If you only had 2 rubber stable mats would you put them at doorway or back?

[minimex2]

Question above

Would you put at front (where horse stands most of time) looking out or at back to help soak up wee ?

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[flyingfeet]

Question above

Would you put at front (where horse stands most of time) looking out or at back to help soak up wee ?

thanks

I would put them where my horse chooses to lay down most to protect against knocks from concrete

 

[Meandtheboys]

I bed deep anyway so my two rubber mats are at the front of the stable to stop pawing at the enterance and under hay nets for less waste.

 

[Maesfen]

Front, just make sure your bed is thick for laying down on.

 

[Kat]

Before I had full mats I put them at the front, and then had a deep litter bed at the back.

 

[forestfantasy]

I would put them where my horse chooses to lay down most to protect against knocks from concrete

This ^^^

I have 2 mats in each of my horses stables - they are in the centre of the bed as i have big straw banks round the edges and the bed is more or less right to the door.

 

[ChesnutsRoasting]

My mare has gone au naturel this winter and is living out, but when she was in, rubber at the front and a nice deep bed middle and back.

 

[huntley]

Front - I hate horses standing on concrete. Hate even more mucking out on rubber mats!

 

[eggs]

Mats at the front so the horse isn't standing on concrete and good depth o bedding on concrete.

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Not sure what you mean when you say the rubber mats would help soak up the pee? They won't soak up anything and that's the problem if you use just mats and no bedding on top of them. Urine can run between them and pool underneath and the pong of ammonia will strip your lung lining in no time! My horse has mats at the front 1/3rd of his stable. Deep litter shavings bed at the back 2/3rds and a strip of about a foot of both where they meet. This means horse is standing on rubber most of the time (front is where haynet is and where interesting things can be watched) and when he wants a pee or a lie down he goes to the deep litter 2/3rds. Works a treat. Have hardly touched deep litter bed in 5 years.

 

[Paris1]

It depends what you want the mats for? I use mine to protect pony when lying down.