine:
My OH does morning feeds 7.30am
go straight from work and ride 3 each in sand arena (flood lights)5.30 - 8.30pm
Feed & muck out bed down and leave 9-9.30pm

We have no turnout in winter and with the exception of the brood mare and foal everything else is riding, so we ride them every evening rotating a day off for each of them at some stage over the week. We don't eat an evening meal many nights until 9.30-10pm but that's the sacrafice we make, we had hoped to scale back this year but hasn't happened - yet anyway!!
 
I do it, I have five horses, a shetland and a donkey and a dog! I tried wintering them all out with field shelters three years ago but my paddocks got into a bit f a mashed state. so I now bring 4 of them in at night at winter. the others live out but have access to field shelters. also DIY jobs and building etc never seems to be done at yard- consant work in progress.
 
Full time job 9-5
Own yard (rented)- 3 horses.
They are in at night,out all day.

I get up early to do the horses before work (they are pretty much next to the house)....I have it down to a fine art, it only takes about 45mins.

Its easy when you have a routine....I make up haynets the night before etc. After work I have time to ride, or take daughter riding, bring in, poo-pick and make up the next days haynets etc.

Weekends off thank god, I wander down with one eye open, chuck horses out and crawl back into bed;)
 
6 horses, big full time job. Leave for work at 7am, back 6pm.

Out for as long as I can I only have 4 stables. Incredibly lucky as in Scotland to have streams which don't freeze. If 4 in then mucking and setting fair takes about 45 mins.

Used to really sort my weight out but now over 40 doesn't work as well. Shame!
 
I have a part-time job and my own business so pretty much equal to full time, I have 4 horses at my own yard at home who are all stabled at night and out during the day all year round.

I can sometimes work from home which does make things easier but if I have to go into the office I have to get up at 5.45am to turn out, muck out and do feeds and haynets before work. My mum does often come up and help on mornings where I have to go to work which is a godsend and I can just do as much as I can before work and she will finish off. I like them in before it gets dark so I have to either pay a freelance groom to come and bring them in or more often try and co-ordinate with my husband who can often work from home for him to be at home when I'm out (for our 3 dogs as well) and he will bring in and I change rugs etc when I get home or my sister might come up and do that bit after work some nights.

It can be knackering and I get very little time/light to ride in the week in winter. Really couldn't manage without the help of mum, hubby and sister.
 
I have 15 horses at home and stand a stallion at stud as well working full time. One is in work, and we have broken another recently, the rest are broodmares and youngstock. We show at county level during the summer, but keep everything minimal during the winter. Fortunately I work locally much of the time, but somtimes have to work away and stay occasional overnights.

7 of them are in a huge barn for the winter and are done once a day and checked by the farmer as well at the end of the day. The others are at home, all in at night as we are on clay and it gets very muddy!

I have help 2 mornings a week for approx 1 hour and three afternoons a week for a similar time. However, at times the girls cannot make it, so I have to do them myself or a friend may come in and help.

Another friend helps for a few hours at the weekends as she has a two year old with me and I do him all week. I am lucky to have friends who help out (I do pay them for their trouble, sometimes money or free livery) when I have to work away from home, but overall you just get on with it!
 
Own yard (Rented) Last year 3 horses, this year two. Both horses out durin day, one horse comes in at night. The yard is a 20 minute drive from my house. I work Mon - Fri 8:30 - 5:30.

I get up at 5:30, walk dogs, feed & turn out horses, muck out, come home, get changed, go to work. Come home at lunch to walk dogs again. Finish work and go to yard, normally getting there around 6pm, bring in horses, lunge one by torchlight, feed rug, put to bed etc. Usually home by 7:30pm. OH walks the dogs for me in the evening so I don't have to worry about doing the evening walk.
 
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