Are geldings generally cleaner than mares?

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I know I've heard people say it before but having never owned a mare I was thinking last night as I mucked out in 5 minutes yesterday and my fellow livery was mucking out her mare which took her around 40 mins and 3 barrows full!!! We both have them on matting with shavings and I take out all the wet and droppings, but my lad does everything in the same place leaving the majority of the floor clean! I literally have to pick up the mess, sweep up and replace the bedding and we're done. I usually only have 1 barrow every 2 days!!! So it is likely my boy is Mr Clean and I'm lucky or are mare's alot filthier? Just thinking ahead and if I don't find a loan home for the TB mare I bought the other week then next winter might be interesting if she's kept at the same yard as my boy (assuming I can afford it).
 
Ive got 4 mares and 1 gelding and I would say the mares are dirtier than the gelding he does 1 pile of droppings and wees in the same place the girls cr@p everywhere & wee in the banks they use twice as much bedding too.
 
i really dont think there is a general answer, i have a very messy mare but friend has a MUCH worse gelding and i had a mare who was really clean, i dont think i have ever seen a pattern lol
 
Can't generalise they are all different. I've had some stunningly clean mares and have been stabled next to some really grotty geldings.

Current mare is really clean, IF, you do the bed the way she likes it, which is less than 2 inches deep (over rubber mats). Any deeper and for some reason (she is a rescue) she gets in a tizz, box walks like mad, so it all gets stirred in. So bang goes my 'need' for a deep bed, she has to come first.

I've even had a mare who wouldn't pee in her stable at all and all her droppings were neatly stacked on the banks.

Another one used to create an enormous stud pile at the back.

So they are all different
 
My lad is, he now does all his poo's in one place, exactly where he stands where he spends most of his time looking over the door or eating, so his bed stays nice an clean apart from the spots where he wee's which is usually up the bankings (typical male, likes to pee up things :D:rolleyes:)

Mare, she does he droppings anywhere and everywhere, tends to wee in the same place though.
 
jsr said:
I know I've heard people say it before but having never owned a mare I was thinking last night as I mucked out in 5 minutes yesterday and my fellow livery was mucking out her mare which took her around 40 mins and 3 barrows full!!! We both have them on matting with shavings and I take out all the wet and droppings, but my lad does everything in the same place leaving the majority of the floor clean! I literally have to pick up the mess, sweep up and replace the bedding and we're done. I usually only have 1 barrow every 2 days!!! So it is likely my boy is Mr Clean and I'm lucky or are mare's alot filthier? Just thinking ahead and if I don't find a loan home for the TB mare I bought the other week then next winter might be interesting if she's kept at the same yard as my boy (assuming I can afford it).
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No way!!! Well my boy isn't anyway, he is just gross in the stable, and you'd think after 13 years with him I'd be a dab hand at it by now, but no he can still hide them, flatten them and keep them neatly sprawled all over the place....
Just out of curiosity, hope you don't mind, why have you bought a mare to put out on loan straight away? Tell me to mind my own if you like!!
 
My boy is filthy! Looks like he's had a party every night and takes me ages to get all the wet and muck out! Whereas my filly was always really clean, took 5 mins to muck out. So Can't say I've experienced that geldings are cleaner.
 
jokadoka said:
No way!!! Well my boy isn't anyway, he is just gross in the stable, and you'd think after 13 years with him I'd be a dab hand at it by now, but no he can still hide them, flatten them and keep them neatly sprawled all over the place....
Just out of curiosity, hope you don't mind, why have you bought a mare to put out on loan straight away? Tell me to mind my own if you like!!
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:D No don't mind, it's rather an odd thing to do..but save typing it all out.

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=437851

My moment of madness as it's generally being referred to!!!
 
I think it really dpends on the horse tbh. I am actually envious of my aunts herd of mares because of how clean they are. even in a 10 acre field they will mostly just go in one corner.
 
my mare is quite tidy depending on her mood, my gelding is disgusting! so bad he no longer gets stabled, he now lives out.
 
I have one gelding and three mares. One mare is very clean - only poos and wees in one place at the back of the box. The other mares and the gelding are all dirty mingers who do it everywhere and walk it all in - interesting all the dirty ones are chestnuts and the clean one is a bay, so perhaps it is a colour thing not a sex thing!
 
My last gelding was stinking!! He pooped everywere and most of the floor was usually pee lol My friends gelding is also quite dirty although hes easier mucked out as he poo's in one place. I have a mare now and she is way cleaner than them boyo's :rolleyes: although it takes me the same length of time to muck her out as she likes to hide her poop so she stays clean ;)
 
I would say no, it depends on the horse:)

I have had a couple of mares who have had the tidiest stables I have ever had to muck out. My last mare was a bit messy. My last loan gelding was very tidy...pooed in one corner and weed in another corner closest to the drain...whilst my friends gelding had the messiest stable I have ever seen!!!

The only difference I can think of between mares and geldings is that mares are able to pee in the banks and geldings *shouldn't* be able to :)
 
I havent read the reply, but current mare is very clean. This might be down to her being 14.2hh in a big box, but generally she just is very clean, as is her son. The last mare I had was DISGUSTING and used to make me nearly weep with despair! Some horses are clean, some are minging and most are in the middle. I dont think theres any generalisations!
 
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