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five years. I told the owners that I appreciated the offer, but that I really thought they should find someone else. Despite my reluctance they were persistent, and continued to ask me to take more time\nto think about the position.<\/p>\n
I was used to back yard barns, not fancy looking training stables. Thankfully I didn\u2019t stick to my first thought, and called to see if they needed any part time help. At the time I needed a job, and I wanted to get back into working with horses, but I did not feel confident in my abilities at all. Shortly after I began working for them, the owners brought up the idea of me taking the Assistant Barn Manager position.<\/p>\n
I was extremely reluctant at first! I had so many doubts about my abilities to manage a team, in addition to how little horse knowledge I felt that I had left after having been away from horses for over five years. I told the owners that I appreciated the offer, but that I really thought they should find someone else. Despite my reluctance they were persistent, and continued to ask me to take more time
\nto think about the position.<\/p>\n
Fast forward a few months… I have been the Assistant Barn Manager for a little over six months, and I have to say those doubts, and fears I faced in the beginning, didn\u2019t end up being as bad as I thought they would be. Little by little my knowledge of horses, and how to care for them, has been coming back. Even managing a team, and handling boarder\u2019s concerns hasn\u2019t been as difficult as I thought it could be. Don\u2019t get me wrong there are still days where we get on each other\u2019s nerves, difficult conversations need to be had, and the horses act up. But what I can say, is that it has been worth it. With that said, here\u2019s a small glimpse into the daily routine of what a day in the life of an Assistant Barn Manager looks like.<\/p>\n
Living Above The Barn…<\/strong> What I Do…<\/strong> We tend to finish stalls between 10:00 \u2013 10:30 AM, due to a very well planned routine. Once we have At 11:00 we re-hay the horses whether they are inside, or outside, and do any additional barn chores that need to get done before we go to lunch at noon. Night barn is from 6:00 \u2013 8:00 PM, where one person re-hays the horses, picks their stalls, and feeds Once everything is completed I do a final walk through where I say goodnight to each of the horses by Until The Next Day In The Life…<\/strong> Leave us a comment, and tell us about a day in the life of your barn.<\/p>\n I was used to back yard barns, not fancy looking training stables. Thankfully I didn\u2019t stick to my first thought, and called to see if they needed any part time help. At the time I needed a job, and I wanted to get back into working with horses, but I did not feel confident in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nIn the property I work on, as well as call home, there are two apartments over the barn, one of which is
\nmine. It took some getting used to when I first moved in over a barn of 21 horses. As you can imagine
\nthey aren\u2019t always the most quiet neighbors, but I\u2019ve come to really like how easy it is to monitor them
\nfrom upstairs. Plus my commute to work takes seconds!<\/p>\n
\nMy day starts by my alarm going off at 6:00 AM. I used to hit snooze once or twice, however lately one of the horses, named Nero, has put together that my alarm going off means I\u2019ll get up shortly, and he gets breakfast. For the last week or so, when my alarm goes off, he hears it, and whinnies really loudly to let me know not to hit snooze, because I need to get up, and bring him his breakfast! He still only gets breakfast at 6:45 AM, but it hasn\u2019t stopped him from trying to get me in the barn sooner. The rest of the team arrives between 6:50 \u2013 7:00 AM, and depending on the weather they will either bring hay into the barn, or put hay bags out in all the paddocks.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/yourhorsefarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ken-lawson-C75Pzpry7Us-unsplash-Large.jpeg\")
From 7:00 \u2013 8:00 AM we turn the horses out into their paddocks, unless it\u2019s a rainy day, and then we just start cleaning stalls while playing what we call \u201cmusical horses.\u201d Really we are just putting horses on cross ties in the aisle, but when you are also a boarding barn sometimes you have to coordinate where to put horses to keep the path open.<\/p>\n
\nfinished stalls we spend time cleaning the barn aisle, the muck tools, and adding bedding to stalls as
\nneeded.<\/p>\n
\nAfter lunch we continue working on various barn chores, and projects until it\u2019s time to bring the horses
\nat 2:45 PM, or if they are inside due to weather, we\u2019ll re-hay and pick their stalls at 2:30 PM.
\nOnce either of those two tasks are completed we clean up the barn aisle again, and prepare their dinner
\ngrain for 3:45 PM. At 4:00 PM with all the horses settled in their stalls we call it a day, until one person
\ncomes back for night barn.<\/p>\n
\nthem night mash. I\u2019m not really a night owl, typically I\u2019m the kind of person who is tired by 8:00 PM,
\nhowever night barn is easily my favorite shift. Don\u2019t get me wrong I love the day shift, and all that we
\nget to do all day long, but it\u2019s during night barn that I\u2019ve been able to bond with our horses the most.
\nMany of them love getting their late night scratches, and will even scoot up next to us to ask us to
\nscratch their itchy spots.<\/p>\n
\nname while I check to make sure that their stalls are latched, and check one last time that everyone
\nlooks happy, and healthy.<\/p>\n
\nAs you can imagine, that is only a small piece of what I do everyday. My two main focuses are caring
\nfor the horses, and the people, which as we all know, can change at any time.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/yourhorsefarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/serena-t-AQuTAWKfdLk-unsplash-Large.jpeg\")
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