When your husband looks after your pony!

[conniegirl]

This is what happens when your non horsey husband looks after your pony for the best part of 3 weeks!


Your pony ends up looking like a Hippo!

Bless him, husband really tries but pony definitely on a diet now!

 

[Ranyhyn]

Ahh he's a feeder

 

[chaps89]

Bless them both, certainly no danger of pony wasting away whilst hubby is in charge!

 

[Shilasdair]

My grey horse dreams of a husband like yours.

 

[ycbm]

Oops.

Did someone confuse food with love?....

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

Sounds like when my dad fed the cats when my mum was out if he'd done that for a couple of weeks they'd be the size of houses!

I'm definitely the strict mean one when it comes to the feeding of mine and OH cats! I also try and demand manners during food prep, he does not!

I'm impressed your husband helps out so much that's lovely, im trying to imagine OH face if I said he needed to go tend to H for one day even ? H did not assist by the one time I got him to hold him he got spooked by a rattly trailer while I got him to hold him while I locked the gate as I knew H would be a tit while I faffed with the gate.... H proceeded in his fright to jump on OH foot! That was his last time holding him! The trouble is i could tell as soon as I heard the trailer what was about to happen but my rushing to assist would have made it worse. To give credit he did at least listen to my strict "do NOT let him go" instruction I'd issued prior to requesting he hold him.

I'm trying to imagine his face if I asked him to muck out given he declared during his one visit into the actual stable area that it "stinks" ?

 

[conniegirl]

I'm impressed your husband helps out so much that's lovely, im trying to imagine OH face if I said he needed to go tend to H for one day even ? H did not assist by the one time I got him to hold him he got spooked by a rattly trailer while I got him to hold him while I locked the gate as I knew H would be a tit while I faffed with the gate.... H proceeded in his fright to jump on OH foot! That was his last time holding him! The trouble is i could tell as soon as I heard the trailer what was about to happen but my rushing to assist would have made it worse. To give credit he did at least listen to my strict "do NOT let him go" instruction I'd issued prior to requesting he hold him.

I'm trying to imagine his face if I asked him to muck out given he declared during his one visit into the actual stable area that it "stinks" ?

Lol! Its husbands fault I’m ill!
It has not been an easy pregnancy! Sometimes just sitting up has resulted in vomiting!

 

[poiuytrewq]

Tell you what though, if my OH was looking after my horses (which he just wouldn’t) their beds would not be looking that clean! He’s doing a good job there! ?

 

[conniegirl]

Tell you what though, if my OH was looking after my horses (which he just wouldn’t) their beds would not be looking that clean! He’s doing a good job there! ?

Its a mixture of wood pellets and megazorb so poo just sits on the top. Pony is also quite tidy in his stable.

Husband has done well keeping pony healthy and happy but i think his definition of a good haynet may be a bit different to mine and his handfuls of feed are definitely bigger

 

[Not_so_brave_anymore]

I asked my husband earlier if the pony looked hungry. His response: "well, what does it look like when it's NOT hungry?" ?

Congratulations on your pregnancy, and I really hope you're feeling better soon, it's the absolute pits.

 

[paddi22]

my husband minded mine for a week and I came back to find a custom made 420 gm turnout on it, because it 'kept looking at him' (for treats I assume) and he somehow translated that into his head as 'it needs a coat'

 

[conniegirl]

I asked my husband earlier if the pony looked hungry. His response: "well, what does it look like when it's NOT hungry?" ?

Congratulations on your pregnancy, and I really hope you're feeling better soon, it's the absolute pits.

Thankyou, im just over 14 weeks now, have been extremely sick since about 7 week but it seems to be lightening up. Still get moments of being violently sick but now im getting an hour or two where i feel ok.

The pony is always hungry, he is welsh, he doesnt believe his tummy can possibly be full and he would happily eat until he explodes!

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Bless him your pony was obviously very happy about the new man feeding him! My oh did my haynets a few years back when I broke my ankle and they were literally stuffed full and weighed a ton it must be a man thing!

 

[SEL]

My little herd would like to invite your hubby over to stay!!! My OH is known as the human treatball and i think if he fell over in the field they'd be happily kicking him around to see what falls out of his pockets!

 

[PurBee]

my husband minded mine for a week and I came back to find a custom made 420 gm turnout on it, because it 'kept looking at him' (for treats I assume) and he somehow translated that into his head as 'it needs a coat' View attachment 60488

That is hilarious! ??

 

[PapaverFollis]

Its the custom made turnout in less than a week that got me. ??? Pony must have been "looking at" him SO HARD. "I need a pony coat, STAT"

 

[PurBee]

Its the custom made turnout in less than a week that got me. ??? Pony must have been "looking at" him SO HARD. "I need a pony coat, STAT"

? its sooo cute! That pony mustve been giving some serious bambi ‘poor me’ eyes at him! Is that his name stitched on the coat too?...”i need a 420, in cherry red, not lurid telephone box red, cherry red, got it? Oh and so no-one gets confused, i want bespoke embroidery of my name flashing across my chest, ’cos i’m just sick of being called ‘cutey’...its sooo demeaning....i’m badass as those big guys, and this coat will make ‘em KNOW it! Get to it dude, suit me up!”
??

 

[Maryann]

I've been asking my OH to cut my hair for a while now. He clipped my horse a few weeks ago - a sort of minimal clip and not very neat but hey ho it does the job and wil grow out soon anyway. I have not mentioned my hair since.

 

[oldie48]

OH and I share the dog walking and I noticed that Stanley had started to sit down at junctions and refuse to move. When I mentioned it to OH he said he let Stan choose the route and I was clearly not going the way Stan wanted to go which was generally not towards home. I now know why his walks are so much more time consuming than mine!

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

Whoops!

I don't have a horse (yet...) but I do feel that my OH would definitely be a feeder too. He's always asking me 'can horses eat...?' and when I say no/probably not he's like 'but why? I think they'd enjoy...' I don't think he actually would feed them anything silly but if treats were to hand I'm sure they would be generously dished out!

 

[Shilasdair]

OH and I share the dog walking and I noticed that Stanley had started to sit down at junctions and refuse to move. When I mentioned it to OH he said he let Stan choose the route and I was clearly not going the way Stan wanted to go which was generally not towards home. I now know why his walks are so much more time consuming than mine!

I used to let my Tb mare decide our hack routes - she was an explorer at heart and would set off on a different route each day, with absolute certainty. If we asked my friend's horse, he'd have galloped home each time.

 

[maya2008]

Lol! My husband is outside in the dark, right now, feeding my daughter’s pony (who was mine once!) because he forgot it was winter and kept her on her metabolism boosting ALCAR at the high summer dose for way too long (and she is now way too skinny!). I told him it was his fault, he could do the extra feed each day to feed her up! He hates the idea of me being on my own at the field in the dark (seeming to forget that happened all the time before I married him!), so disappears off happily each evening with the dog! The other ponies have been giving him hungry eyes so he gives them extra haylage also.

 

[meleeka]

I wouldn’t complain. I’m pretty sure mine would end up as rspca cases if OH looked after them for any length of time. He’s never been about to get his head around how much hay they eat. That’s based on the odd occasion he’s there when I’m doing them in the evenings, thank goodness he’s never asked what my hay bill actually is or I think he’d fall over!

 

[poiuytrewq]

my husband minded mine for a week and I came back to find a custom made 420 gm turnout on it, because it 'kept looking at him' (for treats I assume) and he somehow translated that into his head as 'it needs a coat' View attachment 60488

That’s amazing ??‍

 

[wren123]

@conniegirl you have my sympathy, I'm pleased you're feeling a little better now.