Help with smelly stable

[Jingleballs]

Casper is a very wet, dirty, smelly horse.

He likes to make a proper mess of his stable and no matter what size of bed I give him he tends to trash it all.

He's on rubber mats and shavings.

Even during the summer when he was only in for a couple of hours during the day his stable would smell.

I've lifted the matt and disinfected them and the floor in preparation for him coming in for winter this weekend (he'll still be out during the day).

I've previously used equidry power to try and soak up some of the wet and get rid of the smell but that's never been that effective and equidry is quite expensive now. I'm also planning on diluting some disinfectant like zaflora just to spray around the stable.

I lift the poo and wet every day so there is no reason for the smell - I think he is just a smelly horse.

Does anyone have any other suggestions on how I can try and tackle this problem?

Thanks!

 

[Aces_High]

I've always found Equidry to be brilliant and use it the whole time. Have you tried Carbolic Disenfectant powder? Not sure how that will work on rubber floors but I have used it on concrete and love the smell. You seem to have covered every option.... Oh I do use a very good liquid disenfectant called FAM40 I got for the quarantines and when the Foot and Mouth was around. Anyway it seems to dissolve smells.... I often splash it over the floors well diluted and it leaves a nothing smell. Not sure if that makes sense! Could be worth a try?

 

[Booboos]

Does the pee seep under the mats? If yes, then that might be your problem as it gets trapped there. There are two solutions, either glue the mats together so that there are no gaps, or use more absorbent bedding, such as wood pellets, that will stop the pee before it finds the cracks.

I also use Sirocco stable deodoriser and Biofresh, both of which work very well.

 

[Penny Less]

You could try using Bed down (I think its called) shavings and straw with lavender
deodoriser in, helps with my pongy horse.

 

[PennyJ]

ordinary household type antibacterial spray? I was very impressed with how it neutralised/destroyed the ammonia pong from wee in a neighbours stable...

 

[Tnavas]

Clear out your stable and wash the floor well with Jeyes fluid, then once dry sprinkle a layer of garden lime on the floor before putting back the rubber mats. Sprinkle some on the top of the mats before you put his bed back down. Each time you muck ouot sprinkle the lime on the wet area.

The ammonia smell develops once the urine is exposed to the air and the lime neutralises it. We used it in all the boxes in the racing yard I worked in - 40 boxes inside a big American style barn - no smell at all!