What time do you get to the Yard in the mornings?

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arwenplusone

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I currently get there at about 10 to six
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I have three to do and one to ride before I get to work - having a bit of a nightmare at the moment with traffic so is taking me an hour to get there
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Anyway, there is rarely anyone else there at that time which in someways is lovely but in other ways makes me feel like its the middle of the night and I am totally crazy!
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Just wondering what time anyone else gets there and what time you get up?

(though I'm sure there will be some smug g*ts about who have theirs on full livery
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About 7 if am at uni (luckliy usually only half a day so ride after wards)
I am lucky that a friend turns mine out when I am working as i have to be in work at 6.45 am. i do get up in the summer and feed etc before work but the cold dark wet mornings i avoid if i can.
The rest of the yard usualy get there about 8.30ish most of them dont work normal shifts or at all so they have a luxury of a lie in.
 
I get down the yard at about 10 to 7 in the mornings - have to muck out, do hay and water then turn my horse out (which is about a 15min walk in itself!). Normally leave the yard about 8 for work.

Roll on summer turnout when the horses live out 24/7
 
I'm first there at 5.30 am and one of the last at 7 pm.

The good thing is that at night I can leave a barrow/broom etc right out side my stable ready for mucking out in the morning and no one will pinch it!
 
I'm generally at the yard sometime between 7 and 7.30.
Thats the mornings i do, mornings im in uni my mum goes up. I just feed them and chuck them out, sometimes muck out in morn, sometimes when i go back later on.
I get up somewhere between 6.45 and 7. (i'm 10 mins from yard)

I would love to be up earlier up i don't like turning out in the dark etc so i need to wait for s little daylight!
 
I should be there about 6.30 to get what I need to do, done - struggling a bit since Christmas to get back into routine though!! THere is usually two of us there early, then a couple more about 8 as we leave (they start work at 9.30/10), then the rest rock up after 9 asthey don't work!
 
about 730-745, cant hack out till its light, and cant turn him out untill his field compainions go out at 830, so its pointless getting there any earlier. get there earlier in the summer, cos its nice and light and i can go for early morning rides which i love
 
Very rarely do i ever go in the morning before work usually only in the Summer if it is too hot to ride in the evenings and very occasionally in the Winter.

If i go i tend to aim to get there for 5.30am
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(hence why it doesn't happen very often!) which gives me 2 hours to ride and feed both Holly and Blue before i have to head home to get ready for work
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I'm even smugger and have a groom! She's well worth her salary and livery for her horse, especially in the winter.

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That's cheating!!
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6:15am.. first there and YO lives onsite.. lol, I have to do 1, feed, change rugs put out, muck out do hay. then home for 7.30am at latest, drop little one off at child minder then off to start work at 8.30 then back to yard at 5.30ish to ride etc..
 
Horses at home but still need to get them sorted before work so anywhere between 0515 and 0600 depending on what shift I'm on. Everything done in the mornings so we can just catch/groom/ride after work.

Home around 18:15, horses caught/groomed/ridden/fed - in for evening meal then go back out about 22:15 to change/check rugs/skip out/feed
 
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Around 6.15am.

I admire you Arwen - that is real dedication......

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Lol - If I want three horses that's how it has to be.
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I have quite a stressful job and am often there gone 7 - at least if I do everything in the morning I know it's done!

Bring on the summer!
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No particular time.
I can see them from the window, all have round bales etc and as long as they look OK I often don't go to say hello until about 8ish.
 
Alarm goes off at 5:25 and I can be down the yard by around 5:40 (or slightly later if I hit the snooze). If I am riding I tack up and ride straight away leaving OH to muck out both horses and ride the other one. If she is lunging my horse I may muck out both. I ahve to be back home showered and out the door by around 7:30 an I have an hours drive to work.
 
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Alarm goes off at 5:25 and I can be down the yard by around 5:40 (or slightly later if I hit the snooze). If I am riding I tack up and ride straight away leaving OH to muck out both horses and ride the other one. If she is lunging my horse I may muck out both. I ahve to be back home showered and out the door by around 7:30 an I have an hours drive to work.

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*wails* You beat me! You beat me!

(but your OH mucks out for you - I don't have that service
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I get up about 5.45 and am at stables for about 5.55 (*smug* 1 min walk from my house). I just feed both, skip out my mare out and fill her haynet, then my YO/friend turns them both out later on. I leave stables about 6.30 then go home, shower, brekkie and leave for work at 7.30am.

Whereabouts is York are you trying to get to/from, Arwen? We come in down the A19 and the traffic has got really bad after the lull around Xmas!
 
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I get up about 5.45 and am at stables for about 5.55 (*smug* 1 min walk from my house). I just feed both, skip out my mare out and fill her haynet, then my YO/friend turns them both out later on. I leave stables about 6.30 then go home, shower, brekkie and leave for work at 7.30am.

Whereabouts is York are you trying to get to/from, Arwen? We come in down the A19 and the traffic has got really bad after the lull around Xmas!

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Escrick! Just moved there and can't believe how bad the A19 is
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I only have to get to Haxby so should be 15/20 mins.
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Also there are temporary traffic lights up so slowing everyone down ATM. Are you in Selby?
 
I'm lucky
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I have a lovely mummy who does them in the morning so i don't have to get up too early - they are at home though, but i don't sleep well during the winter, so it emans i get and extra half hour
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We have to leave at 7 in the morning so that i can get to school before 8!! I do all the mucking out in the evenings, and ride (if it's light!) So she jsut feeds in the morning!! During the holidays i'm up at 6, so that their routine is the same ish...!!! But once we're in our new house i should be getting up at 5.30 to go and do them and get ready for school
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which means i will have to go to bed early!!
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As i can't count on my mum all the time!!
 
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I'm on part livery, so YO does the mornings, and the horses get fed at 7.30am, and turned out by 9am.
If they're injured and on box rest, then I go up at 6am, and wake the yard up. I've only done that about 10 times in 3 years though.

At the weekends I go up there at 8.45-9am and am usually the first livery on the yard
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During the week the yard turns mine out, but at weekends, I turn up at 8.30 - 9am.... just so i can have some sort of lie in....
 
I have 8 that are in at the moment & it depends how many I want to ride before work as to what time I'm up - usually wake up at 5.15 to be on the yard 5.30 (3 mile drive & a quick cup of tea!). I'll then ride 2 for 40 minutes, by which time my unpaid groom turns up (mother), we do rugs, chuck them out in the field & skip out. I have to be at home for 7.30 to have a quick shower & be out of the house by 8.10 to be at my desk for 8.30. It's a bit of a rush!! Usually get home from work at about 5.45, up the yard by 6pm but I have help from one of the kids I teach so usually home by 7pm
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I get to the yard for around 06.30, feed, turn out, muck out, fill haynets/water if leaving in, if not still sort it all ready for bringing in at teatime. If left in, then at teatime skip out, put bed down (always leave up during the day if he is in), feed/hay/water, change rugs etc.
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6.30 at the mo and currently I have a couple of weeks of someone covering me so I can have a bit of a leisurely break. But come the end of Feb when they all start to come back into work it will be 5.30am to get two exercised and turned back out and the stables done before going to work then straight back to the yard after work at about 6pm then don't usually leave the yard till about 9pm.
 
I get there at 6am in the winter months and turn out, do his haynets, water and muck out by head torch (no elec). I have no school so have to wait for daylight to ride in the winter months. In the summer when it is light early I will be there at 5am and get out for a nice 2 hour hack before anyone else is even out of bed...then muck out, do water and hay. I do this at weekends too!
 
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