Mucking out straw beds...

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Does anyone else love it?!! I havent mucked out straw for years and used to hate it, but have just moved Lucky and put her on straw, and I am loving it!! It isnt as quick as pelletts, but is easy, she is clean on it and the beds look GORGEOUS! Am I strange?!!
 
No, I love straw. It is my favourite bedding by far, horse is cleanest on it and I find it the easiest to muck out. Trouble is very few livery yards let you use it these days
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Pleased I am not the only one!! The straw I have used before isn't great, which is what I think the problem was... the straw on yard now is beautiful, really good quality and non dusty
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Can't believe how much cleaner she is on it too!!
 
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I don't mind it, its good thinking time and sometimes its good therapy time too, depending on what mood your in.

Keeps you fit, tones those stomach muscles and warms you good and proper before you ride.

Mr M is a filthy so and so, you have to take everything out apart from the banking, its just all poo and wet, so its easy just shovel it all into a barrow, takes two big barrows though.
Py on the other hand, you have to skip his out the old fashioned way, sifting through with a folk, as his poos are scattered about but is only wet in certain places.
 
I think few things look better than a nice straw bed, it always looks cosy, and I really like squaring a muck heap up ... isn't that odd.
 
im lucky to be on a yard that does straw beds, its cheap, easy to keep looking clean, and must be very very warm for the horse!
the last 2 yards i was on they would only allow shavings, i think its to keep the much heap to a minimum, but i have to rate straw beds as the best!
 
Is it odd that you have to have a perfect bed as well, swept into a straight line without a piece of straw over lapping the concrete/rubber between the bed and the water/hay area?

Despite as soon as you horse walks in they mess it all up.
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Straw beds & rubber matting..cant beat it!!
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Although I put my grey on paper while he was on box rest and he stayed surprisingly stain free...might have to be my new secret weapon to cut down on washing & scrubbing come event season
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When I changed back from shavings to straw I couldnt wait to get down to the yard and muck out 'properly' again
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My mate said my horse looked like a pic in a mag the other day...in his rug and stable chaps with a nice big deep bed......

big bonus....straw beds clean off muddy legs lovely.
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I love straw, our yard changed onto it when we couldnt get hold of easibed (which I loved). But in winter I love my massive fluffy bed I have the cleanest horse on the yard so always end up having the biggest bed. I have all my banks even and the middle patted down, straight line and space between the hay and water, I thought that was normal
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I am exactly the same molineux, my banks have to be perfecly even and square, swept to a perfectly straight line at the front, and the actual bed has to be thick, and completly flat and level!!!! it only takes five mins to take the muck out, but it takes me 15 mins to bed down how i like it!!!!!
 
I like straw and frank is super clean on it (the mare less so
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quick skip out at night and in morning and takes me about 15 mins to take the wet out at the weekend sorted
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Love straw all mine are on it. Two have deep litter straw beds as they are so clean you would hardly know that they had been in the over night apart from a neat pile of droppings. Big feller is on straw but have to do full muck out on him daily. He likes nothing better than the minute he is put back into his box than having a roll. Sometimes wonder why do I make his bed so nice only for him to roll in.
 
Nope I love it
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nothing gives me greater satisfaction than having a lovely set of horses all in lovely clean stables on lovely straw beds!
ah, the smell of it, the feel of it, the sound of it!

I can also confirm that straw beds, with possibly the use a rug, are very comfy for helping get rid of hangovers
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Just gone back onto straw for the winter as shavings prices are going through the roof atm.
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I like straw cause its cheap and dont mind throwing it away unlike shavings but my mare is soooo wet on straw and I have to take everything out except the banks every night, which is always 2 barrows full and it stinks and theres a puddle of wee waiting for me every night.
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Its hard to get hold of round here too, so i have to collect it from a local farm IN MY CAR
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so 2 bales at a time, and my car gets trashed
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Frankie's feet are much better on straw than anything else.
He is very wet and dirty but with straw it drains though and he always seems to have a cleanish layer on top with the horror underneath. With shavings he always ended up standing on soggy shavings no matter how much we used.( 4 bales of hunters per week)
Plus it's warmer in the winter and he positively seems to nest in it on cold nights.

And even better included in the livery at my new yard.
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Have rubber matting and a big straw bed which defeats the point of having the rubber matting - oh well.

Love mucking out a straw bed and leaving my girly at night in a big fluffy bed, have notice though that you really do come home from the yard more smellier with a straw bed than shavings.
 
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well we've all had to have a "bit of a sit" in a corner bank every now and then when the world is still a little wobbly
 
No, it doesn't! Rubber mats are a floor not a bed.

I have mine at a livery yard over the winter and am only allowed straw as they spread the muck heap on the fields (eventually). I love having straw though as it's so warm on a cold night. I can buy the straw from the yard and it's £12 for a huge round bale. I have two in at night and a round bale lasts a fortnight even with a massively deep bed - bargain. Fortunately they don't eat it. I used to have a gutty-pig Arab who would eat his straw bed :-(
 
I quite mucking it out, prefer shavings when i'm in a hurry, but love the look of a straw bed and its included in our livery as well.
Unfortunately Roger likes to eat it, and he's really dirty so we tend to have a base of shavings and then some straw on top top make it nice and fluffy.
 
Both of ours are on straw. I take a barrow out of each every day - wet and poo. There is only ever a small patch of wet.

It takes me about 10 mins each stable in the morning, which is ideal.

I put a bale of straw in at a time, I love them having big beds especially when its cold - although im not too good at making big banks
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