mucking stalls
Clearing horse waste
Mucking stalls is the task of cleaning out animal enclosures—removing manure, soiled bedding, and debris, then laying fresh material.
The phrase belongs primarily to horse care but applies to any livestock housing.
It's unglamorous but essential work: I spent the morning mucking stalls before the riding lesson.
The verb muck means to clear away filth.
- manureAnimal waste as fertilizer
- manure pileAccumulated livestock excrement
- pitchforkPronged tool for moving straw
- strawTube for sipping
- beddingMaterials covering a mattress
wheelbarrow · barn · horses · stable hand · shovel · ammonia · sawdust · hooves · sweat · hay · stable · dirty · farm · chores · scraping · dirty work · shoveling · odor
- manual laborfarming, lifting, carrying, shoveling, loading
- farm choresmilking cows, milking, egg gathering, hay baling, plowing
- unpleasant jobsgarbage collection, meat packing, latrine duty, coal mining, sweatshop labor
- horse carefarrier, grooming, horse grooming, horseshoeing, shoeing
- livestock workherding dogs, cattle drives, shepherding, penning, gathering
type of stable work
mucking stallsriding
Controlling while mounted
grooming · trail riding · tacking up · feeding · veterinary care
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