Rubber mats on a dirt floor

[Dogstar]

I wonder if anyone has experience of using rubber mats on a stable with a dirt floor? Does it work well/at all or am I just going to end up with mats squidging about on a bog? Thanks.

 

[milliepops]

Some of the stables at my yard have matting on dirt floor, it seems to work fine. Personally I deep litter on a dirt floor, which is even better!

 

[Vikki89]

I tried mats on a dirt floor but didn't have enough to cover the floor completly so decided to deep litter which now works very well.

 

[Bowen4Horses]

i do! you wouldn't even know they were on a dirt floor except that they are not perfectly flat. i have mine wall to wall so you really can't tell.

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[Dogstar]

Thanks, that's useful

 

[Morland]

I have 'cow comfort' rubber mats in my field shelter! a bit uneven due to the ground, and the one in the doorway squelches a bit because water gets under it, but it stops it becoming a total mud hole...

 

[flyingfeet]

I use rubber mats on part of my earth floor.

I have put spare mats from my lorry into where my horse has a tendency to dig and mixes the earth into the cardboard, which defeats the point of putting him on a dustless bedding.

I leave his pee spot on earth as it drains, and use the rubber mat on his digging spot (fortunately he is a creature of habit). It works well, but he will remove all bedding from the mat when he is pissed off!

 

[Dogstar]

Coolio thanks for the tips I didnt want to waste money

 

[alsxx]

I had earth floors in the stables when I moved in, I think its clay, its like concrete when dry (you cant 'dig' it), but very slippery when wet. I got a load of paving slabs from various free sources and laid these down (levelled the floor as best I could but didn't cement them down - a couple wobble slightly but you cant really tell under mats and bedding) and then laid rubber mats wall to wall over the top. Has worked really well as the wet drains under the mats then under the slabs.

 

[MerryMAL]

I don't deep litter OR have mats!