Lock down for equestrians? Don't waste the opportunity to prep!

With no shows to keep us busy and limited access to fun new activities, we have curated a list of 10 equine related tasks you can complete  while maintaining social distancing! We have also added our favorite how-to videos from various creators, to give you a hand!  

1) Learn to plait the perfect mane and tail: as lets face it we never have time to polish our skill the morning of an event!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=417gIsEJdOg 

2) Perfect the quatermarks, or create a new design: there is no better time to try the new pattern you’ve been dreaming of for years!  

Who better to teach you then Alan, the king: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcjZhRfrjr8 

3) Tidy and organize your plaiting/grooming box10 year old baby oil is probably not an essential anymore!  

One like this, please... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHONI3_SsIs 

4) Learn to mend your own rugs. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8qRyVDjD_4 

5) Clean all paddock water troughs: a job that is incredibly important and often forgotten about!  

6) Super-organise your float and tack room: make a box for all of the forgotten odds, or create a basket specifically for those number holders that always run away comp morning! 

Well this is goals! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeiWIJm9byE&t=1265s 

7) Perfect your horse’s diet: if you have been thinking of changing, now is a great time to slowly incorporate that change with no events on the horizon.  

FeedXL is an industry leading nutrition calculator: https://feedxl.com/ 

8) Organise your stable whiteboard- an organised whiteboard makes everything more efficient, use the time now to make yours perfect. Top tip: use black tape for the lines! 

9) Spring clean the stables- you probably won’t want to de-cobweb when all is up and running again, so get to it now! Maybe even create a tik tok to motivate you, people love watching them!  

 Cleaning tik tok goals: https://www.tiktok.com/@this_esme/video/6805965288014744837