Have you changed the layout of your stable to suit your horse?

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I have spent nearly 7 years fishing hay out of Charlies water bucket, thinking that there must be a way of preventing this from happening. In the past his hay (Fed from the floor) has always been on the left hand wall as you walk in to his stable and his water on the right side. I was watching him eat hay a few nights ago and realized that he would take a mouth full of hay walk to the door and drop the majority of the mouthful in his water bucket! Another night I found all of his hay moved to the right side of his stable completely covering his water bucket. Since then I now put the water and feed on the left side and the hay on the right side. This works, there is no more hay in his water. Has anyone else done this?
 
Yep! I always had my bed against the back wall, extending down to a clear strip along in front of the door/ left hand wall. The door is on the right with the stable extending up and to the left of the door. On the left hand wall his haynet hangs and his automatic water bowl is in that far left corner. So both are above the clear strip. With me so far?? Lol! So my youngster started to lie down with his bum to the door, diagonally across the stable. His back legs were hanging off his bed and I was worried about capped hocks. So I extented his bed so all I have is a clear doormat type bit at the door. His bed is massive now, the bit under his haynet/water gets disgusting so it's sacrificed every morning. Worth it to avoid capped hocks I think!
 
Yep! Me too!

Mine started lying off her bed, taking hay from one side of her stable to the door, knocking water over (playing with the buckets) and she was a bit set back from the others so her view was restricted.

I got my hubby and dad to take the front wall down and bring it forward 3 foot so she is in line with the others (better view), put a corner manger up for her water, put rubber matting (6x4) infront of the door like a doormat and bedded down the rest of the stable even under the water nice and deep so she is always on bedding and I put her hay on the rubber matting infront of the door so she can eat and look around at the same time.

Sometimes in a morning I've seen her lying down on her bed and eating her hay, she likes breakfast in bed! LOL!

xx
 
Yep!! My boy used to have his hay by the front of his stable just to the right of the door, he was just pulling it out and dropping it out over the door. We moved his hay to the back corner of his stable and changed the way his bed was to be along the left wall for lying down and over towards the hay and he is now much cleaner and actually eats his food!!
 
yep - got sick of fishing haylage out of water buckets and picking it out of his paper bed.

I put a haynet up by the door, so he can eat and look out in one place rather than take haylage from the rack and drag it over to the door. He still has haylage in the rack too, but by the time the haynet is gone the yard has gone to bed so theres apparently nothing to look at over the stable door! Also he went through a phase of getting filled legs when they started coming in at night in winter; someone suggested putting two sources of haylage in opposite places so he walks around more and keeps the lymph from building up. seems to work.

Also he only pees in one place, against the left hand wall as you walk in, so he doesnt have a bank on that side as it was soaking up into it and wasting alot of bedding. His water buckets go against the wall, in front of the bed (about halfway in the stable).

It really irritates me when my OH puts his feed bucket in, as he sticks it right in the doorway; it means neddy cant stand there and do his nomnomnom dance (where he paws the ground repeatedly after each mouthful...:) ) so i always have to go and put it in the right place in the middle of the stable so he has plenty of room to show his appreciation for his dinner :D
 
One of my Boarders has a patch in the back of his stall that I don't bed down because he always dungs in one massive pile there. :)
 
Thank you. Thought it was just me!! I think that Charlie has being trying to tell me where he wanted his hay. He likes to look over the door whilst eating his hay. This means that most mornings we have pile of hay over his stable door now!
 
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