[QUOTE=SugarCubes;8805248]
I took your advice and poured a bag of pellets on the mats where he pees then topped with some fine flake shavings. We’ll see how his stall looks this evening![/QUOTE]
Well?
I have one that pees more than the rest. I bed her stall with a mix of expanded/waterer pellets and regular shavings. I have found this most cost effective with still allowing me to bed reasonably deep. The shavings I use are not the fine ones, but the bigger ones. This creates the fluff while letting the pellets do the work.
Would it be possible to put a small pile of straw down outside his stall in a place that drains well?
I looked after an old gelding who lived out but was always peeing on his hay. Turns out he hated having pee splash on his legs and by peeing on the hay/straw it stopped it. Maybe if he has somewhere outside of his box to go it would keep his box clean? If it is outside and drains well, hopefully it would stay drier than if it was in a box and with the fresh air on it wont get too stinky.
Hock sores: my heavy-peeing mare who would rather sleep outside on the hard ground than in her bedded shelter (which is her toilet) gets them. Have tried the boots (she won’t keep them on) and various lotions and potions to no effect. Duct tape made things worse (huge bloody messes) and barn manager refused to have anything to do with it. I can’t be at the barn every day so to some degree I am dependent on what she and the barn workers are willing to deal with.
At the moment – and this will sound really weird – the mare is getting Sore No More clay poultice (the regular one, not the Ultra) dabbed on her hocks once or twice a day. No cover, and it actually sticks pretty well. It is gone by the next day, but after just a few days, her sores look much better, skin is starting to grow back in, and the bloody areas are smaller. The barn manager suggested it; it’s decidedly an “off label” use, but she’s had good luck using it on non-infected wounds that are hard to keep covered but need some sort of protection.
Oh and on the peeing… I’m in the midst of working with barn owner and barn manager to find a way to manage the shelter (which is basically a matted stall with a door to the outside.) The wet spot (which is huge) really needs to be shoveled out and removed daily, sometimes the whole area needs lime, and then new bedding put in. We can’t store bedding down there, so are considering banking the shelter really heavily and then just raking in shavings from the sides each day, until the sides are down enough to be banked again.
[QUOTE=quietann;8809318]
Hock sores: my heavy-peeing mare who would rather sleep outside on the hard ground than in her bedded shelter (which is her toilet) gets them. Have tried the boots (she won’t keep them on) and various lotions and potions to no effect. Duct tape made things worse (huge bloody messes) and barn manager refused to have anything to do with it. I can’t be at the barn every day so to some degree I am dependent on what she and the barn workers are willing to deal with.
At the moment – and this will sound really weird – the mare is getting Sore No More clay poultice (the regular one, not the Ultra) dabbed on her hocks once or twice a day. No cover, and it actually sticks pretty well. It is gone by the next day, but after just a few days, her sores look much better, skin is starting to grow back in, and the bloody areas are smaller. The barn manager suggested it; it’s decidedly an “off label” use, but she’s had good luck using it on non-infected wounds that are hard to keep covered but need some sort of protection.[/QUOTE]
That is a really great idea… it doesn’t sting?
Is it ok to share this suggestion with my local horseman’s Facebook page?
[QUOTE=quietann;8809324]
Oh and on the peeing… I’m in the midst of working with barn owner and barn manager to find a way to manage the shelter (which is basically a matted stall with a door to the outside.) The wet spot (which is huge) really needs to be shoveled out and removed daily, sometimes the whole area needs lime, and then new bedding put in. We can’t store bedding down there, so are considering banking the shelter really heavily and then just raking in shavings from the sides each day, until the sides are down enough to be banked again.[/QUOTE]
The place I was a WS bedded like this. It certainly is labor intensive to do initially [ie we bedded about 3’ up 3 walls], but it allowed us the luxury of not getting into the sawdust pile all winter.
[QUOTE=Angela Freda;8808669]
Well?[/QUOTE]
Ugh, he’s still a pig. It’s better, I’m not throwing an entire wheelbarrow of wet shavings away, but still not great. My saving grace has been it’s been cooler so I’ve had them on night turnout the past few nights 
I was initially putting a whole bag of pellets on the wet spot, but like someone mentioned, I ended up throwing away too much this way. It seems like a lighter layer of pellets on the pee spots absorbs the same amount without so much waste.
[QUOTE=Angela Freda;8809504]
That is a really great idea… it doesn’t sting?
Is it ok to share this suggestion with my local horseman’s Facebook page?[/QUOTE]
She is not bothered by it at all; in fact yesterday’s dose was put on with her loose in a stall. There’s no “sting” to the poultice, unlike the liniments. It is basically clay with arnica added.
Hm, might be worth starting a new thread, or bumping up one of the old ones…
[QUOTE=Angela Freda;8809506]
The place I was a WS bedded like this. It certainly is labor intensive to do initially [ie we bedded about 3’ up 3 walls], but it allowed us the luxury of not getting into the sawdust pile all winter.[/QUOTE]
I’ve seen this method used in a barn near San Diego, too. I thought it left the stalls a bit crowded, but the horses all had runs, too, and liked to sleep outside. My mare’s shed is quite large.
My slob gets unwet pelleted bedding. 12 3 10 stall, maybe 4 bags initially and add as needed.
[QUOTE=quietann;8809318]
Hock sores: my heavy-peeing mare who would rather sleep outside on the hard ground than in her bedded shelter (which is her toilet) gets them. Have tried the boots (she won’t keep them on) and various lotions and potions to no effect. Duct tape made things worse (huge bloody messes) and barn manager refused to have anything to do with it. I can’t be at the barn every day so to some degree I am dependent on what she and the barn workers are willing to deal with.
At the moment – and this will sound really weird – the mare is getting Sore No More clay poultice (the regular one, not the Ultra) dabbed on her hocks once or twice a day. No cover, and it actually sticks pretty well. It is gone by the next day, but after just a few days, her sores look much better, skin is starting to grow back in, and the bloody areas are smaller. The barn manager suggested it; it’s decidedly an “off label” use, but she’s had good luck using it on non-infected wounds that are hard to keep covered but need some sort of protection.[/QUOTE]
Thank you for this! My horse gets bad hock sores, and I think he’s making them worse in his hard ground turnout. I have plenty of the poultice and am going to try it!
