When husbands help..

In all the years we've been together ( 26 !) hubby couldn't help. He has however paid a lot towards them, and paid for quite a few of them. He loves to look at them, but is just scared to get close. But since they've been at home I've found him feeding them carrots and patting them, and today he actually led one in from the field.
Can't tell you how impressed I was !
 
Penny Less said:
When I was ill OH went to yard to feed horse. Told him exactly what to give and which bin it was in, only pasture mix he came back and said I gave him a good scoop of pony nuts. WTF , turns out he gave him sugar beet pellets. Cue me taking myself off my bed of pain and spending the evening shoving Epsom salts down horses throat. He pebbledashed the back wall of the stable !
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Oh my! Glad the horse is okay, could have been worse and he might not have mentioned what he fed him.
 
Sukistokes2 said:
How sweet!!!

It has taken me three years to teach my Dad the difference between out door coats and jimjams!

Now I am working on Haynets.....now his retired and all, should be a breeze!!! :)
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Good luck with that one - my dad has been 'helping' me for years and he still can't put a rug on or work out which one for what. He can take a rug off, but can't fold it ready to go back on. LOL! Haynets will forever be a mystery, although he's doing pretty well at piles in the field right now!
 
The only time my OH has ever mucked out my stable was when I was so ill with 'proper' flu, I couldn't stand. He practically carried me to the car, wrapped me in a duvet, drove me to the farm and parked the car at the stable door so I could tell him what to do. He then drove me to the gate for me to call the horse (luckily he always comes to call in the winter) opened the gate and he followed the car to the yard. I was grateful for his help and I wouldn't have minded if it was just the once, but he made me do this for 5 days as he still wasn't happy he could do it on his own!
 
My friends husband was asked to rug up the old pony in the paddock should it start to rain, he duly did as asked and she came home to find the old and very patient pony had his crossovers done up around the lower fence rail and was quietly waiting for Mum to rescue him! My husband does help me out by poo picking every day but if he's in charge and they mess him about while getting them in he takes their teas back out of the mangers as punishment! I have tried explaining that they don't reason like that but he says it makes him feel better........
 
This has literally just happened - not a 'help' as such, but made me giggle and think of this thread - OH with me at horses - a rail had come off fence, cue temporary baling twine repairs by me -
OH says, and I quote; "that's because they've been cradling the wood - see I do listen sometimes....(pause)....is that the right word?"
I answer, giggling - "you mean cribbing.....but nearly right!"

Some of these are real classics - loving this thread!
 
My extremely intelligent husband has just about got the grasp of the difference between hay and straw and knows how to put a rug on and do it up (he knows the muddy ones are outside rugs :) However watching him try to work out how to put a headcollar on is painful! He is however a very good mechanic and keeps my little 3.5 van up to scratch.
 
We keep our horses at home so over the years my non horsey OH has learned all the basics and will help me out but the best thing about him is he never asks how much anything costs and i never tell him. Ignorance is bliss!
 
I am soooo lucky to have an OH that is horsey, he has two horses of his own and its great when he helps. He is also a lorry mechanic (not that I have one.....yet lol), has his own 4x4 and horse box - couldnt any more perfect lol :D
 
The first time OH saw a horse weaving he was mesmorised by 'the dancing horse'...

also it doesnt matter how much I tell him the horse cribbing at its door is not 'rasping'

Hes awesome at mucking out though :)
 
Non horsey but capable hubs is in charge while I'm in hospital. Sounds like its going ok but if you could spare my ponies a thought I'd be grateful!
 
Lol Spotsrock - hopefully he will get through this and i hope you bounce back soon!

I needed a foolproof way to get my husband to give the right pony the right feed. Different coloured buckets didnt work surprisingly. One of my ponies has a white powder supplement so i took to writing his initial 'M' with it on top of his feed lol
 
My dad once got the wrong horse in and fed it. He should have caught a chestnut 16.2hh but brought in a bay about 15h. It wouldn't have been so bad but the chestnut was his horse!
 
WelshD said:
Lol Spotsrock - hopefully he will get through this and i hope you bounce back soon!

I needed a foolproof way to get my husband to give the right pony the right feed. Different coloured buckets didnt work surprisingly. One of my ponies has a white powder supplement so i took to writing his initial 'M' with it on top of his feed lol
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Do you have your own feed storage bins? You could always mark those with his name.
 
Ha this thread is so funny!

My OH isn't horsey but he does try, bless him. For example, he sometimes comes out for a walk with the neddy and I and he quite often starts 'tacking up' (lol) while I'm in the loo or something. So I come back and find the horse has the browband behind her ears with her forelock scraped back, the noseband is fastened over the top of the cheek pieces and as for the saddle! It is usually positioned halfway along her back witht the girth done up round her tummy plus the saddlecloth is usually all scrunched up!

I also sympathise with the previous poster who's other half came out with her on his bike. My OH also does that sometimes and I remember one occassion, oh was fed up with cycling slowly and at the top of a big hill he just freewheeled down and disappeared into the distance - neddy was a bit disturbed about this! By the time I caught up with him - in the next village!!! - I was riding a fire breathing dragon and he couldn't understand why!
 
Not husband, but boyfriend.

Fairly new relationship and still in the 'wanting to impress' stage, feigning interest in the horses.

So he would come to my dressage shows and was actually very good at being helpful. Each time though he would watch me plait and tell me he could do it (just like he did his daughters hair). Eventually I relented, planned a show and got to yard extra early. When the predictable question of 'can I do the plaits' came I surprised him by saying yes.

I carefully showed him what to do, then went to 'clean tack and pack the lorry'

It was very funny, I took the odd sneaky peak. Made the odd comment about leaving in 10 mins, everything ok? To be met with a muffled 'fine'

Half an hour later we had one pathetic loose plait in.

He didn't offer to plait again. 😂
 
Furrycat, my oh could not understand why pony got so upset either. When he walked with me it had to be at his slow pace. Pony got so frustrated.
 
I am another one blessed with a keen to learn boyfriend.

The first time he put a headcollar on, it was upside down...... i stopped laughing after 10 mins.

He is fantastically awesome now though. He will feed & poopick if I'm ill. He crews for us at endurance rides, hitches the trailer and drives it. Is quietly confident with my mare.

He cycles out with us quite regularly. The only problem with that is that Marjorie goes into endurance mode and starts racing him!

I am expecting our first child next summer, so will be relying on him as I get too fat to muck out, and it's such a relief to know I can trust him implicitly!
 
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