Time Management....

[Chestnut mare]

How do you all manage your time so you are able to fit everything in? I'm really struggling. OH is at his wits end lol.....

Basically if I'm on early shift I will get up go to work, go to yard, home, shower, dinner on. OH gets in at 8pm we eat tidy the dinner bits away then bed!

If I'm on late shift I'm up early up the yard, sort horses, off to work, home, dinner, shower as above!

Saturday's I'm off 3/4 so again I'm up the yard ride, dig my bed out as I only poo pick it in the week to save time, I fill my haynets for the week ahead again to save time and I catch up on my poo picking.

I work on a Sunday......

The horses are in at the moment they live out March- December so it will be a little easier then.

My poor OH is fed up with doing all the house work when he is off .

How do you all fit it in? I need time management advise.

Thanks .

 

[Ranyhyn]

You sound like you're doing what you can to save time really, I have always had a sharer, those few days off a week are an absolute god send when in a relationship I find.

 

[unbalanced]

I work 7am-whenever - usually somewhere between 5 and 7.30pm then I take more work home to do so I have to get home at a reasonable time to actually do it!
When I go to turn out before work I get my horse done then so when I go up after work and I'm tired all I have to do is ride and if I'm really late/shattered/it's parents' evening (I'm a teacher) I can put her straight to bed.
I think doing everything at the yard in a really strict routine makes you so much faster. When I arrive, I tie her outside with her feed, which I made up the night before, then I muck out. I have rubber mats and a tiny bed so that takes under ten minutes. I stick a haynet in (make them all up on Sundays) and do her water then her box is done ready for the evening. She sleeps in her t/o rug which saves another two minutes in the morning. I quickly pick out her feet, put her cream on and turn out on the way back to my car. Done, usually in under half an hour.
I have work clothes on under my horse clothes so I am ready to go straight to work from the farm saving time. Then after work I can just put my jeans and boots on and get straight on the horse without going home - saves another half an hour.
In the evenings I bring in (left the headcollar on the gate so I don't have to go get it) then I might ride or not, make up feed and breakfast, leave t/o rug on and she is done. If I left jobs till the evening I would be much slower.
Everything has to be really tidy in my tackroom so I can find things straight away. Jobs like scrubbing out buckets and cleaning tack get left till the weekend. I think having a really tight routine is the best way to save time, so you are never thinking shall I do water buckets or go to the muck heap now? You have to do it on autopilot.

 

[ofcourseyoucan]

if you are working 12 hrs a day or split shifts part livery is the way to go. more expense in one payment but eases the burden of the twice a day every day, plus buying in hay feed bedding. you will save on petrol,time, wear and tear on car and tyres,