How clean is your stable?

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I know this is a very randon question but i would be interested to see what people say.

My two stables are the cleanest on the yard by far (honestly, not blowing my own trumpet) because i spend time making sure all the tiny pieces of poo etc have been taken out and the beds ALWAYS look immaculate. Doesn't take me that long though, I dont spend hours in there! I just like the idea of my horse having a lovely clean bed to sleep on.

However everyone else on the yard has really dirty stables and they dont take pride in the way their stable looks. There is still loads of bits of poo all over the place in the horses beds and they just look dirty. some people done even put banks up for their horses.

maybe this is because i used to work on a livery yard and got used to doing things to a high standard....do you take pride in the way your stable looks? or am i just odd?! lol
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yes my stable is immaculate all the rugs are square the bed is lat buckets all very well scrubbed etc. shame pony is a state
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i dont do banks though.
 
I'm glad i'm not the only one! My horse is a state too though - he's coloured and manages to stable stain most of his white areas!!!

I always put big banks up as my horse lies down/rolls alot and am terrified of him getting cast!
 
My YO's beds, you can get a nasty cut off the knife edge corners on her deep litter beds! I like mine looking neat and inviting for the horse but fellow liveries tease me that my horse could sustain a nasty injury falling off the edge of his deep litter bed as it is so deep!!!
 
I am troubled by alien egg hatching sites though - perfectly round little indents in the shavings, about a foot in diameter...with a little trail of shavings leading away.
Any thoughts?
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I am troubled by alien egg hatching sites though - perfectly round little indents in the shavings, about a foot in diameter...with a little trail of shavings leading away.
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I also have these indents in my straw. Was fortunate enough a couple of weeks back to catch sight of one of the hatchlings yet to leave the nest - I can report that it was sleek, black, had 4 white paws and rolled onto it's back when I tried to evict it.
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This is my stable, I like to think of it as "rustic" or "homely"...
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Honestly? I care a great deal about the insides as my two roll alot in bed so I like to have big big banks so they don't become cast.
On the outsides I don't care, there is always hay blowing about the yard and brushes scattered everywhere!
 
Banks not good enough really...
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If it were my own horse's bed it would cover the entire floor, so not as good as I would like it. However my own horse eats straw bedding (
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I am one of the "slightly OCD about beds" people!!
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Everyone I know thinks I am crazy
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People tell me my beds always looks tumble dried hehe.

I think i have OCD to. I use flax ( equisorb ) and i take all the bits out but i dont use banks as anything less than 3ft and they are costemic so id rather have bedding on the floor.

This is my stable as it is now

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and this how it used to look before our lovely straw all got used up and replaced with last years rubbish and i swapped back to flax i also swapped the day after this was taken as my horse has just have a fetlock op and she found moving throught the straw difficult with the big bandge on.

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Its interesting looking in other peoples stables and sometimes i cringe when i see peoples bed but i suppose the horses dont really care as long as its wram and soft and they have food and water.
 
I will take a pic of mine lol you will see the organisation but I will probably get slated becasue I keep alomost everything in there health and safety blabla pony doesn't touch her stuff she is too busy eating
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mine lives out 24/7 through summer, so i don't have a bed to worry about, although, paying 28 quid a week in winter, you would have thought the my YO could have taken out the droppings while i was away for a week, came back, absolutely disgusting! stagnant... i say no more!
Bob has to come in during the day, because he bullies little cows =/
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Yes, I'm an OCD owner too
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Ralphs on chippings and it has to be clean and square, with banks, water bucket handles facing the wall (as taught when I was a working pupil).

Feed/water buckets scrubbed daily. Feet picked out before leaving the stable etc. The only thing that stays in are cobwebs, my old YO of 17 years was superstitious and said it was unlucky to remove them.......keeps the flys down for sure
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Oooooooh pet hate!! People who leave the lip of a water bucket and the handle facing the horse and expect the bucket not to get knocked over!! Plus it just looks so much neater
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I think mine are fairly clean. I use paper on rubber so only cover about half of the stable and put up fairly good banks.

I muck out twice a day and collect the droppings in between and then usually disinfect the stables out every other weekend.
 
I'm a bit obsessed with my beds, everyone takes the mick! I use shavings. They've got to be level and look like a big fluffy duvet, with fairly high banks. To be honest even my tack room's immaculate, shame about my house!!
 
White as white shavings, banked up as I only put an inch or so down ontop of mats, so the banks are for storing the shavings, and foalie plays in them.
 
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How can you bear to put a horse in on those pristine beds
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Doesn't it annoy you when they get messed up?
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It would drive me around the bend, if I went to that much effort, I would turn into my Granny who used to plump cushions the moment you got off a seat!
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My damn cats use my stalls as their own personal litter trays
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My beds are deep littered shavings now, wall to wall, no banks, on soil floors, skipped out as and when, raked over and that's it. Horses are out 24/7 anyway unless the flies are bad during the day.
 
It is a standing joke at our yard that our horse's beds look cleaner and more comfortable than anyone's bedrooms at home! I'm fanatical about stable hygiene, fully muck out whenever neds have been in, scrub water buckets inside and out every day etc. Meanwhile our house is a tip!
 
My horse during the winter gets a huge shavings bed with banks up to my knee. Its all flattened so that you can get a spirit level on it (yard joke) and all the banks are levelled out so that they are the same height all the way around. The front of the bed must be straight when brushed back. I havve a water feeder so no worries about water buckets for me. EVERYTHING that is not clean shavings gets taken out! Including hayledge on the floor from the night before (even though it could probibily be used again.. IT MUST GO!!)
I think a bit of OCD here..
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Mine used to be perfect.
Now i have 5 horses and they are deep littered and top poo'ed daily. When the wet peeps through i just dig out that bit........ get a full muckout once a year
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Sorry but would never be allowed in your "lovely beds" club lol
 
I try hard with mine but have a lazy gelding to swings his back legs instead of picking them up, so all bedding is chucked everywhere!
 
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