muck-out time?

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how long does it take you to do a full muck out?

i got 20-30 minutes yesterday morning.
i must say im rather proud
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I vary from 20mins-40mins, basically depends who mucked him out the day before (he is on 3/4 livery so I only do him at weekends) they are on shavings and full mucked out every day
 
my horse on shavings he is really dirty about 15 or twenty minutes horses at the stud where i work are on straw takes about 10 mins per box when there are so many to muck out you learn to muck out very quickly!
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Muck out - av 5 mins including forking up muck onto trailer (deep litter, shavings)
Hay/water - 2 mins (have to wait for dam bucket to fill)
Rug up and turn out 8 mins

Total time - 15mins

I have it down to an art now LOL
 
i deep litter & do a fully muck out every 3/4 days. i make my haynets up 3/4 days in advance & i just take the poo out & top his water up then i put his hay in in the evening as it is wetted. this takes 15mins in the morning but everything of mine is spread out across the yard.

when i did a full muck out the other day it took me 30mins but im a perfectionist re: his bed & spend 10 mins just sweeping, flattening & checking banks!!!
 
it depends whos on the yard. If i'm doing my shavings bed (stable in the middle of the yard), it could take me anything between 10 mins and an hour. If there is a yard full of people, i do a bit, then go for a chat, do some more, chat, and eventually i finish!
My other stable is at the other end of the yard where hardly anybody goes, so takes me about 10 mins, but my stable is massive (about 16ft by 17ft) and is deeplittered.
 
If I'm not riding then i'm not at the yard any longer than 15/20mins. Muck out full straw bed on rubber, sweep front of stable and sweep outside, haylage, water, feeds, get pony in and pick feet out.
 
i do my two in the time it takes for them to eat breakfast!about 8-12mins.one on shavings and mats-she has a small sqaure to wee on as shes so messy otherwise
other horse on full straw bed with sawdust underneath and mats and really clean.
 
It takes me 30 minutes in the morning to do two stables, feed and put in hay. OH skips them out rugs them and turns them out. He brings them in before it gets dark and then takes another 10 minutes each stable to skip out, hay and check water before bed.
 
when i was on DIY i used to take an hour approx just to do one bed, i know thats slow but i was obsessed but luckily i dont do that anymore.. on full livery thank god... miss mucking out a bit though
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Dan takes me a good 30-40 mins depending on how perfectionist i'm being (not very) and how disgusting he was the previous night (his stable is normally vile every night would be worried if it wasn't these days!)! If he is on full the grooms have 15mins to do it, needless to say they have to rush!!

Fleur is 5-10mins most nights then about 25mins once or twice a week when it needs a dig out as she is semi deep littered due to a 'step' in her floor where it goes from peat to cobble.

Oh and both are on straw.
 
My morning mucking out time is an hour from walk out the house to walk back in, prob 15 - 20 mins actually mucking out 2 boxes in that time (1 very clean straw bed, no wee as my ned is as tidy as me! One shavings quite clean for a mare, full muck out). Rest of the time is feeding, changing rugs, cleaning buckets, cleaning grey ned (!), taking muck to heap, making nets, putting them up, filling water buckets and turning out. So I think that's quite fast...I think sometimes "mucking out" time is confused with "all the other jobs that also need doing" time so it appears quick to muck out but the rest needs doing sometime too ....rant over!
 
My TBx takes about 15 minutes - she's fairly clean. My TB is a bit of a bed mincer though and takes me about 30 minutes. They're both on shavings with rubber mats but I am a perfectionist and hate to leave a scrap of poo in the bed!
 
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