Why is it....?

Mrs B

Mrs B

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... that when you're cold, wet, fed up and wondering why you didn't choose a nice, warm indoor hobby like snooker, the hay nets decide they won't act reasonably when you try to shove a wad of hay into them??????

What are your GGggggrrrrrrrr moments?
 
Yes, I'm in huge agreement with the comment about rug surcingles!! WHY DO THEY NEVER WORK WHEN YOU'RE IN A RUSH?!??!

Also getting stuck half way up the muck heap and not being able to go any further.

And when you're trying to do shavings and the chunks keep fragmenting so you end up basically doing it flake by flake!!
 
When you're moving hay and then the bailing string pops of the end and BAM you have a ruined hay bale that's now scattered all over the floor.
 
when you are running late and your horse has decided to change fields without telling you. so now you have to chace him round the field for anhour because he doesnt want to go back into his paddock and you end up covered in mud (with work uniform on) and very late :mad: and then he looks at you all sweetness and light when you go back down to feed later on! but day off and no problems lol
 
When your cold and rugging the horse up before you go, and they keep bending down to eat as you try to do up their breast strap. Grrr!!

When you have to stuff a haynet with WET, COLD hay!! Grrr!

When you have to pick up a very wet and muddy foot to pick out, and said horse is mucking about. Grrr!

BUT...

Its all so worth it...

When you get to burry your cold hands inside your horses rug when you are cuddling them good night. Mmmm!

Your horse comes trotting across the field when its tea time, so you don't have to walk through the mud. Ahhh!

Your horse blows warm breath across your face as if to say thank you for the warm rug and snug stable you have provided on those cold and wintery nights!!
 
sugar plum fairy said:
Rug surcingles not fasteneing properly GRRRRRRRRR, especially when you have struggled and then a friend does it first time
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Grrrr moment:

Trying to stir horse feed, when it just doesn't want to mix!

Soaking feed (fast fibre) and realising you haven't put enough water in, having to add more!

Trying to get haylage out of a big bale when it isn't unwrapped properly and you just keep getting small handfulls!!!!

Mucking out straw when the ***** keeps falling through the prongs!
 
When your normally sane veteran horse decides to run around his corral area (electric fenced) whilst eating his tea, setting off the 17 month old (also eating, loose in field) who chooses that his best plan of action is to run directly through the electric fencing taking it all with him and going off for a hooley round the snowy field in the dark with his two veteran field buddies :mad:

This inadvertently sets of the stabled ones, one of whom starts dancing (weaving) like he's warming up for strictly :rolleyes:
 
yuck hate filling haynets! :mad:

ditto the pooing after skipping out. also hate it when i am trying to put stable bandages on with frozen fingers and horse decides to stop eating tea and walk around stable, bandages and gamgee everywhere!

also hate: gloves getting damp, cold toes, SNOW making riding dangerous, trying to move with ten layers on! spilling water over yourself when filling buckets! i could go on and on lol i hate winter.

only thing makes it worth while is the pony cuddles :)
 
When having wrapped up in 25 layers against the cold, filled haynets and soaked them in freezing temperatures, you are traipsing across the frozen Siberian wasteland that was once your field, when you bra strap decideds to decant to your elbow and you just HAVE to haul it back with a frozen hand!!!!!!:)
Bryndu
 
riding_high said:
when someone helps you by rolling the bandages up so when you put them on and find it's the wrong way! grrrrr
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Guilty!! (Sorry Beth :( )

Walking half a mile to the paddock with the pony only to realise the gate is padlocked shut (normal) and you left the key on the yard!
 
Prancers_Rider said:
Grrr MUD everywhere I look is f'ing mud now I hate MUD on clay soil!!!!!!!! Im depressed, horses are depressed. Wish I could hibernate till spring, dont think the horses would mind either
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^^^^^^ This

Had changed into my suit at the yard the other day when my mum asked me to carry a bale of shavings to the field shelter - no time to change so shoved boots on and picked my way out into the field - horses decided I was a scary monster so took off at high speed spraying me (and my suit) with mud.

Had no spare clothes in the car except blacks jeans (very frowned upon at work) so had to spend the whole day explaining why I looked like a scruff!!
 
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