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Location: Freestone TX | I have the stall grids with dirt on top. It works great as long as the horse doesn't live in the stall. Then the dirt gets packed and even though there are grids underneath and a layer of crushed limestone under the grids, the packed dirt does not drain. With all our recent wet weather, I ended up putting shavings on top of the dirt. So I now have grids, dirt AND shavings.
The grids keep a pawing horse from un-leveling the floor past the the depth of the grids. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Concrete with a slope and a irrigation drain to carry it outside the barn. I know of a barn with concrete and drains in the middle and no mats just bed with heavy straw. |
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Location: Ohio | Does anyone have any experience with the comfort stall system (the foam pad with continuous rubber top)? I am building a barn in the spring and have been leaning towards this on a concrete slab foundation. Also have looked at the crushed rubber mattress systems with the same top. Just wondering if anyone had any comments about these? |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | We have rock fines in our stalls and then mats on top. It makes for GREAT drainage, but is also super stable and heavy duty. |
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Blessed 
Location: Here | I have sand and was advised by this very board a couple of years ago to put rubber mats on top!
WOW YES!!! Makes stall cleaning easy! |
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Location: Sunny California | Two of our local vets have some type of this system. If I had a regular barn I would definately put these in. When I had to have one of my old horses at the vet for a couple of weeks he didn't stock up at all even being confined to the stall because of the mattress system. This horse would stock up at the drop of a hat. |
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 Banjo and Baby
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Location: South of Canada and North of Mexico | I have 2" rough cut oak over top of sand and clay. I use mats and shavings as well. I put 3 coats of waterproofing on the boards. They have a little give to them vs concrete and I love them way more than I did with clay and shavings.
I usually use more shavings than this.
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| Thank you all sooooo much for all of your great ideas, suggestions, and pictures. Also a huge thank you for others that are looking for suggestions for their stalls also. It helps to have lots of great questions. I am getting some great ideas. Thanks again everyone. |
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 Don't Wanna Make This Awkward
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Location: Texas | Stall savers!!! We love them and I heard they were really easy to install :)
I think we just had regular dirt under them.
http://www.stallsavers.com/ |
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Location: Here | livinonlove&horses - 2015-01-17 2:57 PM I want to try those things called Grids. Suppsose to let pee drain through.
Anyone have any information on the grids? |
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Don't Wanna Make This Awkward
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Location: Texas | SG. - 2015-01-24 7:30 AM livinonlove&horses - 2015-01-17 2:57 PM I want to try those things called Grids. Suppsose to let pee drain through. Anyone have any information on the grids?
The stall savers I posted let the pee drain through them.. |
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| We've had the Stable Comfort (crushed rubber under the solid mat) in our stalls for several years now and LOVE it. Well worth the cost to put it in. |
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| outrundaizy - 2015-01-24 12:24 AM
Stall savers!!! We love them and I heard they were really easy to install : ) I think we just had regular dirt under them. http://www.stallsavers.com/
Thank you! I just looked on their webpage and they sound great! I appreciate you taking the time to post. I really like the looks of them. |
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Location: In my own world | SG. - 2015-01-24 7:30 AM livinonlove&horses - 2015-01-17 2:57 PM I want to try those things called Grids. Suppsose to let pee drain through. Anyone have any information on the grids?
http://stallgrid.com/Stall%20Mats.htm
so that didn't wirk!! It's www.stallgrid.com
Edited by livinonlove&horses 2015-01-24 6:32 PM
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| burning ember - 2015-01-23 10:55 AM
My stalls are dirt and when we put our well in for our house we had lots of that really fine stone/dirt from the well drilling. It was enough to level our three stalls and then we put two mats on top and shavings. I love it. It doesn't get dug up and there's no moisture held underneath the mats. Granted I live in PA so our soil is a little dirt with lots of rocks lol. And our well was 500ft deep. But I'm sure you could find something equal to it. If you go with just dirt I highly recommend mats. A lot easier and bedding lasts way longer. My aisle is dirt with mats down the center.
500 ft deep! Wow, we have to redo our well this year and our current one is at 290, that is very deep for our area.
And to the OP, my husband got really creative. He put highway fabric down, then heavy duty plastic, then 2-3" crushed rock, then belting instead of mats. He built the stall flooring so that the front of the stalls (isle side) is about 2" roughly higher than the back of the stall (outside wall) so that any urine will run out and away. Our barn base was built up so it will never flood, heavy rains, spring melt, etc. will run off down the hill as well. I am not a fan of belting though in place of mats. It is a little slicker than mats so I always sweep a little dirt from the isle in there to mix with shavings. We did not pay for it is the only reason we went with belting. |
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| ChicksInferno - 2015-01-26 8:39 AM
burning ember - 2015-01-23 10:55 AM
My stalls are dirt and when we put our well in for our house we had lots of that really fine stone/dirt from the well drilling. It was enough to level our three stalls and then we put two mats on top and shavings. I love it. It doesn't get dug up and there's no moisture held underneath the mats. Granted I live in PA so our soil is a little dirt with lots of rocks lol. And our well was 500ft deep. But I'm sure you could find something equal to it. If you go with just dirt I highly recommend mats. A lot easier and bedding lasts way longer. My aisle is dirt with mats down the center.
500 ft deep! Wow, we have to redo our well this year and our current one is at 290, that is very deep for our area.
And to the OP, my husband got really creative. He put highway fabric down, then heavy duty plastic, then 2-3" crushed rock, then belting instead of mats. He built the stall flooring so that the front of the stalls (isle side ) is about 2" roughly higher than the back of the stall (outside wall ) so that any urine will run out and away. Our barn base was built up so it will never flood, heavy rains, spring melt, etc. will run off down the hill as well. I am not a fan of belting though in place of mats. It is a little slicker than mats so I always sweep a little dirt from the isle in there to mix with shavings. We did not pay for it is the only reason we went with belting.
Yeah it cost my SO around $15,000 to do. But where we live its pretty common. 290 would have been much better! |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | We did one winter with a dirt floor. It was terrible. Because of being in a climate with harsh winters, spring came and it was stinky and muddy.
We put down wood floor with the boards approx. 1 cm apart for drainage. We bed directly on top of that. We thought about mats but were advised against it because of drainage and fear of rotting out the boards quicker. |
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