How long do you all take to do your yard?!

It depends on your beds and the horses. If I had a clean horse on rubber mats and thin little half beds it would take five minutes, if I had a dirty horse on a deep bed with banks it would take 15-20 mins..

I would allow 2 - 2.5 hrs initially. They will get faster. I'd rather them take their time and do it well. We pay an hour and a half for our Sunday girl to do two horses and similar duties. We've had three Sunday girls over the years. The first one was much slower but did a far better job. The current one rushes and does an average job.
 
I have 3 big horses in 3 large stables with huge beds with bankings, water I but in buckets( I refuse to use automatic waters I like to know exactly how much they drink) and nets takes me 2 1/2 hours. I like it immaculate as its my yard and I like it when people pass comment . Don't think I could do it any quicker.
 
I must be doing something wrong too...

Three horses:
Make up feeds
Feed
Change rugs
Turnout
Full muck out (straw beds)
Set beds and top up with clean straw
Fill haynets
Sweep down yard
Poo pick field

Takes me from 7am - 9am :redface3:
 
3 horses in, to do EVERYTHING (except ride) takes me 1 hour. 5 horses should take 2 hours, with practise. Paying for 2 hours and letting the person take their own time sounds fair to me; some people could do it in less.
 
Think it depends how fussy you are at mucking out as well to be fair.
Iv got OCD about my stables and once mucked out nobody could find any little bit of muck left in there as every little bit is picked up if the fork won't do it I'm on my hands and knees. Most other stables on the yard are disgusting, might look ok to the normal person but to me they are not acceptable and I could prob take a good wheelbarrow or more out of each, plus dirty water buckets? What's that about they should be scrubbed each morning and corners all swept daily not allowed to build up dirt.

So depends on the standard of work, I have 5 to do each morning and it takes me 2hrs 45 mins all in roughly but I enjoy making mine spotless.
 
45 mins to turn out, muck out, hay and water and do feeds for two - less if I'm in a rush. This morning I took an hour to do both because it was the weekend!
 
I did 3 this morning and it took me and my youngest child about an hour and a quarter, not sure if having a child helper is a help or a hindrance though?! I would say 2 hours to do 5 properly.
 
I have 5 on shavings, 4 on straw and 13 to put out. I muck out straw beds properly and skip out shavings, do water buckets, hay nets and feeds and takes me 3 and a half hours. Just to put them out takes an hour! I have a health app on my phone and each morning doing the horses I walk just under 5 miles.
 
I think initially it will take longer, finding out where everything is, the way you like things done, whether she has much experience etc., and of course how picky you or she is. When I muck out my daughter's horse I do things a different way to her. The end result is the same but it drives her mad that I don't do it the way she does. 2 hours for a good job seems fair to me.
 
I can turn out six, muck out (full four skip one) five, water, nets are made up in bulk and stored outside stables and feed made in about hour and a half/two hours depending on how dirty they are.
 
I did my work yard this morning in 2 hours, 7 horses in on shavings, automatic waters, includes:

Feed
All went on walker
New shavings in 3 stables
Hay
Swept yard
Tidied
Changed rugs for walker and back on again
 
Erm, 1 to do.

10 mins - Quick groom
5 mins - Rug change
10 mins - Turn out and top water in field
5 mins - Crying at how filthy bed is
40 mins - Full muck out
20 mins - Fresh straw, water and hay
5 mins - Sweep outside my stable
 
We've got three on part livery at the moment. It takes the three of us (me 8 months pregnant and slowly-becoming-horsey inlaws (mid 50's)) about an hour to do them in the morning. This includes:
1x breakfast
3x change rugs (one has two stable and two turnout rugs)
2x boots on
3x turn out
9x feed/water buckets to clean
5x water buckets to refill
4x feed to make up
4x haynets to fill
2x shavings beds to muck out (one is VERY mucky)
1x straw bed to muck out fully and put up to allow floor to air out (bed put down at lunch time when poo-picking is done)
fill up water containers to take out to fields when poo-picking
sweep up all areas of yard and generally make sure everything is tidy

The afternoon takes about 20-30 mins depending on whether or not they prat about ;)
3x bring in
3x change rugs
2x boots off
3x dinner
make up any spare haynets
winter: make sure there are full water containers in case the tap is frozen in the morning
check all doors are double bolted, sweep up and tidy up if necessary
 
At work, I have 6 beds, 2x shavings, 4x straw (all big deep beds!) I can do them all including waters, bedding down (straw) sweeping the yard and washing feed bowls (owners do their own feeds for my lot) usually in 2 hours including filling 15odd haynets.

So for what you've described I think 2 hours is more than ample!
 
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