Anyone else have to contend with this on a daily basis.....?:o

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A super filthy stable................and yes before you ask my horse DOES get turned out AND mucked out daily....................

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Yes, they all get a full muck out daily but one is always like that, normally with a water bucket upside down in the middle of it to make it a bit wetter! I find the more bedding the better.
 
elsazzo said:
I feel the more bedding i put in the more I have to take out! It needs a full muck out daily either way :o
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Yup!

I muck out 13 horses three days a week, and just my 2 the other five.
Out of these, 3 are just HORRENDOUS, with my boy right on top of that podium. Bloody horses! :D
 
ewww - thankfully no, I have an amazing clean mare, she rarely tracks anything in to the bed. I do take a fair amount out as she's wet but it's neat so easy to do :-)
 
*smug post alert*

Mollie is an angel in her stable. She's in 24/7 (just for a few days, fields are soaked) at the moment and I last skipped out last night, then came back tonight and her bed looked immaculate. Walls intact, straw neat and level, with a few neat undisturbed piles of poo. Easy to skip out, dig out a bit of a wet patch (removing less than one barrowload in total) then smooth out existing bedding and it looks like new.

I usually skip out several times a day when she's in, but today I was working away so someone kindly topped up her hay and water for me until I got back.

Maybe I should take photos and make you all cross. :p;)
 
The little mare pony, Velvet, is so clean in the stable, you could muck out with blinkers on, however, the rest of them are flithy. Dora, is that bad, that after mucking out, putting down a clean bed, and go back down the following morning, you'd be excued for thinking she hadn't been mucked out in a week. The rest aren't that bad, but still really dirty. (My friend reckons I just feed them too well, but they all just get what they need). Good job we love them, the work thats involved!!!!
 
My big girl is discusting :mad:
She likes to poo in her water bucket and cover it up with hay :confused::rolleyes:

She gets poo everywhere absolutely everywhere and I'm sure she does an irish jig on her bedding so it can really mix in and spread well.

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OMG if I had to deal with that every day I think I'd leave my horse out!!

Does it box walk? or is it just a really filthy beast?
 
Pretty much, both of mine are dirty beggars, they seem to enjoy digging poo into their beds, hitting their automatic water bowls, (meant for donkeys and goats so not large) I think they just like seeing me sweating in the barn, first thing my lad does is stands in a bed and pees, they are free to come and go, but there never seems to be less poo in the fields
 
Yes I have one like that if not worse. Open the door every morning and just go yuk !!!! I too have found minimal shavings on matting and take the whole lot out everyday, if I put in lots of bedding I just spend hours !!!:D
 
My boy is filthy. He lives out now, but when he was stabled, on full livery, I had to pay extra for him to be mucked out as it took so much longer than the others.
He poos up the walls, in his water bucket, wees all over the bed and any poo he does manage to do on the ground get kicked all through the bed. Practically have to pull the whole bed out daily.
So glad he's out 24/7 now.
Kx
 
I went to see one of my horses in Spain and nearly went mad at the YO as his stable was so disgusting. Luckily I held back as the next day I saw them muck out his stable and replace all the straw, but I popped my head in an hour later and it was disgusting already! I have no idea what he does in there...every time I walk past he's innocently standing still and looking out of the door with his ears pricked :rolleyes:

My other Spanish horse was filthy when he was a stallion but became very 'houseproud' once he was gelded - I thought it was supposed to be the other way around?!
 
Swap you OP, that looks much nicer than my mare's bed!

There have been days when you can't tell there were shavings in there! I'm sure people think I bed her on mushed up poo...
 
Yes, I had a horse here that was like that. I have really thick and spongy rubber mats, so I found the most time effective was to deal with it was to take the whole lot out with a shovel and then put half a bag of fresh megazorb back in. He was really expensive on bedding, but it was the only way to ensure that he was clean and dry for most of the time he was in and it only took five minutes because there was no sorting through the bed with a fork.
 
nosenseofdirection said:
My horse thinks she's a cat! Her stable looks immaculate in the mornings but this is because she's buried all the poo in the banks...please tell me this is normal?
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My mare lives out now but when she was in her stable was like this, you wouldn't know a horse had been in all night couldn't see any poo as it would all have been covered neatly and it would all be in one spot so the rest of the stable would be completely clean. Used to wish that all the horses were like her! :)
 
My old gelding was a dirty pig...
Rubber matting had to be lifted at least every other day to clean underneath or it would absolutely stink.
In the end he went on an absolutely minimal bed which had to replaced daily.
 
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