Stall bedding & a disgusting gelding

[buck22]

Farm & tractor store, Agway near me always has large and small bales in stock. I believe the big box home improvement centers with large garden departments, like Lowes, also carry bulk peat.

[FinallyMadeIt]

@luvmyhackney

Even with mats you still have to put down adequate shavings to soak up the pee. I’ve worked at barns that do it with barely any shavings and those that use plenty of shavings, I find the ones with tons of shaving so much easier to clean. They smell better and horses generally lay down more in them and stay cleaner. Don’t skimp on shavings.

I agree. I’ve worked places that barely use any shavings too and you basically end up stripping the stall every day because the pee runs everywhere and wets all the bedding. In the end you probably end up spending more on shavings because you strip the stall every day and it ends up taking more of your time to clean it.

I have used the pellets mixed with fine wood shavings as bedding before because I don’t really like the look of pellets. It actually works very well to mix the 2 types of bedding. You end up getting the best of both worlds.

[zakkandtoto]

We had an extremely wet gelding at one barn. He’d drink and then pee almost immediately. It was an exorbitant amount of urine.

We put bank sand down in the stall - about 6" deep, packed and then added 10 bags of wood pellets that had been wet down in a wheelbarrow, first. Worked beautifully. Added a 40lb bag each week.