What is your favourite horsey chore?

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I know we all have our favourite jobs that we do with our horses and I just wondered what yours were?

My ponies live out 24/4 so I don't get the brilliant feeling of making up a clean fresh bed and stuffing a haynet full to the brim. I do however, LOVE feeding! I love nothing more than making up feeds of sugarbeet and micronised linseed and listening to my ponies slurp and chomp away with such happy (food covered)faces! I also love shaking out hay into piles in the field. I am also a bit OCD with poo picking, so after clearing the field and putting out the hay, turning to look at them happily munching in their clean field makes me one very happy lady!
 
I LOVE plaiting
Which is good as I used to help out at an event yard and they would take upwards of 12 horses to a competition
Weirdly the novelty has never worn off!!
 
mucking out!!! hahah seriously I love it when they have a nice big cosey bed for winter!!

Hate haynets with a passion!!!!!!!! So lucky we have hay feeders in our stables!!!!
 
Tack/harness cleaning and grooming is my favourite. I like washing manes and tails too, but not the whole body unless its really necessary.
I hate haynet filling as its so dusty I'm sneezing, we don't have the luxury of haylage which I absolutely love to handle lol.
I used to like making up beds and banks, but all I do now is poo pick the stables off the bare rubber matting.
 
None of them!! If I could afford it I'd happily be on full liver 7 days a week, 365 days a year, and just rock up to groom and ride every day!

I detest mucking out. I don't mind poo picking as long as I am strict and do it every day, so there isn't even a full barrow to take off. When the weather is nice (but not too many flies!) it's OK as horse usually moseys around the field with me while I do it. But not in the rain and mud, eugh, awful. Grooming is fine when horse is clean but don't like it when he's dusty or muddy! I go through phases of strapping and I do quite enjoy doing that. I don't like making up hay nets as it makes me cough and sneeze.

I quite enjoy giving him a bath on a really hot summer day as it's a great way to cool off after riding.
 
Mucking out. I love the challenge.

And I love making up his feeds as I add dates, apples, carrots and other odds and ends and enjoy watching him eat.

He is proper spoilt, every night for ten years he has had either apples or carrots in his feed and most of this time both!

I HATE filling hay nets, think it is the most boring thing, even more boring than cleaning tack!
 
I love the first trimming session of the year once we are out of winter (she is au natural over winter). I enjoy stripping her winter coat and then a good pulling and trim. I think its the finishing, and looking back at the big mass of hair/mane/tail swirling around on the floor that's satisfying!

Detest haynets and tacking up
 
I love making feeds.

Another big thing of mine is organising everything. I blitzed outside my stable and in the tackroom yesterday - sorting through everything, finding things I thought I'd lost and putting things in categories in my drawers etc. I'm a bit weird.
 
Love tack cleaning and plaiting (prefer it with thread than bands!).

Hate haynets and doing any chores in winter when I forget ear muffs, as I get this dull earache that won't leave until I am warm!
 
Mucking out and putting in a really nice deep fluffy straw bed when I've got plenty of time to sit and straighten the edges etc! Can't beat it. I don't love filling haynets but I do love the feeling of satisfaction you get on a winter weekend when you have plenty of feeds and nets made up for the week ahead!
Also a good grooming session.
ETA: Oh, and least favourite is tack cleaning!
 
I'm in the minority of haynet filling lovers!! Maybe the novelty will wear off in winter when I'm filling significantly more whilst wearing super thick gloves to keep my hands slightly above freezing.........
 
Making feeds, bringing in when the weather is rubbish in winter, and I also quite like mucking out (though I have to admit to feeling a huge sense of relief when she goes out 24/7 in summer lol!). It'll be quite an interesting challenge this winter, with the arrival of my little daughter due in October...she will have to get used to mucking out in all weathers very soon ;-).

I hate filling haynets with a passion, and not all that enthusiastic about cleaning tack either.
 
Love all my horsey jobs :) Time doing things with or around or for my boys is always a good time!

Not so keen on plaiting though cos I'm rubbish at it and it makes my hands hurt.
 
I love my annual stable and rubber mats intensive clean. Anything to use a power washer!

I also quite like cleaning tack, either at the yard on a nice sunny day or on a Saturday afternoon at home in front of a roaring fire and with rugby on the telly. I've always done it this way since I got my first pony when I was 12. Combining my two loves, horses and rugby!
 
I have my own little feedroom/tackroom - it's only about 10ft x 11ft but I love keeping it organised and tidy - everything has its place and everything is in place. My house is pretty much a hovel though :D
 
wiglet said:
I have my own little feedroom/tackroom - it's only about 10ft x 11ft but I love keeping it organised and tidy - everything has its place and everything is in place. My house is pretty much a hovel though :D
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I'm a bit like this. OH is very tidy though do just goes round tidying up after me lol!!!

I love making up a nice shavings bed. Not a brand new one as its a bit slippy underfoot, but when I put a new bale in.

Detest hay nets as I have bad hay fever!!! Haylage is just lovely stuff!!!

I like poo picking. In the summer!!! My old horse used to 'help' me and it would turn into a group activity with the yard cat coming to along for a walk round the fields too!! In the winter it's a good workout I suppose with the mud and the heavy barrow.

Generally I love all if it though. But wouldn't have a straw bed ever again!! Hate it and even the best straw is dusty enough to set my alergies off!!!
 
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