How much of your stable does your bed cover?

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Are you a 'up to the door' person or a 'square in the corner' kinda gal, or an inbetweener ;)


About 2/3 or my stable is shavings, the other 1/3 is a walkway from the stable door if you get me. Also rubber matted. I'm thinking of extending this to being an 'up to the door' bed as I think it will help more when deep littering as the wet can't get kicked into the walkway :cool:
 
The whole floor, at least 8" thick combo of pellets and shavings, dont like the idea of them lying on a damp bed in the cold and 18" banks:)
 
I'm the same as you. 2/3 maybe 3/4 of the stable is shavings bed, and a strip at the door is bare so I can put a water bucket down. My horse just needs enough bed so he can lie down (or roll as he usually does) without killing himself!
 
We've rubber matting so don't need more than a thin skin. The matting is good and think - and quite warm to lie on. We have just under 1/2 the bed with a thinnish layer, but store the "spare" in the banks.
 
about 1ft back so the hay and water have a bit of room but other than that its all covered :) in Rio's and Taz has all but the 3ft at the front for his had and water :) but he has rubber matting
 
Right up to the door, (with a small bare patch in the corner where the water bucket goes). I don't like to have horses standing on concrete, as I know how much it makes my bones ache when I stand around in the barn for the farrier or whatever.
 
3/4 of the floor in my stable with rubber matting. Just a strip the width of the door all the way to the other wall with nothing. So she can have her haynets and no hay in bed and can look out the window and when raining bed doesnt get wet. haha
 
All of it with straw, corner bare for water buckets - that is when in. One rubber mat to stand on by the door too.

At work, half - 3/4 shavings, rubber mats at the front. Full straw for foals.
 
It depends on the horse. All the stables are different. All have rubber mats. If they are nice and tidy they get a whole bed to the door. The messier they are, the less bed they have. One horse I had here for a few years was the messiest horse (I could probably safely say in the world!) He was so bad his entire bed had to come out every day and he needed a whole sack of megazorb in. By the next day it was saturated and churned up with tiny bits of poo. Not a tny morsel of clean bedding left. He cost a fortune. I had to insist that his owner bought the bedding herself as he was breaking the bank.
 
Three quarter deep litter, one quarter keept clear with rubber mats all over floor, mare very clean does poo in one place, big boy, goes to back and doesit in banks, he always lies down in stable, mare only rarely does....!! Big boy drags his bed to the door so have to brush it back .
 
Just over 3/4's. I leave enough room to put water and feed bucket. Although It ends up everywhere, my horses are messy!!
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I leave about a 2ft square in door way has a rubber mat on it so my tb doesn't stand on cold concrete other than that it's covered in shavings usually half to a foot deep with nice big banks,nthe ponies once their stables are finished will have the front 2 foot bare with a nice thick shavings or straw bed for the rest!
 
All of the stable. Lovely hock-deep fluffy straw beds. Water is in a corner in a trug. Feed is fed in a manger. Hay is fed in a rack and also in a tricklenet if they are in for any length of time.
 
Wherever I've been I've always had a square stable about 12x12 and always have rubber matting all round. Have the back half a semi-deep shavings bed with big thick banks, I don't feel the front half needs shavings because I use rubber mats. If i didn't have the mats I would do a full stable, really nice and thick! :D
 
For me it depends on the size of the horse. My stables are 12' wide and 14' deep with rubber mats. I leave enough bed down so that the horse can lie down in any direction while on the straw. With my two big ISH this tends to mean they have about 10-12' of bed with a strip at the front for water buckets and haynet. When we had ponies in the stables the beds were smaller - especially for the 12h pony, who had a "corner bed" big enough for her.. The beds are always reasonably deep too.

I really don't like half beds, even with rubber mats. We had a DIY livery with a horse on box rest following a tendon op, and it used to drive me mad seeing it with it's back end a foot higher up than it's front end due to the half bed. I don't think its good for them to stand unlevel all night..

I also still like proper beds even on rubber mats. My mare used to live in a foaling box, and I only bedded half of it for her (about 10' of bed) and she always chose to sleep, stand and poop on the half with bedding, despite the rubber being decent..

I am pretty old school, although have weaned myself off banks a couple of years ago.
 
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Well our stables are huuuge!! Prob 16 x 16 at least.

All rubber matted and then a decent size bed in the corner, thick with banks and so he can stand on his bed to eat his hay. Then he has space at the front and side and a manager in the other corner.

Cant stand little piddly beds, even on mats, my horse doesn't choose to lie on the matted area he uses his lovely thick warm straw :rolleyes:
 
Each horse has a different layout! - one has a completely covered stable, pony has a half covered stable and my mare has a strange layout in her stable as the doors are in weird places - so she has it in an L shape with space around her feed bowls.
 
I use straw and fill about 3/4 of the stable, again leaving a strip by the door :) However the yard i work at fills the whole stable with straw, with banks about 3ft high and the rest of the bed about 1ft high.. they have better beds than me :rolleyes:
 
This much - even though he has thick rubber mats I still like him to have a nice thick bed

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And dont be misled by this photo - we had just moved yards and that bed is brand new - its not always like this :D
 
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