how thick straw should be

Well I used to tell my WPs that if I punched them til they fell over...if they would get head injuries from landing in the bed...it wasn't deep enough.
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Hmm, what about with rubber matting?

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Pointless, unless your stable drains steeply. Much better to use shavings to absorb the wee on the surface to stop your horse mopping it up with his body or rugs
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in a normal 12 x 12 box i would start with about 3/4 bales, deep banks around the outside and approx 1half ft deep. If you give horses a choice of a nice thick comfy bed or a thin one, they will always go and lie in the thick one.
 
Ive always tested to see if a straw bed is deep enough by letting the mucking out fork progs drop to the floor, if you hear concrete, its too shallow, it should only hit bedding.
 
I was always told that if you drop the pitch fork into the bed and you hear a clang then it's not deep enough. Although thinking about it, that may not work so well with rubber matting?!
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I do the pitch fork thing aswell. Drop it vertically into the bed from about a foot above the bed. If you hear concrete its too shallow.

However I do it thinker for a bigger horse, I find that if I only do it just about deep enough for Baron then when he gets up from lying down he moves the straw to reveal concrete. I give him a really think bed to avoid this.
 
I was always told to do the fork test as well .... if I use my old (faithfull 15 year old) fork I get the right result .... however if I use my new(er) (7 years old and not used much) fork then I tend to get the twank where it hits the concrete and I must admit my beds are very generous
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.. Just put rubber matting down now, as an under/no slip surface and therefore all I get is a thud now!
 
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