Wooden floors

[Pennyhp]

What are everyones thoughts on wooden floors in stables.

My stables are concrete, but have a drainage chanel that is sharpe edged and wide.I make sure I put down plenty of bedding but my mare is a digger. I am worried that she could hurt her back rolling.

I have though some good thick wooden boarding that I thought we could put down as flooring. Warmer to begin with and the pee would go through to the drainiage chanel,but would wooden floors be too slippy for horses getting up and down, if they have dug the bedding up?

Thats my concern. Thoughts please

 

[*hic*]

I think they'd get very smelly very quickly as well as being slippy. Is rubber not an option?

 

[Enfys]

Noooooooo, don't do it, wooden floors in trailers are bad enough.

Urine will soak into it, it will eventually stink, get slippery, rot and may splinter.

Would it perhaps be easier to redesign the channel, lay a bit more concrete to make it less horse unfriendly?

How is your weather up there?

 

[Colleen_Miss_Tom]

Never heard of wooden floors in stables .... Can't imagine it being anything other than dangerous

... ie the above mentioned by Enfys

 

[Divasmum]

I've not come across wooden floors either. I would imagine they will be slippery and the pee will soak into them making them smell and rot.

 

[Pennyhp]

Yep pretty much my own thoughts.

Can't put rubber matting in this year.

I ususally deep litter through the winter so its only the inital few weeks while the beds gets too thick and squashed down so she can't dig it up.

Thanks for your help.

 

[PucciNPoni]

Years and years ago we had wooden floors in our stable and a couple of other stables that I worked at - and have come across them in Ag shows in New England. I found that they drained pretty well. I don't remember them being particularly slippery or smelly with a deep litter bed. I probably would prefer a dirt floor though if I had to choose...on concrete now with rubber matting and that's fine too.