PapaverFollis
Well-Known Member
Practice my dear. Clear dry clean straw to one side with 4 prong fork. Turn over straw with poo on it onto the floor. clean straw to one side again. Scrape poo and wet straw to middle and load barrow with fork and then when left with bits sweep floor and shovel the rest into barrow. Lay bed back down as desired. There you go. Only took me 60 years to suss it out!
I need some lessons! ? We can't afford to rubber mat and use my preferred bedding options at the moment so I'm stuck with cheap and cheerful straw and I'm utterly, utterly useless with it. As well as struggling with the poos, I just can't seem to separate the wet and the clean straw satisfactorily and it is just a stressful mess. Fortunately I'm at home so no-one judging me while I stomp and swear! The horses like the straw though, they lie down a lot and obviously find it cosy. Plus my utterly disgusting big mare is actually cleaner on straw than other any other bedding, there just ends up being a lot of wet to take out, however it does stay put at the bottom of the bed and she doesn't walk her poops in like she used to on sawdust/wood pellets/shavings!