Using other things to soak up horse pee

[Morganandcharity]

Right now my stables order on wood shavings is on back order and we have over 35 horses and over 30 riders who come day and night. Plus the lessons horses who are brought in. They pee obviously. But we have a concrete alley way and we don't have wood shavings so is there something affordable or homemade we could so to soak up pee. We have stalls. But most of them are dirty because we have no shavings. We currently are cleaning it all up and lining stalls with old hay that's left from the hay she's. but it's doesn't soak up that well for pee on concrete. Please help!!!

 

[Exploding Chestnuts]

You can use coarse limestone grit, an agricultural product

 

[JanetGeorge]

I use bulk straw pellets - bought in one tonne bags. MUCH more affordable than shavings, easy to use/muck out - and VERY absorbent! Some horses will nibble the pellets when fresh - but never had a problem with that. And another advantage is less bulk in the muck heap - which breaks down quickly. http://www.strawpelletsltd.co.uk/shop/index.php?route=common/home

 

[Goldenstar]

Janet how do they deliver them ?

 

[Tiddlypom]

Rats, read the delivery info for Janet George's straw pellets, and they can't deliver on grass or gravel. That's us out on both counts! They sounded great, too .

 

[JanetGeorge]

They can - they can't just move it then. You have to get the back-end of the lorry RIGHT to where you want it ideally - but if you can't get it to a concrete path, they could literally dump it (it's on a pallet and plastic wrapped.) Obviously it couldn't be right in the way, but chuck a bit of tarpaulin over the top - and collect it from there by wheelbarrow?? Of course, if you had a proper pallet fork - or a pallet fork attachment on a tractor - you could then move it yourself. On the odd occasion, we've had a total idiot delivery driver - helped out once by our haylage man who just picked it off the lorry with his tractor - another time I managed to move it with my small tractor.