Emily91
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As above really. I am being put under pressure at work and was wondering how long it takes the average person to muck out a stable?
How long does it take you to muck out?
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quirky
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20mins to muck out and bed down.
Horseback Rider
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Mon- Fri when I have to do it before work itt akes me ages.... come the weekend when I have all the time in the world I do it all in 10 mins !!!
proctor
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About an hour and a bit to muck out and bed 12 stables!!
piggyinablanket
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Im really particular about my own stable but still, 20ish mins all done. I have helped out on the stud though and it takes half that! No time to be fussy 
only_me
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normally 5-10 minutes
5 minutes on shavings or similar, up to 10 mins on straw
5 minutes on shavings or similar, up to 10 mins on straw
pavlovscat
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It depends on the bed & horse, but on average about 15 - 20 mins.
I knew someone who was expected to do 20 beds in 2 hours!
I knew someone who was expected to do 20 beds in 2 hours!
martlin
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It takes me 45 minutes to an hour to do a yard of 5.
Britestar
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9 stables, straw on mats 40mins. Beds lifted and swept, not deep littered.
nikkiportia
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5-10mins per stable usually, 12x12 full straw bed.
Holly Hocks
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Depends if you mean doing haynets/water/turnout/sweeping etc.
In the morning, I feed three, change their rugs and turn them out. I muck out two, do the evening haynets for when they come in, do waters and sweep yard. Takes me exactly one hour to do the lot.
In the morning, I feed three, change their rugs and turn them out. I muck out two, do the evening haynets for when they come in, do waters and sweep yard. Takes me exactly one hour to do the lot.
NicoleS_007
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Took me 40mins to muck out my own horse but i was very picky. Usually takes me about 15mins on a shavings bed and about 10 to muck out and bed a straw bed. I have 3hrs to muck out about 19 stables each morning at work, all straw except 4 shavings.
Holly Hocks
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I think that sounds a tad unreasonable! It would take me all day to do that many!!
lisab
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How? How do you all do it so quickly?
I have 1 horse on rubber mats and Aubiose and it takes me at least half an hour.
I remove the droppings in the morning while he's eating his breakfast and then in the afternoon/evening I throw it all up the walls, put it down again and sweep up.
I've tried not throwing it up the walls but I can't find all the poo doing it that way.
How?
I have 1 horse on rubber mats and Aubiose and it takes me at least half an hour.
I remove the droppings in the morning while he's eating his breakfast and then in the afternoon/evening I throw it all up the walls, put it down again and sweep up.
I've tried not throwing it up the walls but I can't find all the poo doing it that way.
How?
dibbin
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Mine's on shavings, if that makes any difference.
If I'm doing it in the morning before uni, I can do everything (haynet up, change water & rugs, muck out and feed) in about 20 minutes ... so probably about 10 minutes to muck out.
On a Sunday when I have all the time in the world and lots of people to talk to ... anything between half an hour and an hour! I'm easily distracted and like to take my time
If I'm doing it in the morning before uni, I can do everything (haynet up, change water & rugs, muck out and feed) in about 20 minutes ... so probably about 10 minutes to muck out.
On a Sunday when I have all the time in the world and lots of people to talk to ... anything between half an hour and an hour! I'm easily distracted and like to take my time
simplyhunting
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Usually 10 mins approx for a shaving bed, all works horses on these seem to chuck it everwhere! 5 mins for a straw box.
bigboyrocky
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5 mins shavings, upto 20mins straw! (i dont understand straw)
quirky
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Mine's on sawdust on rubber matting.
I take the muck out, then turnover the bed and take the wet out.
As I said above, 20 mins.
only_me
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Go in, lift droppings. Lift wet. But bedding up to create day bed (if horse staying in). Sweep back stable - water buckets being filled at same time.
If horse going out for day, make bed for night use - more bed down
I just work quickly i guess
Takes me longer if horse is in the stable
If horse going out for day, make bed for night use - more bed down
I just work quickly i guess
Takes me longer if horse is in the stable
Emily91
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hmmmm interesteing!
I am being asked to feed, hay, muck out and turn out 8 in an hour and a half. It usually takes me half an hour to feed and hay etc and half an hour to turn out those that are going out. This leaves me 11 mins per box, (without including time to empty my wheel barrow and brush up after me). On top of that i am often asked to help with other horses that are living out (hold this horse, move that horse etc) and the liveries are around on a weekend and they often ask for help which slows me down even further.
I can do some of the boxes in 10-15mins easy. but some are really messy and 2 are on box rest atm so are disgusting! these take me between 20 and 30 mins depending on how bad they are.
Is this unreasonable? or am I just being wet? please do say if you think i should just buckle down and sweat a bit more! ( but nicely! )
I am being asked to feed, hay, muck out and turn out 8 in an hour and a half. It usually takes me half an hour to feed and hay etc and half an hour to turn out those that are going out. This leaves me 11 mins per box, (without including time to empty my wheel barrow and brush up after me). On top of that i am often asked to help with other horses that are living out (hold this horse, move that horse etc) and the liveries are around on a weekend and they often ask for help which slows me down even further.
I can do some of the boxes in 10-15mins easy. but some are really messy and 2 are on box rest atm so are disgusting! these take me between 20 and 30 mins depending on how bad they are.
Is this unreasonable? or am I just being wet? please do say if you think i should just buckle down and sweat a bit more!
( but nicely! )Kub
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I'm slow and my boy is a messy bugger, on shavings and mats. Probably 30 minutes to muck out (poo, wet, sweep whole stable, put bed down again). Could be quicker if in a rush. Usually take 45-60mins, that's including feed, change rug, muck out, do hay, water, feeds for the day and probs chat for 5 minutes hehe
Emily91
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Oh forgot to mention most of them are in stable while mucking out...... they dont go out till 9 am *groan* seems to make it ten times harder.
Lurky McLurker
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Takes me maybe 5-10 minutes per stable - the bit that I find takes the longest is turning out. I used to do 7 or 8 at work, and just changing their rugs and turning them out would take nearly an hour! Normally it took me about 2 hours to do morning yards (feeding, turning out, mucking out, watering, haynets etc) on a yard with around 15 horses, but only 5 of those were stabled. When I first started working with horses it took me 2 hours to do 2 stables. They were big, with huge straw beds, but still... I can't believe they actually paid me for 2 hours work when they could have done it themselves in about 10 minutes.
They were big, with huge straw beds, but still... I can't believe they actually paid me for 2 hours work when they could have done it themselves in about 10 minutes.Emily91
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5 mins shavings, upto 20mins straw! (i dont understand straw)
I dont understand straw either!! we have it in the foaling boxes ( which are huge!!) and it takes me all afternoon!!! lol Not mucked out straw since i was at a riding school aged 8!!! Slowly starting to master it again. ha ha
Natch
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Good god some of you! No way I'll ever be able to do 9 stables in 40 mins!
It takes me between 5-15 mins per stable, depending on the horse. They are on an easy to do bedding though (wood pellets).
ETA Emily I'm guessing you can and do tie them up outside the stable to muck out? I find on the rare occasions I have to leave one in I can do their stable in half the time if I can tie them up outside.
I'm not admitting to how long it took me to do the horses last week! Its nice liveries and YOs chatting who slowed me down for at least 1 hour on top of my normal time Not 2 weeks ago I had them all (9) rugs changed, out, mucked out, hayed and in again with rugs changed in 2 1/2 hrs. I did get help with someone else doing the feeds though, and I cheated and did the haynets the night before!
No way I'll ever be able to do 9 stables in 40 mins!It takes me between 5-15 mins per stable, depending on the horse. They are on an easy to do bedding though (wood pellets).
ETA Emily I'm guessing you can and do tie them up outside the stable to muck out? I find on the rare occasions I have to leave one in I can do their stable in half the time if I can tie them up outside.
I'm not admitting to how long it took me to do the horses last week! Its nice liveries and YOs chatting who slowed me down for at least 1 hour on top of my normal time
Not 2 weeks ago I had them all (9) rugs changed, out, mucked out, hayed and in again with rugs changed in 2 1/2 hrs. I did get help with someone else doing the feeds though, and I cheated and did the haynets the night before!
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martlin
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Hmm, it very much depends on the yard set up, the horses and the beds
Do you lead them out one at a time?
Do you feed them and give them hay before them going out?
It's all about working out a routine and never making an empty journey across the yard
Do you lead them out one at a time?
Do you feed them and give them hay before them going out?
It's all about working out a routine and never making an empty journey across the yard
somethingorother
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It takes me 10 mins to muck out a small shavings bed on rubber matting (still thick, just about 4x4 ft with bankings. Or same for a large straw bed, find it really easy unless a particularly mucky horse. I did muck out 15 in 2.5 hours when i worked at a riding school but that was without waters etc.
I would say they should give you an extra half hour really, since 10mins each mucking out would already be nearly an hour and a half, and that's without any extras. I think 1o min per stable is a reasonable time to full muck out an average bed to a good standard, so would suggest this as a starting point for calculating time allowed. I think a lot of people just say 'this is all i'm willing to pay for so just get it done' and quality of work is going to be compromised if that's the case.
I would say they should give you an extra half hour really, since 10mins each mucking out would already be nearly an hour and a half, and that's without any extras. I think 1o min per stable is a reasonable time to full muck out an average bed to a good standard, so would suggest this as a starting point for calculating time allowed. I think a lot of people just say 'this is all i'm willing to pay for so just get it done' and quality of work is going to be compromised if that's the case.
bigboyrocky
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how i muck out:
take all the visable poos out.
then bank up all the clean stuff and take out the wet.
chuck all the clean stuff up at the walls so any missed poos roll down.
pull all the banks down.
make bed.
sweep back.
done
take all the visable poos out.
then bank up all the clean stuff and take out the wet.
chuck all the clean stuff up at the walls so any missed poos roll down.
pull all the banks down.
make bed.
sweep back.
done
simplyhunting
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how i muck out:
take all the visable poos out.
then bank up all the clean stuff and take out the wet.
chuck all the clean stuff up at the walls so any missed poos roll down.
pull all the banks down.
make bed.
sweep.
done
Same here
madeleine1
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im going to make u feel better here.
i did my nvq last year and when i started it took me an hour to muck out but after a year i got it down to half an hour. it was a big stable 15X15.
also had a 12X12 deep litter that took me 15 mins
now after another 6 months and a smaller stable of 12x12 for my own misses i can do it in 20 mins thank god
i did my nvq last year and when i started it took me an hour to muck out but after a year i got it down to half an hour. it was a big stable 15X15.
also had a 12X12 deep litter that took me 15 mins
now after another 6 months and a smaller stable of 12x12 for my own misses i can do it in 20 mins thank god