How to Clean a Horse Paddock

Horses are grazing animals that consume a significant amount of feed and roughage every day as a part of their diet. As a result, a normal-sized, healthy horse can produce as much as 50 pounds of manure in a single day. Cleaning up after horses is a part of their care, which includes cleaning manure out of stalls and paddocks. If horse manure is left where horses can stand or lie in it, health problems will result.

Things You'll Need

  • Wheelbarrow
  • Pitchfork
  • Shavings (optional)
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Instructions

    • 1

      Remove horse(s) from paddock and roll in the wheelbarrow. It is not safe to clean a paddock with the horse still inside it because the horse could escape while you are opening and closing the paddock gate, or turn over the wheelbarrow.

    • 2

      Locate horse manure and other debris that needs to be removed. Debris may consist of old, uneaten or wet hay, used shavings, or tree limbs that have fallen into the paddock.

    • 3

      Use pitchfork to scoop piles of horse manure and soggy hay, straw and shavings into the wheelbarrow.

    • 4

      Push wheelbarrow from the paddock once all the manure has been removed, and dump manure and other waste into a compost heap or spreader, for later use as fertilizer.