How Much bedding is acceptable?

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In a stable with rubber matting and without?

Shavings beds

The reason I ask is because 4 of my horses should be moving by Friday latest and I don't want to bed up more and want to start removing some of their bed so it's not such a hard task when they move.
2 have full rubber mats and 2 have none. They are all messy and usually have at least 5 inches of bedding plus huge banks.

Don't want to pay fir another 6 bales of shavings to just throw it out next weekend!
 
I'd pull some if the banks down or just add minimal bedding (it doesn't have to be six bales surely?)

Alternatively bag up the clean stuff from the banks and take it with you when you move!
 
Could you use bedding from the boxes with mats to keep the other two boxes topped up, so the amount in the rubber mat boxes drops? You don't need terribly much on mats, and certainly if it's just for a few days it would be one way around it. I'd also shrink banks etc for a few days to save bedding. Shoot me now :p

Even if you take the clean stuff with you, you want as little as possible because it will be a nightmare bagging and transporting it!
 
I'd not scrimp on bedding. Bag up (hippo bags) Clean bedding and take with you.
In terms of it taking too long. Get a couple of mates and a couple of wheelbarrows for the muck heap stuff. Then you don't have to constantly stop to empty wheelbarrow and it's far quicker.
 
Agree with dropping banks and level on rubber mats Theo.
Moving bedding is easy if you have a pick-up/van or something able to hold a hippo bag. Wouldnt do it if just rubble bag size though!
 
On mats I'd make the beds much smaller, no banks and you can get away with thinner (couple of inches). On the non mats I'd take down banks and make the bed smaller by a foot or two but keep the thickness and deep litter until you go.

I do this on mine twice a year as prep to lift my mats for a deep clean. Same principle if moving :-)
 
I have extra thick matting (for foaling boxes)
but still have a full bed with banks.

But lots of people whi have normal matting just use a sprinkling..

On this occasion due to you moving i would pull the banks down and not add more to reduce what you have to bag up and move!
 
i would reduce the bedding in the matted stables to a minimum and add the old clean bedding from them to the other non matted beds reducing the size of those beds over the next few days so they too are on a clean minimum to prevent injury so down to about 3 inches. so effectively take out but not replace unless I really had to and replace from the matted stable where possible
 
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