maya2008
Well-Known Member
Just bought new waterproofs for everyone… £100 gone just like that!
Please keep it all coming, and emphasize how expensive it all is, I am really trying to stop looking at horse adverts and telling myself than a month before a house move and 2 weeks before I start my new job is not the time to buy a new horse![]()
I am currently sitting next to, and ignoring, a giant pile of rugs that need mending.
I'd like to find some time while it is still dry to wash and reproof all the turnouts with Fabsil Gold.
I've bought 20L of pig oil and sulphur for heavy feathered legs.
I would like to mend the small hole in the stable roof, but I have vertigo and wouldn't be able to come back down the ladder...!
Similarly the roof on my allotment shed needs replacing.
I think I'm ready! Managed to move stables at the same yard (which had been recently cleaned and painted thankfully!) to one nearer the door which will be better for him when stabled overnight. I ordered a nosebag hay feeder which is brilliant, my 5 year old gave it a snort and then happily tucked in. Also ordered an Equidry coat which I love already - not flattering in the slightest but will keep me warm and dry. Also ordered a PE turnout for this year, it's a 40g one so I don't need to faff about with the 50g liner on a 0g turnout this year. His other liners are washed and put away ready to go. Need to check the batteries in the head torch but apart from that I feel all set!
I have noticed that from late July/ early august I start to get "winter is coming" anxiety.
I have made our own hay so that's sorted.
Need to sort turnout pens
pressure wash, paint stables, if I can afford it add more rubber mats and order and sort bedding.
Maybe get haybars? Again depending on finances and a giant wheelbarrow... order more mucking out tools. Buy more mucking out tools, fix feed room doors, clear gutters. Sort rugs...
Try and stockpile feed, order new feed buckets, stockpile bedding.... Think that's it? Only got 5 (maybe 7) horses to winter this here. Year before last it was 17 horses and that was mental and very stressful!!!