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to do the following?

- turnout 2-3horses (about 3-5mins on average to each field)
- muck out 4 full straw beds on concrete, top up straw, fill waters, fill & hang haynets
- muck out 3 shavings beds on mats (altho one bed is rediculously huge & one is a messy mare) no water or hays
- muck out 1 straw bed on mats around a box rest horse, leaving bed up
- skip out 2 deep litter straw beds, do hays & waters

purely curious as this is what i do at work in a morning & whenever I mention how long the above takes me, people tend to be pretty shocked.

thank you!

ETA all horses in different fields, to be led individually
 
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Hi! Not sure, but i used to muck out 3 thick straw beds (no mats) hay nets, waters, 6 shavings beds (2 on concrete) (all thick) hays and waters every morning, that used to take me about 3 to 4 hours...then forking the muck up into the trailer, that took about half hour :)

So i'd have a guess at 3/4 hours?
 
loz9 said:
to do the following?

- turnout 2-3horses (about 3-5mins on average to each field)
- muck out 4 full straw beds on concrete, top up straw, fill waters, fill & hang haynets
- muck out 3 shavings beds on mats (altho one bed is rediculously huge & one is a messy mare) no water or hays
- muck out 1 straw bed on mats around a box rest horse, leaving bed up
- skip out 2 deep litter straw beds, do hays & waters

purely curious as this is what i do at work in a morning & whenever I mention how long the above takes me, people tend to be pretty shocked.

thank you!
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Gonna have to guess a bit as haven't had straw for ages so basing this on shavings...
- turnout depends on if they're going to the same field so dunno..?
- I would muck the lot out then do hay/water. So for mucking out = 2x5mins for deep litter, say 20mins for the shavings on mats and 40mins for the full straw beds = 70mins
- waters for the lot while doing hays or the bed next door so prob a 5min total add-on for moving the hosepipe etc.
- hays - 20min
- topping up bed - 5mins?
Total = 1hr 40mins but I'd probably take 2hrs incl turning out horses and a bit of fuss for the box rest one, sweeping up etc. And that would be on a 'rush' day (like before work I go much faster as on a schedule lol!).
 
I'd say 3 -4 hours to do it properly but depends on how many tea breaks/ stops to chat you have as sometimes when there are a lot of other people down the yard to talk to it takes me an hour just to muck out my mare lol!
 
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turnout 2-3horses (about 3-5mins on average to each field)
probaby 8 mins in total - take 2 at a time
- muck out 4 full straw beds on concrete, top up straw, fill waters, fill & hang haynets
avg 10min per bed (water filled up while filling haynets)
- muck out 3 shavings beds on mats (altho one bed is rediculously huge & one is a messy mare) no water or hays
probs about 3 mins per bed
- muck out 1 straw bed on mats around a box rest horse, leaving bed up
probs 5 mins
- skip out 2 deep litter straw beds, do hays & waters
max 10mins

So over all, I would say about an hour and 20mins? :)
 
thanks for all your replies, interesting to see the different speeds at which people must work.

Im given 2hrs to complete these tasks, which i have to do at a fair rate in order to do them. Dont think it helps that im a bit picky & like everything to be done well (eg squared off banks, neat line at the front of the bed). Its a full/part livery yard & i feel that the standards should be kept high as this is how i would like it if my horses were there.

Just thought i should also add that by muck out i meant beds up, banks turned & bedded down, & sadly waters are filled using a bucket, no hosepipe :( The yard is also quite spread out as this work is split between 3 blocks.
 
only_me said:
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turnout 2-3horses (about 3-5mins on average to each field)
probaby 8 mins in total - take 2 at a time
- muck out 4 full straw beds on concrete, top up straw, fill waters, fill & hang haynets
avg 10min per bed (water filled up while filling haynets)
- muck out 3 shavings beds on mats (altho one bed is rediculously huge & one is a messy mare) no water or hays
probs about 3 mins per bed
- muck out 1 straw bed on mats around a box rest horse, leaving bed up
probs 5 mins
- skip out 2 deep litter straw beds, do hays & waters
max 10mins

So over all, I would say about an hour and 20mins? :)
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Jesus, it takes me that to change 1 rug, turn out, muck out one shavings, do one water bucket and fill one haybar!! I do like a clean stable though :rolleyes:
 
I reckon just over an hour and a half but I'd probably be expected to do it in under that when I was working so I'd probably be really motoring.

I used to do a block of six (full muck outs) skip out another 20, bed up, hay and water as well as traipsing back and forth to the walker with horses in a morning. Most of the boxes were straw and big as the horses were in 24/7. If I got through that quick enough I got the pleasure of going down the gallops and doing another six muck outs. No tea breaks and that little lot used to take me five hours! Oh and I regularly had to stop to leg up/ tack up / hose off/ rug up for the boys who were lazy!

Now days it takes me an hour just to do my own two but I'm allowed to stop and chat and drink as much tea as I like. Tee hee. Bliss.
 
Ya see this is the kind of thread that makes me think 'why would anyone want to have a job in horses?' You're treated like cr*p and worked to death and paid a pittance...

Can't see the appeal myself

Bx
 
blitznbobs said:
Ya see this is the kind of thread that makes me think 'why would anyone want to have a job in horses?' You're treated like cr*p and worked to death and paid a pittance...

Can't see the appeal myself

Bx
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Quite! That is why I have a job using my degree now. I can drink tea as much as I like come and go as I like (as long as I don't take the mick of course), it is stimulating and worthwhile and no one chases me round with a lunge whip! And I get paid about twice as much!

I was expected to do all that after I'd only been back on my feet two weeks after one of their horses but me off them for four months and landed me in surgery twice. That's gratitude huh? Before I was broken I rode and didn't have to do all that rubbish!
 
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