Horse dirty in the stable

[Tacobell]

Hi All,

just wanting to know you experiences on a horse that is really dirty in the stable. He isnt particularly wet, but lots of poo EVERYWHERE where he has obviously walked it around. i have tried a big plush bed and am currently trying a thinner bed at the back. his stable is fully rubber matted.

 

[Barton Bounty]

Id take the matting off the back and put your bed on the floor, only sawdust, this is the only thing that keeps my boy cleanish ?

 

[Archangel]

My gelding is dreadful. The bigger bed does seem to help but frankly I look at his stable every morning and think "what the hell happened in here".
He saves up his wee for the stable. Nice that.

 

[Barton Bounty]

I think mine has a party with all the other horses lol

 

[Wizpop]

My friend has a 17,2 gelding who was like this. She now just puts a sprinkle of sawdust on the rubber matting towards the back of the satiable, and sweeps it out everyday. Works a treat- and he’s coloured bu5 somehow always clean?

 

[ecb89]

My gelding is disgusting, he’s on straw. He poos along the back wall and tramples the middle.
I’ve done so much reading and I’m tempted by aubiose bedding

 

[Barton Bounty]

My gelding is disgusting, he’s on straw. He poos along the back wall and tramples the middle.
I’ve done so much reading and I’m tempted by aubiose bedding

It does sound good ?

 

[asmp]

I have a box walker who likes to shuffle through his poo. I find using Laysoft bedding which is a dense bedding helps. I pick up the poo with gloves. I couldn’t use the large white shavings another livery uses as I’d be there all day searching for the poo.

No idea why pic has come out sideways

 

[Auslander]

I have one who poos for Britain, and trails it through his bed. I tried every bedding I could get my hands on while there was a pellet supply issue, and have recently gone back to pellets. A big thick pellet bed is the only thing that has worked for this guy. I have to do a lot of sifting, but it's worth it to have a decent looking bed!

 

[tatty_v]

I started a similar thread a while back for our disgusting boy ? I’ve ended up using straw, but specifically wheat straw (and the not-so-nice bales). He doesn’t eat this, and weirdly has also stopped making such a mess with it as well. No idea why but I am relieved!

 

[Zigzagged6260]

I have used Aubiose in the past. It's very good for the wet but it creates quite a solid bed which means the poo just sits on the top and gets kicked around and broken up easily. It also tends to darken which means it's difficult distinguishing everything. Great for wet and environment though and for any tidy but wet horse.

I use a big straw bed. Rubber matting on the front, straw bed directly on concrete on the back. I turn it over once a week and remove the wet and the rest of the week just skip out the piles of poo. The straw cradles it and it doesn't get kicked around.

 

[Griffin]

I used to use straw with my messy gelding (who literally used to poo for England) and throw most of it out every day. However, with my messy mare, I have recently started using wood pellets and it seems to work the best because the poo stays on top instead of getting mashed in.