Tell me your pedantic/OCD yard behviours!

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So I'm not alone :o

I'm a bit OCD about certain things on the yard.. my weirdest is that I wash/sterilise my haynets..

Not everyday or anything but in the Spring when they are finished the winter and in the Autumn again when they are ready to use for the winter after being mostly stored and not used all summer (so are dusty) I soak them in a tubtrug with milton for a bit..

I have a few other 'things' too mostly regarding my arena surface and foot picking out..

Anyone else have OCD tendencies ?
 
Sweeping - I can not stand my yard to have shavings/hay/feed on it, so I sweep at least twice a day, often outside others stables as well!!
O and at least once a week i take apart my bridle and saddle (stirrup leathers off) and give a really through clean and leather balm!!
 
I have a thing about my banks re shavings beds.. must be big, level and flattened on top.. am an idiot. You'd think I had nothing better to do.
 
When I go and check steed just before bed, I have to count the fork, brush and shovel a couple of times to make sure I haven't left them in the stable.

I also have to check the stable door about 4 times, top bolt - check, bottom bolt - check, before turning lights off and going back in house. Although the chances are I will probably turn the lights back on after walking half way down the yard just to check again.

Very strange!!
 
carolineb said:
I also have to check the stable door about 4 times, top bolt - check, bottom bolt - check, before turning lights off and going back in house. Although the chances are I will probably turn the lights back on after walking half way down the yard just to check again.

Very strange!!
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I recite... "Feet (as in picked out), hay, water, rug, door, light". As long as I've checked those, they should survive!
 
Yeah Level beds with straight edges, level banks, tidy floors in barn and clean buckets.
Like to wash my haynets every so often too to make sure they are clean.

Always told its not normal. As long as the bed is down it doesnt matter lol and when on straw beds I have knit the straw together so it doesnt get dragged around the floor. Think my stables are cleaner than my house haha.
 
I am terribly anal about my bed - I will hand pick poo out of the bedding after I have mucked out and I need the bankings to be completely level and the bed totally squared off before I will let him back in the stable. I lift all the bedding, bankings the lot every day and sweep the rubber matting religiously before putting his bed back down.

I can spend an hour doing his bed Im so nit-picky about it :D
 
Gates HAVE to be closed, or tied open, I loathe swinging gates.

Lead ropes HAVE to be wound up which is a huge pain in the butt as I hate having to unwind them again.
 
I hate people parking infront of my trailer hitch. Shiney had to go to hospital late one afternoon, so I had to drive over to OH's work to get the landy, race back and get him to hospital before they closed.

Got to the yard, and some kn*b had parked infront of my hitch.. not a happy bunny and its become one of my pet hates.
 
carolineb said:
When I go and check steed just before bed, I have to count the fork, brush and shovel a couple of times to make sure I haven't left them in the stable.

I also have to check the stable door about 4 times, top bolt - check, bottom bolt - check, before turning lights off and going back in house. Although the chances are I will probably turn the lights back on after walking half way down the yard just to check again.

Very strange!!
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I am so glad someone else does this :o When my horse was over the road in my neighbors yard I used to put him to bed at 9pm and go back home. I could see his stable door from my parent's bedroom and have been known many-a-time to shine the torch over and double check the fork is out and the door bolted even though I double checked it before I left the yard

I now have stables at my house so no need for the torch anymore :p I still double and then triple check everything though.

Also - a shavings bed has to be perfectly level and square... and the yard spotless. My mother doesn't understand how i keep my horse's bedroom spotless yet my own is an absolute state :rolleyes:
 
Besides a totally straight, level , swept bed i LOATHE people getting on their horse outside my stable!! They have their own bit , why can't they get on there?!?!

I spend ages sweeping my already rubbish concrete so that all the loose gravel is gone and then someone walks over and gets on there. Most of the horses then shuffle around in a little circle as they are facing the wrong way and churn it all up again. It drives me NUTS!

ETS - Just realised that was more of a rant haha.. oops..
 
Always wind the leadrope up.
Always clean tack before a lesson.
Horse must take at least one step back before being given a hand treat - teaches them not to browse pockets as they only get a treat when backing out of personal space
 
I check and double check the field gate, it even has a strap around it to keep it closed and the catch on the strap has to face out.
I make sure the elctric fence posts are alternatly positioned, to help the fence stay in whichever way the wind blows.
I hate it when dogs foul on the concrete outside stables, so even if they are not my stables and certainly not my dog, I still have to shovel it up.
When I tie up a horse, (I don't bother with Meg as she is stupid regarding tying up) I HAVE to make sure that nothing can be within reach to harm horse, I listen out to anything that might spook them and am ready to untie in a flash and I have a horse potty to hand to pick up poo instantly before they stand in it!!

Many more, but these are the first things that came to mind.
 
When my mare has to come in at night, I do muck out rather well leaving no poo in there whatsoever. But I have to say, I wish I did have some OCD tendencies but I don't!

I am messy, leave doors unlocked don't stick to any routine, leave bits of tack off and just am a little all over the place. Maybe that's my OCD, never do the same routine twice!

Oh, I am OCD about my horse wearing a breastplate. Purley for hanging onto, but all the same I will not ride her without.

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Mine are bout so I dont have a yard to sweep but leadropes have to be wound up. Wheelbarrows have to be empty when stored and electric fencing gates have to be either arranged so they are held open with a extra post or shut again, cant stand them lying on the floor !!!
 
Before I leave the yard I have to make sure my tack room door is secure several times!! Also when horse is In I have a saying... Feed, hay, water, rug, bed, bolt, lock!! I am terrible for gates aswell. I close gates out of routine and sometimes I can't remember if I have closed them or not!! I always go back and check and I always have!! I was the same as a few others on here with a shavings bed! Had to get all the poo out!! Took so long I had to change to straw!! Straw bed now has to be deep and banks high and level!! Like horse to be put away clean, feet clean and no mud on him, and skip out everytime I take him out the stable!!
 
I know i am odd but .... Once the horses have come in for the night i wait until they have had a poo before going home, sometimes I have had to wait for a long time! I think i have the idea that there will be less mess to stir in during the night! Dont worry I already know im strange!
 
Generally I go to reverse the car to leave, then do a final dash back to my stable to triple-check it's bolted. Even though I know it's shut, otherwise horse would already be out on the lawn :o

Other than that, I'm fairly easy going ;)
 
i have a few
the horses are kept at home but i still have to check & double check door bolts at night
also cant go to bed until each horse has done a poo - if they dont poo by bed time i will stay up and check them every hour until they do - think this is from loosing a horse to colic
feeds have to be a bit soup like
rug buckles must face inwards
i have more but think thats enough
 
Definately doors and gates thing...tie leadropes round gates and have a clip in the bolt also, so it cant come out. Im the same at home with the gas cooker knobs.
OCD about the haynet that it cant drop when empty and cause an accident. Hate haynets but pony had lami in the past so have to double-net.
 
Gates and stable door!
I even got all the way home the other night (7 miles of country lanes in the pouring rain) and had to turn round to double check I'd done the bottom latch! And I was thinking about it the moment I got into the car....When I got there every thing was fine of course!
Oh and now I have started having ocd about his girth...so much checking and double checking - its exhausting!
 
I have to remove the poo from the stable as soon as one of the horses has done it!

I have to fold the rugs nicely and hang them up in a certain way in the stables!

Feed room has to be spotless!

All the boots have to be paired up and stapped together!

And on a yard of 23 horses and anything up to 60 pony club kids coming up over the weekend, my work is cut out!!! But it HAS to be done haha! :D
 
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