Easibed??? Easy my backside!!

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Well moved my two horses on to DIY livery a couple of weeks ago due to financial reasons after one horse had serious illness - not had final vets bill yet, but I suspect it will be over limit as horse was in hospital for over two months. Anyway - that aside, I decided to go for Easibed - the word "easy" in the title made me think strangely, that mucking out would become "easier". How wrong could I be??? The mare is clean - stabled for about 22 hours per day due to recuperation - clean as a whistle - 5 minutes to muck out.
Gelding who is only in overnight is like a pig. There are no whole poos in there in the morning - just lumps of squashed , stirred and trampled wet disgusting bed. I did exactly as it says on the tin - put it down really deep, but my God, I have never seen anything like it. It already looks filthy and takes me about 30 minutes to get the muck out - bending down in rubber gloves picking it out by hand.....at this rate, I won't go to bed at night - in fact if I go to the yard now, I should be finished with the dirty git by morning.....
Anyway - just a rant - its over now - going to get a bottle of beer in order to be able to cope with the thought of what awaits me in the morning! Does anyone else have one of the filthiest horses in the world?
 
Dirty boy! I feel your pain though, when my cob first arrived I had made her a fab bed of lovely clean new shavings really deep etc.... In the morning it was like destroyed and disgusting not a bit of clean left I had to empty the whole stable that morning and put her straight onto straw never ever again will she go on shavings!! She still is messy but its not as bad on straw!
 
Yep, Rebelzmum, feel your pain! My OH renamed Easibed "Easi-shite"!!

I think it is the force of gravity that turns big fat, easy to pick up droppings into tiny, weeny, needle like bits of poo that take ages to pick up. And it doesn't soak up the pee. And it's really heavy to work with. And it's so white that you can see every tiny bit of needle like poo and feel obliged to pick it all up. But I am the Monica Geller of stable doing.

But...

If you have a big stable and good drainage, it's actually really Easi (:p) to muck out. Just pick the poo off the top with a wide shavings fork and then find the wet bit.

I've had to go back on it this week because I haven't had time to get my normal Aubiose (LOVE Aubiose) from my normal place which is 20 miles away. But Tee's stable is huge and there's enough Aubiose in there to soak up the pee. For now. But I will be getting some more quick smart before I end up with a big puddle under the door - yuk.
 
I had my mare on Easibed and she was fine as she's quite tidy but thne I had to have my 3 year old in so used her stable. She destroyed a whole bed in one night. i couldn't believe what I saw the next day. It was disgusting. I put her in the empty smaller stable on straw for the rest of the time she was in and deep bedded it. MINGER comes to mind.
 
teebagsmum said:
Yep, Rebelzmum, feel your pain! My OH renamed Easibed "Easi-shite"!!

I think it is the force of gravity that turns big fat, easy to pick up droppings into tiny, weeny, needle like bits of poo that take ages to pick up. And it doesn't soak up the pee. And it's really heavy to work with. And it's so white that you can see every tiny bit of needle like poo and feel obliged to pick it all up. But I am the Monica Geller of stable doing.

But...

If you have a big stable and good drainage, it's actually really Easi (:p) to muck out. Just pick the poo off the top with a wide shavings fork and then find the wet bit.

I've had to go back on it this week because I haven't had time to get my normal Aubiose (LOVE Aubiose) from my normal place which is 20 miles away. But Tee's stable is huge and there's enough Aubiose in there to soak up the pee. For now. But I will be getting some more quick smart before I end up with a big puddle under the door - yuk.
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So funny - LOL.
Picking the poo off the top is easier said than done - he somehow manages to get it under the top layer. I am finding that it does seem to absorb the wet, but like you, I don't like seeing it looking dirty even though it's only tiny pieces, so at 6am, I'm on my hands and knees with a stable light that gives about as much illumination as a candle, digging up to my wrists in my pink marigolds trying to find poo while he's out in the paddock roaring at the mare like a demented elephant waking the local residents up. Add to this the fact that our haylage is beautiful, but extremely rich and it isn't droppings he's doing any more, its just cow pats........you get the image....
 
I know where you are all coming from, we put our two on straw, it was hunt the poo, put them on shavings and we came out to weetabix look alike, the only bonus to shavings was the manure heap wasn't as large.
This year they are staying out as long as possible, today in empty boxes, (they have 247 access to stables) both feed troughs had cowpat poos in them.
 
Eugh Easibed and cowpat poo. Ugh ugh ugh. And they don't even have the good grace to look embarrassed at the revolting mess they have left us either.
 
Have just tried ecobed cardboard bedding, supposed to be more absorbent etc. down exactly one night, on rubber matting,absolutely hated it, wee all under mats, strange pong in stable, spent next day taking it all out and replacing with shavings ! I have two exceptionally dirty horses and look with envy on the people with horses that do neat piles in a corner !
 
I tried various beddings with my filly when she was on box rest. Aubiose was one of my favs as was Nedz Bedz both worth a try... both really nice to handle, pleasant smelling and absorbant. Easi bed wasn't so absorbant and did get messy.

My gelding is on straw as it is sooo much cheaper and he was a bit of a messy beggar when he came... not sure he's much better now actually so for the mean time he's staying on Straw...
 
I had my normally extremely clean and tidy mare on Easibed for 7 days. I have never seen anything like the mess she made in there. As others have said normal poo just broke into a thousand pieces. I threw the whole bed out at the earliest opportunity of getting a new bed full of shavings delivered.

It was also rather sharp IMO and I didn't like the fact I kept finding it in the corner of my girl's eyes.

Very cold to the touch as well.
 
Loving the title of the post!

One of my boys is also filthy - in fact, I am sure we could compete for the much-coveted title of "Filthiest Horse in the World".

He manages not only to bury his poo but bury it on a bed of clean shavings - so underneath & on top is all clean, and you have to dig the poo out from the middle. If I didn't go through it doing this I would probably need to add a bale of shavings every 2 days (I've now got it down to 1 every 5-6 days).

I have full rubber matting and then a half-bed of maybe an inch of shavings. I tried wood-pellets and really hated them so went back to shavings. Have thought about trying Aubiose and Miscanthus but hoping someone else at the yard will be the guinea-pig for it first!

Re: Cow-Pat poos - we were also suffering badly from this, have put him on NAF Pink Powder, and it has made a big difference to the solidity of the poo.
 
Well an update on the cowpat horse......just come back from the yard after I had to leave at 5pm to go to the chiropractor to deal with the back pain from trying to muck out the worlds filthiest horse.....I thought I would go and get some late night poos out in the hope that it would be cleaner in the morning. The old gelding with his alzheimers thought it was breakfast time. He forgets he's eaten 10 minutes ago, so it can only be expected. The bugger had only done one poo and managed to grace the shovel with another direct hit while I was there.....which means that he must empty around half a ton between 9.15pm and 6am.....mare had done about 6, but she's the cleaner of the two. I can only imagine that she tippy toes round them all night normally......can't wait for the morning and what will await my newly straightened spine.....
 
Would you like a go with my filthy filly? She is probably worse than yours. I have given up and bought her mats and as of the weekend she will be sleeping on bare rubber. Nasty little snot monster. I have given up looking for poo so obliterated it no longer exists and just sweep it back every day. I should take you a picture. It is disgusting!
 
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