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This was hilarious! I personally am a mixture of the one that yeets it into the bucket like they’re playing basketball and the one that tries to fit as many piles on one load as possible! 😂😂
I am 100% the person who fits as much as possible in the rake 🤣 I hate taking a single extra trip to the wheelbarrow. I am also the ghost person who supplies the full care board… the work doesn’t just magically disappear! I don’t want to have to be out there any longer than I have to LOL
When I was in my early twenties, I worked at a horse ranch/breeding/equestrian center in California. I was part of the team that cared for the paddocks and barns at the front of the ranch, a.k.a. the part that visitors and neighbors were most likely to see. Needless to say, it needed to look as close to immaculate as reasonable. From mid-spring to mid-fall, the sun baked everything. Mid-summer heat waves could reach a high of 110+ F. So we would begin the most laborious barn chores at sunrise to beat the heat. We used a sweeping method to get everything. Typically, someone would manage the wheelbarrow while others scooped, so we rarely had to carry it very far. We always worked together as a team, so we got through the morning mucking pretty quickly. Throughout the rest of the day, we would "spot clean": dash out to remove the poop as soon as it was spotted and then retreat to the shade. Honestly, the owners (a married couple and their young adult daughter) were genuine horse people who understood "poop happens" but we took pride in keeping our part of the ranch beautiful. A few times a week, the owners would grab a rake and help out, and they got up just as early and worked just as hard as we did! They made it clear through their actions that they hired us to assist them, and not to do everything for them. And honestly, it would have been impossible for just three people to care for 45 horses and keep the ranch looking so beautiful, plus all the feeding, watering, grooming, training, exercising, etc. They always provided unlimited water and Gatorade in ice coolers, too. It was hard work but it was also fun.
after 11 years of mucking out multiple stalls for every single day, my arms are ripped😂😭 people look at me as if i am a freak, like they're not used to seeing a girl with muscles
When I was in middle school I had a friend who owned a horse named Zora I loved getting to go over after school or on weekends because I would help muck and clean the stall. Her and I would see who could stack the most on the rake. Between her and I we would knock her chores out and then I'd get to watch her ride and practice on Zora. Funny how horse poop brings back fond memories.
Gypsy Equestrian you've done it again! You make me laugh every single day I watch you ALL THE TIME!!! Please do ''Different equestrians getting there first horse 😂''
I don't muck my pasture (unless you call collecting fertilizer occasionally mucking) we just take a little homemade spreader through the pasture to well spread the fertilizer, it helps the grass grow. Also, we have pretty good bit pasture and three horses, it would take half the day to muck.
Same! I kinda just pick it up, and put in in the wheelbarrow, not much to my strategy.😂 I can say I do find myself sometimes thinking muck smells nice ish? That probably is very strange and gross. Haha
I'ma scoop as muck piles as I can and dump and replace shavings as needed. This is my fav because when horses are brougt inside the barn. I know their standing on a cushy floor!
"Get a gelding, it'll save you hours" Me, side-eyeing my gelding who regularly pees so much it floods his stall, and first night in a new barn trashed his stall so bad we had to totally strip it the next day 😅😅😅😅 He's. He's so special (And no there isn't anything wrong with him, he's just dramatic and pees like a champion 😂😂😂😂)
Love it I personally like banking the best it’s basically making a pile against the wall and the poop falls down the pile and I like it because it’s a good way to relieve stress
At the barn I volunteer ay we hardly have to muck because the horses are in their stalls for less then 1 hour a day(grooming and feeding) and we drag pastures(which is one of my favorite barm chores)
I rent a field for my 2 girls. I'm the only one on the farm that cleans their field. I have my field set up for rotational grazing. The front part is where the round pen, the run in and my chickens are. They always have access to that. The rest of the field is divided into thirds. I have my own mower and spreader. Once a week, I clean the areas they're in. I have a smaller muck bucket. I park the spreader in one section, then fill and dump the bucket until the area is clean. I could probably yeet it, but then I'd have to clean up what misses the bucket. No thanks. Depending on the time of year, I'll then mow, spread the manure, then go over it a few times to break it down more. My spreader doesn't really work that well in the winter. So, I'll clean daily and fill in low spots in the field.
I'll have to try a few techniques out tonight and see which I prefer. I think I'm a combination and it totally depends on where the poo is. Sometimes the grass is long and the scraping is all I can manage. I feel for you on the poison ivy, I get it so bad every summer!
"get rid of your mare and get a gelding" Its so true tho bc my gelding poops in one corner of his stall and the pasture. my mare poops wherever she is standing. they live full time in pasture now but we used to put them in stalls for the night
I am the person who fits as many poops as possible on the rake 🤣 I started mucking with a small rake and shovel but actually the large rake is way more effective, unless you are facing liquid poop. In that case you're swamped 😂
Once my sister was unloading to warm up on the barrels because they had a barrel race a few days later and the horse poo didn’t smell to bad but it still wasn’t to pleasant. Way better than dog poo.
In the paddocks i just use my ride on mower, but with my yards/stables I just chuck it in my quad trailer. If my quad isn’t working I use my wheel barrow.
In fact geldings are just as messy as mares. Only stallions sniff the poop and turn around to put their mark on the pile. Geldings and mares just sniff, but do not turn around. Maybe if a gelding was castrated at an older age he will keep the habit. But I have a Friesian stallion who poops all over the place, and I had mares who were very clean.
i had to take care of my friend’s horses for like a week (first time doing that also, my mom helped tho a lot) and she apparently never mucks her yard/pasture! the stalls yeah i had to do that and then shavings/ fly spray when needed but the yard when we went to catch them was like landmine after landmine lol
I just pick up any pile I see first but I try to get as much on it as I can. Love this vid! Also your crawled through poison ivy that’s like the worst!
This was so funny! I’m lazy lol! I have a side by side with a bed so I drive it to each pile pick them up and when the side by side bed is full I dump it
