Anything For Animals

posted by admin on Jun 20

Why not take on board some of these tips for some great time saving ideas - more time left for riding!

Some of them are so obvious that you might not have even thought of them as time-saving - but add up all those minutes spent looking for something, fixing something that’s broken or shopping for something you could have made yourself!

So, lets get started:

1) Let’s start with an easy one - tie some bright material or a pink shoelace to your hoof pick to make it easy to find if you drop it in your bedding or if you can’t see it in the boot of your car!

2) Adding to this - why not make sure that whenever you are buying some new equipment - lead ropes, brushes or hat silks - buy them as bright as you can so you can save time looking for them all the time!

3) Save more time around the yard by using baler twine to hang scissors next to your hay supply, or any other piece of equipment you always seem to need when haven’t got it to hand!

4) Stop struggling to use that last tiny bit of saddle soap in your tin - save up all your left-over bits in one tin - then when you have enough leave the tin in your baking hot car until it all melts into one lump, and use it like new!

5) Always choose dark coloured jodhpurs to wear around the yard to save on washing time.  If you wear pale colours, you will no doubt end up washing them after every wash!  What a waste of water too!

6) If your whip seems to slide out of your hand when riding - why not fix a rubber martingale to the handle where appropriate and keep it in place!

7) Clean your grooming kit at the same time as washing your horse - which basically keeps you horse cleaner for longer.  Why would you want to brush old hair back onto your clean pony?

8.) Get yourself a boot-jack.  The time wasted getting a friend to pull of your long boots may be fun once or twice - but when you need to get home or back to work, it;s just annoying. 

9) Keep some rubber gloves with you at the yard - as mucking out that one dropping by hands is much quicker than finding the shovel and wheelbarrow!

10) And during that quick clean up - you don’t want your horse to keep trying to get out as you struggle to open and close the stable door every-time - why not fix a simple breast bar across the door, allowing you to scuttle in and out in a second while keeping your horse in place!

Well,  What do you think of those?  Have you got any yourself?  If so, let us know right here.

For some more great tips - try Money Saving Top Tips or Top Tips For Your Horses Health & Wellbeing.