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Location: Washington | What is your protocol for stalling at races? Pellets, shavings, both, watered down, no watering down.
Usually I just water down shavings but curious what everybody else may do. |
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Location: North Dakota | Request near a door if you can. I use just shavings and use alot of "refresher" which is an odor reducer. I do not wet down. I tried but it ends up causing more of a problem. I keep her out of the stall as much as possible. Just hope that you are stalled next to someone who is good about cleaning their stalls. I got stalled next to someone who didn't clean their stall once during a 3 day show and my mare was having a hard time due to the extra ammonia smell. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | I use pads and try to get as close to the door as possible. I try as hard as I can to haul back and forth from anywhere I can find open that's got a field I can put up my panels or let them hang out in open air pens. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | I don't haul my horse with IAD, but if I had to, I would:
1) try to have him as close to a door as I can
2) if the penning situation is something like Strobels, where the stalls have the indoor arena in the middle, I would probably try and figure something else out. Even though that place isn't necessarily dusty my guy is so sensitive he wouldn't be able to handle it.
3) I think straw tends to be less dusty. But a bigger pain in the butt. I would probably do a layer of pellets to soak pee and then a limited amount of shavings. With my horse I would invest in soft rides so that I didn't feel bad about not being able to bed him deep. I would mist down the shavings that I did put down.
4) always soak or steam his hay, obviously.
His living situation at home is that he's never stalled and he doesn't get bedding. We have plenty of breaks in our weather every day where it stops raining and that's when I see him pass out in his field. He prefers to be outside anyway, thankfully. He can go in his stall whenever he wants but typically he stands outside of it and uses it as a windblock lol |
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