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I'm not sure if this was just due to learning stable management in quite a strict and officious way at a smart riding school as an 8 year old or things have changed but do you leave piles of manure lying around for days in the summer heat in stables and on yards?

Most of the horses at our yard are out 24/7 at the moment but I seem to be unsual at removing droppings to the muck heap when horses are on the yard/brought in to their stable on the day they actually drop it! Currently 2 stables down from me is a large calcified pile of droppings inside that must have been there 2 weeks now cooking nicely in the heat, its reached the white mould stage. The stable next door to me removed droppings from their stable but only gone so far as being put in a wheelbarrow outside, it then poured with rain on Sunday and now its full of water and the smell yesterday when it got warmer of the black sludgy liquid was stomach churning. This person will then as usual empty the water onto the ground by our shaving bales rather than walk the barrow away anywhere sensible. In our 4 indoor stables, one stable has an entire wheelbarrow full of manure which has sat there for 3 days and another one inside an entire trug full of muck left for the same time. I wouldn't have a problem with it if it wasn't for the fact that our muck heap is probably a walk of 15 paces away if that from the outside stables. So I put it down to laziness and being inconsiderate of others on a DIY yard. Am I being pedantic?!
 
Ur No! Mine even lives out and i still pick it up. The only time I dont on the field is if I am going to move him and will harrow it in. Or if we have horrendous downpours I may only poo pick once/twice a week. If he does it in his field shelter I will remove it as it ends up in his hooves etc. Also not only worming but flies too dont want to encourage tons of those nearby. Should be picked up. Lazy bones. Stables should be picked up.
 
Mine are in at night, mucked out in the morning & poo goes on the muck trailer. The paddocks are poo picked daily also & again it's dumped on the trailer.

Someone on your yard is being very lazy & it's not very pleasant for others on the yard also....i.e. you.
 
Maybe have a word with the YO? When there was one (well, that was all I saw) pile in our school the other week notices went up...

This really isn't fair on anyone (human or equine!) who wants to use their stables.
 
Ewwwww noooooo it has to come up straight away and taken down to the muck pile, can't stand crap around stables/yard for any length of time, poo pick paddock everyday as well, thats just plain lazy I would complain, I think if your sharing a stable block you have to consider the other people in there with you, im just really glad we are not on a livery yard anymore, the last livery yard we were on we were always sweeping the yard and tidying up, no one else seemed to be bothered, or perhaps they didn't bother because we did it!
 
Sometimes. So I went eventing one day, horse in stable to be plaited etc, did not get home till very late (gone 10pm) - didn't even muck the lorry out let alone remove dung from the stable, just hoofed horse into field with dinner then collapsed into bed at 11.30pm. Following day, got up at 6am, drove 3.5 hours to work, walked all day on site surveying, drove 3.5 hours home, checked horse had all 4 legs and did not appear to be imminently in danger of dying, got home about 8pm, wrote a report until 1am, collapsed into bed. Got up the next morning at 6am, drove 2.5 hours, surveyed two sites, drove 2.5 hours home again, checked horse as day before, got home at 7pm, wrote a report until 1.30am, collapsed into bed. The day after that, I did the stable and the lorry! Sometimes life just gets in the way and we get on with it. Neither horse nor lorry appeared to mind particularly, and the stable is what it is. If the horse had had to go back in the stable then of course it would have been done, but it didn't.

In the normal course of events I poo pick my field daily and do stables as soon as the horse leaves them, but sometimes it just is not convenient and I don't have time. Such is life!
 
No, hate the sight of poo. Never leave it laying around. The only time I do is in the morning before work i muck out, if the muck truck is full then I'll leave it in the wheelbarrow next to the truck and when I finish work I'll walk it down to the muck heap which is quite a walk away from the yard.
 
at my yard we have a pony owner who drives us to despair - never bothers with the pony to the extent that when its out in april its not seen by them till they are brought in in november (all us liveries spoil him and report any obvious problems such as feet to yo)
Said pony was put out in april and his stable is just as he left it when turned out after a night in - thats 2 months ago!
I thought i was being fussy but on reaidng this thread im going to mention it to yo - lazy and selfish owners :mad:
 
Mine are all living out 24/7 at the moment. The two at the livery yard are poo picked once a week by the yard and the three at home are poo picked everyday by us. The two at the livery yard do come in sometimes during the day but I always skip out after them - I hate to see stables left dirty for days on end until it all goes mouldy!
 
I think its grim, like many of us on here it seems.
BUT, there is also some people who clearly don't think so!! The yard at the farm is disgusting. 7 or 8 stables left with poo, old smelly straw, dirty dusty water buckets and moldy haylage just left. Whats worse is that often the horses are brought in, stand in on it, put back out again and the stable doors are wide open, banging about it the wind. Talk about not caring for the property! Nothing is tidy, and it looks horrible.
Rats seem to like it though!
BTW, this is a sales livery yard, first impressions are not good!
 
Disgusting habit commonly found in lazy horseowners with no standards whatsoever. The stable two down from mine has had wet straw and several large sloppy grass poos in it for weeks. I never leave my stable anything other than clean, tidy and ready to use and I always clean up after my horse straight away. It only takes a few moments.
 
Mine is out during the day and in at night so her stable is mucked out daily.
If she was out 24/7 she wouldn't see her stable she would be tied up outside for a groom and just held on a leadrope for feed. So anything she did on the yard would be cleared up.

ETA: I was always taught to have a clean stable, even if they were out all the time incase they needed to be brought in for an emergancy. If your horse has to be brought in due to a very bad cut for example, the last thing you want to be thinking about was the last time you mucked out!
 
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Sometimes. So I went eventing one day, horse in stable to be plaited etc, did not get home till very late (gone 10pm) - didn't even muck the lorry out let alone remove dung from the stable, just hoofed horse into field with dinner then collapsed into bed at 11.30pm. Following day, got up at 6am, drove 3.5 hours to work, walked all day on site surveying, drove 3.5 hours home, checked horse had all 4 legs and did not appear to be imminently in danger of dying, got home about 8pm, wrote a report until 1am, collapsed into bed. Got up the next morning at 6am, drove 2.5 hours, surveyed two sites, drove 2.5 hours home again, checked horse as day before, got home at 7pm, wrote a report until 1.30am, collapsed into bed. The day after that, I did the stable and the lorry! Sometimes life just gets in the way and we get on with it. Neither horse nor lorry appeared to mind particularly, and the stable is what it is. If the horse had had to go back in the stable then of course it would have been done, but it didn't.

In the normal course of events I poo pick my field daily and do stables as soon as the horse leaves them, but sometimes it just is not convenient and I don't have time. Such is life!
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With those circumstances/hours, that's understandable. The culprits on our yard spend ages on the yard and may not have ridden but they are sitting in or standing by their cars chatting and with all those hours to kill (and believe me they can be there like that for hours) they still can't find the 10 mins it takes to shovel up and remove the poo. Just an attitude to sharing space I don't like, YO doesn't seem to mind though.
 
If I'm in a hurry that morning, I will chuck the horse out and leave the stable. But I go up every evening too and won't get the horse in until the stable is clean, water changed and hay replenished. If she does a dollop before I leave and she's staying in overnight, I clear that out too. Same if she's going out overnight and leaves one in there, it will be removed before I leave.

I don't understand those that walk their horses through the yard, horse stops and leaves a steaming pile, they continue on and 2 weeks later that pile of poo is still there even though they pass it every day.
 
My boy is in during the day and mucked out every night as is one other livery. We poo pick at least every other day and usually every day.

The other livery turned her pony out about 2 months ago and the stable is minging. Poo everywhere and water buckets with some water in and half filled haynets left to moulder. Stables not well mucked out all year anyway. Gross!

Jane
 
One of the reasons I really like our yard is that it's kept very clean. Our YO is quite strict, so everyone has got into the habbit of tidying up after their horses straight away. I think a clean and tidy yard yard makes for a more pleasant experience for everyone, including the horses.
 
When horses are out 24/7 each livery takes one barrow out each per day, means field gets pooh picked 8 times a day and is always clean.

If they are in overnight due to weather stable cleaned and left ready for use if need be the following day.

YO has a fining system for anyone leaving pooh in the schools £5 first offence then £10, £15 etc. People tend to only forget the once;)

As for yards everyone is very good and sweeps when they muck so yard stays pretty much immaculate.

Very lucky that all the liveries feel the same way about keeping things neat and clean.
 
no your not being pedantic. This just wouldnt happen at our yard. At one point we had a couple of lazy peaople who wouldnt bother to pick up their horses mess in from the outdoor school so YO put a blunt notice on the board saying that this will not be acceptable and if it continues livery charges would be raised...seemed to have the desired effect as most folk were up in arms about the idea of increased fees
 
What haooens in another persons stable is up to them IMO, (we deep litter on earth floors over winter) What I would object to is the wheelbarrow full and left out. I hope the barrow belongs to the person who filled it! The blooming things rot quickly enough, never mind if left full of muck and collecting water!
 
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