Stalling

I never have, but lots of stables around here have stalls and the horses seem fine in them. I dunno, but for me, I'd rather keep them outside overnight; seems a bit of a boring existence unless the horses are being out and exercised for a number of hours every day. Don't you have access to loose boxes?
 
The only experience I have of stalling is at pony camp. The horses were out at night (from about 4pm I think) and used a lot of the day in lessons and camp stuff. This also meant the area behind their back legs could be skipped out a lot so they weren't standing in poo. They were content with it as far as I remember.
 
I worked on a yard where horses were stalled and it was horrible, they're standing in their own crap for hours and can't get moving about properly or scratch an itch. Saying that, I think is ok for being in for a few hours during the day but these horses were in 24/7 sometimes not leaving their stalls for over a week.
 
Was just a thought. Currently in loose boxes and out for 10-12hrs a day.

Have 2 that are filthy and you take out 90% of their beds everyday. Jumped into my head at 7am whilst trying to filter clean straw out!
 
Buy some rubber matting then? That would cut down on your labour AND cost, without compromising their mobility.
 
Hee hee! Thats IS with rubber matting. I tell you these guys are minging!!!

Last year the 14.1 was in half a cattle shed all winter and he managed to make that look like a war zone! Tragically the shed is unavailable this winter so he is in a loose box. I'm sure he practises dressage, jump-offs and interval trains in there!

I can't imagine how I brought him up so bad. I always thought his mum was untidy, but he take the biscuit!
 
Oh dear! Lol! that is funny!
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Can you turn them out 24/7?
 
Years ago my pony was in a stall and he got really bad thrush despite the stall being kept as clean as poss. If he is a very dirty horse I would think carefully otherwise put him in nappies
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oh god this has just reminded me, i grew up in thailand and one of the yards kept the school ponies (about 15) stalled.....24/7 (there was no turnout) my first pony was also kept like this except he was never ridden as he was wild (until i got him and he got his own massive stable and was retrained!)

on the weekends we did herd all the ponies out into a paddock and let them run around!!
 
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