Whats your routine?

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JellyBen

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Just wondering on what people routines were, always like to know how other people do things especially now as im on my own yard so cant ask/see other peoples routines and habits :)

Im up at 6.40 and all are fed and have a small net before 7, while eating and digesting i muck them all out for around 8 and then usually get on with riding/lunging, and then out after that between about 9.30-11 depending on who i need to ride/lunge etc..
Ill finish yard duties as normal and i bring in about 4.30, and have dinner a little bit later, and change rugs etc (maybe ride if i was feeling lazy/had a lot to do am) and I usually go back onto the yard for final checks between 8 and 9pm, they get an armful of haylage or they keep me up all night and i quickly skip them out to stop the dirty mares being so dirty!

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Monday to Friday go up after work at about 6.15pm, give them a bucket with a handful of pegasus chaff each, feed a couple of carrots, give them a brush and scratch and then be home for 6.45pm - marvellous! Field has a stream too so dont even have to bother with water, and their rugs are off for the Summer now.
 
Mine is on part livery do they feed/hay/turnout.
I go to the yard about 7/8pm (so no one is about, I like being a loner) I'll muck out, make feeds, brush him and ride, usually home by 9/10 (I take my time and faff about fussing over the boy lol)
 
Mine lives out from April every year, so i go down at about 5 in the evening and ride. From November he's on part livery (except for weekends, in that case i go up fairly early to turn out) and has a stable for the night :)
 
Part livery (feed & muck out) Mon-Fri. I get to yard about 7 - 7.30ish Mon/Wed/Thur/Fri and exercise both, get home about 11ish. Tues they get schooled professionally. Mon / Wed one gets a lunge the other one is ridden, Thur I have a lesson together with one of the sharers, Fri the other one has a sharer who often has a lesson and I jump-school or hack. Same on Saturday ... if we don't compete. Sunday is hack or compete both or one & the other ;-) ... and then it starts all over again!
 
Up at the yard at 7 every morning-quick groom, change rugs then he eats whilst I muck out-then turn him out, do haynet.

Back at yard at half 6 in the evening to make tea and put him to bed.

Not very exciting ;)
 
Get up at 5:15am give them their breakfast, take off rugs or change rugs depending if in or out, pop pick fields or muck out stables if their in, ride out for an hour or school in field if good weather, get back brush off put back out or in stable and then head off to work for 8, get home from work at 5:25 back up to stables repeat as above minus the riding bit and then get home about 6:30 - 7 and cook tea - flake out lol
 
I work at the yard (riding school & livery) full time and live on site; we do the morning feed Mon-Fri and have no liveries who ride early so Mon-Thurs I feed at 8.30am - approx 55 horses :eek: I have it down to a fine art now so it takes me about 20 mins :) Then I work til 1pm, when I muck out my boy, sort out his nets and feeds and then ride around 1.30 for 40 mins or so. I like to ride then as usually very few people are about and I often get the school to myself. If the weather is nice then he goes out to the field until about 5.30. I then work 2.30-7.30/8ish, give him his dinner, skip out and tuck him up for the night :) I'm off Fridays so then I just ride etc whenever the yard is quiet. Only work til 2 at weekends but often struggle to find a quiet time to ride then as that seems to be when everyone appears! Can you tell I'm a bit antisocial? :o
 
I live at the yard and work in the office on site (livery yard and competition centre). The yard staff hay my horse at 7am. On a day where we don't have a competition I get up between 7 and 8am and muck my horse out and ride. I'm usually in the office by 9.30am and I process competition entries, answer emails etc. I turn my horse out as soon as the morning horses come in, usually around 12. In the afternoon I have 2 horses to ride and we might box out for a hack.

I bring my horse in between 4 and 6 and give him half his hay. I generally work in the office til 8pm and then I take the dog for a wander round the fields. I do final hay/rugs/mucking out at 10pm and then it's bedtime :-).
 
Monday - friday - arrive at 6.30 to muck out, turn out, make feeds and fill haynets. 4.30-5 back to yard to bring in groom, ride, feed and put to bed
Saturday - Arrive 9.30 turn out, back at 3 muck out do feeds hay ride ect.
Sundays - arrive at 11ish muck out do everything, ride and depending on weather turn out till later or just bring him in for an early night! He's only a baby and ive had him 2 years and already he knows the routine inside out!:D
 
Morning is just feed and water if they're out and skip out too if they're in.
Evening, if they're in it's muck out and haylage and water, then groom and ride/lunge and dinners afterwards. If they're out then I'll do the waters, groom and ride/lunge, and then dinners last. I don't have a set time for getting to the yard every day, and they don't seem bothered by that at all (never waiting by the gate etc).
 
I run a livery yard, and I like my horses done early thanks to working in racing and TB studs for too long! Sooo -

4:30am - feed stabled horses and start mucking out while they eat
6am - turn out any who aren't being ridden and skip out their boxes, leave feed etc. ready in their boxes for when they come in
6:30am - check horses who live out, and feed any who need it
7am - breakfast for me!
7:30am til 11am - riding my lot and the liveries, skipping out boxes after horses leave them, leaving them ready for the evening, and check or change rugs of horses in the field.
11am til 1pm - yard jobs, so... cleaning tack, sorting rugs, sweeping hay barn, ordering feed etc.
1 til 2:30pm - lunch for me!
2:30pm til 5:30pm - more yard jobs, grooming, teaching etc.
5:30pm - bring in all the stabled horses, change rugs, pick out feet and put them to bed, check horses who live out and put night rugs back on if needed.
11pm - late checks, all stabled horses skipped out, hayed and watered, and then bed!
 
Spring routine as it runs in my head the night before:

7.15 arrive at yard. Change rugs or bring in if he needs to stay off the grass/it's going to rain heavily that afternoon. Muck out if necessary. In super ambitious planning I also consider lungeing at this point.
7.50 leave yard for work.
4.30 arrive back at yard. Bring in, quick groom, tack up.
5.00 ride
6.30 arrive back, untack, brush and turn out. Home by 7pm to finish marking/cook dinner/chat to boyfriend.

Actual routine:
7.35 - arrive at yard, cursing self for being late again. Check from field gate - look for upright with four legs. Yep, looks ok - or, if lying down, attempt to sprint in wellies to check still breathing (much to amusement of any observers). Apologise profoundly to pony for waking him up and attempt not to get grass stains on suit when he tries to see if I've brought him breakfast in bed.
7.45/50 - leave yard for work.
5.00 - arrive at yard (work has overrun again). Get chatting to girl in field next door.
5.30 - bring in, groom until sparkly clean. Get chatting to YO and/or girl in stable next door.
6.30 - tack up. Note to self that I should actually be getting ready to leave the yard (in my car) sometime around now. Leave yard on horseback instead.
8.pm - get back to yard. Brush over and run to field with pony in tow, protesting at being made to run (100m!) so soon after a hack.
8.20 - get changed, get into car, remember fly spray/grazing muzzle/sudocrem/other - dash back to field. Ponies are all at far end of field and daylight is fading. Wander close to all of the horse shapes until I find mine. Apply whatever necessary and run back to car.
9pm - get home to burned/no dinner and unimpressed boyfriend.
 
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Starzaan said:
I run a livery yard, and I like my horses done early thanks to working in racing and TB studs for too long! Sooo -

4:30am - feed stabled horses and start mucking out while they eat
6am - turn out any who aren't being ridden and skip out their boxes, leave feed etc. ready in their boxes for when they come in
6:30am - check horses who live out, and feed any who need it
7am - breakfast for me!
7:30am til 11am - riding my lot and the liveries, skipping out boxes after horses leave them, leaving them ready for the evening, and check or change rugs of horses in the field.
11am til 1pm - yard jobs, so... cleaning tack, sorting rugs, sweeping hay barn, ordering feed etc.
1 til 2:30pm - lunch for me!
2:30pm til 5:30pm - more yard jobs, grooming, teaching etc.
5:30pm - bring in all the stabled horses, change rugs, pick out feet and put them to bed, check horses who live out and put night rugs back on if needed.
11pm - late checks, all stabled horses skipped out, hayed and watered, and then bed!
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You need to look after yourself more Starzaan. Even if are the faster ever shower/tooth-clean/eating person, that means you get five hours sleep a night. Not enough!
 
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