What size bed does your horse have?

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A friend just sent me this photo of Kasper. I laughed so hard when I saw it, he's squeezed himself onto his small corner bed, bless him I didnt even know he lay down.

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Needless to say he will be getting a few extra bags of bed down this weekend!

So what size beds do your horses have?
 
Mine loves sleeping :D she has half of her 12 x 12 stable with a good depth of bedding. Rubber mats on the other half.

I love finding her snoozing or even just wearing her bed clothes in her forelock when I get to the yard, I know she's relaxed when she's had a good sleep every day :D
 
What a cutie!

Ours all have different beds... Horse 1 has a very large stable (two big ones knocked into one massive one) and it's completely covered in shavings - thicker towards the back where he sleeps, just a thin coating near the front.
The pony has half his stable covered in a good depth of shavings, the front half is left clear.
Mare has a massive bed of straw with megazorb underneath to catch all the wet, she's the only one that really throws herself about - loves to roll and sleeps lying down every night too, also enjoys trashing her stable - so I'm paranoid about her having a deep bed with big banks so that she won't knock herself or slip over (you have to step up onto it!). It covers most of her stable but she has an empty corner for her feed & water buckets.
 
My horse has a 6/7 inch deep bed of Rapport (rape seed straw) and the ponies have around 4 inch deep wood pellet beds. Horse and large pony's stable are 12' x 12' and bed covers around 3/4 of that space for horse and 1/2 that space for large pony. Small pony's stable is 8' x 12' and bed covers half that space. All have full rubber matting. I wouldn't have anything less and even with this my horse has slightly scabby elbows and hocks.
 
At this time of year, all my bedding is banked up and they are on the rubber matting. They have a "pee square" of shaving and they aim over it! Seems to work for them. They are hardly in, though as have free access ;) In winter, I do like a thick, thick bed :D
 
Big! In a 12x12 stable,we start off with about 8 bags of Bliss (or shavings) and maintain it at about probably 7bags worth. A new Bliss is put in each week. I'd say the beds take up half to three quarters of the stables and are about 6 to 8 inches deep all over and with some banking at the back 3 sides.
 
My stable is probably around 16x16 and she has a full width bed probably about 2/3's of the way forward - I find the bigger the bed, the cleaner she is! Also a thin layer is wrecked whereas if I put a really deep bed down then it stays much cleaner and I seem to take a lot less out :confused: I love having a big, deep bed down.
 
Mine is bedded down on every inch... But lies in the very middle in the wet patch... Go figure... :confused:
 
Mine's in a 16x14 box and has about 3/4 of that covered. He's a big messy ****** though so needs it. I use Equisorb because it's about the only thing he won't try to eat!
 
Kal's stable is relatively small for him given his size (he's 16.3hh and his stable is a bog standard 12x12) but I build him a nice deep straw bed because it helps keep him and his stable clean (and he does have rubber mats - padded and sealed floor and halfway up the walls) . . . he's a tad spoiled:





The base is about a foot deep and the banks are about a foot higher than that. Over the summer I have switched him to Bedmax because he is out more so it works out cheaper, but when I dug his winter bed out (and bear in mind that I lift his straw bed every day so I don't deep litter) it took 20 wheelbarrows (and I have a big wheelbarrow) to clear it . . .

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wood pellet bedding 6-7 inches deep, right up to the door - his water is in a corner manger

At this time of year he is flat out from about 11am to 3pm
 
Mine has rubber matting throughout the stable and a scattering of shavings. At first i used to have big banks and a thick bed but she is really messy and so just gets small banks and a thinnish bed. It covers around half of the stable. In winter ill deep bed with straw to make it warmer though probably; its a lot cheaper so dont mind having to use more.
 
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