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Location: Jersey Girl | I'm planning to attend a big show in June and it was suggested I get the light weight stall mats. Not sure I will have the extra money to buy them beforehand Would you just bed extra deep? Other suggestions?
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| Pelleted shavings work great, they provide a great cushion and don’t separate like flaked shavings. I use 4 or 5 bags for a 10 x 10 stall |
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| I bought some of those play ground mats that interlock from Walmart.com and they were super cheap like less than 50.00 for a set to cover one stall. |
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Location: mi | How long are you going to be there. Most of us don't bother if its just a few nights. We bed deep enough not find concrete. If its a week or longer its easier and maybe cheaper to pay for the mats then to buy all the extra bedding for that length of time.
Also wanted to add that we do have some in our group that have horses with some soundness issues and even at the weekend events they do stall mats. But they bring their own that go with them from show to show. and they are the smaller lock together type mats as described above.
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Location: Jersey Girl | ajs2002 - 2018-04-09 11:28 AM How long are you going to be there. Most of us don't bother if its just a few nights. We bed deep enough not find concrete. If its a week or longer its easier and maybe cheaper to pay for the mats then to buy all the extra bedding for that length of time.
Also wanted to add that we do have some in our group that have horses with some soundness issues and even at the weekend events they do stall mats. But they bring their own that go with them from show to show. and they are the smaller lock together type mats as described above.
It will be for 4 days/3 nights.
I may try the pelleted bedding option |
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Location: Jersey Girl | FLITASTIC - 2018-04-09 11:13 AM I bought some of those play ground mats that interlock from Walmart.com and they were super cheap like less than 50.00 for a set to cover one stall.
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Location: mi | fulltiltfilly - 2018-04-09 11:33 AM ajs2002 - 2018-04-09 11:28 AM How long are you going to be there. Most of us don't bother if its just a few nights. We bed deep enough not find concrete. If its a week or longer its easier and maybe cheaper to pay for the mats then to buy all the extra bedding for that length of time.
Also wanted to add that we do have some in our group that have horses with some soundness issues and even at the weekend events they do stall mats. But they bring their own that go with them from show to show. and they are the smaller lock together type mats as described above. It will be for 4 days/3 nights.
I may try the pelleted bedding option
If you have no soundness issues you are overly worried about, the pelletted bedding is a good plan for that length of time. |
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Location: Illinois | I use the puzzle lock multicolored play mats on concrete or when I don't have room to pack them I put down 4 bags of the pellet bedding & puff them out, then do 2 bags of fine shavings on top of that. If I'm tight on space I just do 6 bags of pellets puffed out. |
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Location: my piece of paradise | I do the pellet shavings also 4-5 bags and pack them down and then do several bags of flake shavings over them. Horses are nice and comfy and even my mare that walks a stall never gets to the concrete level. |
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| fulltiltfilly - 2018-04-09 10:33 AM
FLITASTIC - 2018-04-09 11:13 AM I bought some of those play ground mats that interlock from Walmart.com and they were super cheap like less than 50.00 for a set to cover one stall.
Did they stay in place?
I have used those and with a horse that was a complete idiot in his stall - rearing, walking, pawing. They held up great and did not come apart. I also bedded down with plenty of shavings, though. |
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Location: Jersey Girl | ajs2002 - 2018-04-09 11:42 AM fulltiltfilly - 2018-04-09 11:33 AM ajs2002 - 2018-04-09 11:28 AM How long are you going to be there. Most of us don't bother if its just a few nights. We bed deep enough not find concrete. If its a week or longer its easier and maybe cheaper to pay for the mats then to buy all the extra bedding for that length of time.
Also wanted to add that we do have some in our group that have horses with some soundness issues and even at the weekend events they do stall mats. But they bring their own that go with them from show to show. and they are the smaller lock together type mats as described above. It will be for 4 days/3 nights.
I may try the pelleted bedding option
I don't have any soundness issues to worry about. |
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Location: Jersey Girl | GLP - 2018-04-09 12:28 PM fulltiltfilly - 2018-04-09 10:33 AM FLITASTIC - 2018-04-09 11:13 AM I bought some of those play ground mats that interlock from Walmart.com and they were super cheap like less than 50.00 for a set to cover one stall. Did they stay in place? I have used those and with a horse that was a complete idiot in his stall - rearing, walking, pawing. They held up great and did not come apart. I also bedded down with plenty of shavings, though.
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| We went to a place for a few years for finals that put up stalls in barns that had asphalt floors in them. What we did was we brought some mats from home that we had (they were very light weight) and put those down, then we went to the store and bought a couple bales of peat moss and put those on top of them mats. Then, on top of that, we would put bales of shavings. The mats offered protection if they managed to get through all of the shavings and peat moss. But the peat moss adds a lot of cushion and works really well. When we went to leave we would just dig down and find the edge of a mat and pull it up. Several other people we went with just used the peat moss and shavings and they didn't have any problems that way. If you don't have to clean out the stall when you leave, I would do this for sure! |
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| We always rent stall mats. My mare likes to lie down. We are afraid she will slip getting up and have an injury. She is a big horse. We always have plenty of shavings down but will separate when they get up. We have so much to load up dirty stall mats are just too much trouble. |
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Location: North of Tulsa, Oklahoma | 4-5 bags pelleted bedding, split sack a bit with knife and pour in some water. Let bags set for a few then open and spread. The pellets will not all be wet and just somewhat expanded. Pack down this layer a bit as you spread and top with 3 or so bags of fluffy bedding. We've found this to work well for cushion and it will keep the shaving from rolling to stall edges as much. This also works well when you have a big pee mess maker. It also saved 2 of my stalls when the hurricane flood went through our aisle last year during BBR FINALS, they were packed down and only a corner ended up wet as they worked like sandbags. |
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Location: Georgia | I used to put down the interlock mats and they were a mess by the end of the show. Every time the horse laid down and stood up they would come apart. Then id be piecing back together pee soaked mats.. it was terrible. Started using pellet shavings and never looked back!! 
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Location: Wyoming | What about those facilities that require you to use their shavings and cannot bring in outside shavings? What do you use then? |
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Location: CTX | I recently invested in the mighty lite stall mats, and really love them! Yes they are expensive, but I feel they are an investment.
Before this I had the heavy mats from TSC. My hubby cut them in half, but they were still super heavy and difficult to move (expecially after a 3 day weekend when they were covered in pee).
Before those I tried the cheap interlocking ones but they would always come loose with my boy, he is a walker....
So now I only use the mighty lites with pellets and shavings on top.
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | rodeomom3 - 2018-04-09 9:19 AM Pelleted shavings work great, they provide a great cushion and don’t separate like flaked shavings. I use 4 or 5 bags for a 10 x 10 stall
Agreed!! When we go to the BBR at OKC I use 5 bags of pelleted bedding to form a base and then put 3 bags of fluffy shavings on top. The pellets are heavier and will pack under the shavings and form a really good pad on top of the concrete. |
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