Horse is annoying me ;)

BSJAShowjumper123 said:
no stock lists near me :/
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there wasnt any me but got my local to change form easibed to allbed as its the same stuff but £3 cheaper, so now pretty much everyone who used easibed is now on allbed and getting it alot cheaper. Plus allbed do 2 sizes of flakes the large for the main bed and then a small flake to mix in to make it extra absorbant.
 
If your ashmatic, a deep littered bed probaly isnt particulary good for your breathing either. To save shavings, muck out the droppings with marigolds, its amazing how much you save. Take the pee out daily but lay a day bed then put a proper bed down in the night time. Also turn the banks over everyday its amazing how compacted they get. And buy your shavings in bigger numbers, youll get a discount and as there usually covered in plastic, you dont even need to store them inside.:)
 
you could leave the bed to dry when your mare is out, so muck out fully moving the bed to the sides but leave the wet alone and just level it off, and allow to dry, then just pull down the banks before the mare comes in,

I think if put in the small flakes you would change your mind it turns it into a totally differant bedding
 
Can people keep in mind just how old this girl is! Her horse doesn't know she said on a forum that she is annoying her so it hasn't done any harm really. If her turn of phrase gets on anyones nerves, then just chose not to read it.
I must admit i saw the title and thought oh no, she will get slated for this. Do you know the funny thing is that she never retaliates or getds nasty with people for it, i think that shows a great deal of maturity on her part.

as for the problem, my mare was the same on shavings, wet and poo kicked all through it. I have put her on straw again as she is easy on it. I know that isn't an option for op with the asthma thing. Would it make a difference if you wore one of those wee white masks for mucking out? I know a few people iwth asthma who use them when filling nets.

ets yeah straw does smell but i keep a tin of impulse at yard to mask the pong til i get home :D
 
I had a very wet horse on box rest. Hemcore worked very well for him. I had all the other horses on Easibed at the time but even before he was on box rest he was so wet it was costing me a fortune so he was normally on straw.

Now I have all the horses on Miscanthus and that is working very well, even with the wet horses.
 
BSJAShowjumper123 said:
and not being snobby but straw does smell lol
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Well if it's good enough for £million pound Thoroughbred broodmares then its good enough for me. Also it does not smell if you muck it out properly, we muck out three times a week and skip out on the other days. Clean deep beds are vital for TB babies and straw is the best.
You also are paying way too much for your Easibed. Shouldn't be any more than £6 or so. I pay £4.40 for Bedmax or Softchip for my own horse, only use one bale a week, but he is v. clean.
 
BSJAShowjumper123 said:
and not being snobby but straw does smell lol
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Source straw from somewhere else then. Mine is lovely, yellow, fluffy, and the smell is only ever pleasant.

As for people having a bit of a go, trouble is, the OP posts asking for help, which she gets, then dismisses. You either want help and are looking for new ideas, but you seem to find problems with every solution you are given.

Make yourself into a can do, instead of a can't do person OP.

Either suck it up and accept that if you don't give her more turn out she'll stay wet, or make a change :)
 
no offence but i cant stand deep litter ! it works better for me just to muck out as i go i use one bale of bedmax per week which costs me about £6 for 1 bale also i have cheap countrywide rubber mats work brilliantly
 
Some people are rather touchy!!! lol ... My boy pees every were and is sooo messy its unreal!! I use shavings and muck out properly everyday (i take 1 and a hf wheel barrows out each day) and put 2 bales in a week. Mine only gets in the field about 15hrs a weeks as he cant be left alone and cant stay out over night as hes accident prone!! He has the same routine through winter aswell (poor neglected horse :p ) lol ... personally i dislike deep litter as the ones iv seen smell and i dont like leaving wet bedding in!!
 
I thought she meant that it smells with wee on it lol. My bed once it is done smells lovely. I do feel like i whiff a bit after mucking out, hence the impulse:D I don't think you can beat a straw bed, it looks lovely when done and so comfy for horse. also no shavings in tail which is a pain to get out.

I know what you mean stencilface about the advice, but quite a lot of it she has taken on board, ie the bit thing and a few other things that i can think of. But she is only 14 and i just don't think it is necessary to speak to her the way some people do.
 
BSJAShowjumper123 said:
thanks :) lol and i know it sounds stuck up but no thanks i just want to try anything but straw as also she eats it lol
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Well you could get one of those spray bottles from a garden centre and mix up some weak Jeyes Fluid and spray that on the beds - that is what we do with the yearlings at the sales. Also will help damp the dust down and stop it smelling.
Plus get a dust mask - problems all sorted.
Give it a go, when I was running my own yard I had two part liveries that were really wet - the others were all on Hemcore but those two were just way too wet. Swopped onto straw and they were much better.
 
Straw don't smell, its when you disturb it, its the amonia that smells.
In the winter I bring my horse in of an evening when the clocks go back, she then gets turned out again when the clocks go forward. I only use 25 bales of straw MAX during the whole of the winter. the trick is not to disturb the staw, if the horse has disturbed it bat it back down again and cover with clean, normally only use a bale a week, and it gets lovely and warm, and a nice deep bed, you just have to find somone willing to muck it out. :-) Cost...£30!
 
Sorry forgot to day what bedding i use, its a mixture of mainly shavings, with finly chopped straw( which is dust extracted) its not dusty as i use on my very astmatic pony. Its also coated with eucalyptus so smell lovely. It makes a lovely fluffy bed and its actually cheaper than normal shavings, they will deliver, i keep a palet in my garage!!
It makes a lovely fluffy bed better than normal shavings.
I would really highly recoomend this!! :):)
http://www.sundownproducts.co.uk/equine_sdShavings.html
 
You'll have to remove all the bed anyway to fit the matts, and if your matts are not fitted properly and lifted regularly then the wet and smell might be worse. I only have half matts as I have bad memories of being on a yard where they basically had full mats and a sprinkle of shavings, the horse's had stinky wee stained rugs and the whole yard reaked.
 
BSJAShowjumper123 said:
getting a mask and stuff seems silly?
oh nice :|
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Might seem silly but it is so much better for your health, we have to at work, its in our contract, and I have found I don't even need to take my inhalers any more. Also good for grooming dirty ponios - no more brown snot for me!

Anyway good luck on finding something that works.
 
We have rubber matting over the whole stable and then a small but thick bed of shavings with big banks. Maybe 6 bales to start a bed.

But then we dig up the banks every day and mix in the wet (apart from the very bad red looking horrible wee patches you sometimes get) and leave it all thrown up all day, with just a sprinkle for wee catching purposes. Then at night it's really easy to sweep out the sprinkle of shavings and droppings, and then pull the bed down. We tend to take out about half a barrow a day, if that and put down half a bale 2x a week. So one bale a week isn't bad to maintain a thick coumfy bed. And the wet dries out really quick if thoroughly mixed in, and doesn't smell at all. Also makes it less dusty, and gets kicked around less.

I am dreading winter though, i love it when they can live out.
 
I am swapping my mare from straw, because it does stink when mares have weed on it, and I hate having to go to work after mucking out stinking of wee! She will be on rubber mats and wood pellets. Make a decent thick bed of pellets to start with, and just take the really wet stuff out daily. Throw the top of the bed up in the mornings your horse has to stay in, so there is just the dirtier stuff staying down to soak up wee, and pull down a thick bed for night. Wash the stable down with jeyes fluid under the mats when possible to keep it as fresh as possible ;) Mares are stinky, but this is the best way I have foudn to deal with them :p
 
narkymare said:
for gods sake - your horse is annoying you because YOU cant find her decent grazing and have to bring her in - omg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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She's Annoyed because her horse keeps weeing for england , And my grazing isnt very good either so please stop ruining a perfectly polite thread :/
 
My very wet, box walking mare is on box rest at the moment. 40-45 mins, 3 wheelbarrows and half a bag of new bedding a a DAY. Swap? Honestly, I'll do you a swap for a month.
 
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