Your horses, are they 'tidy' in the stable, or trashers?!

I have two geldings, one is neat to the point of OCD, but my youngster is PUTRID! I hate the winter but I put him on part livery so at least I am not doing the mucking out. His tail is awful at the moment, can you wash the docks in winter?
 
Urgh mine is a trasher of epic proportions. She is somekind of world champion bed trasher, in seconds she can reduce a lovely tidy bed to utter carnage in seconds.

I skip out as I go when I'm up there but even then I can't stop the bed trashing. Her standard trick is to poo, then reverse straight over it, then step forwards or sideways to kick clean bedding over the top before grinding it in a bit more.

I've seen pig styes that are tidier....
 
Mine is spotless, he's very rarely pees inside (preferring to wait until he's outside so he can do it on the hay!) and has minimal amount of poo neatly to one side. Don't think I could face a disgusting stable first thing in the morning!
 
Kat said:
Urgh mine is a trasher of epic proportions. She is somekind of world champion bed trasher, in seconds she can reduce a lovely tidy bed to utter carnage in seconds.

I skip out as I go when I'm up there but even then I can't stop the bed trashing. Her standard trick is to poo, then reverse straight over it, then step forwards or sideways to kick clean bedding over the top before grinding it in a bit more.

I've seen pig styes that are tidier....
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Kat, I think my 2 boys must be related to your mare :eek: :D

My old boy ALWAYS walks forward to poo, then walks back over it, kicking it all around :mad: when I'm mobile, I quite often skip out at 8-9 pm, and the stables are still trashed when I get there at 5am :rolleyes:
 
I used to think my old boy was messy till he spent 6weeks with me as a working pupil and was given the biggest box I'd ever seen!! He was so clean and tidy in that stable, I guess at 17.2hh he just didn't have the room to be tidy in a smaller stable, poor boy :(
 
GreyDonkey is a pig. He scatters and buries his poo all OVER his stable . . . takes ages to muck him out. He is, however, much better when he's in work.

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That's an interesting point PS - I have noticed if I work my boys before they go to bed, they are always cleaner in the morning :confused: I prefer to ride in the mornings though, but that makes it's tempting to always ride in the afternoons :D
 
My two are young, my appy used to trash the joint and I used to despair at the amount of bedding I'd have to use. Now he's that bit older he's quite tidy.
My 2 year old is sensationally messy... I'm hoping he gets better with age!
 
Depends what shes on, at my old yard on straw she was utterly disgusting. She ate her bedding, box walked (obviously nothing to do with the bedding, was the management she was on at the time which I did sort out and box walking improved!) and was just minging. I tried to deep litter her, didn't work very well, took pretty much all her bed out every day!

Now when she comes in she's on shavings and is very clean, though does elephant poos! She doesnt box walk here either, or she does it a minimal amount so I dont notice!
 
fig is a hamster, 2 or 3 neat poos round the edge and one small wee patch, same place every day. banks left up and nothing walked in.

CS is about average, does it all round the edge but then tends to pull banks down and make a bit of a mess of one corner.

Bruce is a pit monster, mushes it all in to some kind of horror soup, its rank!
 
I have one who is super tidy and leaves nice neat poo piles but the other one is vile! I find have to skip him out before I go to bed otherwise it takes me forever to muck out in the morning.
 
The worst thing is when you put a fresh bed down in the evening and then turn up the next day and can't see any shavings that aren't black or a single poo because it is all that mushed up......
 
My boy used to be very tidy. Would wee in one place (so I could put shaving under my straw there) and do dung at the back of the stable in on big pile.......now he trashes it :(
 
Kat said:
The worst thing is when you put a fresh bed down in the evening and then turn up the next day and can't see any shavings that aren't black or a single poo because it is all that mushed up......
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OOO that happened the other day. I cleaned him out and he had mostly a new bed and then you could not even see the stable had rubber matting, or concrete at the front to be honest.
 
I have one tidy, one trasher, and one who eats all of her straw and leaves me nice piles of poo dotted around. Haven't figured out yet if she eats all the straw before going to the toilet in order not to waste any of it...
 
The 4yr olds a trasher - everything and I mean everything get put in his mout and tossed about,his bed meets you at the door,switches the stable light on,chews the switch cover and nearby drainpipe.
The mares not 10yrs old and a bit of a diva-doesn't do mud/puddle etc.
 
My Shetland is clean but hides his little poos so makes It harder to find them, my fell just makes a right mess but to be fair only does it along one side
 
Mine produces a heaped barrow of bedding & droppings (eats & drinks a lot) but except the odd dropping is all in a neat pile.
But I can say daughters 11.1 is the biggest trasher going. And that's after spending a lifetime mucking out loads of different horses. Her muck only fills a big tub trug, but it takes forever to find. It's spread everywhere. It takes me longer to muck out her than mine, despite the fact she's only 11.1 & dainty. Luckily though its daughters job so rarely have to do it.
 
My boy was disgusting, his stable was thrashed everyday but since I put him on pink powder its not been too bad. Hes still a pig but theres less pooh, instead of double figures its now 5-6 but he still buries it, still walks it in so I have flat discs of pooh everywhere, and everyday theres a pooh in the tiny gap between his tyre and wall :rolleyes: Seriously I have no idea how he gets it there its only about 4-5 inches wide :eek: My mare though is spotless, always in the same place everyday x
 
Sam_1985 said:
OOO that happened the other day. I cleaned him out and he had mostly a new bed and then you could not even see the stable had rubber matting, or concrete at the front to be honest.
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Mine once managed to lift her mats and put them on top of the trashed bedding..... don't know how she managed as they were partially under the bedding and it takes two of us at the best of times to lift one of them....
 
Half a barrow usuallly, which for a big boy is great. He mostly poo's outside his bed though. Straw is always very squashed, inc a head shaped on the bank, so I think he must eat all his net then just go to bed till morning. Little cutey :p
 
I have a trasher!
She poos then paws at it to spread it round the stable. Does this with wee too. She then pulls the banks down to cover it and burries the evidence. She also has a lovely habbit of piling the bedding against the stable door so when i open it in the morning it all comes falling out around my feet!
 
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