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How often are your stalls cleaned?

  • Several times a day

    Votes: 13 22.4%
  • Daily

    Votes: 38 65.5%
  • Every other day/every few days

    Votes: 5 8.6%
  • Weekly

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How often do you clean stalls?

31K views 35 replies 30 participants last post by  ButtInTheDirt 
#1 ·
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.
 
#2 ·
I board, my trainer cleans all the stalls daily. The horses are only in at night (all day turnout) so they only need a 1x daily cleaning and if it's gorgeous outside, sometimes they'll stay out at night too and then no cleaning is needed.

Shavings are replaced as needed. There's a gelding that *only* uses his outside run so he gets shavings uhm maybe monthly? Whenever they are looking thin because they blew outside. My mare gets tons of shavings replaced weekly and the ones in the middle of the stall are not used, so they get shoveled to the edge and new ones poured in the middle. My gelding is a slight pig, his entire stall has to be completely stripped weekly and there's a mare in the barn that makes such a horrid mess that her stall is stripped daily almost.
 
#3 ·
I pick stalls everytime I go out to feed. Just cause I have to wait for my slowest eating horse to get done so I can turn him back out. What else is there to do?

With the Clydesdale mare I have to put new shavings down everyday and sometimes in the run-in depending on how dirty it is.
 
#4 ·
I have 2 horses and two stalls.They are in every night and usually most of the day unfortunatly because I am at school. I clean out 2 times a day. Once in the morning and once when I get home from school and put them outside if the weather is permitting.
 
#7 ·
I board but I do rough board, so I have to do my stalls everyday. Me and my mom end up doing a stall each most days, but when she has to work I do both or if I have to babysit she does both. Our gelding isn't too messy, his stall is really easy to clean. But Flower makes a total mess, she has to get shavings every other day or every day some weeks and Ace gets them maybe every three days. They stay in over night and go out during the day unless the weather is really bad.
 
#9 ·
I answered weekly because that is how often I go to the barn. My instructor cleans them daily, but if I get out there before he does, I clean his run in areas for him. He does not keep his horses inside or stalled unless injury or weather force him to.

But in my opinion, stalls should be cleaned daily, and 6 times a week at the minimum. Although it depend on how often/how long your horses are in stalls. if they are only brought in in bad weather, then how often you need to clean them will vary.
 
#10 ·
I board, and they clean 2x a day. I often clean my horse's stall when I go out to visit, so about 4 days a week she gets her stall cleaned 3x/day.

The barn that I work at cleans once a day. Some horses I rarely need to add shavings to them... just a shovel full every once in a while, while other horses I need to strip their stalls and add a full 'load' of shavings almost every day.

When I'm horse-sitting, it depends on the horses/the set up (whether they go out all day, etc.) I will clean either once or twice a day.
 
#13 ·
I have two stalls and two horses I am at a self boarding facility, they can come and go in their stalls as they please. I go down there to feed twice a day I usually clean them in the morning and if they mess them up again a clean them again.

My horse's pee in their stalls a lot so I have to put shavings in them every other day just about because my one horse started getting a sore on his leg from laying down ( I feel like such a bad mommy)

I have no Idea why but they feel the need to walk in their stalls from where ever they are to pee..LOL
 
#14 ·
I check Lacey's run-in for poo everyday and pick it out if there is any. However, this last week her buddies came home so she's been spending less time just standing in her run-in which equals no poop for me to pick up. Yay!
 
#15 ·
The barn I work at requires us to clean them once in the morning and once in the evening.

However with my own horses it just depends on how much poop is in the stall (we use pellets...gotta save those things as much as possible) and whether I can get the time or not. They are out almost 24/7 though, so it really doesn't matter. haha.
 
#18 ·
If ponies are out during the day and in at night then once a day (in the morning once they have been put out), If the ponies are spending the day in then 3 or 4 times per day.

I never leave a horse standing in a dirty bed for more then a few hours.

I also religiously poo pick my fields, we currently have gale force winds but I have been out poo picking this morning. Admittedly I could barely stand dup so havnt managed to do all that much but I have done a bit and will do more tommorow.
 
#19 ·
My 3 horses and 1 full size donkey live at home with me. We have 4 box stalls, horses are in every night during the winter and stalls are cleaned every morning...new shavings are added where needed...my gelding and one of my mares are quite the pigs so quite a bit of new shavings are usually added daily...my other mare is fairly clean so usually just the shavings from the pee spots are removed and replaced...same with the donkey. Regardless all stalls are completly cleaned and new shavings laid down once a week.
 
#20 ·
I board and am the only boarder on my trainers place. We have 20 box stall barn with 100 tie stalls. There are times when the stalls dont get cleaned for a day or two but 3 days is usually the max. The trainer doesnt live on the property and has lots of side buisness on the go so its hard for him to go every day to just clean stalls. So if im there and notice they are in dirty stalls I either clean them or move them to a clean stall and have the trainer do it later. Tie stalls are used for horses cooling down so they normaly dont get very dirty so I always clean up right after bringing my horse out
 
#24 ·
The property belongs to his father who moved to Texas 5 years ago and left it empty till this winter when we moved into it to get out of the cold Alberta weather. Back in the day when it was being used full time and auctions there every weekend (its set up for a sale barn) then there was more boarders. Now its only clients horses in for training and the trainers personal horses. I just bought a horse off of him so that’s why my horse is still there.
 
#22 ·
If our horses are in i skip out every morning (take wet bedding and poo out) and replace bedding and same again at night. totally refresh bedding once or twice a week just depending how bad it is. It's very rare our horses are in at all, only if the weather is very severe. 4 stables to be done if they are in.
 
#23 ·
So majority is probably daily?

Lol, I lose sleep on wednesdays when I'm at my dad's knowing I couldn't do stalls every wednesday....not entirely rational, but I'm a bit of a clean freak when it comes to the barn. If my mom throws hay on the stall floors instead of my color-coordinated hay bags, sometimes it reduces me to tears :lol: :oops:
 
#27 ·
My horses don't have individual stalls. They share a small barn with each other but are rarely in there unless it's cold. The barn is open for them to use all day if they please. I am not able to go up and see them every single day but it's about every other day or every two days that the barn gets cleaned if there is anything in there.
 
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