cleaning tips and tools: Time-saving tips: Tasks Horse Barn

7.27.2017

Time-saving tips: Tasks Horse Barn

Use as a carpet and bedding an absorbent Select time spent cleaning to reduce positions.

Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt / Horse

Keep tidy stables horses can be very time consuming and are not necessarily something the horse owners wait anxiously. How to make the time you spend maximize in the barn? If you are in a hurry, these tips and practical staff and horses sources complications tasks like scanning and cleaning station reduce input.

Carpets and bedding since election

Although locking mats can be expensive, cut into the latter part of the period of purification and the amount of garbage that Alayne Blickle.

If choose beds, you can make the most absorbing kind you buy can find. "The research shows how waste wood pellets, peat moss or shredded newspapers are absorbent and contains less dust, mold, or other foreign matter than conventional chips," said Blickle. "I'm a big fan of clothes compact bed;. It is very effective job, and the small particle size means that the compost beds in granular powder is light and very small horse (and people!) The benefits health is high. "

Keep the area clean

Alexandra Beckstett, editorial director of the horse, the advice from his horse on a farm in Versailles personally, Kentucky, but that does not mean that he does not not understand fast ways to keep their own region. "If you bring your horse to graze, select your feet in front of him in the barn on foot. If you are already inside, with his feet in the barn. Add these two steps to sweep on to the barn entrance or toilet area, "he said. Another tip for quick cleaning cycle? A leaf blower.

To clean stop, you should buy a basket of fertilizer that easy to push and pull on the compost or manure and purchasing a pitchfork is easy to understand and no missing teeth, Blickle said.

Keep garbage cans near areas where waste as feed room and toilet area, Michelle Anderson adds, CEO of digiral TheHorse.com occur.

Coordination of energy collection

If your horse tackled on his barn and offers no food, chips or other supplies, coordinated with other guests alternately select items in store, as this can save time and fuel costs. Stephanie L. Church, editor of the "horse head, addressed an institution of their own cereal bring, where other guests feed on a variety of brands. For traders who made his horse food and was open outside office hours was difficult. Therefore, it is found a practice that the stable and barn were ready to collect manager for their food. "I added some of my pension check every month for this service," he said.

Deck Cleaning and Storage

Blankets clean and store the winter in the summer, if not and / or will take time. "This is not to fight wasted time into a washing or cleaning service to get to send blankets if the temperature drops," says Erica Larson, News Editor for the horse.

Jennifer Whittle, Web TheHorse.com producer, uses pressurized water (ground water line also do the trick if you have a good water pressure) to facilitate removal of mud and dirty blankets and participation of leaves.

Your Guide to Equine Health Care: This article was published in June 2015 Horse.

Let you us block the ads! (Why?)

cleaning tips and tools