What is the best way to clean out a horse stall?

Question

I just want to know the fastest, yet most efficent way to clean out a horse stall , its a box stall 10x12. I have dirt floors. The bedding is about 4 inches deep. Do I have to take out all the shavings until its down to the bare dirt every time i clean out the stall? What is needed for this type of cleaning? Right now I have a fork scoop and a a barn broom.

Answer 1

Stalls should be mucked daily, simply using a manure fork and muck bucket remove any soiled areas. Once a week strip the stall, and replace the bedding. I clean SEVERAL stalls a day and this is actually a time and energy saver. I do have one horse is a pig in his stall and it requires more time, but keeping up with the stall daily is still better for your horse (cleaner, you don't want them breathing in the ammonia) and easier on you.

Answer 2

Unfortunately not much.. It also depends on how they pay you. Some places will pay a fixed amount no matter how long you're there. Some will pay you per stall. Some will pay an hourly rate. Are you ONLY cleaning stalls or will you have other duties? I worked at two different horse training facilities and was paid $7.50/hour, but at one barn I not only cleaned stalls (my share was usually about 10/day, sometimes all-20), put horses out and brought them in, feeding 2x a day, watering, filling troughs, grooming, medicating, and whatever else needed done. At the other barn I helped clean the stalls (the owner also helped), fed horses in the evening, and watered, as well as tacking up the horses/lunging to get them ready for the trainer to ride. I occasionally rode horses at the first barn but rode all day at the other. So it's really hard to say for sure. For an hourly rate I'd expect anywhere from $5-$10/hour. BTW I'm also in Ohio. What part are you from?

Answer 3

Just get the wet spots and poop that's the main thing. Also if the stall is real dusty I would lightly spray the stall down to keep the dust levels down in the stall. I use a fork scoop and a leaf rake.

Answer 4

We have cement floors in our barn, but we use a shaving base with straw for comfort. We pick the straw for droppings then go through the shavings and remove all the wet bits. We are able to use a shovel to scrap the urine off the floor. We then put down a product called stable boy. Its a powder that absorbs the ammonia from the urine. It helps a lot.

Answer 5

Um the first thing that I would do if I possibly could is switch from shavings to hay. Then everyday when you go to feed use a pitchfork and clean up any mess and stir up the hay so there are no bare spots and add as needed. I put down a complete bed of fresh hay about once a month. Also turn the horses out in a pasture as much as you can.

Answer 6

I used to clean horse stalls and what I did was just get the areas where they urinated and get the poop. Then spread more shavings around. but once a week I would go through and do a full clean of taking everything out and spreading fresh shavings down. we used cedar to help with the smell.

Answer 7

Just take out the spots that are dirty (pee spots and manure), then lay on new shavings (be sure to get as much if not all of the dirty shavings). You just need a bucket and a shovel or better yet a plastic fork, and then new shavings and a place to dump out the muck

Answer 8

we have wood floors and dirt floors what we use is straw we dont use shavings..we clean the straw dailey..but we only use the barn during winter months.and yes we go to the bare floor each tim e

Answer 9

Teach your horse to use a litter box.

Answer 10

Hire someone.