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very very disgusting messy yearling!

on shavings but he is just awful. i am currently spending more time mucking his bed out than i do in my mares 24 x 12 foaling box!!!

i cant give him straw as he has decided that he loves to eat it big time :D

full rubber mats but he has been a poorly boy since i got him and is now on mend and i kinda want him to have a good bed to lie on.

any advice?
 
Shredded card - my boy has been on it for years. Dust-free, soaks up wee into one patch; I have rubber mats too, and I use the card for a square section in one half of the box. He wees and poos on that, I use about a bale per week unless his legs are wet (hence dripping on box floor!). He also lies on it occasionally so I always have banks around two sides of the section. I get mine from Ecobale - they have a website, but you have to call for prices which vary according to amount - around the £5.50-6.00 per bale mark last year.
Forgot to say - I originally chose this because he ate straw and other chopped cereal stalk type beds, and got a lot of thrush from wet shavings getting caught in his feet even in the short time he was in each day.
 
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I use woodchip very simular to this http://www.laysoft.co.uk/ its great stuff and works great for my 2. Den my gelding was very wet and messy and his stable is so easy to muck out now. I also use a bag of normal shavings ever so often to fluff it up a bit.
I have previously tried both wood pellets and cardboard but found that the woodchip suited me and my horses better.
Teresa
 
woodpellets on rubber matting

tho I should add horses in big foaling boxes are often a lot less messy - they have the room to box walk without trailing through the poo and generally do. My 17hh was the worst on the yard for muckiness at the old livery yard in his 12x12. Now he's in an 18x12 and he's the cleanest thing imaginable. But changing to wood pellets contributed too, he was awful on shavings or straw, took me hours and used loads! Now gets 1 bag Aubiose a week and 1 bag of wood pellets, thats it.
 
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lachlanandmarcus said:
woodpellets on rubber matting

tho I should add horses in big foaling boxes are often a lot less messy -.
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she is in foal hence the foaling box lol she isnt as messy as smelly and will be going back to shavings when foal arrives lol

how many bags of wood pellets would i need to start with?

i used to use hemcore for another gelding but its so expensive now x
 
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