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| We are attending the Youth World. A friend told me that the stalls are concrete.........9 days in a concrete stall is going to equal a sore horse. So those that have dealt with this. What did you do? Load your stall up with shavings, Purchase some kind of cheap mat, or keep some kind soft ride boots on your horse?  |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | Are you talking about the QH Youth World in OKC? If so you can rent a stall mat. If not I have had good luck with first putting down four of five bags of pelleted bedding (wet per directions) and than putting another four or so bags of fluffy flaked bedding on top. The pelleted bedding is heavier and finer (when hydrated) and will stay under the flaked bedding and make a decent cusion between the flakes and the concrete. |
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| Well actually talking about Perry, GA. Thanks for the info! |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I agree with the pellets. They're a life saver for sure. Of course to be safe you can always do mat, pellets, regular shavings, AND boots? lol |
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| We use these: http://www.fleetfarm.com/search/?q=stall+mats&searchSubmit.x=-902&s...
We don't interlock them. They work great and help save on shavings as all the urine drains through the holes. They are a little heavy to haul and carry but are worth it. We've had ours for many years - they hold up great. |
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Location: Hill Country of TEXAS!! | Soft ride boots, foam kid play mats from walmart and a ton of shavings plus getting them out as much as you can for as long as you can :) |
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Location: South Central Florida | We lay the interlocking rubber kid mats and used to haul heavy rubber mats to put over those. Last year there was a company there that was selling 1" thick foam sheets. It is the same foam that I put under my rubber mats in my trailer. The sheets are about $60 or $80 per sheet, about what I pay at home. AFter the show last year, we put them under our mats in the trailer.... I usually get 2 years out of the foam I purchase.
Also, there is a large feed store not far from the fairgrounds that was selling a similar product...some type of foam.
For Open Worlds, we will purchase the foam mats and do it on the very first day. Last year we waited, and the horse was very sore by mid week.
Lots and lots of shavings on top of the foam too!!!
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| If you dont want to spend money on mats, use your horse trailer mats. (i know its a pain to move them but it would save you money) |
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Location: the land of dust & sticks | Lots of shavings and soft ride boots. If you don't mind walking they have several turnouts you can use to turn them out for a few hours everday
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| I just bed them down with about 12 bags of shavings, or bag some sawdust up live 4/5 bags. Then put shavings on top.
Edited by daisycake123 2014-07-10 8:11 PM
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| SC Wrangler - 2014-07-09 9:09 AM Are you talking about the QH Youth World in OKC? If so you can rent a stall mat. If not I have had good luck with first putting down four of five bags of pelleted bedding (wet per directions) and than putting another four or so bags of fluffy flaked bedding on top. The pelleted bedding is heavier and finer (when hydrated) and will stay under the flaked bedding and make a decent cusion between the flakes and the concrete.
This^^ the pelleted shavings are great, they do not separate like the flaked shavings. It seems no matter how many bags of the flakes shavings I put down my horses create wholes and are standing on the ground. I also leave my soft rides on. |
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