Rubber on top of coarse sand for turnout pen?

[meesha]

Carrying on from my other post about horses hooves when barefoot being worn down by coarse sand and concrete yard (sandpit adjoins yard so they walk sand onto concrete). I have ordered hoof armour but wondered if it was worth putting a layer of rubber chippings on top of the sand, sand was like rock so I have had to dig it all up and rake it... It's now lovely and horses don't use sandpit in summer.... But come winter when I take shoes off for a couple of months would rubber on top of sand be useful to stop them walking it onto concrete?

Eventually horse will retire and so this will be an all winter problem so be good to get it sorted ...

I will also be putting more mats on concrete yard this year.

Any thoughts?

 

[ihatework]

Pita for poo picking

 

[meesha]

Thanks was just reading other threads on topic and the poo picking nightmare kept coming up. I used to have carpet on arena and farmer understandably didn't want to take muck heap...

Will abandon the idea and stick with mats and hoof armour

 

[Abacus]

Presumably you also poo pick the sandpit, so could you rake it as you would an arena once or twice per week? Either with an arena rake or chain harrow.

 

[meesha]

Rake it and poo pick it daily