mucking out
Clearing animal waste
Mucking out is cleaning accumulated waste from an animal's living space—typically a horse's stall, but also pig pens, chicken coops, or cattle barns.
The task involves removing soiled bedding, manure, and wet spots, then replacing with fresh material.
I spent the morning mucking out the stables.
The phrase occasionally extends to any thorough cleaning of a messy space.
- stablesShelters for horses
- horse boxVehicle for moving equines
- manureAnimal waste as fertilizer
- pitchforkPronged tool for moving straw
- strawTube for sipping
bedding · rubber matting · horses · shoveling · dirty work · barn · dung · wheelbarrow · ammonia · hooves · sweeping · hay · farmyard · livestock · dirty · soiled · cleaning · forking
- dirty workshoveling, scrubbing, digging, dredging, stall cleaning
- horse carefarrier, grooming, horse grooming, horseshoeing, shoeing
- stable cleaningshavings, pitchfork, wheelbarrow, shovel
- stablesbox stall, stalls, paddock, paddocks, tack room
- pastoral lifeshepherds, shepherding, herders, herding, herdsmen
- horsemanshipriding lesson, riding lessons, riding school, riding schools, riding instructor