How do you do your beds, across the length of the stable or along the 'short side'?

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I used to have mine across the short side but have had it like this for the last couple of years as it creates a deeper bed and is big enough for him to sleep on.

I've been trying with doing it across the 'short side' and moving the net/cube to the other side of the stable but I'm not really sure as I'd have to have three banks that way. .
 

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FieldOrnaments said:
Your stable looks massive!
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It's 15 x 12 I think.
But I put the panoramic view on the camera to get all the walls in so it looks like it's this shape when in truth it's not. It's rectangular! 😆
 

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blue is the auto waterer, the line on the bottom is the door, yellow is the hay bar and red is where I lay the bed. This is how I prefer it, however it has now moved across the back as Dex was making the bed sodden by thrashing in the drinker, but if I had bucketed water, I would keep it as above
 
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So above is a rough guideline as to how my stables are for both my boys. The orange is their bed, the yellow where I tie their haynets, pink is where I put their hay ball that they can roll around and play with, green is where I hang their stable toy(s), blue is where their water is and purple is the doorway. In the winter I bed their entire stables, but in the spring and summer months, I go for the above layout as I like to make sure that they have a cool place to stand if they prefer. Both lie down quite a bit and are often caught snoozing happily :)
 
FieldOrnaments said:
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Same as this. I hate skimpy bedding. If we’re asking them to stand in the least we can do is make it as comfortable as possible IMO.

I like straw because it just creates a nice soft base and I bring it all the way to the door because that’s where they will most likely stand for the majority of the time.

(Pony skinny from Ireland journey for those not familiar with Miles’s story!)



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How tall does everyone do their banks? I always aim for about 1 foot above the height of the bedding and bedding midway between the knee and fetlock of the horse that will be resident
 
So many artists on here 😄. Mine are in large stables and bed takes up on average two thirds and there is a bank wherever there is a wall..my mares stable is so big it only touches 2 walls.
 
Mine is very as similar to fieldornaments, maybe a bit further down, except my door is in the middle and haynet in the bottom right corner.

Tigger sleeps in the top left corner, likes to use the bank as a pillow, so I make sure the cleanest nicest straw is there. He wees top right
 
IrishMilo said:
Same as this. I hate skimpy bedding. If we’re asking them to stand in the least we can do is make it as comfortable as possible IMO.

I like straw because it just creates a nice soft base and I bring it all the way to the door because that’s where they will most likely stand for the majority of the time.

(Pony skinny from Ireland journey for those not familiar with Miles’s story!)



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He looks like a lovely sort, good luck with him. I can see you are looking after him really well.
 
FieldOrnaments said:
How tall does everyone do their banks? I always aim for about 1 foot above the height of the bedding and bedding midway between the knee and fetlock of the horse that will be resident
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No bankings any time I try he pulls them down so I figured he prefers flat. My stable is pretty square. I've hay and water in one corner on the same wall as the door. Can't have bed there as he likes to dunk and it turns into a swamp. But otherwise as far forward as reasonable
 
Mine goes across the long side but it makes sense given the fixed layout. I personally hate banks and so does my horse - he puts up with it but when the yard staff have done them too high for his liking, he will go and take them down by pawing at them 😂😂 standard practice back home was to scrape away from the wall and create a deep "island" for them to stand and sleep on, covering the whole stall or stable. Whenever I do get a chance to go to assisted DIY, I will be making J's bed the same way.
 
I used to do whole stable, with a gap for water, but this horse got cast a couple of times near the water/door, so now there is a door's width on entry, which contains door, water and haynet.

Box is 15 X 12. So, the bedded bit is now 12 x 12.

There are 3 banks, but one of them is now very short as I made a back door onto a patio area and he has free access in and out through a freezer curtain.

I don't like skimpy beds. It means they lie where they poo. Mine is great at pooing in one place and the bed is big enough that he can lie elsewhere. He is grey, so it matters! In fact, since he has also had free access to a patio, 95% of the time he actually goes outside to poo, and he had only had a couple of baths this year as he stays clean!

ETA- the stables are also fully matted. The beds are still thick so pee doesn't seep under the mats.
 
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I leave a small strip where they eat hay so they can pick it up if they want and where their water bucket is but otherwise the rest is bedding.

I also use straw and me and horses seem happier on it.
 
I leave a 4ft deep strip at the front for water and hay. I don't do banks as it's only a smidge over 12 x 12 and banks would mean only a tiny space is left in the middle. The 'bank' behind Arch is just spare clean bedding, which I bring down through the week. The bed's about 6-10in deep, tapering down a bit to the front depending on the cycle through the new bale of bedding.

My horse seems pretty chilled - I get sent photos like these of him from the early liveries (4-5am arrivals). They have been known to go in to check he's breathing.
 

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EVA mats, rubber by door. Bed across the back if they’re in for more than a few hours, currently on “summer bed” so it’s just a corner of bedding.
 
I'm always mindful that they aren't at different levels when eating hay, so the front shouldn't be on bare floor and the back end up on a bed. I only have shetlands now so they get a square in the corner, but when I had bigger ponies I bedded to the door.

My livery deep litters a shavings bed. She's tried both ways now, but the bed is only around 2ft wide, so more like a pillow than a bed! When the poor horse is eating hay, his back end is about a foot higher than his front. That can't be good for him.
 
I no longer have banks, unless the stable is really dry and you turn them every day they are mould traps.

They have a thick bed where they lie and pee, they are on EVA, nothing along the back or edges. If they spend a lot of time at the door, which most of mine don't, it gets bedded to the door. If I want to make it look tidy I may do the lying strip full length across the stable.

In they sheds they have two or three lying areas, its an earth floor and I have found its a lot dryer not bedding down larger areas, because the bedding takes up moisture in the air.
 
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