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  • #41
    Originally posted by minnie View Post
    How about missing your daughter's wedding rehearsal and dinner?????? We were lucky to make it to the wedding the following day. Sheesh!
    Yup, that would fit, too!!! It is my life!
    Laurie

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    • #42
      Originally posted by cyndi View Post
      IMHO, what you are considering is the worst of both worlds, boarding and having horses at home. You gain none of the advantages of having horses at home (no barn drama, no commute to see them, etc.) and yet still have all the down sides of boarding -- commute to the barn, having to deal with boarders and having to deal with people you've hired to feed/muck, whatever.
      I would say Cyndi nailed it here-- your complaints seem primarily to be about the care you're getting or the people you have to deal with. Unless you're bringing them all the way home to your property and providing 100% care all yourself, you're just leasing your way into responsibility for both those things you're trying to avoid.

      If you have to deal with people, at least get the weekends off.

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      • #43
        cyndi, could you start a new thread on how you manage to do all that? I know it's possible. I just don't know how. Sincerely! Since we all have the same amount of hours in a day, I would be exhausted doing a tiny portion of what you do. I'd love to be able to accomplish more in a day. special diet? vitamins? do you have a groom? or other help at home?

        (mods, yes this is horse related!)

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        • #44
          Hay

          Me too! Cyndi. Start a new thread. I need just half as much energy as you have and I'm 47.
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          • #45
            I grew up with horses at home. When I left home, my first boarding experience was a coop...only 4 families and about 10 horses--of which I owned 3.

            I loved it.

            Then I had to move again...and it was one bad place after the other. I finally found some land and a barn to lease. Self care. I did the maintenance on the property, the mowing, the fence, put up my own hay, twice a day chores, etc etc in addition to working full time +.

            It was great to have control over turnout, feed, etc....BUT, it still wasn't my own place and there were still some challenges w/ the land owner. Like the time she left the gate open and my horse was found standing on the RR tracks down the road. That was a gem. Or our battles over water trough placement. Etc.

            Additionally, it's a real "life style". Twice a day, every day...must get in car and drive to barn, do chores. Have a date? Make it late! Got to do chores first. Bad storm? Sorry. Sick? Again, get thee to barn. Want to go out of town? You have to find someone to farm sit (which can be done....whether or not they'll show up? toss up. Takes awhile to find good help)

            I'm back to boarding now (long story) and I am trying to breathe in through my nose and out through my mouth and stay calm and relaxed about the whole thing. But the truth is, if I could I would go back to self care in a heart beat.

            But I like the lifestyle. I don't mind being "tied down" to my barn schedule. And with only two to take care of, it's pretty easy to muck a couple of stalls and toss hay/fill water in less than 30 min if you're in a hurry.

            Yep, I'd do it again in a heartbeat. But you could not pay me enough to be a BO. LOL.

            Mostly....I'll be honest....I wouldn't want to deal with the people who won't call the vet, or farrier, etc....it would drive me batty.
            A good horseman doesn't have to tell anyone...the horse already knows.

            Might be a reason, never an excuse...

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            • #46
              I have kept horses in possibly every scenario writtin about here. I have full boarded, partial boarded, leased space, and now have them in my back yard.

              Worst situation was when I leased space and had to drive twice a day to feed them. It was a royal pain in the butt to get into my car when I was sicker than a dog and go take care of my horse. It seemed like every time something like this happened, the people who helped me/I helped were never available (imagine).

              Co-op didn't work because some didn't do what they were supposed do, and nobody wanted to feed weekend mornings so I usually got stuck with it. If somebody else volunteered, I would show up at 10 in the morning to find them still waiting for their breakfast. Got out of that situation real quick. Everybody wants to do the fun stuff, it's hard to find people willing to do the tough stuff.

              Best situation I was in was where I supplied feed and hay, cleaned my own stall and they fed/turned out my horse for me. And the stall had a nice paddock attached. Cost was affordable, and cleaning her stall only took about fifteen minutes a day. Sometimes I would skip a day if something came up and didn't fret because they have never died from poop, and with the paddock she could always find a place to sleep. They did what they promised and it worked out well for me. But the county took over the land and that place was soon gone.

              Right now they are at home, and everybody's right, it ties you down big time. But I don't worry about feeding an hour or so each way. I have to have a life and if I'm invited to dinner I go. I have never shown up late to have them say, "No, we can't eat now. It's too late." Usually I find they have wandered off to graze. They all know they will be fed, so they never panic.

              Will I go back to boarding, I hope not. Do I miss the companionship, you bet. Will I take in a boarder...no freakin way. I like my peace and quiet.

              But, I do want Cyndi's recipe.....

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