Another musing - horse bed location!

[FlyingCircus]

Do you have your horses bed facing the door? Or do you have it facing the wall? Why?

Saturday musings of wondering if having my bed sideways on to the door would be better. I have net rings near the door on both walls.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

I hate beds that do not fill the entire floor. We don't use nets but have haybars placed to give each horse the most privacy while eating.

 

[FlyingCircus]

I hate beds that do not fill the entire floor.

This is another option. Doesn't seem to work well for mine very well. She kicks half the bed out under the door and if i leave a space there I dont like the idea of her standing half on bed half not when she stands at the door ?

 

[Flowerofthefen]

At my old yard my retired horse had a huge stable. His bed was to the right of the door in a square. The rest of the floor was covered in rubber mats with his haynet on the back wall opposite the door. Current staes bed facing the doors, rubber mats on bare bits and haynets to the left!!

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

This is another option. Doesn't seem to work well for mine very well. She kicks half the bed out under the door and if i leave a space there I dont like the idea of her standing half on bed half not when she stands at the door ?

How big is the gap under the door?

 

[Tiddlypom]

Beds facing the wall.

I've two 14'x12' stables and one 16'x12' corner stable.

I have a 6' wide strip of rubber matting stretching from the door to the back of each stable. Water buckets and hay are put down on the rubber which is swept clear of shavings.

Plenty of room for the 16.1hh IDx, who takes 6'9" rugs, to stretch out to kip in the corner stable.



The bed in the empty stable is currently a bit thin, it's only a day bed for a couple of hours use a day.

Btw, the small black blob on the shavings at the back is not some dropping that I've missed, it's a fledgling swallow which has fallen out of the nest, so the stable is temporarily out of bounds to give its parents a chance to feed and rescue it!

 

[milliepops]

depends on the horse/configuration for me, i've done both, I do sweep the bed back for various reasons. Currently have all beds facing the door. at last yard I turned welshie's bed round to face the wall, as she box walks when left alone and she was running up and down the side wall rather than the front one, it destroys her bed if she runs around it so i prefer her to run up and down the rubber!

 

[FlyingCircus]

How big is the gap under the door?

Reasonably big! Livery yard unfortunately

 

[Carrottom]

My matting covers the whole floor of the stable so the horses lie down wherever they like. I use wood pellet on the mats and some lie on it but some lie on the mat. One lovely chap does like a dung pile for his pillow ?

 

[SussexbytheXmasTree]

Mine are laid out like Tiddlypoms and fully rubber matted. They have mangers in the furthest corner from the door but only winter dinners are served in those. Mostly they are fed out of rubber bowls plonked inside their doors. Hay nets are tied to the right of the door so that they can eat and look out without turning around (both are nosy and like to know what’s occurring) and constantly churning the bed.

 

[Griffin]

My matting covers the whole floor of the stable so the horses lie down wherever they like. I use wood pellet on the mats and some lie on it but some lie on the mat. One lovely chap does like a dung pile for his pillow ?

My mare does the same, I tell myself "it's mud" but it is not!

The stable is fully rubber matted but I use shavings on the back half facing the door to soak up wee.

 

[Not_so_brave_anymore]

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[Not_so_brave_anymore]

Beds facing the wall.

I've two 14'x12' stables and one 16'x12' corner stable.

I have a 6' wide strip of rubber matting stretching from the door to the back of each stable. Water buckets and hay are put down on the rubber which is swept clear of shavings.

Plenty of room for the 16.1hh IDx, who takes 6'9" rugs, to stretch out to kip in the corner stable.

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The bed in the empty stable is currently a bit thin, it's only a day bed for a couple of hours use a day.

Btw, the small black blob on the shavings at the back is not some dropping that I've missed, it's a fledgling swallow which has fallen out of the nest, so the stable is temporarily out of bounds to give its parents a chance to feed and rescue it!

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I've never known a swallow able to rescue their own chick. If it's not too late, I'd pick it up and pop it back (I do this at least once every year, and the parents have never rejected the chick because I'd touched it)

 

[MuddyMonster]

Facing the door but have faced a wall in the past. Cant say it makes a lot of difference to mine.

I only have my bed 3/4 of the way forward though as I prefer this - I find it helps dry feet better in winter & is just easier all round for me.

 

[brighteyes]

12 x 24 all EVA mats. Mine can't 'cope' with a full bed somehow, but likes it like this!

The others have their beds all the way across the back of their stables. I couldn't afford to bed them front to back.

 

[poiuytrewq]

My old horse has his bed to the door. You step down slightly into my stables so I don’t get the bedding kicked out.
The others I do leave a gap along the front. I soak hay so it gets damp and they tend to fill water buckets with bedding.

 

[Tiddlypom]

I've never known a swallow able to rescue their own chick. If it's not too late, I'd pick it up and pop it back (I do this at least once every year, and the parents have never rejected the chick because I'd touched it)

Thanks.

OH has now carefully put the fledgling back in the nest. It's promising that it was lively enough to be very cross. The parents were apparently very, very cross!

 

[rabatsa]

I have a 2"x8" plank of wood across the bottom of each of my stable doorways. This stops the bedding getting trailed out of the stables and reduces draughts from under the doors.

 

[Leam_Carrie]

Beds facing the wall.

I've two 14'x12' stables and one 16'x12' corner stable.

I have a 6' wide strip of rubber matting stretching from the door to the back of each stable. Water buckets and hay are put down on the rubber which is swept clear of shavings.

Plenty of room for the 16.1hh IDx, who takes 6'9" rugs, to stretch out to kip in the corner stable.

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The bed in the empty stable is currently a bit thin, it's only a day bed for a couple of hours use a day.

Btw, the small black blob on the shavings at the back is not some dropping that I've missed, it's a fledgling swallow which has fallen out of the nest, so the stable is temporarily out of bounds to give its parents a chance to feed and rescue it!

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That’s a very comfy looking horse!