Earth floor - best bedding?

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Hello all,

I'm interested in moving my two horses to new yard I've found soon. The stables they would be in have earth floors - anyone have any bedding recommendations? Or tips for how to manage beds on an earth floor?

Ta,

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I also deep litter on a dirt floor. I love it, actually, much better than concrete IMO as it drains well. I use shavings or Aubiose. The trick is not to disturb the floor underneath the bedding too much - let the bed build up to a good solid base.
 
in the old stables we had at old yard i worked at there were 3 with earth floors as every1 else has said we deep littered and this worked really well x
 
They're on wood pellets on rubber mats on concrete at the current yard which is working well for my 6yr old (slightly less well for my older mare but I think I need to make the bed slightly thicker). And in previous years I've always used shavings. I'm getting quite used to 5 minutes to take the poos out of each - does straw take ages to muck out properly? And doesn't it get quite smelly? I'll be going straight from yard to work so ideally don't want to smell like eau de stable!

Think the mare was on straw years ago before I bought her but she has struggled with coughing in winter before now (although not for a few years now). Not sure about my younger gelding - just hope he wouldn't eat it!

If you're deep littering with straw how many bales roughly would you use a week?

Thanks very much.

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I deep litter with the wood pellets on my earth floor.
Works fine - you just do the same thing and let a good base build up. You need to put quite a bit down to start with, but after that it's easy and quick. I just 'top' the wet patch when it gets too tall and put new pellets down.
 
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