Horseface kicking hell out of stable walls - rubber matting?

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What's the minimum thickness (obviously the thicker means more money)? Stable wall is breezeblock, crappy skinny TB legs with an old injury to cannon bone. Any thoughts please (on boxrest)?
 
Do you use shavings or straw? If you use shavings could you not get a load of free shavings from a timber yard and bank up the sides really well. Sounds like she is a bit bored, stick a radio on a classical channel, leave lots of small haynets hanging all over the stable, make sure she has lots of smaller feeds to look forward to rather than one or two big ones and maybe leave her a stable toy or two (snackaball's are very good) or licks suspended from the ceiling (not from the wall or she will trap lickit between wall and her mouth and eat it in about ten seconds flat). Pop an apple in her water bucket and this will keep her quiet for ages!
 
I have a wall kicker and in the end I hung all the horses rugs up over the walls of the stable to "cushion" it slightly. It was miraculous, as soon as it stopped making all the noise when he kicked he couldn't make his point and stopped doing it!!
 
one of mine kicks its shoes off on the door with her fronts and bucks kicking against the walls with her hinds!
so anyway, in this special needs stable, i have a doormat attached onto the stable door and stupidly high banks on the walls (shavings) high-ish maintenance but cheaper than rubber mats,literally they are probably up to my waist but it works a treat.
 
Sorry, I don't know anything about rubber matting, so can't help you there.

I put carpet on the walls when mine was on BR and kicking the **** out of the walls. as Wimbles says, as soon as they work out it doesn't make a noise, the incentive kind of disappears and they give up.
 
wow! totally didn't realise that was a rude word. typed in a word starting with c, has p at the end and the @ sign in the middle and it starred it out for me!!
 
I have stokbord in part of my stables. It comes in 2 thicknesses.

This is not a cheap option, but very effective. I bought mine from Horse requisites in Newmarket. Apparently its widely used on racing yards and stud farms.

Unfortunately, I think it is about £1000 to fully line a stable. I think a cheaper wall mat is available from Derby House.

I made my decision based on the cost of stable/horse "repairs" compared to the mat cost.
 
My ID kicks, bucks, rears and bounces off his walls. I used Quattro to supply both my floor and wall mats and the wall mats worked out at about £30 for a 6x4. Give them a ring and they can advise you.

I 'think' my wall mats are about 3cm deep and dispite taking a heck of a beating for the past 4 years are only slightly marked and have saved my partitions!

http://www.quattroproducts.co.uk/
 
I think getting old carpet cut offs would probably be your cheapest option and would have the same effect. As for rubbing matting I think normally the thinnest sheets you can get are 17mm (or maybe some 15mm), doubt you'd be able to get any much thinner than that as those seem to be the standard thicknesses. Try googling it and see what comes up but I def think you'll save money with carpeting.
 
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ok thanks everyone for your thoughts, can't wait to get her out full time, vet has said she can go out 2 hours a day now in a very small sectioned off paddock, with dressings and protection on the 2 injured legs, this boxrest is a nightmare for an inseason TB chestnut mare!::(
 
Not teaching you to suck eggs but do be ultra careful when turning out your mare for the first time. Sedalin might be an option to stop the mare going mad but I would advise wearing a hard hat and gloves just in case. I have had various horses on box rest and honestly, have never been able to tell how they will react when going out for the first time - and the worst was Mr laid back lazy lad who seemed to be really calm. I underestimated him and had my hands ripped to pieces when he stepped foot outside his box. Never again.
 
another cheap toy to keep the horse on box rest occupied is to cut up a carrot and put it in an old plastic milk bottle suspended so they can reach it but not pin it against the wall, they have to tip the bottle to get the treats out it keeps them occupied for ages
 
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