This has been a much requested video over on our YouTube comments so here it is! A day in my life. Now, firstly let’s all remember that this is just one day, some days are just like this one, some days are totally different. I do what I do because it suits me, so please don’t compare yourself to me or be too judgemental of me, let’s all be kind and supportive to ourselves and eachother.
From January to Easter I have one horse stabled overnight and the others are out 24/7. Usually it’s Tissy who is stabled because she can’t eat enough haylage to maintain her bodyweight so she needs a huuuuge bucket of fibre/speedi beet. However, as I only have two horses with me in the midlands at the moment, Roo was not happy about being left out alone and screamed and run around relentlessy the first 3 nights, resulting in him injuring himself……sigh! So now Roo comes in at night and Tissy stays out with her big bucket in the field.
Tissy seems quite happy with this arrangement, she’s not the biggest fan of being stabled anyway, and Roo has well and truly settled into stabled pony life, getting him out of bed is usually a struggle.
So I make my way to the yard for 6:10am, pop Roo out and muck out the stable, throwing the bedding up so it’s not in the way later as I use my stable for grooming and tacking up. I leave my barrow in there to take to the muck heap later.
I get back home at about 6:40am, I then have 30mins to either exercise or do housework and I alternate the days I do each. At 7:10am (I have an alarm so I’m not constantly clock watching) I get ready for work and leave the house by 7:30am to get to work for an 8:00am start.
I work 5 days a week 8:00 – 4:00pm so I get back to the yard after work at around 4:30pm. I take my wheelbarrow to the muck heap, fill my haynets and prepare the feeds before getting in whichever horse has work to do that evening. On this particular evening I had the Physio so I got Roo in ready for her. Once I’ve ridden/worked whichever horse I’ll give them all their dinner, pull the bed down and tuck Roo in his stable for the night before taking Tissy up her bucket of mushy haylage replacement.
I usually get home between 6:30-7:30pm, have dinner, chill out and then sleep, repeat.
Beth Endurance 