So I work 8AM -5PM and have 2 horses. One that just needs daily exercise and the other which needs some work. I really need to work them both daily. I have just been pondering the best way to do that. So far I have only worked one each day. I was wondering if anybody has figured out a good schedule with a similar situation?
suggestions?
Once I have arena lights I can get up and work one early in the morning. Although, haven't tried that yet.
Could you lunge one and ride the other? I know lunging seems to be faster for me b/c you don't have all the tacking up. When we have multiple horses to work a night after work some of them always get lunged. There just is not time to ride more than one when you have no arena with lights.
Work out a schedule on the calendar so that each horse is getting ridden 3-4 times a week. Two of those rides being on the weekend when you have more time. Then they can be lunged a couple times throughout the work week.
When I had between 5 and 11 and I was the only rider, I occasionally got lazy and exercised them all at the same time by putting all but one of my saner horses into a large turn out (desert - no munchies on the ground). I'd saddle up the one and go chase the rest of the kids around. It was actually a lot of fun and we all got our exercise!
If I had daylight left after everyone got a work-out, I'd swap the saddle onto one that needed schooling and off to the round-pen or small turn-out we'd go. Plus side - that horse was usually tired enough to pay attention to me. ;-)
When my 2 were both in work, I would schedule their days off on different days during the week, so that I mostly only rode 1. Key would have Monday and Thursday off, Rhett would have Tuesday and Wednesday off and on Friday's I would ride Key and pony Rhett off of her. On the weekends both horses got ridden.
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