A pointless mucking out poll

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Its wet and I'm bored, thats my excuse!
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Two of mine are on rubber matting with a few inches of shavings and the other is on matting with straw. They all take less than 10 mins to muck out each. Prefer mucking out shavings!
 
My field shelter has a shavings bed. I deep litter it so it takes me 5 mins max to remove the poo and tidy it up everyday and occasionally 20 mins or so to remove a few layers of wet...
 
Mine use the stable as a field shelter it has rubber matting and shavings 3 of them use it but its quick to poo pick and once a week give it a really good clean out and add more
 
i have one on straw(Lottie) and one on shavings and rubber (Mouse)
Mouse is very clean so doesn't take me to long, but im one of those people who has to get every bit out, Lottie takes a little more time as there is there is two of them in there and Spryro tends to jump in it all and mush it in
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Lottie and Spyro are moving to a new yard on Thursday and they are going to be on straw and rubber matting there.
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I have 1 clean horse deep littered on straw with a flax base and it takes 5 mins to muck out,
and 1 mucky horse on rubber mats with small shavings bed that takes 5-10 mins to muck out
 
Mine is on aubiose and it will take me about 10 minutes, and when mucking out straw it normally takes about 10-20 minutes
 
Mine (when she's home) is on shredded paper (get it for nothing from work) and takes about the same length of time as shavings which about 15 minutes but she is very clean in the stable and doesn't stir the bed up.
 
Don't have neds of my own but can muck out a straw bed in about 15 mins, and a shavings bed in under 10 mins.
 
Mine is on rubber matting and half a stable of shredded paper. She is the wettest bugger ever and it takes me about 20 mins to muck it out (pick up poos into a tubtrug with gloves, then fork the wet out which is usually most of the base of the bed, then sweep, then add more paper every other day). Sadly this is the only option we have at our yard, I would love to try something like Megazorb or something.
At work we have a mix of types of bed, mostly straw, one or two shavings and the rest are on Aquamax. The straw I feel I have the hang of now and it takes me roughly 10 mins to take muck out, sweep, and add more bed. Bearing in mind I am the world's slowest mucker-outer! Shavings take me a bit longer (but then the two on shavings are pretty mucky things!), and the Aquamax, although it should technically take less time as the wet is left in, takes me the longest as I hate the stuff, and it's the muckiest horses on that (head girl's horse is awful, he tramples everything around and so I have to sift through the whole bed to get any kind of decently clean end result)!
I much prefer mucking mine out though. But then I suppose I'm used to it and I can do it exactly how I want!
 
Rox is on rubber matting and shavings. Her stable is a longer than wide stable,(rectangle) and I only have the back half with shavings. It takes about 10 mins to muck out and chuck up and then 10 mins to put back down and brush up. If I am in a speedy mood then 15 mins for both.
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My pony is on deep litter shavings when he is in overnight during the winter - he is clean anyway so it only takes a few minutes to muckout. However him and the shetlands are taking it in turns to come in at the moment to get them off this rich grass for a bit and I'm using up some left over straw and it's a right pain - much prefer shavings..
 
I take 10-20mins to muck out straw or shavings. I keep my VERY wet gelding on Flax (Thorobed) on a semi deep litter basis. takes me 5mins tops to muck out during the week, around 30mins or so on a weekend when I do a full muckout.
 
We have to use shavings on the yard. I deep litter, but he such a mucky b****r so it can take quite a while when he's trampled it around, and had his friends in to party!!!.
 
Straw on level concrete, with no drainage.

Remove piles of poo with rake & shovel to wheelbarrow.
Pile up straw, using fork, in two piles against walls, whilst discovering wet patches, & removing wet straw to wheelbarrow.
Vigorously brush pools of pee and wet concrete with soiled straw. Then brush wet straw onto shovel & remove this to wheelbarrow.
Leave floor uncovered to dry until bed is next required.

Total Time - 15 minutes if 2 wet patches, 20 minutes if 3.

Reason for post - Why don't all stables have sloping floors with drainage channels? I spend more time clearing pools of pee than piles of poo!

Does anyone have stables with really good pee drainage? What is the drainage system?
 
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