What 'horsey chores' do you excel at in particular?

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I'm a padadtic perfectionist need I go into detail?

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In light of the spelling in your question, perhaps that might not be a bad idea.
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i am a good tack cleaner...and having a good spring clean for example rugs/numnahs/brushes getting cleaned one ce ina while.

Also good at turning out to a high standard(it think) by that i mean trimming/pulling/clipping....plaiting is getting there -need to practise with thread really!
 
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I'm a padadtic perfectionist need I go into detail?

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Is 'pedantic' the word you are aiming for? Or perhaps 'didactic'?
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Back to the topic: I am utterly brilliant at cuddles, kisses, scratches, stroking, silly games... Not so good at mucking out, poo-picking, sweeping, etc - although I am fussy about how this should be done (he he typical full-livery owner!).
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Actually I love grooming and I'm pretty good at it. Don't know how to pull manes or tails, though, or plait, cos I've only ever had Arabs!
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good at tack cleaning, pulling manes and plaiting, and tack and turnout!!


I am always asked to plait the horses in the teams...
and i am very quick - county show standard in 15mins!
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but we always win the tack and turnout prize when i am groom
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I'm somewhat like Shilasdair and excel at all, in particular bandaging, poulticing, giving jabs, holding my horse for hours whilst he's stitched up, medicating, bathing wounds, applying ointments, just basic normal fun fun fun with owning big nit called William!!
 
i excel at tipping the water bucket down myself!
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... but i suppose im best at plating and trimmng! lol (am also a bit of a perfectionist when it comes 2 clipping! lol)
 
Pulling manes, which is strange since I have traditionals.
Plaiting forelocks and tails, manes I'm not so hot with.
Poo picking, I pick up every little piece I can't stand people who leave a lump or two.
First aid, giving injections and bandaging.
 
Tack cleaning and mucking out/bedding down.
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When I clean tack its got to be done properly I cant just wipe it over everything has to be taken apart and brass buckles and extras have to be polished.
When mucking out all the banks have to be dug out (nothing worse then solid banks as the bedding underneath tends to go a bit mouldy),every single piece off poo taken out no matter how small and when bedding down banks have to be big and square and the bed has got to be nice and deep and flat.
I think im like it from when I was younger, I used to work weekends for a little mad lady that had a thing about dirt, she used to scream at me if there was a dirty shaving in the stables
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I am an obsessive sweeper
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I cannot leave the yard with so much as a single shavings flake on it, and I also square off the front of her bed with the broom
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I am a terrible mane puller but I have a hairy native so I've never had to learn
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im the same with the sweeping
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i can muck out quite quickly but spend ages sweeping the shavings into the bed etc.

and the banks have to be 100% level
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never pulled a mane or clipped a horse, i think i'd be too scared to get it wrong

Ohh and im very good at trimming ear fluff
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I wouldn't say I excelled any anything in particular I just seem to get by. Wish I could do mane pulling well though as my horse is in dire need of it after I attacked it with a solo comb!
 
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