What time is acceptable to get to your horse in the morning?

My cobs live out 24/7. Mum does them about 9ish.
Inka is stabled, weekdays she normally gets done about 7.30am as I start work at 8am (she is kept at work). Some days it can be earlier depending what time I start work.
Sunday is my day off work but I will usually do her about 8am so its not too much out of her routine. If I know I'm not going to get there till 9am I will give her enough hay and water over night that she has some left in the morning to keep her happy. She will let me know in the morning if she has been kept waiting too long
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I get there between 7 and 8 in the week and normally between 9 and 9.30 at the weekend. He is on box rest at the moment anyway and always has hay and water at the times i get down so not too worried
 
I think routine is important horses - don't understand weekends. I used to do 7.30 weekdays and Saturdays and by 8.00 on a Sunday even though full liveries didn't get done until 8.30 of a Sunday.
 
Mine live out all year round, but get fed anytime between 9-10 in the morning... earlier in summer, ( and I have them at home) they have hard feed all year round as the grazing is not great, and in summer theres none, (thats Spain for you)
 
I'm normally at the yard by 7.45am and she's out by 8.30am latest on the days i work, my days off i normally get there between 9-9.30.
Whoever is first on the yard feeds them all and this time can vary depending on who is there first, (most people seem to work shifts on my yard!) they are normally fed by the time i get there at 7.45am
 
Mine are out 24/7 so I suppose it is a lot different but even I start getting twitchy if I havent given them breakfast by 10am when usually its between 6.30 and 7.30am!
 
In honesty that girl sounds like a moo, poor horse
I think that is totally unfair to leave a horse until then without food or water.
On a weekday I am up the yard at 5.30-6am and on the weekend I am there by 8.30am, she does mostly live out 24/7
 
Oh yeah and the poor thing never goes out in the field ever in the winter. Because she doesn't like him to be muddy. So even when she doesn't come down until 12 the poor thing just gets put back in his stable again until she comes back later.

The yard manager has had words with her several times, and she comes up earlier for a while then starts getting later and later again.
Can't understand why she doesn't want anyone else to even give him a feed and a haynet!
Once I turned his neck cover back on his rug because he was sweating underneath it and she actually went round the yard interrogating people as to who had been interfering with her horse!

Like Halfpass said come the summer he is literally abandoned in the field, it will be even worse this year as she's pregnant!!
 
surely the yard owner should be having a word with her. As has already been said to leave any horse farless a weaver unfed when all the others getting theirs is cruel.
There should be yard rules or guidelines.
My old YO is having this problem with someone who thinks it is acceptable to leave them til lunchtime tocome up and feed. YO takes an interest in every horse whatever livery arrangement and has made her feelings known, she will not allow any horse to stand in with no hay etc.
 
I am very lucky in that another livery feeds all the horses at 6am and puts their morning haylage in so he's always happily munching away when I get there around 9ish usually. Sometimes it's 7am or 10am but the other liveries rarely turn their horses out so there's no comings and goings to bother them, and he is always done at the same time as his friend in the opposite stable.
 
That's bad....poor horse, selfish owner................I get to yard at 8am weekdays and 9.30 ish sunday - my lie in!! I leave brekkie and a net out and YO pops them in for me so I know that he has something to munch on, My girls living out have plenty of grass to nibble at so no one goes hungry.
 
This is something we've talked about at our yard only this week. I pair up with another owner as I am the only full time worker. I feed hers and turn hers out every weekday morning and she brings mine in during the afternoons. At the weekends we swap and she turns out and I bring in.

I'm there between 6.15 and 6.30am weekdays. I thought she was turning out about 830am weekends, but Ive found out last Sunday they didn't go out until 11am!!!!!

I'm considering stopping the pairing up and going it alone, but paying YO's daughter to bring in weekdays as I can't get down till nearly 6 and they all come in much earlier.

I can't believe the livery's cheek! She should have been grateful!
 
I turn out 6.15 weekdays and 9am on a weekend, they have tons of hay usually have some left in a morning) with plenty of water, they never drink it all, we have huge tubs. They don't usually come in until 7pm at night so have had access to grass and hay during the day too.
 
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I'm not at a yard anyone but on private land but the yard I used to be at they were all fed and given haynets at the same time and if you weren't there by 10am to muck out the yard would muck out for you and charge you for it which I think was fair enough!
 
Weekdays 6.00am - weekends never later than 7.30am.

Hopefully your YM has had a word with the livery who thinks it's acceptable to turn up early afternoon to her horse - or even those who go late morning........
 
YO does ours in the week, sometimes it is 6 am if he is going to golf, if not, then 8 - 8.30. I go down about 10 - 30 to 11 at the weekend and tend to then stay there until 5, riding, pottering doing jobs so can finish off.

They are fed before I get down and given more hay if needed (they have hay bars). I have no problem with a horse staying in longer as long as it has water and forage and if necessary, company.

People who say how terrible about mornings - what about those that feed and finish at 4 and then leave them until 6. Mine but be done later in the mornings, but I don't leave the yard normally in the week before 9.30 - 10 at night.

In an ideal world, horses would be checked and fed at 7 in the morning and a last check and top up at 10 at night - which you can do if you have them close by.
 
Mine get hayed at fed for me in the mornings - large haynets at that.
My fields resemble bog at the moment and within minutes they want to come back in again so for that reason i got down between 11 / 12 and then i get them in about 6pm - im usually the last one down the yard at night as all the others get done around 4pm

ets - i am moving though, so with better grazing they will be out earlier. i dont see the point of them being in the field looking miserable for 10 hours.
 
If I'm not riding in the morning or have a vet/farrier etc, mine is out by 7-7.15am before work and about 8am on a weekend.

When I'm not working, he will get finished off a bit earlier in the afternoons,especially if I've ridden during the day but they all have a late night check between 9-10pm (and gets given a full snack-ball) and my boy has a haybar stuffed full plus an additional pile of hay on the floor by the door so he gets ad lib - there is always plenty left in the morning (about half a haybar), so never goes without hay or water, even if the YM didn't do a late night check.
 
Mine is on part livery. So she's fed between 7 and 8am in the week.

At weekends, it's DIY so I try to keep as close as possible at the same routine. So I usually arrive at the yard for 7.45 am (when I feed the rest of the yard too if I'm first to arrive) and no later than 8.30am.
 
One of the horses at our yard gets put out in the week by someone else, as their horse needs company, but his owner at the weekend has an attachment to her mattress, and is usually up about lunchtime - sometimes has left his breakfast for someone else to give him, other times not - he doesn't stress too much, but personally I couldn't do that... Im up at 7 in the week, and no later than 8 at the weekend, usually earlier, depending on if I have to take kids or not - my horse wouldn't be happy at all if left - he gets uppity if the others start going out before him, so I put him out early. Simples!
 
I'm the opposite to everyone!
Weekdays I get to the yard about 9.30, after school run (but YO will be checking hay/water) and weekends a bit earlier about 8.30.
 
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