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Summary: Watch an expert explain how to clean a horse stable in this free online video on basic horse care.
Kelli LaBar is a practicing aesthetician and makeup artist in Wilmington, N.C. She graduated from Miller-Motte Technical College as a certified aesthetician, and she currently works as...read more
"I'm Kelli on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you some tips and techniques that I use to basic horse care. Another thing you want to do to ensure a healthy horse is to make sure you are having your stall cleaned on a daily bases. Horse manure and urine can harper a lot of pericites and a lot of bacteria which could harm your horse if it builds up too much in the stall. So you definitely want to make sure that your getting in there with a pitch fork and you are picking out the manure on a daily basis and you are really digging out any urine spots in there on a daily basis. If you are not keeping your stall clean as well, it could lead to a lot of foot problems in your horse. You could get thrush, the horse could get a lot of manure and urine packed up the hoof which could lead to abysses. So that is something you want to make sure that you do on a daily basis to ensure healthy feet in your horse, to ensure your horse is not ingestioning or being attacked by any pericytes or any bacteria. At least overall cleanness, your horse lays down a lot or lays in a lot of urine it could get a lot of sores. So stall cleaning on a daily basis is definitely very important to overall horse health."
eHow Article: How to Clean a Horse Stable