So it's quiet on here - what do you do in your morning routine....

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As the title really, what do you do, in order, with your stabled horse in the morning and at what time, in list format:-

I get there before 8am, stroke and cuddles, look at legs
Grab the rubber feed bowl and rinse under hose
Give feed (sometimes soak more beet)
Remove haynet and water bucket
rinse and leave hose to fill bucket
meantime - stuff haynet and leave to one side
if it's above about 8 degrees I take off one rug (whilst he eats)
feel legs and light inspection
muck out around horse
sweep back
drag in water
hang haynet
go inside for my breakfast
 
Go to work!!
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I don't do mine in the mornings B does them, and then i do all of them in the evenings
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Last year when horse was in, at about 5.30 kick OH out of bed to go and feed and put him out before he went to work.

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Haha I love that!
 
Only my old shetland is a "stabled" horse! My others live out. I generally do them at 9am (although start a new job next wk so will be earlier). Feed them all, give all hay (I have 5 horses, the shetland generally lives in the yard due to health problems, the 2 ponies live in a paddock and the 2 horses in another one). Muck out shetland. Do waters. Pretty much it!
 
Get there at 6am with head torch on as no elec in stable. Put his outdoor rug on and open the stable for him to walk out straight into his field (very convenient these field stables!), he goes off to do what he does best...eat! I then do his field and stable water, fill his haynets for the evening and take the poo out of his stable. Take the barrow down to the muck heap, giving the lad a pat on the way and off I go home! Easy peasy!
 
When mine was stabled I got there for 8am, she'd already have been fed more than likely (we leave feeds outside doors so first up feeds all as we're a small yard), so I'd check, put hay in to soak, re-rug, turn out mine and her "partner", turn hay over, muck out and drain hay half way through, tidy up and make lunchtime feed, and go home!
Now she's out I drag myself out of bed sometime before mid-day, make feeds, drive over, drag a section of hay (huge bale) and all the feeds the 200yds or so up a muddy, dog-sh1tty track, try to get the right food in the right bowl with the right horse eating it, try to get the hay out in a non-sh1tty part of the field before my horse finishes breakfast and tries to eat the babies' Alfa A, then I have to try and catch my horse to put her muzzle on (good exercise for her though!). Then drive home!
I can't WAIT until my horse can come back to the yard!!
 
Mon - Frid
Drive 10 mins to field
Feed
Turnout
Muckout, put shavings beds up to dry floors

Evenings
Prepare beds
Feed, Water Hay, (my friend does evenings)
 
YO gives breakfast (1 section of hay in my case) at 7.30am, I get there at 8.30am. He goes in the corale while I muck out, do the hay and water and make feeds. Takes about half an hour. Same again in the evening and I ride at different times in the day.
 
In the morning I get there at 7.30ish... (still on the hunt for a job
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Wash rubber buckets and give Han and Grace their brekfasts

Muck out Grace while she eats breakfast then tie her up outside while I put her bed down, do her water buckets and put her haylage in her haybar.

Take Grace for a 15 mins walk, the change her rug and put her in her stable with a kiss on her nose and a scratch on her neck.

Then muck out Hannah, tie her up outside while I put her bed down, do her waters and put her haylage in the haybar and usually tack up and ride her
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It takes me about three hours in total including riding time...
 
I am out to the horses at about 6.30, I do a quick check over them as I go down the stables turning the lights on, then I give the foal her breakfast and then change the other 2 horses rugs and turn them out.
I then start filling water buckets. By the time I have swept out 2 stables (I have rubber matting throughout) Flo has usually finished her little breakfast and then I let her out and then sweep her box out. I always fill haynets the night before so then I just hang the nets. All in all takes about 20 mins in the morning - I LOVE RUBBER MATTING!!!
 
Fall out of back door about 6.30am
Turn on lights
Quick look to see all is well
Make up feed and give to ponies.
Go have a cup of tea
Change rugs and turn out, if ground isn't frosted, or give haynets.
Have another cup of tea and fag.

Muck out & excercise dogs
Clean buckets & feed bowls
Tidy muck heap
Sweep yard
Fill hay nets and soak.
Have another cup of tea and fag.

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I usually get to the yard about 6.45/7, my lad has usually been fed so grab him out of stable, tie him up, change rugs, he then waits while I muck out, sometimes leave bed up deppending how wet he has been, fill water buckets, then struggle round the corner with dog, buckets and horse, drop buckets by feed room, head up to field releasing dog on the way, its a 5 min walk either way through slippery mud if it has been raining! Turn him out, hay him and the other two, check the other two for any major problems, bring back their buckets from the night before, wash out all 4 buckets, put feed on to soak, rush home to change and arrive at work late!

Evenings, put bed down, make up feeds, load up wheelbarrow with 4 feeds and a pile of hay, walk to first field and feed/hay pony and her companion. Leave wheelbarrow, carry on up the mudslide to feed the girls and fetch J in, then either lunge/ride or put him straight to bed depending on how late it is/how many times I've ridden that week!!
 
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