Sleep....How much do you sleep?

[RiversideBoy]

How much sleep does a full-time farrier need? I tend to like 9+ hours and am wondering if other's need are that high. Thanks in advance.

Eli

[Kaydence]

How much sleep does a full-time farrier need? I tend to like 9+ hours and am wondering if other's need are that high. Thanks in advance.

Eli

hahaha You had to post this after I'm into my second week of insomnia? I'd love 9+ hours of sleep but I'll settle for 3 many nights.

Cheri

[ladyblacksmith]

Yes, that high....
naps are good in the afternoon...when too hot to shoe.
.....eat a higher protein diet ... meaning Red Meat!!! for the iron loss, I don't mean supplements. I do mean primb rib, pot-roast in the winter months, and steak in the summer for the fat and the blood; if shoeing a lot that day....and you still feel tired after 8 hours of sleep. Make sure to get plenty of water and sodium and potassium.

You must keep a healthy solid weight on you, too.
When feeling better, really really cut back on the red meats.....then follow up with leaner meats from then on.
Only eat the red meats....when you very tired only!!!
Too much red meat is not good for you; but you have to have some in your diet when doing this kind of work.

[calshoer]

Generally 8 hours . I dont like waking to an alarm clock, because it messes up my natural sleep rhythms.
I go to bed at 10,and wake when the sun comes in my window at about 6:30.
I avoid too much red meat, I do NOT I eat very much late at night, I eat lots of healthy whole or minimally processed food.I drink a little glass of , organic red grape juice every evening (for the antioxidants), and have quit alcohol altogether. I found that alcohol or any large amount of carbs in the evenings would wake me up exactly at 3 in the morning, when it wore off.

[Ray_Knightley]

I need 6 hours ,would love more but with 2 small children and about 12 and more hours on the road shoeing no chance....

[smitty88]

5/6 does me

[Jaye Perry]

Sometimes none, sometimes 12 hours. Average 4 hours

[Gary Hill]

Funny thing is on days I shoe 8 or more, I can't sleep at all? Let a lazy Sunday, no canraces or sortings and I feel like a limp rag all day? Nights well usually no more that 4 and a half.

[Red Amor]

any where from 8pa to1030 pm I will retire
but Im often awake lookin like o possum caught in your head lights:eek: at 12 1 or 2 am cant sleep so watch a lot of golf and get on here some ay

I go like this for a bit and now n then get a good mights sleep then back to rubbish again
Id kill to be able to sleep right through 8 or 10 hours unbrokes but the back lega and sholders play up yeah and my legs pump all night and I barrel roll drives the missuz crasy poor begger so I just get up
I have a lot of lill nanny knaps in front of the telly ay

[Bradley-1stChoice]

Well here it is 1:30 am again, and I will likely be up for another half an hour,
cause I just thought of two more things that can't wait til morning.

That is the norm, and if I'm shoeing . . . up at 6:30 for my 2 hour
coffee and water closet routine, before I'm off.
If I'm not shoeing, up at 8:30 to tickle my girls,
and do the above mentioned.

Days when I'm not shoeing, I can catch an aft wink, or two, if I can.

I don't want to stay up late, but it is my most productive time.
My girls don't come running in to tickle me, and
My wife ain't stealing that one "Light bulb phrase" that I had all day,
by asking to take out the garbage or what have you.

I do think though, as I reminisce of my wife getting 11 hours of sleep every night,
That is why women out live men.
They get more sleep and don't breath paint fumes and the like.

PS. before I was married and had a real job,
I was to bed at 8:30, up at 4:30,
and rode my peddle bike 10 miles to work every day,
and the same 10 miles up and down hills, home every night.

[Horshure]

I never have trouble sleeping since taking up the trade.........the sleep of a labourer is sweet!

[halfmiler]

in bed by 10 up at 4:30 to take my wife to the train station and get to the track by 5am. get my work done with my horse,pick up my partner then get to work. usualy home around 7:30-8ish.

[dave murray]

Hey Halfmiler, nice to have another plater on board. do you shoe at Charlestown. if you do i'am just wondering if youv'e run across a guy by the name of Dave Petten. he left here last fall for there and never returned this spring. kind of a crazy old koot, just wondering if he is alright.

[halfmiler]

dave,over the past year we have had more shoers come and go i cant keep track of them all lol there is quite a few new guys that i dont know personaly. by the time you get to know someone around the track they move on. charlestown is more or less a stop along the way for most.

[dave murray]

Thanks, he's not a shoer he's a trainer. went there with 4or5 horses for the winter and hasn't come back. i'am just wondering if he was OK. if you happen to run into him tell him we were thinking of him.

[halfmiler]

dave,ill pick up a program tomorow from the racing offices and see if hes still got stalls here. if so i will pop in oneday when im making my rounds.

[dave murray]

Thanks Halfmiler, i have a feeling he may of gone on to Penn National as he has spent time there before. but if you do happen to run into him give him my best.

[Phil Armitage]

How much sleep does a full-time farrier need? I tend to like 9+ hours and am wondering if other's need are that high. Thanks in advance.

Eli

I have never needed much sleep. 4-6 hours a night and have gone a couple of days with no sleep. Everyone is different, I think it has to do with how deep you sleep. Some people will get 8-9 hours of sleep and still be tired. If I sleep in too long I end up with a headache and feeling ****py all day.

[Gilreath Horseshoeing]

Typically I sleep around 8 - 9 hours. Go to bed around 10:30 and get up at 7:30, usually. Never had trouble sleeping. I am asleep within 5 minutes.

[halfmiler]

this past week i havnt slept worth a darn,ive got a sinus infection and the presure is making every damn tooth in my head hurt.

[Gary Hill]

Eat lots of jalapeno peppers, they will help open ya up, that and snorting lots of salt water. Good Luck, I had two sinus surgeries before they fixed me.

[halfmiler]

gary,i havnt had one in about 3 years and i havnt been sick since i was a kid.

this is the worst one ive had yet.

[T. Wm. HALL]

I'm pretty high maintenance when it comes to sleep. I like to get at least 8 hours, but on some lazy days (like today) I usually get up, feed the horses and dogs, and come back to bed. The weather here today isn't the best and my honey-do list is caught up. Today is a book-work/movie/computer day.

I'm not a fan of mornings either, I can get 12 hours of sleep and I still need a crow-bar to pry my butt out of bed in the mornings. But I can easily stay up late and work good on the swing-shift schedule.