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My welsh gelding is becoming a nightmare to muck out everyday his bed is trashed he's in a large stable around 15x15 so plenty of room he's on nedz bed pro iv tried a deep bed a thin bed ... iv tried shavings .. wood pellets but he's still dirty and it's now costing a fortune he's also has decided to start eating the nedz even though he has loads of haylege so trying to stop that.
What I'm asking is can you put a horse that has mild copd that's under control on straw?
I feel I may know the answer but other suggestions helpful :)
 
Do you have rubber mats down...if so just put a small sprinklings of shavings in a corner so he can pee on them... I have a mare similar, we just do banks and a thin layer on the mats, and only half of the stable..
 
I know this is becoming a standard hho answer but in this case genuinely - keep him out? I used to have an old girl w7th copd and it was the only possibility for her.
 
My friend has 3 horses hers are on rubber and have a postage stamp strip of bedding along one wall for the 2 boys to wee on/ the mare has in a corner.. Other than that they have nothing and seem fine, they are also in for the whole of winter unless ridden due to farmer husbands rule of nowinter turnout. They arent as clean as I would like but they arent grey so shes not bothered.
 
I'd either chuck him out 24/7 or put mats down with a sprinkling of bedding to do his business on.

I had a Welsh mare that was a filthy thing, only having mats and a sprinkling of bedding that I swept out everyday helped reduce costs.
 
Use mats by all means but please use plenty bedding otherwise he will stink You dont need a full bed but you do need enough to keep the floor dry however many times he pees. Compromise is needed here I hate mats and would only ever use them under a full shavings bed but sometimes needs must
 
My boy was a nightmare to muck out, especially if I was a little late to get to the yard, he loves his routine and would box walk and trash everything around in together using loads of bedding and make a big mess. He is on rubber mats so tried the small bed idea and he just laid in wee and stunk.

Flip to now, I used a few bags of wood pellets as a base layer with shavings on top. Took no wet out and this compacted into a bottom layer. Now I have a really thick top layer of shavings with banks and although he hides his pooh there is no more trashed, smelly mingingness. The wee all goes to the bottom and is left in and I flick the top layer of shavings up so the pooh rolls down and then lay the bed back down. I am now taking out half a wheelbarrow a day when before it was at least 1 stacked high. I now only use 1 bag of shavings a week when before it was 2 or 3, sometimes more.
 
I have far too big stables, I make a small (big enough for them to lie down but not much more) bed in one corner and leave the rest - works well for me, they have a sensible bed to sleep on and don't stink of pee but I don't spend 2 hours mucking out !
 
I'd also add I;ve noticed better quality frogs since they are standing on swept dry rubber matting rather than bed so I think their feet are much dryer with the corner arrangement
 
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