The average time it takes you to clean a stall?

[LadyB]

7 Minutes for mucking only, does not include hay and water.

The deeper/messier the horse, the longer it takes, those are about 10 minutes. I have one that’s gutted daily because he’s so nasty, he’s about 3 minutes.

I have a 3 stall barn, from morning feed, to all chores (water, hay, mucking, dumping wheel barrow, blanketing, turning out) it takes me about an hour… if I’m feeling lazy it takes me an hour and a half. Usually includes scrubbing outdoor waters when it takes 1.5 hours.

During the week my dad comes out and mucks one stall, were done the barn in about 20-30 minutes.

[heronponie]

I’m a slow and methodical mucker, always have been. I do not posess the ability to breeze through a stall, leaving behind a few stray poo balls or wet shavings shudder. I’m also a daily water bucket scrubber (every 2 days for large troughs) and sweeping or blowing the barn aisle needs to be immaculate. Even with that level of obsessive detail, it still only took ~10 mins per stall but I remember a manager screaming at me to leave the pee behind because they were only paying me for “2 minutes per stall”. Barns who prioritize speed hated me as a staff member, barns who prioritize quality of care and attention to detail loved me.

My home barn looks like a trainwreck most of the time because my (outdoor) horses have this special 6th sense that involves everyone congregating and pooping wherever I’ve just mucked.

[2DogsFarm]

I’ve never actually timed myself, but my morning chores include:
*feeding pond fish
*feeding chickens & cleaning the coop
*picking (2) stalls, haying, feeding grain, refilling water buckets in stalls, topping off the trough & dumping the wheelbarrow
Usually 30-45min for all of the above.
When I (rarely) strip a stall it might turn into 1 hour.

Helps that horses are out 24/7 & overnight in stalls - by their choice - only when weather is bad, so minimal piles of manure.
When it’s warm out I do pick their paddock - right outside the stalls, but the pastures get “mulched” when I mow.
The pony pees in a selected spot - bless his heart - while TWH goes wherever he happens to be standing. He redeems himself by mostly peeing outside.

Using pelleted bedding makes the Search & Destroy for manure easier & they do leave me neat piles, unless someone lays flat, then piles may be smooshed.

[SharonA]

So, things seem to speed up if I do two “throws” – first I pick out everything obvious that is in a pile, then I throw all the shavings into a pile in the center and take out everything that rolls down, then I throw the pile against the wall and take out anything left that is rolling down.

But, the bigger time saver is using multiple wheelbarrows. I had been filling one, taking it to the muck pile, coming back, refilling it… Now I’m going to just put a wheelbarrow outside each of the two stalls that generally fill a wheelbarrow, fill both wheelbarrows, and just make the trip to the muck pile when I’m completely done with the stalls.

[billiebob]

Depends on what’s in the stall–I work at a vet clinic and we use straw 90% of the time. A normal horse takes me about 10 minutes per stall to clean and rebed. Mare/foal and foundered horses are more like 20, and a messy foundered horse will make me question every decision that has led me to choose horses as a career.

When I clean stalls at the barn where I keep my horse, I can do 15 stalls and sweep in maybe 90 minutes…but those don’t get nearly as much bedding, and they bed on sawdust. Plus vet clinic horses are usually in 24/7 and the boarding barn horses usually get 10-14 hours of turnout daily.

[shezabrazenmare]

Depends on the horse.
Messy horses trash the whole stall so it takes longer to clean.
Horses who use a corner of the stall, bless them, are quick to clean up behind.
I guess about 5 minutes average a stall. Plus cleaning water buckets a few minutes extra.

[billiebob]

Ok, so I timed myself doing two stalls yesterday–both 12’x14’, one with a normal amount of bedding and one with a foundered horse amount of bedding. Same distance to the muck heap and bedding pile, neither horse is incredibly dirty, cleaning and rebedding only.

Normal horse: 8 minutes
Foundered horse: 24 minutes

To be fair, some of that was giving myself a pep talk before opening the barn door to dump the wheelbarrow…it was around -25 with the windchill.