What is your routine?

YM
7.30 feed
8.00 turnout
9.00 muckout
1pm winter catch in lunch time hay
6pm summer catch in
Ride and exercise in afternoon.
5pm winter feed and hay
7pm summer feed and hay
 
5am Get up

5.20 get to yard, feed mine and others on yard

5.25 muck out, change rugs turnout

5.40 hay, bed down, water and make up evening feed and breakfast

6.05 leave yard

Get home, do housework, take Daughter to school then if I want to ride, back up yard to ride.

3.15 pick daughter up from school and head to yard

3.30 bring in, goom, feed, change rugs

4.30 pm leave yard.
 
4:00am - up, get dressed, feed self and dogs and spend ten minutes hitting OH to wake him up.

4:30am - 7:00am - feed, muck out and chuck out any who aren't being ridden/whose owners won't ride til later.

7:00am - 8:00am - check field horses, general tidy of the yard, mix feeds for the evening and put them in boxes. OH is now a gamekeeper (much safer than Afghanistan!) and so he pops off to do his rounds of his birds.

8:00am - start riding. Depending on how many this can take us up until 2 or 3pm. We tend to split them into pairs and do one pair lunging, one pair hacking, one pair schooling, and one pair jumping or galloping each day, which makes life much easier. I can school one while OH rides and leads the hacking pair, he can lunge while I school the next, then he lunges the next one while I tack up the jumping pair, and then jump together. Throughout this we are turning horses out and leaving boxes ready for the evening. This time of day varies hugely, as often liveries are riding their own horses, or we'll have the farrier so they're all done at 8:00am and then ridden when they've been shod, but basically, we tend to be riding at this time every day.

2:00pm - 3:00pm - lunch for us and one of the dogs, the other two get a bonio to keep them happy.

3:00pm - 6:30pm - on the yard to clean all tack that has been used, and do things like order feed, hold horses for the vet, teach etc. OH back out to check his beloved pheasants!


6:30pm - all horses brought in. I leave their boxes ready with feeds in mangers in the morning, so all we do in the evening is wash legs, pick out feet, quick flick over with a brush (all are properly groomed before riding,and then washed off or hot clothed afterwards so we just get the worst of the mud off in the evenings), change rugs and into bed.

7:00pm - OH back, he feeds the dogs and I cook supper for us both, and have a quick tidy of the house if I can be bothered.

9:00pm ish - I have a bath, OH has a bath after me as he's a night owl and I'm not!

10:00pm - lates. All stabled horses skipped out quickly (just droppings taken out, generally in my pyjamas), water topped up if they prefer buckets to automatic waterers, hay/haylage topped up, and my poor doer gets an extra feed. The dogs come out with now for their last wee.

10:30pm - bed for me, and OH joins me from about 12, but he often just stays up all night because he's a massive freak.

Seven days a week, but I am getting a day off on my birthday this year - HURRAH! I do try and give all the horses one day a week off, in which case I'm done at 8am. This doesn't always work though as owners often want to ride, or want something plaited up for them.
 
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My horses are kept at home I have a groom 2 mornings. Per week. Winter routine:

6am: change rugs, turnout, muckout, haynets, feeds made.

6pm: bring in, ride, rug up, hay and feed.
10.30pm: skip out stables, top up water, more hay.

On groom days:
6.30am: I skip out stables, give more hay
9.30am: Groom arrives, lunges horses, turns them out, muckes out, haynets, water, tops up field troughs.

9pm: fetch horses in, change rugs, feed hay.
 
Starzaan? Are you super human or something?!

Mine is...
6.30 (ish)- get up, breakfast
7.00- Do chickens, feed horses, change rugs, turnout, then muck out, sort yard etc
9.00- go to work at point to point yard
1.00 (ish)- Bring mine in, ride
3.30- Feed, skip out, change rugs, poo pick field
4.30- 5.30- Go up to livery yard and long rein/ back a pony depending if school is free.
6.30- Dinner, paperwork, tidy, bath, bed!
 
7 am put first horse out in sand turnout with haylage, feed the others and put his feed in his stable for when he comes in.

7.30 go back in house and have cup of tea

8 am muck out one horse and put haylage in for them all. Fill haynets, stack haylage barrow.

9 am have my breakfast.

10 am bring in first horse, poo pick sand, fill hay hutches and water butt.
Change rugs and turn out next three horses.

10.30 Muck out the three empty stables and put haylage in.

11.30 Ride or do lesson, or if none to do, then back in house and go on H&H :D or clean up in house/do laundry etc.

1 pm Bring horses in, change rugs, poo pick sand, fill hay hutches and turn out final three horses.

1.30 muck out final three horses.

2.25 Ride or do lesson.

3.30 Hay up and skip out.

4 pm Bring final three horses in.

9 - 10 pm Feed, hay up and skip out.
 
Starzaan said:
4:00am - up, get dressed, feed self and dogs and spend ten minutes hitting OH to wake him up.

4:30am - 7:00am - feed, muck out and chuck out any who aren't being ridden/whose owners won't ride til later.

7:00am - 8:00am - check field horses, general tidy of the yard, mix feeds for the evening and put them in boxes. OH is now a gamekeeper (much safer than Afghanistan!) and so he pops off to do his rounds of his birds.

8:00am - start riding. Depending on how many this can take us up until 2 or 3pm. We tend to split them into pairs and do one pair lunging, one pair hacking, one pair schooling, and one pair jumping or galloping each day, which makes life much easier. I can school one while OH rides and leads the hacking pair, he can lunge while I school the next, then he lunges the next one while I tack up the jumping pair, and then jump together. Throughout this we are turning horses out and leaving boxes ready for the evening. This time of day varies hugely, as often liveries are riding their own horses, or we'll have the farrier so they're all done at 8:00am and then ridden when they've been shod, but basically, we tend to be riding at this time every day.

2:00pm - 3:00pm - lunch for us and one of the dogs, the other two get a bonio to keep them happy.

3:00pm - 6:30pm - on the yard to clean all tack that has been used, and do things like order feed, hold horses for the vet, teach etc. OH back out to check his beloved pheasants!


6:30pm - all horses brought in. I leave their boxes ready with feeds in mangers in the morning, so all we do in the evening is wash legs, pick out feet, quick flick over with a brush (all are properly groomed before riding,and then washed off or hot clothed afterwards so we just get the worst of the mud off in the evenings), change rugs and into bed.

7:00pm - OH back, he feeds the dogs and I cook supper for us both, and have a quick tidy of the house if I can be bothered.

9:00pm ish - I have a bath, OH has a bath after me as he's a night owl and I'm not!

10:00pm - lates. All stabled horses skipped out quickly (just droppings taken out, generally in my pyjamas), water topped up if they prefer buckets to automatic waterers, hay/haylage topped up, and my poor doer gets an extra feed. The dogs come out with now for their last wee.

10:30pm - bed for me, and OH joins me from about 12, but he often just stays up all night because he's a massive freak.

Seven days a week, but I am getting a day off on my birthday this year - HURRAH! I do try and give all the horses one day a week off, in which case I'm done at 8am. This doesn't always work though as owners often want to ride, or want something plaited up for them.
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OMG Starzaan! I could not function with such little sleep. I need at least six hours and usually get seven. :eek:
 
I don't function very well. Ask me what day it is or what my name is and it may take me a while! Definitely not super human...more like super tired and rather poor.

I managed seven months of getting up at 3:30am and doing all of the above, minus the late skip out, seven days a week when we had our big yard. We then got a groom and I LOVED her.

Since moving to the new place we are having to spend every spare penny on doing it up, and so we just can't afford a groom yet. We're full now though, and nearly done with getting the yard up to scratch, and so hopefully after Christmas I'll be able to have one day off a week.

I guess I manage because I have to, but also because I adore my job. I love that I can come into the house and change into warm, dry clothes if it's hideous weather (like it was all day today!), and that I can spend time with my horses without it being a problem. It's worth all the work for that.

ETA - I could probably make life easier for myself by not doing everything before I allow myself a break, but I HATE leaving a box not mucked out past 7am, and I will never, EVER walk off the yard while it's unswept or boxes still need mucking out, unless it's a dire emergency. Horses first, me second.
 
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I seem to do it the other way round to you so....

8.30am rug change and t/o

8.45am work

5.30pm bring in, groom, ride, muck out, Haynes, dinner

8.30pm home, dinner, bed
 
Starzaan - OMG - I wouldn't last a week doing that!!

I'm on assisted DIY so at some point around 8:30/9am horse is fed and turned out.

I rock up at around 6:30/7pm after work and bring in (if he's not already been brought in by one of the other liveries).

Generally, if I'm riding I'll tie him up with a haynet while I give legs a hose then tack up. Then I'll ride and much out, do water, nets and then feed ( I like to leave at least 30 minutes between working him and feeding him).

If not riding I'll try and muck out first, bring him in, hose legs, feed and go home.
 
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