What time do you go up to see your horses?

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FinkleyAlex

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This tends to be such a subjective area and I'm interested to hear responses and opinions.

I'm on DIY livery and my yard is 25 mins drive from my house, and 1 hour (minimum) drive from work. I work 3-4 days a week, and spend about three hours a day studying for an upcoming exam.

I finish work at 5.30-6pm and after an hours drive usually get to the yard at about 7pm. This coincided wonderfully with the fact that his field neighbour is turned out at 7pm and my boy can't go out untill his friend is out or he panics. He then usually is turned out untill 7am when he is brought in by the groom to his haynets.

At the moment he is on boxrest following steroid injections into his hocks so is only allowed out for an hour a day and has a 30 min in hand hack. I still go up at 7pm (inc weekends) as I find the yard is far quieter then and as he's on boxrest and a bit of a stresshead at times it's better for him and keeps him a general routine. I guess I also like the peace and quiet of having the yard to myself at times, though usually there are a few people around.

I do recieve some comments sometimes - never nasty but generally inquisitive as to why I go up so late. He has two large small-holed haynets which keep him busy untill about 6pm and is usually done on a 24 hour turnaround so I can't see much of a difference between a horse being done at 5pm everyday and one being done at 7pm.

Do you think 7pm is too late? What time do you go to see yours?
 
there never is a 'right time' when on a livery yard lol
in winter i go up at 6am and do bed and turn out, then 6pm for bring in.
i work between these hours,
at wknds i (work every 2nd sat), i go up when i can get up lol, and generally spend most weekends at yard.
however like today i had things on and i only drove to yard had a cuddle in field and left again till tomoro x
 
In the morning I go up at 5.30 to sort things out and have to be done by 7am to drop my son off at the childminders and get ready for work.
In the evenings I finish work at 5pm, pick my son up and am at the yard at 5.30 ish. I'm normally there until 7.30 - 8pm depending on what iv got to do. At the mo iv got a nightmare project horse I'm working with so it's always towards 8pm I leave yard.
There's a big livery yard just down the road and they all seem to be done by 5pm at the lastest. In the winter sometimes earlier
 
I get to the yard just after 7am most mornings, bring the boys in for their breakfasts and get to work by 8am. I only work in the mornings, so I tend to be back at the yard early afternoon if I'm riding, or by 4pm if not. I allow an hour per horse to turn out, muck (chat, have a cuppa ;)) etc, and I'm usually away by 6-6.30pm. Works fine for me!
 
I'm very lucky in that i keep my horse on small private yard with just my horse and yo's 2 horses a minutes walk from my house, the yo does them in mornings because i am a postie and start work about 6am and generally leave my house about 5.20am , she doesnt like me ''waking them up'' to early so she does them about 7.30am then we generally do them again in evening between 4.30-5pm
 
When I had my horses on DIY in the UK, during school term I didn't get down to them until 9am, and generally bought them in about 3pm.
Great little yard, most of us had school age children, and/or were working, so we all mucked in and horses were fed by whoever got down there first. We all looked out for each other and nothing was ever left out alone.

Now, I'm up when I'm up, usually I am wandering around the paddocks about 6am with my first coffee of the day, they are all out so it doesn't matter what time I'm out there, winter or summer they won't starve if their routine varies a bit.
 
Im on DIY and we have a feed rota for breaky and lunch. Im at the yard at all different times during the week depending on what time my dads home at to bring me (20min drive), Sometimes im there from 9am sometimes not there till 7pm. At weekend im up from 7.30am until 5ish. Tbh i dont really think it matters what time you attend your horse at as long as it is looked after and not neglected lol
 
I'm really lucky as I keep my horse at home. In the week, I feed/ turn out/ muck out etc at around 5.30 am, then off to work. I get home from work anytime between 4.30 pm (occasionally if I'm lucky!) and 6.30pm (in time to bring in, feed, groom), with occasional 'late ones'- can be 9.30pm ish- for parents evenings/ meetings etc (I'm a teacher). Weekends and school holidays though- I pop out to him every couple of hours if I'm at home!

I'm very lucky that when I have to work late, my Hubby or Dad are there to bring in/ feed etc. Having Magic at home also means that I can see him when I get in from work no matter how late it is. :)
 
you have to do what suits you, and your yard. i turn out by 8.30 and bring in just before dark in winter, summer most are out but ones in are out by 7 30 and come back in around 8 or 9 pm. but my horses are flexible around me, they never gather as tea time starts when the kitchen opens!
 
I go up as soon as the kids have left for school in the mornings from October to March about 8.30am, when I was working on the yard I would go to my yard at 5am, muck out all five stables whilst the ponies had their breakies, turned them all out and put their night hay in, empty the water buckets and then go straight to work. I would then go back in the late afternoon and ride, put fresh water and dinners in before bringing them in and hanging the field haynets out for the next morning.

I currently pop up in the mornings to feed the veterans breakies and then go back about lunchtime for the girls to ride and I muck the paddocks out and when the girls have finished I feed the ponies and refill the troughs.

This winter it will be back to going about 9am to turn out etc and then I will go back up later in the day to bring them back in.
 
We go between 8.30 and 9am in the morning do jobs ride etc and leave about 12...then someone feeds them around 5-6ish and the YOs do last yard checks around 11pm.
Sometimes my old part loan wasn't ridden until about 8pm at night as my mum worked late and I was at college till gone 6ish at times! (he was fed nd seen to way before this though by his owner!!)
K x
 
Well i think some people have obviously got to much time on there hands if theyre worrying what time your going up to look after YOUR horse!!
Im lucky to have my horses at home and to be quite honest during the summer they dont have regular routine at all. Come in daily but when i choose and go out when i want them to sometimes i get them in for a bit in the afternoon then sometimes i get them in later ...tonight theyre in now and ill kick them out at about ten pm. All depends what time i ride, what the weathers like etc
I have known horses a the local stud stood in barns all winter and mucked out weekly with a tractor. Hay thrown over the gates etc Theyre all still alive and look as well as mine and yours probably !!
Dont worry !! Your horse is fine as long as he has water and feed you do whatever you like with your horse. My horses are not demanding and dont wait at the gate they are much more relaxed.
 
Depends if I'm working or not... I like to go for the whole afternoon but if I'm working I nip down at lunch time (to ride etc - I pay someone to muckout etc on days when I work) then about 5.30ish to feed.

Blitz
 
i keep my pony at home so on a school day get up at 6 have breakfast go and see my pony in summer put fly stuff on and in winter put out and change rugs
then finish school at 6 back home by about 6:45 so go see him quickly before supper make sure hes ok as mum brings him in before it gets dark in winter :) then after supper i go and give him another hay net or in summer go take off his fly stuff
 
During the week I get up at 5am, am down the yard by 6am and leave about 7 and go straight to work. I'm back up the yard between 3.30-4.15 depending on where I am working and leave around 6.30.

At weekends I get down there between 8-8.30. I'm normally one of the first ones there, others get down between 9-10am, if their horses are hungry or run out of hay then one of us will chuck them a slice in, we all check everyones horses, not regimently but give them a stroke as you go past and check them over.
 
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