How long does it take you to muck out?

Dubsie said:
Emily91 I dare you to turn up at 9 on Saturday and see how far she's got and whether she's finished by 9.30 :D
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Ha ha maybe I will!! :p

Thanks for all the tips guys!!! I am going to try my best to be as economical as possible and use all these tips and see how quick i can do it!! haha I'll let you know if I improve on Sunday!! :p
 
oh read this at work and so so wanted to postlol - 2 straw beds thrown up to corner whole floor swept bed down = 15mins 15 seconds . timed self as was setting freelance business up before back went pmsl - and still do it in that time - all down to routine and using time efficiently he he he he he
 
Blimey I'd never make it as a groom! It takes me at least 20 mins to do my girls stable. She is on shavings on rubber matting. I go through the bed by hand picking out the poo.......every single bit of it, pushing it up the banks as I go to make sure I get every bit. I take out all of the wet each morning too :rolleyes:
 
Actually timed myself today straw takes me between 8-10mins depending on horse and 12mins to do large shavings bed. However it takes me 2 hours actually finsh yard including 5 to feed, rug, turnout and hay in field. Feed and change rugs of the 2 that are out. Full muck out of 5, yard sweep and make feeds.
 
Takes me 1 hour if I push myself to do 3 beds (Shavings not deep littered) and hays, waters and feeds (enough for 24 hours)... This is only if I'm in a rush and don't potter about... usually it'll take me 2 as I don't rush -- it's my hobby and (strange as it may seem) I actually enjoy it.

Bx
 
I timed myself doing clean horse the other day, Ecobed cardboard 1/2 bed on EVA matting. 3 minutes to get it immaculately clean, disinfect, put bed down again and sweep it back.
slightly dirtier horse - about 4 mins.
filthy horse - about 5 mins.
it does depend hugely on the size of the bed, type of bedding, and relative disgustingness of horse...
 
About thirty mins, as mine is very dirty and hides everything so I have to go through all his banks etc. Then it's a 5 minute walk to the muckheap and back to get straw too.
 
kerilli said:
I timed myself doing clean horse the other day, Ecobed cardboard 1/2 bed on EVA matting. 3 minutes to get it immaculately clean, disinfect, put bed down again and sweep it back.
slightly dirtier horse - about 4 mins.
filthy horse - about 5 mins.
it does depend hugely on the size of the bed, type of bedding, and relative disgustingness of horse...
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3 minutes !!!!!!
 
Morning stable takes me approx 1.5 hours to do my daughter's horse. This includes:

1. Make breakfast-
2. Remove hoss from stable tie outside
3. Serve breakfast to hoss
4. rug change whilst hoss is prancing around
5. over reach boots on-amazingly
6. trek from yard to field and turn out
7. muck out messy stable with much straw in it..usually get one full giant wheelbarrow a day out,
8. dump dirty straw out of giant wheelbarrow- I should have muscles like superman!
8. Get fresh straw
9. Fluff up bed, rebuild banks and all that
10. Get haylage from haylage area, put in wheelbarrow
11 Fill big massive haynets and hoist them up on to the baling twine hanging from tie ring
12. Wash water buckets out
13 Run leaky unruly hose to water buckets and fill-get all wet and muddy from hose, curse at hose
13a-if too cold for stupid hose have to trek across yard to indoor much nicer hose and fill up H2GO bag in wheelbarrow then try not to have heart attack getting it back to stable and pouring it in to buckets
14 Sweep yard

My daughter can do all these things in less than half the time, but I kind of like just pottering with my IPod on and admiring the beautiful scenery before being stuck in an office all day.
 
I can muck out in 10 to 15 min but mine are out all day so beds are clean, although I do a yard for someone sometimes there are 6 straw beds and 2 shavings and I put 3 in the field that takes me 2 1/2 hours but the muck heap is really far away, and the girl that mucks out in the week never does it properly, so if I do it two days on the trot I can do it quicker.
 
legaldancer said:
I don't know how she does it either!

I'm trailing a similar product to Ecobed at the moment & it's taking me 10 times as long! The two on shavings take hardly any time, but I just can't get on with the cardboard. How do you do it Kerilli?!
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That particular horse's stable took me 2 mins this morning, honestly. The other one took 4 mins again, and the filthy one took a bit longer.

I should probably admit that I do a full skip out at 10pm, then muck out at 8am, so they've only gone 10 hours. The first 2 horses never tread their muck around, it's still in neat piles which really helps...
I've got it down to a fairly fine art though... using small gardening Wolf hand rake and poo skip (one of the Stubbs ones with the upright handle), skip up all manure into wheelbarrow. Then use large red plastic snow shovel to scrape clean off wet patch(es), scrape them up into barrow. Slosh homemade disinfectant onto wet patches, sweep back bedding into tidy line and level bedding cover up wet areas. Done. I put a new bale in on Wednesdays and either Sat or Sun for the 2 clean horses.
 
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