Spring Cleaning Your Feed Room

Save time and money by giving your feed room a good spring cleaning with these tips.
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Spring Cleaning Your Feed Room
Save time and money by giving your feed room a good spring cleaning with these tips. | Photo: Alexandra Beckstett/The Horse

For those of us in milder states, spring is quickly turning into summer. However, for many, trees are still leafing out and spring has only just arrived. No matter how far in to spring you are, there’s something about this season that begs action. This is a great time for tidying, cleaning, and organizing before the summer heat sets in.

So what to put on your spring to-do list? The feed room is a great please to start.

Feed bins

If you have free standing feed bins they probably haven’t been pulled away from the wall and washed out all winter. Who knows what it living behind them (hopefully just spiders!) but it’s worth pulling them out and checking for evidence of rodent activity, and giving the area a good sweep. Check plastic trash cans used for storing feed for holes, because rats will chew holes in the bottoms of these bins. Wash cans out with dilute bleach, but make sure they’re dry before putting any feed in them

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Clair Thunes, PhD, is an equine nutritionist who owns Clarity Equine Nutrition, based in Gilbert, Arizona. She works as a consultant with owners/trainers and veterinarians across the United States and globally to take the guesswork out of feeding horses and provides services to select companies. As a nutritionist she works with all equids, from WEG competitors to Miniature donkeys and everything in between. Born in England, she earned her undergraduate degree at Edinburgh University, in Scotland, and her master’s and doctorate in nutrition at the University of California, Davis. Growing up, she competed in a wide array of disciplines and was an active member of the U.K. Pony Club. Today, she serves as the district commissioner for the Salt River Pony Club.

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