CastlelackSportHorses
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We just use a shavings fork and poo pick everyday. Works very well.
Too wet to turnout
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setterlover
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We have a huge pole barn built against the long side of an American barn around 80 ft long and 20 foot depth in front of it is a large hard core area about the size of a half size outdoor school .It is very sheltered with banks on two sides and can be opened out onto which ever field we are using for turnout.
The pole barn is bedded with straw pellets and shavings to make a lovely dry bedded area which the horses love and often lie down or hang out in it.
I do shut them on the pole barn and large apron overnight with haylege spread onto a ledge which runs the whole length of the back of the pole barn.This is mostly to restrict the grass intake as the fields are one of 6 acres one of 4 to 5 acres and one of 3 to 4 acres so loads of grass as we rotate them through the winter
Effectively the horses live out all year round and are much healthier for it as they can move about as they choose.
By the time we get onto the last field the first one has recovered enough to grow on for an early cut of haylege.
The pole barn and hardcore area are poo picked twice a day.
The pole barn is bedded with straw pellets and shavings to make a lovely dry bedded area which the horses love and often lie down or hang out in it.
I do shut them on the pole barn and large apron overnight with haylege spread onto a ledge which runs the whole length of the back of the pole barn.This is mostly to restrict the grass intake as the fields are one of 6 acres one of 4 to 5 acres and one of 3 to 4 acres so loads of grass as we rotate them through the winter
Effectively the horses live out all year round and are much healthier for it as they can move about as they choose.
By the time we get onto the last field the first one has recovered enough to grow on for an early cut of haylege.
The pole barn and hardcore area are poo picked twice a day.
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