Mowing. The rest is set up pretty easy cheesy. Honestly, it is the non horse parts that take the longest. We need to get rid of some lawn. 
Trough is under a spigot. Horses are out 24/7. Mowing rips up horse piles in the pastures. Winter is a bit harder. Fill hay nets in the morning and at night.
I still love it. 7 years of having horses at home.
For those that asked about filling hay nets, there are these ways to hang them where they are easy to fill:
Feeding, sweeping the aisle, etc don’t add up to as much or don’t need done as often. Mowing takes a few hours a week but not much of that is spent mowing the “horse” areas. I’m using a 60" commercial mower because I saw no reason to compromise on time lost mowing and after using a couple of slower 60" mowers I’m sure it saves me 1-2 hours per week over less powerful/fast mowers.
Moving horses could be less time consuming but we bought our place with the barn and open spaces already defined. So we walk up to 800’ from barn to the pasture gates. Most of that time is plain walking so shorter distances = time savings.
Stalls are, well, stalls. How you pick a stall and what it’s bedded with are probably the only way to improve the time spent on it.
Our next efficiency upgrade is to trench water/electrical lines out to the pastures. It would be nice to run 4-season water lines into the stalls but that’s probably a lot more costly and difficult as we have an asphalt aisle.
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For those that asked about filling hay nets, there are these ways to hang them where they are easy to fill:[/QUOTE]
Love it. How long do the nets last?
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Love it. How long do the nets last?[/QUOTE]
I would say, just about as long as any other way you may hang nets?
Those were just ideas found on the internet.
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