I'm curious as to how often most people cleans their stalls. Please say if you board or have them on your property, how many stalls you have, and how often you or a groom cleans them. I'm just curious because I've met so many people who do stalls over such different increments. Lenox's old owner did them once a week, Molly's old owner did them twice a day.
I have 7 at home (3 are minis), 3 stalls, a couple acres, and an awning attached to the barn for whoever doesn't want to go in a stall. Horses are out during the day, in at night. I pick stalls and under the awning every day but Wednesday and every other saturday, as I'm at my dad's those days. I put new shavings down 1-2 times a week.
I board my horses. At my barn at home, there are about 14 stalls and horses come in during the day if they are to be ridden. Stalls get cleaned 2-4 times a day. You normally clean your own stall, but if you can't get out, it will be cleaned for you.
Here all the horses are out 24/7 and only stay in if there is a health issue. The horses that come in the stalls are usually greenies learning to accept being in a stall or boarder horses to eat their supplements. There are 7 stalls in the main barn. The stalls are thoroughly cleaned and re-bedded (if needed) once daily. The stalls are cleaned for you.
We have 15 stalls. Our trainer cleans them in the morning after feeding and turnouts they are out until dinner time. Then they come inside for dinner and lessons. She then turns them out at night and brings them in the morning for breakfast. REPEAT
My horse at home. Stays in all day. Out all night. His stall gets cleaned 2 or 3 times a day. Once at breakfast, once at lunch (maybe) and then at dinner where I throw him out into the pasture.
I board my horses. One has a stall, the other prefers to live outside unless its really really cold. We're in Wisconsin, at a show barn with 30 some horses. The stalls get mucked daily to get manure and wet shavings out of the stalls. Shavings are added as needed.
I think they get stripped once a week, lime is used when needed in the winter since the barn doors are closed most of the time. We're big on stall mats, so that cuts down on any build up of urine spots and smells. It's easier to get the stalls cleaned with mats under the shavings.
Luckily most of the horses still go out all day unless the turnouts/pastures get too icy, so they get lots of fresh air and the barn air gets moved around.
We clean stalls daily. Picking the poop and wet spots out then once a week (usually sundays) we strip and add all new shavings. Shavings are also added as needed. We have 25 horses. 15 stalls. Some are in all the time some are turned out all day and in at night.
In the winter we do stalls twice a day since most of our horses are inside 23 hrs a day. In the summer tho we do stalls just once a day since almost everyone is turned out during the day. We also do pasture maintenance twice a month.
Lotsa work but I wouldnt trade it for anything in the world! Even when we board with our outside trainer I come in and do the stalls lol I'm picky about how my horses are kept and its just easier and fairer (is that even a word? LOL) on my trainer and her stable hands if I do it..Plus I enjoy it and my horses do as well I think
I answered daily, because the stalls at my barn are cleaned daily; myself cleaning stalls 1 to 3 days a week.
We add shavings daily, just a couple forkfuls. The stalls are only 3/4 bedded, and only enough to really soak up the messes. The stalls are matted, and on several inches of gravel to allow proper drainage.
When I first started there, a couple horses were bedded in hay, and that was just about as nasty as when we let the stalls go unbedded (but picked daily) for about 5 days...I like the shavings, though it is tedious to sift through... I can still get 6 stalls done in about 1 1/2 hours, sometimes quicker. Depends on how messy, and how quick I'm workin', and if the horses are in or out. lol.
The stable down the road from where I live clean the stalls every day. They have I'd say about 20 stalls, filled with just that many boarders, and some of the large stalls have mares with foals in them. The horses go out to pasture for at least six hours I'd say, unless weather isn't good at all.
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