My stalls have mats over a sand/Clay mix. Usually my horses come and go as they please and I do not use shavings. A recent injury has confined my TWH mare to stall rest for what is going to be an extended period. Have armed myself with fine shavings, pine pellets and PDZ. I have agricultural lime in my barn from before I put mats down.
Can I use the lime instead of the PDZ on the urine areas after they are. Leaned? Will the lime hurt the mats?
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We have used the powdery hydrated lime on and under our rubber mats for years and lime did nothing to harm or change the mats in that time. No effect on hooves either, if horses moved bedding aside moving around in a stall, to stand on lime alone.
Sorry to hear of your mare being injured enough to need stall rest. That stinks when your good riding season is just ahead. How are your knees holding out? I am getting one replaced on the 14th. Doc says the harder I work in therapy, the faster and better it will heal. Hoping not to be a weenie! Ha ha It will be nice to have knee dependable again. Maybe I can untwist my stirrups then! Or not, kind of getting used to looking at them twisted these days. Hope to see you post more often. Take care. I am hoping your mare heals well quickly, so you can get back to rIding again.
There are several products which all go by the name lime. Barn lime and also agricultural lime (usually called ag lime where I live) is simply fairly pure calcium carbonate, limestone ground up. Dairy farmers use it very freely in their barns and many of them have rubber mats down for the cows to stand on. I have never had a problem with putting this sort of lime on my rubber mats and never heard any of my neighbor dairy farmers complain about damaging a mat from barn lime.
Now quick lime and slaked lime are very different products. I would not want to use either of those in my barn.
I use barn lime all the time on my mats. It seems to be much the same thing as the “horse” products for 1/4 the cost.
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