What horsey job do you irrationally hate most?

[curlew]

I LOATHE filling haynets. I would pay someone to fill haynets..........

I brought at least two in/out for years. . But they all loved each other and two were so light on their feet and manoeuvrable that gates were easy. No kicking. In fact they were so good at knowing where to be I didn't really have to ask them to step over. They just did it.
There was one I could not catch for love not money, but you just had to open his stable and the field gate and he would walk in with the others and put himself into his stable. He was a love.

Mud, brushing off dried mud, electric fencing, putting bridles back together

Ooo I love putting bridles back together when they are all clean and supple. Then again I love cleaning tack and sniffing leather.

Picking feet out

Lucky it's included in my livery and the grooms do it. I hate that job

I hate the gate to our yard as its dropped a bit after YO's DH "mended" it. It means you have to lift it to fasten it shut and it bites you when you open it. I've had more minor injuries and broken nails from that gate than in all my 17 years of horse owning, excluding the horse bite blood poisoning incident .

Cleaning bridles. I have a lot of polo pony liveries and each bridle has about a million things on it. I also hate bringing them in en-masse (5 or 6 at a time). Even though they are used to it, there's always one dragger and one puller.

Hay. All things to do with it.

Also tack cleaning. Remember when I was a youngster and I'd take home 10+ saddles and bridles from riding school to clean with my own soap / oil!

I know of a horse who was kicked.by another when being led in a pair and had to be pts with a fractured leg. I know it could happen anywhere I suppose, horses mess about in the field don't they I guess this was just unlucky.

I hate going to lovely tack shops and not being able to afford stuff. Well, I love looking but hate not buying.

My current hated job is fetching the hay.It involves removing the parcel shelf and dropping the back seats to fit a huge builders skip bag in the boot,then drive down a muddy lane,unlock the gate,drive through into a muddy yard with 1ft potholes,unbolt the old milking parlour where the hay is,try and get as much in the bag as I can without it going all over the car,while the heavy door blows about in the wind,then do it all in reverse,all the while liberally plastering the car with mud and hay.Get back to the farm,check there are no vehicles in the yard in my way,make sure the dogs aren't loose,unbolt the yard gate,drive to the bottom and drag the bag through a swamp to get to the paddock.

Then new boy rushes over and stuffs his big head in the bag,whilst dpony flies around the field looking horrified,because although she sees the bag every day and she knows what's in it,it still might be a tiger in disguise,just waiting to kill her.

Then have to put all seats ect back and reverse the car up the yard,skillfully avoiding 2 tractors 2 landrovers and various piles of scrap metal dotted about.It's like the bloody Krypton Factor!

I hate filling hay nets as I am allergic to the dust spores. I don't bother about actually receiving / stacking deliveries as I wear my face mask.

Of course I don't really enjoy poo picking every evening but we only do this in the summer months so at least the weather is usually nice.

My small annoyance, like Lovebeans, is that our field gates don't slam shut and we have to lift them slightly to close them. This is a pain when leading horses (we do 2 at a time).

Most unpleasant jobs we share as it never seems that bad then.

Clipping! My horse is the hairiest beast known to man and has to be clipped at least 4 times per winter no matter how many rugs you put on her. Not clipping leaves me with a horse that sweats just looking at the saddle so it has to be done but I hate it with a passion, just can't stop those little bits of hair going everywhere. The worst is my eyes cause I wear contacts, which always have little bits stuck to them when I take them out eugh!

Closely followed by haynets though :-)

Mine is chucking the hay bales down from the mistal. You have to climb a massive ladder, walk over an extremely old and dodgy floor, pull the bales down, roll it back, move the ladder to shove the bale through the tiny gap so it falls down.

I live in fear of killing the dog, who waits at the bottom of the ladder or the ladder somehow falling down and me bring stuck.

Health and safety doesn't exist at the farm!!

I used to hate putting my hands into the sugar beet bucket when it was semi-frozen, trying to sort out any problems by torchlight in the winter as we had no electricity, and disposing of the dead rats that used to turn up on a regular basis.

Best job was standing on top of the muck heap to get it spread evenly - guaranteed to warm up frozen feet.

walking down to the field to get the pony as it is a vile morass of mud and shit - i mean it is soooo bad that if you fell over face first you would probably drown in it and get trampled all afternoon by the big dopey horses until the farmer found you later.

sadly pony got mud fever and cellulitis from it and is currently stabled which is no bloody good either as i have to drive to the yard twice daily which is eating up petrol. luckily we found a field just around the corner from us and are moving her tomorrow!!

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Leading the horse across a busy main road from the field to the stable and vice versa.
Why won't drivers slow down when they see you stood at the edge of the road with an animal that isn't that fond of traffic???

Yep the haynet thing - my mare has to have soaked hay so I stuff it into a flexitub and then fill it up from the hose turn it upside down on a pallet to drain while I am mucking out and then chuck it in the corner of the stable and she eats it out of the bucket. Been doing it for years, works a treat :)

Why do you use haynets? We used to put the hay on the floor in a sectioned off area. Just curious.

Just to clarify, I'm wondering if we did something wrong and whether we ought to have been using haynets. The YO said it was to allow the horse to eat in a natural position. It's a job I've never understood people doing when th hae it so much.