How long does it take you to muck out?

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How long does it take you to muck out? By this I mean a full: add water and haynet etc. It takes me about 20 mins on wood pellets and I know loads of people do it quicker. What do you usually do to save time?
 
Depends on which horse - the 7hh mini 5 mins tops - I have wood pellets and mix in the wee - only dig out when the wet comes through to the top or in spring, I use haybars (home made not mega expensive ones) and fill water buckets as I go rather than standing waiting for them so routine
Tip out old water and start bucket filling,
skip out poos (2/3 fork fulls for the mini!)
tidy bed
turn off tap and put clean water in
drop fresh section of hay over wall inot hay bar
 
I can do 6 stables (7 horses) in 1 and 1/2 hours so thats 15 mins per stable (aubiose bedding)….. that includes all hay, water, make up feeds etc and taking out wet/adding shavings if needed. quicker if not taking any wet out that day.
I guess I have just been doing it for so many years and have a set routine that I always follow…. I am quite good at multi tasking- water filling while skipping out etc.
 
45 mins for three stables, including making up feeds and getting in horses. Two are admittedly slightly bigger than a dog though :p
 
Not sure if you mean 'full muck out' or all of the 'mucking out' duties. But it takes me about 45 minutes I'd say to remove poo from deep litter bed, water, fill two very large(!) haynets, do feed and treatball. My mare is a big 16.3hh guzzler who produces lots of turd, and spreads them around (even up the wall). :-)
 
About 7- 10 minutes depending how messy they are that day. When I grab my wheel barrow I make my haynet which is just 1 large section, wheel it down to the stable dump it outside, drag my water bucket out, tip the water in my feed buckets, scrub it out and then put it back in the stable while filling up (60ltr bucket takes a while). I muck out taking poo out first and then chucking it up to take the wet out, then I pull it all back down and make bed, hang haynet, make up feeds, empty wheel barrow and chuck up muck heap. :)
 
I can "do" my (17.2hh monster) horse in about 35 mins including turning out which takes about 8 mins. I feed hay from the floor so don't net it, just chuck it in a barrow & put it on the floor.

However that's just skipping out, I take the wet out once a week which takes about 45 mins from start to finish, to include chucking the whole bed up, re-laying it and putting in a new bale. I have a huge corner stable that's about 20'x14'.
 
D was a messy thing and although I had mats, the front ones were getting a bit worn so they would shift in position slightly and get wet shavings underneath which was a pain. In the mornings it was a case of chucking the shaving up into banks to let the floor air then down in the evenings.

Water tub trug was completely removed and refilled. Yard staff did the haynets. They mucked out most days too, but if I was there early enough and had they day off I used to do it for them

It would prob take me about 20 mins, I was never that quick and used to stop and natter to people at the same time!
 
It used to only take me about fifteen minutes, but with the back issues it's now closer to an hour! I'm lucky to be able to have mine out 24/7 at present though :)
 
Some of you are super fast - are you super tidy too? For example; I have to get every tiny little bit of poop out - so spend a while doing that.

My morning routine takes and hour and twenty minutes, working quickly but not flat out. Feed horse and pony, let out chickens, feed and muck out chucks, change their water. empty water buckets, wash out buckets. Turn out - involves changing rugs, putting hoof stuff on, hoof boots, fly oil, arthritis oil (for horse), fly mask. Pony just has fly oil. Horse turns herself out in the garden - I put her in the field when leaving for work.
Muck out - poop and wet. Stuff and hang nets. Wash food buckets, make up tea and breakfast for the next day, cover. Sweep walk way and outside.

Evening empty barrow, poo pick paddock, bring in, pick feet and groom.
 
I freely admit I am slow - takes me about 30 mins on a good day just for one horse. BUT I am OCD and get every strand of wet straw and tiny piece of poo out! When I am done I would quite happily sleep on it myself. Having a horse was my dream and is my hobby, not my job, so I never needed to learn to be quicker and now I would feel I had cut corners if I rushed it.
 
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Evie91 said:
Some of you are super fast - are you super tidy too? For example; I have to get every tiny little bit of poop out - so spend a while doing that.
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Ha, me too!

My lot live out as much as possible these days but when they're in, takes me 45 mins tops to muck out, clean and fill water buckets, fill haynets x 4 stables, and sweep the yard. About twice as long as that if my lovely OH tries to help out! :-/
 
OMG - think I'm going to have to up my game! Thought I was doing ok, but others are so much faster. Really need to improve,thinking of the extra time I'd have in bed!
 
On average 15 mins.

It massively depends on the bed. And the horse. My clean mare takes less time than my filthy gelding. I like a reasonable bed to above fetlock, despite having mats as well, and it has to cover all the stable. My friend's livery yard has shavings beds that aren't deep and that only cover half the stable. I could muck those out in five mins but think they're awful. (I might change my mind if I had twenty to muck out a day!).
 
takes me 15 mins to muck out my boy and add hay and water. I tend to have everything set out like hay nets, I have seven and make them up every saturday when I am at the yard longer :)

He is on shavings and is deep littered so basically a poo pick and brushback every day and a straighten on a saturday.
 
Takes me about 35 mins not rushing for two horses 15.2 and 16.2hh, one alot cleaner than the other! Unless I stop to chat or smoke or have a brew between jobs, which is usually what happens so it could take me three times as long :lol: if im in a rush and I just skip out can do them both in 20 mins.
 
I can do two ponies in an hour. That includes muck out, hay in, hoof pick, general check over and light groom. They are on deep straw beds, I take all poo out every day that bit probably takes 10 mins or less. Normally I spend longer as I do a more thorough grooming, play with them, play with the yard cat, find something to tidy, sweep up etc but the hour is what I allow for if I've got to be somewhere and crack on.
 
I have 3 horses to do each day (2 are my boss, 1 is mine) takes me about an hour and a quarter to turn out (fields are a few minutes walk away) muck out, do haynets, waters, feeds for the evening and following morning, and sweep the yard.

One horse is a warm blood who is a vile dirty fiend, one is a yearling section a whose poos are tiny, and my forester boy only gets skipped out in the week and cleaned fully at weekends.

No doubt I could do it much faster but I don't need to, and im very very particular with my bosses beds as she is paying me after all :p
 
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