Equi
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I don't have a pic but I put down one bale of allbed and one bale of shavings on Monday and I had to take 3/4 of it out by Wednesday.
hehe! He is secretly a cat and hides his poops in his "litter tray"
As promised, this is what greeted me this morning:
It's a good job I love him for everything else... still don't know the best method of attack on the bed front!
With my gelding who was on shavings (see my photos earlier in the thread) I switched to straw pellets and it made a massive difference. I kept it quite deep so the wee just disappeared to the bottom layer and the poo stays on the top. I have never gone back to shavings since and it's been about 2 years.
As promised, this is what greeted me this morning:
It's a good job I love him for everything else... still don't know the best method of attack on the bed front!
In fairness to them I do think small beds in large stables are usually going to get tramped around though, unless you have a completely solid deep litter style base that doesn't move.
I think the problem with a really messy, dirty horse is you can never build up a solid base in the first place.
In fairness to them I do think small beds in large stables are usually going to get tramped around though, unless you have a completely solid deep litter style base that doesn't move.
Yup, I am spoilt with a rather clean boy! He has a patch of stomped on wood pellets in his pee spot and then bliss on top. The bliss might move but the pellets aren't going anywhere
SN I think mine would have to live in a turnout I could hose off!
Will someone please tell me how my gelding manages to leave his bed looking untouched but upon further inspection has hidden all his droppings under his bankings so I have to go digging for them :confused3:
I think the problem with a really messy, dirty horse is you can never build up a solid base in the first place. I am considering putting in a 'normal' horse to build up a nice firm base and then moving 'messy boy' into it. But I don't like moving horses around stables.
To be fair non of the pictures posted show decent beds depth wise I don't think.
I'm on rubber matting but the beds on top are very thick and it helps keeping them clean, the only time they get dirtier is if I let their beds get thinner but even then they are a lot lot thicken then ones shown. I do think thin beds = messy horses or I'm just lucky to have always had clean horses for 30 years
I think she had had a tantrum!
Will someone please tell me how my gelding manages to leave his bed looking untouched but upon further inspection has hidden all his droppings under his bankings so I have to go digging for them :confused3: