Pongy Stable

[LEC]

We have a cob on box rest with a severed flexor tendon. His stable smells of musty teenage boy and it’s quite horrible - clean bedding, it’s not the smell of ammonia. It’s just a stable without huge airflow combined with warm temperatures I think. Has anyone found a decent stable deodoriser? The owner is supposed to be putting in a vent but until then we need a solution for getting it to smell better

 

[ponynutz]

Honestly? I used to use Febreze. And if he has mats get underneath them. Fill the stable with hanging swedes or Likits which could help.

Hope he recovers soon.

 

[Cowpony]

I used to use a powdered deodoriser/disinfectant (sorry can't remember the name, but it came in a big white tub and you sprinkled about a tablespoon per square metre). Then moved on to wood pellets for bedding and now have no smell and no soggy floors.

A quick Google shows Lincoln and Sirocco coming up most frequently, so it may have been one of those.

 

[LEC]

I used to use a powdered deodoriser/disinfectant (sorry can't remember the name, but it came in a big white tub and you sprinkled about a tablespoon per square metre). Then moved on to wood pellets for bedding and now have no smell and no soggy floors.

A quick Google shows Lincoln and Sirocco coming up most frequently, so it may have been one of those.

Perfect - thanks

 

[ihatework]

Stalasan or green gloop

 

[Highmileagecob]

Ah the great smell of alpha male cob! Yuk - it's like a musty tomcat smell, horrible. Woodpellet bedding could help, bathing the cob and getting the sweat and grease out of his coat is a possibility, and sluicing his box out with a Jeyes Fluid solution, rinsing and leaving open to air and dry will sweeten things.
My cob is the same, no idea why, he just doesn't have the 'leather and hay' smell of the others.

 

[Bluewaves]

Diluted green gloop when needed.

 

[poiuytrewq]

It’s safe and cheap to put some essential oils into a water spray bottle and spray the bed/walls/air. I used to use eucalyptus for an old horse who had a dust allergy.

 

[pistolpete]

Sweet orange essential oil some wood pellet bedding may absorb some of it or even megasorb bedding. Good luck poor lad. They have a far better sense of smell than us ( they can smell water) must be horrible for him and I doubt it’s great for his respiratory system either.

 

[LEC]

Sweet orange essential oil some wood pellet bedding may absorb some of it or even megasorb bedding. Good luck poor lad. They have a far better sense of smell than us ( they can smell water) must be horrible for him and I doubt it’s great for his respiratory system either.

He is on woodpellets with shavings. I don’t remember it being this bad but he is in 24/7 which wouldn’t be the norm. The eventers all have much higher ceilings in the barn as much more traditional American barn with monarch inserts but his is a concrete stable due to having the tackroom built next to it and a mezzanine above.

 

[poiuytrewq]

I have one that just smells a bit rank for no apparent reason. Beds clean etc but it just smells in there ?‍