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Wash out your Horses feed bowls EVERY day?

I don't. She has the small plastic tubtrugs bowls so usually licks them clean ;). At the weekend when I have more time they are washed out and look as good as new. It saves time and she doesn't seem to mind ;).
 
Leave them in field, pick them up when you do second feed, as they'll be licked clean you can just swish rain water around to give em a quick rinse :) Best thing about Winter rain!:D
 
I dont! I do have a few though so will swap a clean one in if one gets too bad

I do the whole lot at weekends with one of those brilliant scourers that have a handle
 
i sluice them out with my finger over the hose every day, yes it takes 2seconds.

then leave them upside down to dry.
Weekends if im doing the horses i'll scub them out n disinfect them.

Cant stand stuck on bits of food on bowls/buckets
 
Depends, if regular feed. If in the fields, I'll chuck out and don't clean.
If bringing in, they'll get water chucked around from large trug collecting rainwater and turned upside down to dry.

The only hard feeds I do now though contain wormer, meds, or Fly-Free so not stuff I want to leave soaking into the bowls, so get a scrub when in (and normally used for each supplement, so black bucket always for fly-free etc)
 
I clean them every few days or if i'm being lazy I leave them where the water drips off the stable roof and by the afternoon they're full of water so I just swish it around and pour it out :) Ponies lick the buckets clean anyway :D
 
Always do - hose with power hose every morning (only get one feed a day when brought in in the evening) and scrub at the weekend.

They are turned upside down in feed room during the day to dry.

OCD moi? :rolleyes:
 
There's nothing to wash! Both horses do a remarkably good job of cleaning their own feed bowls (including licking overspill off the outside). Something about FastFibre seems to afford slobbering :D
 
My halo is glowing :D - yes I do wash them out even though they are licked clean they have muddy tongue marks all over the inside and mud stuck to the outside.

I hate dirty buckets!

But I have a sink full of dishes!
 
I hose out bowls and then just leave them outside. Can't leave sugar beet and wet food slime - it goes rancid.

Outside horses don't even have bowls, I just walk along the fence line and dump out a scoop full of feed at every post.
 
I do mine each day....I don't like the thought of rats or mice nibbling the stuck on bits overnight in the feed room, bit weird I know :D
 
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