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For a mucky mare, anything that I can spray to sweeten her house up a little? She's on straw, mucked out fully daily but rather incontinent and some days, her house stinks! Anything that I can spray/sprinkle on her bed, she does eat it sometimes, but just to stop it smelling horrific?!
 
there is a product on the market comes in a big bucket, its a white powder you sprinkle on the floor helps make it smell better.
never used it my self, but remember friend saying it was expensive.
sorry not a lot of help. :(
 
I really like a straw bed (for Mollie, not me :o) but had this problem at first. So now I put a layer of shavings down first in her usually weeing places and put the straw bed on top. Every day/couple of days I dig down and remove all the wet shavings. I skip out droppings frequently and keep the straw tidy, she has a fresh-smelling tidy bed most of the time. :)

Many years ago I kept my last horse at a farm where the stable had a floor which sloped inward towards a central point, where there was a grid. :) All the wee disappeared, I don't know where. :cool: It was great, but I've never had a stable like that since.
 
I'm afraid I cheat completely and in the summer with the bed up I wash out the floor with water and a very little bit of Zoflora disinfectant and leave to dry during the day. In the winter I put the bed up then sprinkle with Zoflora rather than wash out because it won't dry. Works a treat and I had lots of comments about how nice my stables smell, just don't use the apple scented one unless you want your horse to spend all night rifling through the bed looking for the apples! ;)
 
thanks I might try the shavings under the bed, does it not get mixed in? Zoflora sounds good just worried as she does munch it sometimes...I've tried shavings and because she's so wet, it was just like paper mache....grim...to keep it anything like decent I'd really need a bale a day :eek:
 
Would rubber matting help? Mine cost me about £130 all in and is now 6 years old and going strong. All moisture runs under the rubber and depending on how the stable floor is made, will then run out in channels in the rubber. Keeps bedding dry and may help with smell.
 
I've used the powder before but can't remember exactly what its called. Stable zone I think. It's not that expensive considering you only need a little bit each time. It absorbs the wet as well as the smell. I found I threw out less bedding (shavings) with it.
 
Frumpoon, what's that please? Sugar Ii'll look for that, but Sam I think rubber matting might get slippy, she's that wet-she has a bed which is about a foot and a half deep and one piece of matting, but it gets really wet and slippy (it's only at the front so not too bad )
 
Cushionbed - its made by Giffords up here in the Midlands but there's outlets here and there acrss the country. Basically its chopped up wood pallets but its really soft, not sharp at all and holds the ground well, soaks up all the wet and doesn't smell...up here its £3.20 a bale plus VAT plus delivery
 
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