how clean is your horse?

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Just out of interest really, as I had to muck out a friends horse today and his stable was like a pigsty, not one pile it was all churned in and mixed with his wee
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my horse's are both pretty clean, ones a mare and ones a gelding the both just poo in one corner and dont tend to churn their beds up either
 
My ISH gelding is clean.

My old mare hates being in & box-walks, & if she's been in overnight, the next day her stable looks as if she's been kept in there for a month 24/7. Whatever straw is in there always has to come out the next day & the floor washed down. Also, she's got Cushings which doesn't help - you wouldn't think that so much wee could come out of one old pony. Think swamp.
 
i have 2 mares and 2 geldings the mare are very clean and only poo in one place and dont trample them in so they are easy to muck out, the gelding are very dirty if i have them on straw they just trample every thing in together but on shavings or hemp as they are on now they are quite clean.
 
Mine is very clean. Normally her droppings stay in nice piles, and I can get it skipped out in 5 mins. I only take the wet out once a week or fortnight
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My mum's mare was disgusting. She would stand in her droppings and mince them up as she was too lazy to stop eating to do them.
 
My Gelding is dreadful. He does stay in his stable a lot but doesn't walk around too much (he is normally to busy stuffing his face). His stable is just all mushed up, his on hemp bedding which makes it a bit worse, but is still isn't very clean on straw.
 
ok, one poos in one corner and the other poos where he wants but doesn't seem to trash them. The one that poos in the corner always poos by the gate in the field and the other, all over the field, which can make it a nightmare. the main problem I have is that the neat and tidy one always digs his bed up and rolls as soon as he goes into his stable so I always have to put it down again, but at least he doesn't do it when there is muck in there!! I mucked my friends mare out the other day and it sounds just like the one you did this morning - she only has a tiny strip of shavings on rubber matting but it took me longer to muck her stable out than to muck both of mine out, do their water and soak their hay!!! Never again!
 
Depends on his bedding. I had him on bedmax for a while as I hate straw and paper (other options at yard) but he was a minger to the extreme on the stuff, was costing me a bale a day, and I am a sh*t hot mucker outer!! In the end my lack of funds forced me onto straw and he is so easy to keep clean on it, poo to the right, pee by the door and the rest is clean to bank. Mind you I prefer the out in huge field and no mucking thing we have going on at the moment!
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Mine is so dirty! I had to bu rubber matting so that he could have a smaller bed that can be almost totally changed every day. He drags his hind legs through his bed scattering droppings and mixing it all up.You struggle to find a pile of poo as he kicks it all into wee bits and he also wees where ever he happens to be standing when the urge takes him so its often nearer the front of his stable and runs in to his haylage (which he still eats - yuk)
He also poo's in his water if the mood takes him
 
Pretty average but if he's had his snack ball in then its pure carnage and looks like his thrown a party in it!....also he like to leave his parcels down the walls...think he thinks he's a prisoner....so yeah I guess he's a total dirt bag really!
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Ellie is filthy! Poos everywhere, mainly buried in the huge banks; sometimes I will have got as far as putting the clean bedding down and bringing the banks into the middle before I find her hidden poos! And she wees in her hay too
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My old TB mare is filthy. I keep her bed very clean with white shavings when she's in...and next morning on the surface it looks clean. However, when you start mucking out, the poo and wee is everywhere....takes ages...but people think I'm slow (well, until they do her themselves, then the wailing starts
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She was clean when she came to me 5 months ago but has become a total minging messy eugh kinda horse.

She poos wherever she's standing, pisses all over everywhere & eats any clean straw. When i "skip out", i basically do a 3/4 muckout daily.
All the other horses only have to have their beds changed every couple of days with a skip out in between.

Huh.

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Baron is quite mucky but he can sometimes be clean. He wees right in the middle then dots his poos all round and they are generally hidden underneath the top layer of straw and all squished down which makes mucking out a bit of a nightmare. Last night he has been in for 2hrs, I went to check on him and he had already done 3 poos!!

I usually get 2 barrows out if he is in overnight, followed my a 3rd if he is in all day aswell.

I dont think he is overly dirty though, its just because he is big.
 
First year I had Chancer he was terrible - hence the name of Stinker. Ended up on megazorb and semi deep littered.

He is now very good - tends to pee on one place and poo at the back of the stable. Only problem is I feed a high fibre diet and adlib hay so there is normally a huge amount of poo to remove.

Cairo is not too bad - tend to pee in one place but no so tidy with poo - but he is a 16.3 clydie in a 12 x 12 stable so not a huge amount of room for him.

Cairo is on rubber matting and I use about a bale a week of bedding and Chancer is not shaving and again a use about a bale a week during winter when they are in at night and come in early in the day.
 
George is a messy boy, he poos everywhere and does loads as well, but he doesn't stir his bed up, although he does insist on lying in all the muck!
 
Ralph is really clean, despite the fact that there is a lot of it in one heap, he has a neat pile in the top left corner of the stable. I dont think he likes to get his hooves dirty
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And he pee's in the same spot everyday as well
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My tb mare is clean...poo's in one place just down the side from where she wee's in back left corner...she doesn't like dirtiness!!!
 
very dirty. wees everywhere and does poos at the opposite end of where his haynet is, but then decides to breakdance all over them at night and bury them in straw so if I ever find them they're in pieces yuck
 
I'll swap with any of you who have clean horses - my gelding is a nightmare. He's on mats and a half bed due to extreme messiness. He feels the need to trample all poo into the bed and remove his hay from the haynet and distribute it around the stable. Thank god he goes onto livery tomorrow!
 
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