Worst part of horses?

[Love]

Just thought this could be a fun weekend thread - what would you say is the worst part about having/being around horses?

Mine are:
- constantly being covered in hair at moulting time
- bedding down a shavings bed after I've mucked out (don't know why, just hate doing it!)
- and most of all the smell of haylage that's gone off!!

 

[smokey]

Mud. That is all!

 

[Highlands]

Mud, mud, cold frozen water and flooding!

 

[Jools2345]

repairing fences (in the mud)

 

[Elsiecat]

Rain, mud, wind, fences, lack of energy..
Today's made me contemplate giving horses up. Meh.

 

[HollyhedgePippa]

Mud, wind, rain, bedding down and making haynets when the hay is 99% dust

 

[Twinkley Lights]

Just the mud. I love the rest of them the smell of them, the feel, cuddling a warm furry neck and making them a lovely snuggly bed , leaving a pile of hay the size of a small family car and tucking them into their PJ's. It's a wonder every day that these creatures share my life

 

[Love]

How could I have forgotten mud??!!?? Normal mud is ok... It's the ankle deep stuff that prevents movement I have a problem with

 

[Theocat]

I think it's just the bad days, when you ride like a gimp and/or the horse just isn't playing ball, and you got home stinking and tearful and wondering why you spend hundreds of pounds to feel like a miserable failure

I'd take any amount of mud or moulting hair over that! Good job the good bits make up for it

 

[Shysmum]

MUD, POO PICKING , BANK ACCOUNT......

 

[Django Pony]

Mud. Just mud. Vile stuff. Work of Satan!

 

[Shysmum]

FROZEN TAPS ! THRUSH !

 

[naza]

smelling and the nagging i get from smelling

 

[Highlands]

Forgot pus! Hate abscesses!

 

[Tronk]

It's got to be poo picking - I detest it so I make myself do it twice a day so I never get a build up!

 

[Shysmum]

CLEANING WILLIES AND SMEGMA.

 

[starryeyed]

Having to be outside in horrible weather, I get so jealous of everyone who gets to curl up on the sofa in front of a fire in the winter while I'm trudging around in the dark and the rain, up to my knees in mud! (But wouldn't have it any other way... )

 

[nikicb]

A picture is worth a thousand words.....

 

[Bobbly]

I don't get mud here so that's not an issue, my pony is white so dirt/stains are normal, my husband does the poo picking so that's ok, I don't mind mucking out on shavings, that's relatively easy but I do hate filling hay nets!! I have about 25 on the go for two boys so I tend to fill them all at once to minimise my hatred

 

[maisie06]

Some of the people - have never met so many narrow minded and judgemental people since being involved with horses!

 

[weesophz]

when you wash 1000 times and your hair and hands still stink of haylege! AGHH

 

[Irishbabygirl]

Ground in dirt on your hands!

 

[Lulwind]

Sorry to say this, but horsewomen. Have 95% given up horses

 

[Pearlsasinger]

Having to pts, especially when not from old age.

 

[giddyupalfie]

Low bank funds. Wouldn't have it any other way though!

 

[Feathered]

Mud.... That's all that springs to mind right now... Mud, oh and, mud!

 

[andytiger]

Cleaning out my horses water drinker when he's pooed in it
And cleaning tack xx

 

[Fools Motto]

Another vote for MUD.

And having to say goodbye.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

The constant worry: he's lame, he's too hot, I left a rug on him, should I go back? I constantly look at the weather forecast! The having to go to the yard and deal, even if I'm exhausted/ill.

The current worst part are the accidents, though

 

[showaddy1]

Their bottoms!!!... all that poo ;(. I hate the fact they have more expensive, and newer clothes than me!