The day to day equestrian life is pretty much 80% looking after your horse 20% doing whichever activity you bought your horse to do in the first place. So horse care is a daily thing, picking out and oiling hooves, feeding, watering, choosing the appropriate rug (the never ending checking of your BBC weather app to check whether your rug choice was the right one today), picking up their poo, grooming, patching up wounds and fixing whichever rug you chose to put on.
But then there are the extras, that aren’t a daily occurrence but are still an essential part of your horsey life. Now you can go bare minimum or every discipline, therapist, clinician and appointment you can think of.
For me my ‘extras’ are the farrier, who comes every 5-6 weeks. The equine dentist who comes every 6 months to a year. The vet, who comes pretty much monthly if you own a horse like Azid but definitely once a year for flu vaccinations. The Osteo/Physio/Chiro, who I get out every 3 months as standard or more regularly if we’re competing at FEI or there’s an issue and that’s about it.
What does everyone else have? What would you classify as extras?
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