What do you like least with mucking out?

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I quite enjoy mucking out apart from the treck to the muck heap and forking it onto it :-( I must of done it about six times this morning.

What about you?
 
For me it's the smell! My mare really stinks and then it stinks out my hair! Always wear a hat but it's not quite hat weather yet. So I have to choose between stinky hair or sweaty hair! Lovely...
 
Six times!! Gosh, I thought Bentley was dirty, I take 1 1/2 - 2 wheelbarrows out of his stable each morning. He's on straw.

I like mucking out, I hate sweeping up afterwards though because I know that an hour or so later some other liveries will appear and make a mess again! :mad:
 
It's the sweeping I hate as well :(
My girl is very clean and it only takes me 15 mins to muckout... then another 20 mins to sweep the cobbles outside my stable. GAH... I hate cobbles - concrete the lot of them :D
 
Searching for hidden poo's! He's such a stinker. I always think what a lovely clean bed he has when I get up there and soon start realising it has all been buried :( that and the fact he took his fleece rug off the stable wall and pooed all over it this morning lol. Nice.
 
Emptying the barrow & haynets, hate haynets!!

Currently waiting for new hayshed to arrive as have round bale hayledge this year so need to keep it dry, thinking if getting a haynet filler as thought of a year of round bales & wrestling with haynets is sending me a little nutty...... :mad:
 
ElleSkywalker said:
Emptying the barrow & haynets, hate haynets!!

Currently waiting for new hayshed to arrive as have round bale hayledge this year so need to keep it dry, thinking if getting a haynet filler as thought of a year of round bales & wrestling with haynets is sending me a little nutty...... :mad:
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Last winter I bought 7 haynets as I had swapped to round bales and it was doing my head in - I spent half an hour on the weekend sorting them out for the week ahead - it was BRILLIANT. Best thing I ever did!

Sadly I now use a tricklenet and I can't afford to buy 6 more so I'm back to filling them daily :(:mad:
 
I actually dont mind mucking out at all, and as i'm at a yard that doesnt require the forking up i dont have that hassle either!

My most hated job in the stable is filling haynets, i hate, hate hate hate hate hate it!
 
Last small yard I was at didn't have a muck heap as they wanted the place to look tidy (was also a camping site).

Instead we had to wheel our barrows out of the yard, up a 1000m track, through two gateways and into our own paddock, and distribute the waste carefully and tidily around the perimeter of the statid electric fence line. What a pain in the &%"@ that was, particularly in winter when from the track onwards the ground was so thick with mud that it was practically impossible to pull or push even a small barrowful through. God, I hated it. It was such a flipping time waster too, especially when you had more than one to muck out and both were VILE so produced +1 barrow loads each per day. I remember winters; staggering through calf high mud, with strong wind so bad you could hardly stand against it (paddocks were on a coastal cliff) and with freezing sleet lashing my face. Eugh..... horrible.

In the end I bought one of those £200+ giant barrows and deep littered so that I'd only have to struggle once or twice a week up to paddock in winter. Of course, I'd have to enlist help; 3 of my children would pull the front of the barrow, whilst me and the other would heave from the front. Nah, definitely WASN'T my most favorite part of mucking out! :D

These days the much heap is a short distance from my box and I am a happy bunny :)

I would have said the worst part of mucking out these days would have to be the residual smell of horse wee, although having switched back onto wood pellets, even this isn't an issue now. So, I guess I least like laying bedding and digging out the banks, these days. Just boring.
 
Spyda - OMG!!! Makes my trip to the muck heap seem like nothing!

I agree that the residual smell of wee isn't a good smell either!!
 
Hahaha Spyda that is a real tale of muck heap woe! I'd be tempted to bag it up and put it in the car!

My horse lives out, I kind of miss mucking out! Just endless poo picking in long grass,although no haynet filling :-)
 
Supertrooper said:
Spyda - OMG!!! Makes my trip to the muck heap seem like nothing!

I agree that the residual smell of wee isn't a good smell either!!
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I know! It really was ridiculous now I think of it. Moved to that yard in the summer when the horses were out most of the time and the run up to the paddock wasn't too bad on the rare occasion it was done; Huh! Soon regretted it come winter, as you can imagine. :rolleyes: And I was never happy having all that dung around the perimeter of our individual paddocks. Can't have helped with worm control.

mandwhy said:
Hahaha Spyda that is a real tale of muck heap woe! I'd be tempted to bag it up and put it in the car!
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Yep!! Tried that but ran out of places to distribute the muck. The paddocks there weren't accessible by vehicle. I tried bagging it and distributing it up along the fenceline along the track up to the paddocks but got 'told off'. Tsk.
 
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I hate it when i fill up the wheelbarrow with wet stinky straw and then as i go to push it to the muck heap i realise i have a flat tyre!! :eek::mad:

I quite like mucking out though and all yard duties but tack cleaning is my favourite!! x
 
Couldnt hack that Spyda! I would of either moved yard or given up horses! lol

I used to hate emptying wheelbarrows as we used to keep our muck on a trailer that got emptied once a week. The ramp wasnt the best and downright dangerous really, fell off it quite a few times screaming the F word at the top of my lungs repeatedly! :rolleyes: Did make you balance excellent though, am sure I could of walked a tightrope while pushing a barrow, I wonder if the circus is recruiting? :p
We built a new muck heap this year though which makes it so much easier, still dislike emptying them. :rolleyes:

Hate filling haynets as I have about 20 to do each day and I get a really sore back half way through winter. Done my back in last winter and still had to carry on filling them, I just sat on the floor and took it easy. I ordered a haymate last week and hoping it comes today which should solve the haynet problem and save my poor back. Actually, Ive never been so excited to be getting a piece of equipment for the yard! :D haha
 
RutlandH2O said:
I don't mean to hijack this thread, but to those of you who hate filling haynets, I'm curious...how do you fill them?
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Halleluya - my DH finally installed my Haybar last weekend (YAYYYY, at last!!!!! It's only taken 3 years of nagging :rolleyes:), but for the past 3 years (since moving from yard with the outrageous trek to the paddocks to chuck muck) I've been using various small holed nets. I fill 3 at a time for mine. I fill by hand by myself and it's generally the faffing about untangling the tie ropes, emtying out the old hay that's left stuck in the mesh of the net and then more faffing with the body of the net that's managed to screw itself into a twist, making stuffing in the new hay in really annoying. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
At work I really dislike getting new bedding down. It's kept in a big trailer outside so when it's windy you end up with bedding in your ears, eyes, nose and mouth! It's horrible.
 
It's one of the few things I really miss about last share mare! Find it very relaxing.
Mine are all on 24/7 turn out. However if we were stabled again my littlun would stay out. The only time I've hated it, she is disgusting in a stable :rolleyes:
 
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