muddybay
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Like the title says I'm fed up of having to take 5 barrows of poo every time I muck out my horse. In his defence, he is a stressy thoroughbred but it just takes so long! Do you think another bedding type would help?
Fed up with straw
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Arzada
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Is that every day?
muddybay
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I think so I muck him out at weekends and it's consistently 4/5 barrows. He's on part livery and whoever has to muck him out in the week complains
Arzada
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Amazing! How many hours in a 24 hour period is he in his stable?
PapaverFollis
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5 barrows of just poo? Or 5 barrows including wet straw? 5 barrows of just poo would be an awful lot. Even 5 barrows including wet straw is quite a lot!
muddybay
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He's out about 9-3 every day atm apart from in the snow when he's out for about 2/3 but surprisingly it doesn't matter how long he's out in the day he had to be quarantined when he first came and it's the same amount!
Lintel
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I ditched straw recently.
As cheap as it is at £15 for a round bale it blooming STINKS and my muck heap was tripling in size. Back on the woodpellets now and although marginally more expensive, I save so much time and the smell is glorious!!
Woodpellets gets the vote from me ?
As cheap as it is at £15 for a round bale it blooming STINKS and my muck heap was tripling in size. Back on the woodpellets now and although marginally more expensive, I save so much time and the smell is glorious!!
Woodpellets gets the vote from me ?
muddybay
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I mean wet straw as well but it's quite a lot I would say like 3 barrows of just poo!
minesadouble
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£15 for a round bale? Where are you based please?
Flowerofthefen
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Could you deep litter?
planete
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I would suspect the mucking out may not be terribly thorough on the days the staff do it perhaps.
PapaverFollis
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I get mine for a tenner. It does make hoiking wet straw around kind of worth it. I hate the stuff though! Horses however seem to love it. And husband loves it due to the low price and he's not the one mucking out. So I'm outvoted.
muddybay
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I did use to think that but I do it every day when I'm off and it's still the same amount
muddybay
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Could I ask what is that?
Flowerofthefen
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Leaving the wet straw in to create a stable base of the bed. Take poo off the top and top up with fresh straw x
PurBee
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Crikey thats a lot of barrows of poo for just 1 horse Per day!
i moan about my 2 producing 1 very full barrows worth per 24hrs....id give up horses if mine produced what yours does...he must eat a mountain of food?!
i moan about my 2 producing 1 very full barrows worth per 24hrs....id give up horses if mine produced what yours does...he must eat a mountain of food?!
Regandal
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Straw pellets are the way forward. I’ve been using them for a couple of weeks now and it’s fabulous, scoop the dung off the top and dig out the wet patch every 3 - 4 days. And no smell! I’m seriously impressed.
muddybay
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Thank you I'll ask my yard if they think that's a good idea x
PapaverFollis
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It is a lot of poop. Even on adlib hay my ID would struggle to produce 3 barrows. She can manage 1 and a half in 24 hours. But if its really mixed in with straw it could end up being more.
muddybay
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He does two haynets and 2 feeds a day of 1 scoop of hifi and 1/2 a scoop of nuts. He's a really bad doer and looses weight like there's no tomorrow if his feeds cut down this winters been a real eye opener for me as it's my first with him and it's such a balancing act to keep his weight ok.
Sir barnaby
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I have one on shavings and a pregnant mare on straw, my preference is shavings but making things too expensive for both to be on shavings as mare very messy, but no too bad to muck out I get three barrows of wet straw/poo per day when in overnight, although mine do stay out a lot when weather agreeable so ive only used one bale straw so far, but have just started my 4th bale of shavings so that’s the comparison.
muddybay
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I'm jealous!
Roasted Chestnuts
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Wow that’s a lot. I’ve always had my horses on straw (except when Kia took an allergic reaction ?) and I was averaging 1/2 to a full wheelbarrow per day. Eowyn was particularly wet and even then with a deep bed she was a barrow a day.
I’d be questioning what’s being done during the week as my bed never smells like how you are describing even with the minger that was E ?
This is what my stable looks like when it’s add straw day. I only put a big builders bag in every 5/6 days and it stays fairly large. Faran is fairly clean, he pees at the front corner nearest the door so I leave that and add the wasted hay to keep it stable and remove that small 3ftx3ft section once a week.
I’d be questioning what’s being done during the week as my bed never smells like how you are describing even with the minger that was E ?
This is what my stable looks like when it’s add straw day. I only put a big builders bag in every 5/6 days and it stays fairly large. Faran is fairly clean, he pees at the front corner nearest the door so I leave that and add the wasted hay to keep it stable and remove that small 3ftx3ft section once a week.
Auslander
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THat's a LOT of poo! I've got a 17h mare who produces poo of elephantine proportions in vast quantities, and rivers of wee every night, and I get grumpy if I have to go back with a second barrow! She's on pellets - no way would I have her on anything else
Arzada
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If that is only 2 haynets in 24 hours I would up the hay
muddybay
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He's out for most of the day and he's on the most food of any horse at the yard already
How much are pellets roughly?
muddybay
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Auslander
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I pay £5.95 a bag from local store - or its a fair bit cheaper if you buy them in bulk I use Snowflake or Platinum Plus
Her bed looks like this most mornings!
Cleans up a treat though
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So you are mucking out once a day, is he not skipped out in between? ?
Ideally it ought to be horse out, full muck out, bed up, sweep up, bed down. Then skip out periodically through the day.
Ideally it ought to be horse out, full muck out, bed up, sweep up, bed down. Then skip out periodically through the day.