Might as well set light to a bunch of fivers!! box rest!!

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Mucked out last night, was at work all day today so didn't muck out till tonight, got 4 YES 4 barrow loads out of stable tonight! As horse on box rest was advised by vet that he must have hay on floor, thing is as soon as I put it on the floor, he gets his big hoof in it and kicks it all around the stable then pees and poos on it then I take it all out again!!

No point using a hay bar/tub trug etc as he is very 'footy' likes to play with things and get his feet in anything and everything, including the wheel barrow! He would destroy anything within reach!

Then the bedding! It was like a pig sty today wondered if I ever did muck out yesterday!!

YO is giving him hay, water, taking off rug and putting on his radio in morning but doesn't muck out. I can't do morning as single mum and have to do school run then get to work so not able to do an early morning at the yard. Now thinking I may have to get a mortgage extension to pay for the hay and bedding!! decided on 1 hay net and 1 lot on floor for tonight so at least it will last a bit longer.....
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p.s. have to buy hay from yard at £3 a bale going through best part of a bale a day at moment
 
To be honest, if you hadn't mucked out for near on 24 hours, 4 barrow loads is brilliant to me!! My girl need 3 barrow loads when I muck her out in the morning after just 12 hours!
 
Yes suppose so, last week I wasn't working so could do a good muck out in the morning and then just needed to skip out in the evening. As working this week it's been a bit of a shock! But this day for some reason was the worst yet!

It's the hay that's gutting though!! Becoming V expensive as bedding!! Ho Hum suppose I just have to swallow it (not literally of course, would be disgusting!) and roll on when he can go out again! But that won't be for a few months yet.......
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For me when my TB mare was on box rest.....and I mean box rest on average in the last 4 years of owning her was three or four times a year....the problems, she had(Long,Long story...that mare was a learning curve for lameness and disaster....Like if you can smash both your eye sockets in over two years....then have to be crossed tied!
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)......well for me hay consumption and using 4-5 bales of Easibed was the norm!
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So understand where your coming from.....I went through so much bedding as she would do 'the wall of death' untill every bit of pooh had become the size of five pence......hence she spent alot of time taking the little yellow tablet(ACP's!)........That was the life while I owned her........and when the girl at Petplan told me I was not very lucky after asking for a claim form for what seemed the hundred time.......I would sit and ask myself why!
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Hateto boast but my mare was uber clean on box rest! I normally get a barrow out a day from her being in overnight, and I would muck out in the evening too and got another wheel barrow out! She poo's on the rubber mats at the front tough, talk about stabele friendly horse haha!
 
Every time I read about a claim it seems to be tbs.I have made 5 huge ones in two years think we are up to £6000 mark now.I will have to call it a day if this one doesnt pan out.What did you do with your horse in the end.All I seem to do is box rest restricted turnout and claim renewals.
 
Why does vet want hay on floor? Is it crucial to the horse's recovery? If not, I would use a net as it would make me cry chucking out good hay!

My lad is also very footy, so far he has stuck his hoof through a 5-bar gate, friend's stock fencing when I borrowed her field, he has broken the manage fence twice and put hoof through a tiny gap and hooked himself to a large chain harrow (!) but he is fine with his haybar as it is really strong, quite high, and slopes away at the bottom. So could be worth a try?
 
I feed hay from the floor for many reasons, but in your case with a horse on box rest, surely a small-holed haynet would be better, or two haynets to make the holes even smaller and slow it down. The horse needs to have something to do other than stuff it's face and tread all the hay into the bed, so I don't know why you have been told to feed it from the floor by your vet
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Bought my boy a hay bar he chucks it all on the floor fills his water bucket eats some and poohs on the rest.
re vets comment about feeding from floor .
Its not natural for them to eat from a hay net all the time it can cause back or neck problems especially if they are on box rest.Thats why the hay bars are supposed to be so good they are eating in a natural position.I just havent explained the rules to my horse.
 
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