What's your guilty secret down the yard?

5horses2dogsandacat said:
Sweeping... Love sweeping, either a nice dry dusty yard or a soaking wet one make perfect sweeping conditions.


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I hate sweeping...my barn aisle is 60' x 15' that's how many square feet?
There are advantages to living in a wind tunnel - I just open the doors at both ends and make sure I'm not standing downwind...result ;)
 
cremedemonthe said:
Quite enjoy poo picking fields, used to do my ex girlfriends fields. I don't have a horse so have none to pick up now :(
I can't stand dry or dirty saddlery either, when I have a bridle or saddle in for repair I usually clean and feed it before I give it back to the owner (all part of the service:)
One woman refused her saddle as she didn't recognise it as it looked new she said, I had to convince her it was hers and not another customers!
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I could move to Caterham on the Hill, Surrey no problem !! lol :-)
 
I love laying a new bed (straw), making up the banks, and squaring the front up.

I also love putting the straw in the calves next door they are so funny, just get make sure you get out of the way, coz they charge around in it lol
 
catdragon said:
I too love a clean swept immaculate yard.

For pony's bed to be level and swept back, nice big straight banks - and yes I riddle her bed when I have time at weekends to get rid of every single teeny bit of poo or hay - her bedding is granular so goes through. My fellow liveries look at me with a mix of terror and awe (but secretly I know they want the perfect bed too!) LOL

My stable tools have to be cleaned before putting them away - hate it when others use them and put them back with poo balls stuck in the tines or bits of hay in the brush. Don't mind them using them, just wish they'd put them back in the same condition I left them in...

OCD, much, probably... :o
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I beg you to tell me what is "riddle", if it gets small bit of poo out of bedding I need to know !!! I HATE those small bits left in pellet bedding.

A nice swept yards and horse in munching on hay but not dropping it over the door.
 
Cleaning water buckets is my thing. I scrub my 2 everyday (he drinks LOADS!) and have been known to go round scrubbing other people when I get time at the weekends....I've also started scrubbing the water butts which the YO finds highly amusing!! My dogs water bowls are scrubbed daily too...think I'm a bit obsessed! :eek:
 
:eek: at that tackroom! I must tidy up ours this weekend! :o

Why do so many like sweeping? weirdos! To sweep our whole concrete yard is to sweep a 30 x 30' square, which unless its v wet and not windy, will be messy at the start again once you've finished :mad:

Might have to get some more plastic boxes this weekend, and rearrange the rugs in their recycled filing cabinets - which are ace for storing stuff ;)
 
I'm another one for sweeping I'm afraid.....

In fact it goes further than that.....'bits' on the floor aren't allowed.

I also indulge in raking ( part of my yard area is grassed and hay/straw sometimes blows onto it:eek:)

.......and I can't physically leave the yard if theres poo in the paddock.:o

In fact...if I had electricity on the yard I would possibly hoover it.:D
 
becca1305 said:
Organising!

*sigh* I do accept I have a slight obsessional problem :p :D
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*swoon*
 
tinselmoo said:
In fact...if I had electricity on the yard I would possibly hoover it.:D
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I have electricity in my house can you please come and hoover that (the house) for me? ;)

For those who are obsessively clean and tidy, how many horses do you have to do?

I have over 25 here (today - down to 23 Saturday, up to 26 Sunday) and by the time I've finished just feeding, watering, checking etc I don't have the inclination to do an awful lot of yard primping. It is clean once a day and that is good enough for me ;)
 
Blitzenfys said:
I have electricity in my house can you please come and hoover that (the house) for me? ;)

For those who are obsessively clean and tidy, how many horses do you have to do?

I have over 25 here (today - down to 23 Saturday, up to 26 Sunday) and by the time I've finished just feeding, watering, checking etc I don't have the inclination to do an awful lot of yard primping. It is clean once a day and that is good enough for me ;)
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Have to say.....my floor obsession extends to the house too.....I cannot stand bits on the floor. I shall pop straight over. You may need to check your paddocks for palominos when I've left though......:D

Errmmm.....I have 3 to do. Yard and stables all clean swept. Hay/straw barn is tidy.....feedroom is a bit of a shed though:o
 
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Here's my guilty secret. I've had her for over a year and my husband doesn't know I own her. He's seen her in the field but thinks she belongs to a friend and is only with us to eat the grass down.
 
My bed is PERFECT. Not a piece of straw out of place, banks are all symmetrical and his actual patch where he lays is thicker but doesn't look it as it's all patted down.
Also love keeping my area outside swept :)
 
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