Mucking-out shavings ('Ritz' style) with eventer Wayne Garrick

Mucking-out shavings ('Ritz' style) with eventer Wayne Garrick

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How do you make a 'dry and dusty' subject such as mucking-out come to life? You ask a three star event rider, hunt groom (and hilarious Horse Hero blogger) to demonstrate the fine art! Wayne takes us through his three stages of mucking-out a shavings bed to create 'Ritz' standard accomodation for his horses who, he says 'work hard enough for us, so it's the least we can do for them'. Watch and learn! You could become as anally obsessed as Wayne in his quest to produce the perfect bed!

Wayne Garricks method of mucking out a shavings bed

  • Wayne suggests having a shavings bed on 'semi deep-litter', ie. keeping a shallow layer of saturated bed at the base (underneath the dry bedding) to offer extra protection, especially to large horses, when they lie down and get up. This, he says, avoids capped hocks and other injuries (even though his stables have rubber matting underneath the bed).
  • Wayne also recommends that rubber mats fit snuggly, to avoid pee getting underneath them which will make the stable smell!
  • Wayne suggests 3 stages to mucking out...
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    Kels 23 Oct 2008 Oh My God, this is BRILLIANT! I'm sure I waste a whole wheelbarrow full of clean shavings when I muck out. This method is going to be so much help, I don't think I was ever actually taught mucking out, we just 'did' it!

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