Just curious, obviously it would differ depending what/how much bedding one uses etc. but just wondering on average…
if using shavings and say a “normal” amount of waste…5 minutes max.
Depends on how tidy the horse is, but average about 5 mins per box stall with full shavings. And this is why I love a tidy horse in an in and out. Makes for faster mucking.
5-8 minutes: modest shavings, one small pee spot, and a few neat piles of poop
8-15 minutes: deeply bedded stall, large or multiple pee spots, or broken down piles
15+ minutes: stall walkers
I pick the poop, scrape the margins of the pee spot, scoop out the pee, shovel down to the mat, brush up the residual dirty bits, bank the walls, sift the whole stall for hidden treasure, add shavings as needed and sweep the shavings back 2 feet from the front edge. I let the pee spot dry and then fill it back in before I blow out the aisles.
I’ve heard that some real pro stall cleaners - paid by the stall, I guess - can do a great job in 2 minutes.
I’m one that cleans, and also pokes around and fluffs and sculpts. It won’t help to know how long I spend on my one horse’s stall. :lol:
It depends on if you pick offen. After an over night, it can take longer and 1 bucket of waste is not always it, it could be more, depending on 12 hrs since cleaning stall. I would say, morning, can be 10-20 min, depending if you have a lot of waste including hay… And dumping and re-filling, adding a bag of shavings as needed. Then the time to pick through out the day… Or another big cleaning later.
Horses go a lot, every 2 hr on average…
14’ x 14’ stall, bedded 10" in shavings and banked around the sides: 20 minutes on the average, but worth it to have a deep soft bed for my horses.
5 horses: muck, clean buckets and sweep the aisle – 2 hours.
I bed on pelleted bedding, takes me 5 minutes, max, for my tidy gelding in 12-13 hours in a 12x12 box stall. The very large warmblood in the same set up? He takes 8-10 minutes, but he’s a piglet that grinds and squashes everything, and mixes hay in, as well.
Normal is around 5 minutes. That’s if they are turned out part of the day. I use pelleted bedding and that helps
Average is about 10 minute. They’re in shavings, cleaned once a day. My one gelding is super tidy and it’s less than 5 minutes to clean, more time to rebed. The other isn’t as tidy, so he’s a little longer than 10 minutes. So average in dumping and adding shavings and it’s close to 20 for both stalls.
Looking For Information on Starting A 501c3 Charity For Rescuing Horses.
My lawyer is trying to discourage me from doing this, but I feel strongly about starting a rescue for “old warriors” from the track. Horses whose useful life has ben spent racing and who have little/no chance of a second career.
I am doing my estate planning so I will not be around to see the rescue when it is fully up and running, although I will get it started on a small scale now.
Is creating a 501c3 charity really a huge big deal? And is the yearly tax accounting difficult? I understand that anyone who is paid by the charity cannot be on the Board of Directors, but are there any other limitations on staffing it?
As you can see, I am too stupid to even know the right questions to ask, and I am not sure where to go to find information. I would love to hear from people who have started or who work for rescue charities.
A near lifetime of mucking hasn’t done anything to improve my speed. It takes me 10-15 minutes at least depending on the type of bedding and how bad the stall is. I actually think I’m faster with straw than shavings/sawdust/pellets.
I once got dinged on a performance evaluation at a vet tech job for being slow at cleaning stalls. To this day, I think it’s the only thing I’ve ever been faulted for in a professional evaluation! :lol: Nice to know my slowness is forever immortalized in writing. 
I board so only do stalls at horse shows. Horses are bedded on concrete generally so they get at least 8 bags of shavings right off the bat, then usually a couple bags added in throughout the week. I probably take close to half an hour to do a good thorough job (I have a grey so I really try to be very thorough as well as picking stray poos throughout the day)
I use a combination of pellets (in their pee spots) and shavings. In the summer it’s about 3-5 minutes per stall, sometimes even less if there’s no manure. They can come and go from their stalls to their runs and out into the turnout paddock at will, so sometimes they don’t even go in their stalls…score!
I am sloooooooow & I know it. 15 minutes for a deeply bedded stall. I sift through everything, make shavings pyramids & then spread it all back out. I could be faster if necessary.
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My lawyer is trying to discourage me from doing this, but I feel strongly about starting a rescue for “old warriors” from the track. Horses whose useful life has ben spent racing and who have little/no chance of a second career.
I am doing my estate planning so I will not be around to see the rescue when it is fully up and running, although I will get it started on a small scale now.
Is creating a 501c3 charity really a huge big deal? And is the yearly tax accounting difficult? I understand that anyone who is paid by the charity cannot be on the Board of Directors, but are there any other limitations on staffing it?
As you can see, I am too stupid to even know the right questions to ask, and I am not sure where to go to find information. I would love to hear from people who have started or who work for rescue charities.[/QUOTE]
I think you meant to start a new topic??
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Average probably about 10 minutes for 10x12, pelleted bedding, 18-20 hours of use (limited turnout is an unfortunate fact of life in my area).
Since I’m the person buying the bedding, I likely take more time to pick through than some workers who may not care as much about throwing out the good with the bad. I try to salvage some of the used bedding in other words.
I’m guessing it takes around 7 minutes or less per stall on a normal day in the summer but definitely could be longer in the winter if horses are in for longer periods or on a day when I need to strip the stalls.
Then factor in the time to get the new bedding and whatever else you need to do such as empty and clean buckets and refill, sweep,etc …if part of the routine
I like over and onwards response! I rarely do clean stalls, except the odd occasion that my trainer’s usual barn sitter can’t work, or if the horse i ride has been particularly messy. He doesn’t have a designated potty spot, andakes these little half piles, so he is relatively annoying to clean up after. I’d say for my lack of practice, and his messiness, about 15 minutes easily, not including water buckets.
It makes a big difference though if I can find the ‘good’ manure picker. The ones with missing prongs… Drive me batty.
I have also noticed that I am much more particular about not scooping up any clean shavings if at all possible, whereas my trainer (also the bo) seems to value her time just as much as the shavings She doesn’t waste much but laughs at my clumsy and meticulous attempt to spare each last little crumb of bedding. The only reason I am this way is because of the slightly terrifying BO (well, scary to us kids!) of the first stable I rode at would inspect the wheelbarrows for excessive shavings 
I want to say 5 minutes or less, but it depends. Do I have a lot to muck? Is there a time crunch? If the latter, well, let’s not even go there! The sculpting, the “raking” with the fork, the picking out of every stray piece of hay and poop. It’s an art, really.
