Winter essentials!

Keep a clean towel, a spare pair of socks, and two sturdy plastic bags at the yard for when your wellingtons spring a leak. It will happen, and you will be glad to have the means to dry your feet then and there instead of having to wait until you get home!
 
If you have more than one horse, have 2 wheelbarrows (if you can’t afford a huge wheelbarrow). I find it faster to muck out the 3 beds in one go, fill the wheelies and tip both when I’m done.
You don’t lose your mucking out mojo by having to do a muck heap trip mid way.
 
Bobthecob15 said:
I buy a pair or two of these yard gloves most winters, I’m forever losing gloves so these are my go to…https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/38433585...ar=652515710576&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I have reynaulds…these are marvellous and only £7! Can’t go wrong!
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Mine aren't this brand, but same principle and I love them. I bought two pairs, one for chickens and one for horses and they're going into their third winter. Also a Raynaud's sufferer, so vital to have warm hands!

My other essentials are sheepskin insoles in wellies (Aigle Iso Parcours), a good travel mug, waterproof hat, overtrousers and a stash of double chocca mocha sachets at the yard. I also keep an emergency pot noodle to hand.
 
I discovered "gloves in a bottle" handcream last winter, it's great at stopping dirt from embedding into dry skin on your hands.
 
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