Using Auboise

[Birker2020]

I have a large dip in my stable and I am having to fill it in with shavings that we bash down with a shovel in order to compress it and prevent the horse standing in a large hole on urine soaked shavings as the urine pools in this area. We are using Auboise at the moment which we find is very effective.

Can you use Auboise in this way?. It is soaking up the urine very effectively. We are not wetting it prior to laying in down as per the instructions.

The floor is natural floor which will be filled in the summer.

 

[milliepops]

Yes. I used to deep litter on a dirt floor using Aubiose, and it was the best bed I've ever had for my messy mare.
it packs down solid, it will go some interesting colours when you finally come to dig it up, but keep topping up with new and it won't get stinky. Great stuff. in your situation I'd maybe try the same approach. If you disturb it too much you might find it's not as good.

 

[Birker2020]

Yes. I used to deep litter on a dirt floor using Aubiose, and it was the best bed I've ever had for my messy mare.
it packs down solid, it will go some interesting colours when you finally come to dig it up, but keep topping up with new and it won't get stinky. Great stuff. in your situation I'd maybe try the same approach. If you disturb it too much you might find it's not as good.

Sorry I was in a rush typing my OP as they were dishing out the bottles of drinks at work so probably didn't explain myself very well, hic, hic.
I am using normal shavings but just the Auboise in the hole. My partner said when he came to dig out the hole last night after 48 hours of leaving it all the wee had collected in the area of the Auboise. We have found it is a nice firm surface, better than shavings to fill in this hole with!

Roll on the spring when I can get something to put in the hole and wackerplate it in. Costing me a fortune just to fill in the hole!

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

applecart14, leave the hole alone for a week. Aubiose is very absorbant. On a big wet horse who would use 3 bales of shavings if in most of the time like yours is, instead I needed 1 bale aubiose. It's not designed to be mucked out daily. Shavings, daily muckout I was getting out a huge barrow load piled high (including the poo). With aubiose I skipped out daily and removed an additional barrow load of wet each week. If the horse was getting daily turnout all day I could go about 2 1/2 weeks before taking out my barrow of wet.

 

[Birker2020]

applecart14, leave the hole alone for a week. Aubiose is very absorbant. On a big wet horse who would use 3 bales of shavings if in most of the time like yours is, instead I needed 1 bale aubiose. It's not designed to be mucked out daily. Shavings, daily muckout I was getting out a huge barrow load piled high (including the poo). With aubiose I skipped out daily and removed an additional barrow load of wet each week. If the horse was getting daily turnout all day I could go about 2 1/2 weeks before taking out my barrow of wet.

Aha that sounds like a plan. Yes I will ask the YO to leave the hole for the week and see what happens. My OH said he could take out a big clump of wee in one section which sounded better than urine all through the bedding which is in the case of the shavings I currently use.

I may decide to buy auboise altogethe and ditch the shavings.

 

[honetpot]

Yes. I used to deep litter on a dirt floor using Aubiose, and it was the best bed I've ever had for my messy mare.
it packs down solid, it will go some interesting colours when you finally come to dig it up, but keep topping up with new and it won't get stinky. Great stuff. in your situation I'd maybe try the same approach. If you disturb it too much you might find it's not as good.

Agree with this totally.

 

[fatpiggy]

Agree with this totally.

And me. Leave it alone and it goes like cork floor tiles. I'd ditch the shavings and use nothing but aubiose actually, that's how much I rate it. The reason for damping it is because it is like chamois leather - both absorb better when they are damp.