can i use sand??????

[samuelhorse]

farmer and YO suggested I bed my horse up on sand as apparently you can bed cows up on it.
This was suggested as sambo is a VERY VERY wet horse and shavings costing an arm and a leg, tried to go back to straw. Bad move he ate it, infact pigged on it. So YO suggested sand, now Im not convinced.

HAs anyone else used it or even heard of it being used and if so with what success???

 

[seche]

Although I have no experience of it myself - my Mum grew up in India and raced (1st lady jockey and amateur champion by age of 15 - shes cool!), all the horses there are still (exept perhaps the very wealthy yards) bedded on sand - its quite hard - but so are rubber mats, easy to muck out, dries horses feet out though.. and sand gets EVERYWHERE, & is tricky to groom out.

 

[Libbyn1982]

How bout a sand base with shavings or straw on top? that way the sand will soak up the wet and the top will be comfier and not as messy

 

[OrangeEmpire]

I use flax with my wet horse... seems to work! much more absorbant than shavings.

 

[Darkly_Dreaming_Dex]

i have known compacted chalk used successfully as a base with regular straw or shavings etc over the top.
The riding school i went to as a teenager used peat moss for the wet horses and used to sell the manure for £££

 

[jewel]

i use sawdust from the local sawmills it's is brillant for my very wet boy (3/5 wheelbarrows full when on straw), it looks like sand when down. plus it's only 50p a bag which is a bonus.