what horsey chores do you hate doing?

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For me its haynets! I hate filling them. Seriously considering getting my 2 hay racks so I don't have to do it.
Oh and I don't like doing water buckets.
 
I HATE poo picking!
I make myself do my fields twice a day so i only get a barrow full a time cause if i had to empty the barrow i know i wouldn't and it would only get start piling up :rolleyes:
 
Ditto to poo picking.
I invested in a twin wheeled wheelbarrow, which is great as I fill one a day to clear field, but the much heap is SOOOOOO far away... Have to walk through YO's garden, and I'm incredibly anti-social so 99% of the time I really don't want to see or speak to anyone... that's why I moved to my own yard, with no other liveries, cos I'm a miserable ol' b**ch.
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Hot_Toddy7 said:
Ditto to poo picking.
I invested in a twin wheeled wheelbarrow, which is great as I fill one a day to clear field, but the much heap is SOOOOOO far away... Have to walk through YO's garden, and I'm incredibly anti-social so 99% of the time I really don't want to see or speak to anyone... that's why I moved to my own yard, with no other liveries, cos I'm a miserable ol' b**ch.
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Picking out feet. I don't mind when it all comes out in a big wodge of mude but when its loads of packed in itty bits and takes ages I hate it!
 
Hay nets! Hate them - frustrating horrible things. I bought a xxl tub trug and have tied it to the wall with a bungie. Still have to fill the horrid things for travelling though!

Oh yes, poo picking too - time spent doing this is time not spent with my horses! Now at a yard where we do not do it - sheep grazing is a wonderful thing!
 
Haynets, soaking haynets, lugging water to the field, poo picking, picking out feet. The list is endless really. I used to hate the idea of full livery but actually now the idea of just grooming/riding Mon-Fri and doing chores at the weekend is seeming much more appealing!
 
Its strange, I go through stages over the winter. For a month or so it will be feeds (sometimes have to make up over 20 in a day! :eek: ) then mucking out, the water buckets and changing rugs. Most of the time though I hate doing haynets!

Saving up to buy a haymate though, should make haynets a lot earier! ;)
 
Trekking to the field and back to bring in/turn out. I hate it. It's a walk down a lane and then up a steep stony track. Oh to be allocated a paddock closer to my stable. It's such a bl**dy waste of my precious time. :(
 
Poo picking :(....I got a big four wheeled barrow so I only need to do one trip to the muck heap but when I get there the barrows so heavy I can't tip it :rolleyes:....hate ragwort pulling too.
 
Cleaning up after clipping. Anything that involves putting my hands in cold water when its freezing weather. Cleaning the nasty unavoidable sludge from drains.
 
Picking feet of a half ton CB who loves to lean on me.

Poo picking.

For those of you who hate filling haynets buy a ring. I have one with spring balance above, saves time and wasted hay.
 
pulling hay out of the big round bales!!! hate it! some days it comes out easy,but most days it takes forever to pull out 6-8kgs.
 
Poo-picking! Hate hate hate it! I also hate taking water to the field, although I have invested in H2go bag this year which made life a lot easier!!

I also hate filling Haynets but as my girl pulls all the hay out of her haybar and the drags it all through her bed before dunking it in her water buckets, I persevere!
 
Tack cleaning

Clipping

Plaiting

Poo picking when the fields are wet

Having to bring water from home when the pipes at the yard are frozen
 
Rolling bandages . . . hate, hate, hate it and end up doing it pretty much every morning at certain times of the year. It's tedious and a massive time-suck.

Turning out in the four-acre field . . . it's at least half a mile from the rest of the yard, up a sizeable hill, alongside an open field which the pony club use for cubbing at certain times of the year, and past a field with three excitable ex-racers . . . some mornings when Kal is fresh and pulling like a train it feels like it'd be less effort to run a flipping marathon (ok, slight exaggeration).

Anything involving wet hands when it's cold . . . it hurts.

Anything involving metal gates, metal rug fittings, basically anything overly fiddly when it's really cold . . . makes the bones in my hands hurt.

I don't mind mucking out . . . but I hate when you turn with a forkfull of dirty bedding and hit something and it all falls off . . . don't know why, but it really, really irritates me.

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For rolling bandages, I shake out then fold in half roughly & drape round my neck or over shoulder. I then roll whilst on the move & one handed while doing other small jobs that can be done one handed, eg feeds, waters, putting tools away etc.
 
PolarSkye said:
I don't mind mucking out . . . but I hate when you turn with a forkfull of dirty bedding and hit something and it all falls off . . . don't know why, but it really, really irritates me.

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I get so cross with myself when I do this! And seems to happen alot!

Also anything that involves having wet hands in the winter. And changing soaking wet, muddy rugs.

Its not a chore but I HATE having flies buzzing round my face in the summer. Its like some form of torture!
 
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