Standard time to muck out

So this is my boy's stable after a night in. Measuring with my size 6 feet it's about 13 x 14 ft. I did take some progress photos and end result too but they seem to have disappeared!
If i cleaned this with a snow shovel id be wasting half a bale a day! I like the bed to be deep enough so that whrn he pees ,.the surface will remain dry. This does mean that poos get buried though !
Once I developed my method, I can do a full muck out including banks turned over within 15 minutes even at a leisurely pace. It used to take me twice that to start with though!
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It takes me an hour to do two horse stables and a Shetland. One of the horses is filthy though and takes up a good chunk of that. The Shetland and the other boy are super and take a fraction of that time! For me it’s not the mucking out that takes the time, it’s the extras (sweeping up, filling nets, soaking hays etc.) I’ve never got much faster than an hour unless they’ve all been really clean!
 
It takes me about 20-25 minutes to do mine, depending on how much poo my horse has buried overnight. Honestly sometimes it feels like I've been set a very 'special' treasure hunt. I don't do banks, other than for spare, clean bedding, but my bed is miscanthus and a good 10" thick so there is rarely any wet on the surface. I have a clean side and a dirty side (where the wee spot is) so all the bedding gets rotated over that way.

When I was working on a yard it was 10-15 minutes per box for everything other than replacing hay as most of them were soaked, but they were on wood pellets and (other than the box walker who churned everything into mush) it was a damn sight quicker to do, if horribly dusty in summer. The muckheap and taps were also closer to the boxes than where I am now.
 
Regarding a snow shovel it depends how you use it.
I clear any poos on the top with a poo scoop or rubber gloves. Then i use the snow shovel to scrape off the dry bed and throw the bed up the sides. Any random poo rolls to the floor and can easily be picked up. Then I pick up the wet patches with the snow shovel.
I waste very little bedding this way. My horses have deep bed.
 
Well done on the job TO! Don't worry, you'll work out your routine and get quicker. I can do my two in 15 minutes if I'm in a real hurry but 20 is more usual. That includes hay, feed and water but it's more like 5 minutes for Archie as he's really easy to muck out - he doesn't poo in his bed and I leave the wet and clear it out and add more pellets at the weekend (Archie's on a Saturday and Wig's on a Sunday) when I have more time - and 10 for Wiggy as he's not so easy. They're on wood pellets.

As Red says, never going anywhere empty handed is the key. To give you an idea of what flows for me: I arrive, do feeds (I have 2 feed buckets each so I don't have to get old ones from stables), fill the wheelbarrow with hay (next door to my store room) put feeds and tools on top, take everything to A's stable, stopping to drop off Wig's feed and hay (in hay bar - hay nets would of course take longer) and empty W's water, then empty A's water. Put water on fairly slowly (tap outside A's stable) to fill buckets. Muck out Archie (swapping water buckets as necessary), muck out Wig. Off to muck heap and rinse barrow on way back (so it's clean tomorrow for hay), put water buckets in stables, take wheelbarrow, tools and old feed buckets back to store room. If I know I'll be in a rush tomorrow or I have time, I'll refill barrow with hay and do the feeds ready and leave it in the hay shed.

Think about the jobs you need to do, where everything is and how to make that all flow well to save time. The actual mucking out will get quicker too as you get to know where each horse poos, whether they bury everything, where their wet patch is etc. It doesn't sound like your employer is too worried about you being a bit slower at the moment so I wouldn't worry either.
 
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