Spring Cleaning: Readers Get Barns in Shape

More than 540 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, “How do you ‘spring clean’ your farm?”
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More than 540 readers of TheHorse.com responded to a poll asking, "How do you ‘spring clean’ your farm?"

results of poll on spring cleaning horse farms

Results were as follows:

  • Give all the horses a good grooming to help with shedding: 88.52% (486)
  • Wash and put away winter blankets: 71.77% (394)
  • Clean up weeds around the farm: 64.66% (355)
  • Disinfect all water buckets and troughs: 55.01% (302)
  • Clean out medicine cabinets of any expired items: 40.62% (223)
  • Strip and disinfect all the stalls: 30.05% (165)
  • Other: 23.32% (128)

(Multiple selections allowed)

Readers shared their plans for spring cleaning around the farm in the comments below

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Megan Arszman received a Bachelor of Science In print journalism and equine science from Murray State University in Murray, Ky., and loves combining her love of horses, photography, and writing. In her “free time,” when she’s not busy working as a horse show secretary or riding her American Quarter Horses on her parents’ Indiana farm, she’s training and competing her Pembroke Welsh Corgi and Swedish Vallhund in dog agility and running.

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