How long does it take you to muck out?

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How long on average does it take you? Full muck out/hay/water etc. Is your horse particularly messy/clean stable big/small etc?

I think I must be doing something wrong
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YO's OH has asked if I want three hours work on a tuesday to do his horses when he's not there... 2 hours in the morning and one in the evening.

He only has two horses
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it takes me 15 mins max to a do a stable, and thats if Im being very pernickety sweeping every little wisp up... me thinks I shall be filling a lot of haynets in that time
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So, just wondering if Im doing a very substandard job
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or if he just takes forever
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Not long really - 20 mins and it can all be done.

What takes the additional time, is all the yard sweeping etc. afterwards I find.
 
Nope it takes me about 20 mins to do a full muck out (lift bed etc) doing hay (and I don't have to water as we have drinkers)

I've perfected it since I used to have 8 to do a morning
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During the week I muck out one and leave one for my Mum, and it takes me half an hour. Thats a straw bed, clean horse full muck out leaving the bed up. When I do both it takes just over an hour as Badger is v messy. In the evenings I can get both beds laid, haynets in etc in half an hour if I don't stop for a chat!
 
I can do my whole yard, sweeping water turning out, of 3 horses in 1.5 hrs, I used to do a yard of 11 in 2hrs but hay got chucked on the ground, automatic water drinkers and not v much sweeping area to be done.
 
20 mins including turning the banks, changing the water, doing they hay and feed and setting fair.
Bondi is very wet but it all goes in one place. ALthough he does have a habit of hiding his poo....how they hell do they do that?
 
I do 2 in about 25 mins including making breakfasts, doing hay and water for evening and changing rugs and putting out.

They are both on rubber mats and paper.
 
So 20 mins is about average then. The sweeping isnt too bad luckily as its a narrow strip straight to the muck heap on the top yard
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Looks like I'll be filling a lot of haynets
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To muck out 3 stables on straw beds (1 is huge stable) takes me 30mins, with extra 10mins to mould muck heap, sweep up and add hay
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Hehehe, 10mins tops. God bless rubber mats with only a sprinking on top. Hay nets are all small because all bar one of our neds are a tad porkey!

Every week or two, or when they get smelly, the get a bucket of dettol water thrown on them and scrubed with a sweeping brush but even that probs only takes 20mins
 
I work on a yard and I can do a straw bed, 2 deep littered bed and 3 full muck outs in just over an hour, if I don't get distracted
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My own bed takes about 20mins. No water to be done (water feeder) but 20mins includes hay, bringing the bed down and sweeping my little area
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Because the coyotes are being a nuisance right now, my bite size goats and the mini pony have to be in, much to the disgust of both them and me.

Skip out only on soil floors, takes literally two minutes for both stalls.
 
My horses have rubbler matting with a decent bed and banks.

The 17.2 warmblood is messy so he takes me a little longer, the 16hh TB is a tidy chap, just tends to squash everything and my pony is a very tidy lady!

I take all the muck and wet out everyday, dig out banks and re do all the bed every day, 1 has antomatic drinker but 2 have buckets to refill, they all get their hay on the floor as i feel it natural and better for them.
Altogther, including turning them out it takes me about 90mins everyday.
 
Can do a shavings bed in 10mins including throwing bed up and digging banks out. My horse takes 5mins, he is on mats, and its literally take out poo, take wet patch out, pull banks in, remake bed and sweep the front. He is very clean though
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It takes me half an hour to do a full muck out including turning banks, haynet, and water, and sweeping up. But Edward hides his poo so it takes aggges to get it all out!
 
It takes me half hour to do two (big) shavings beds, 1 really clean pony, 1 seriously minging TB! That includes waters, haynets, throwing up muck and sweeping but if im hung over, on the phone or chatting it can easily take me an hour a stable!
id find out if hes paying you by hour or just for doing it! if by hour id make sure it took me ages lol
 
3 horses - 1 hour to feed,put out, muck out, hang up haynets and the dreaded sweeping.

That time involves filling trough in field and lobbing hay out at this time of year.

One is on shavings - easy peasy
One is on rubber matting and staw (gets completely emptied every day- very messy mare)
One is a 'normal' straw bed

Usually do water buckets at tea-time when the dust has settled after sweeping etc. and I make the next days haynets and breakfasts the evening before.
 
I muck out and my mum does hay nets and water and his dinner between us we can have the stable done ready for bed and yard swept in about 20 mins I would say,But to just muck out about 10-15 mins as he has a very large and deep straw bed.!
 
I did four this morning (two very messy, one fairly messy, one fairly clean - all on paper, three semi-deep littered and one very mucky full muck out - plus water buckets, haynets, sweeping, chatting to YO!) in 45 mins. At work I do seven in two and a half hours (no waters or hay but lots of sweeping, has to be immaculate, and in between I flit around to and from the walker, doing lots of odd jobs in between - five on straw and two on wood pellets).
I think I am slow
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I can do 5 in abut and hour including water and hay in the morning and then it takes about 40 minutes in the evening to do rugs on 4 and put beds down, hay and water.
 
these days about 25 minutes to do everything apart from sweeping (the bane of my existence lol) because I'm a little bit of a perfectionist when it comes to that; with one of my old ponies it would take an hour or more usually because his stable always looked like a bomb had gone off in it!
 
ten mins per big stable, bit less for smaller stable - thats a full muck out, usually leave the bed up as they get turned out, sweep, redo water.
My 3 take about half an hour in the mornings to muck out.
 
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Again about 15/20 mins depending on how big the party was the night before
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Last week i mucked out for a friend on her yard, 3 horses, deep litter, turn out, sweep - she told me i had 2 hours in the morning and a hour to put them to bed! Well it took me an hour and 15mins in the morning and that was mucking out veeery slowley, dithering about with the sweeping etc, I was then wondering all day what i had forgotten to do!!
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I did manage the hour to put them all to bed tho, because they all had a lovely groom
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from when i get there to when i finish it is between 1hr and 1.5hrs and thats doing get horse out of stable feed groom turn out go to other horse that lives out out feed groom and poo pick go back on yard put make hay net up put in bin to soak make both teas muckout poo wee and turn banks do water tidy up and brush!x
 
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