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| We have received 4" of rain in the last 48 hours out here in Southern Calif. I am very grateful because we desperately need it, but my pens where I keep my horses can get super boggy. They have nice stalls with shavings and the horses refuse to use them. Figures. When we get a lot of rain like this I usually put about 10 bags of shavings down for each horse but really its a waste of money. It helps at the time for sure but doesnt last long. I tried wood chips few years back , like that have in play grounds, but the horses would eat them like candy! Any new ideas or tricks? I really don't want to use sand and it would be very difficult to put it in them. Thanks for any ideas!
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| FLITASTIC - 2014-12-04 8:40 AM We have received 4" of rain in the last 48 hours out here in Southern Calif. I am very grateful because we desperately need it, but my pens where I keep my horses can get super boggy. They have nice stalls with shavings and the horses refuse to use them. Figures. When we get a lot of rain like this I usually put about 10 bags of shavings down for each horse but really its a waste of money. It helps at the time for sure but doesnt last long. I tried wood chips few years back , like that have in play grounds, but the horses would eat them like candy! Any new ideas or tricks? I really don't want to use sand and it would be very difficult to put it in them. Thanks for any ideas!
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Location: North Dakota | Whiteboy - 2014-12-04 8:49 AM FLITASTIC - 2014-12-04 8:40 AM We have received 4" of rain in the last 48 hours out here in Southern Calif. I am very grateful because we desperately need it, but my pens where I keep my horses can get super boggy. They have nice stalls with shavings and the horses refuse to use them. Figures. When we get a lot of rain like this I usually put about 10 bags of shavings down for each horse but really its a waste of money. It helps at the time for sure but doesnt last long. I tried wood chips few years back , like that have in play grounds, but the horses would eat them like candy! Any new ideas or tricks? I really don't want to use sand and it would be very difficult to put it in them. Thanks for any ideas! Pea gravel
Isn't there any place they can go thats out of the mud?? We put gravel down in the area's where WE walk or travel, the animals mostly fend for themselves. But, they do have grassy higher ground to go to for the week or so, they are on mud. What about a couple of rubber mats outside, where they tend to stand the most??
Feeling fortunate to have access to enough pasture for 5 head of horses.....
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| I have set up my portable pens to get them out of the mud. But I live on 2 acres.. Their pens are huge, but still very wet. They can go in theit shelters for nice dry place, but they refuse. |
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| The pellets you can buy at tractor supply as stall bedding really soak up in the muck. They do not go a long way tho. |
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| Great Idea! We just had a TS open up here locally. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | FLITASTIC - 2014-12-04 12:55 PM Great Idea! We just had a TS open up here locally.
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Location: California | Whiteboy - 2014-12-05 6:49 AM FLITASTIC - 2014-12-04 8:40 AM We have received 4" of rain in the last 48 hours out here in Southern Calif. I am very grateful because we desperately need it, but my pens where I keep my horses can get super boggy. They have nice stalls with shavings and the horses refuse to use them. Figures. When we get a lot of rain like this I usually put about 10 bags of shavings down for each horse but really its a waste of money. It helps at the time for sure but doesnt last long. I tried wood chips few years back , like that have in play grounds, but the horses would eat them like candy! Any new ideas or tricks? I really don't want to use sand and it would be very difficult to put it in them. Thanks for any ideas! Pea gravel
Ditto and it's great for their feet too...improved the soundness of my gelding with navicular. It's relatively cheap too, at least up here in Northern CA. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | I just hope you don't slide away... or get covered in one.. Mud has a bad habit of moving out there on the west coast.  |
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Location: MI | You might want to wait until it dries to put anything down though, otherwise the mud will just suck it up. We've had alright luck with putting down sand or pea gravel on dry ground, ground seems to hold better next time it rains. |
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