Jill
Aspiring Cowgirl
Usually, we bed our stalls down with sawdust. When it's foaling time, we put straw over top of this and keep the mare and new foal with straw on top of the sawdust (or shavings) for a period of time. But, as probably most of you know, it is a serious pita to clean stalls that are bedded with straw. Much harder to keep them as clean as we like.
So my question is, at what age to you move your mares and new foals off the straw topper and onto just sawdust or shavings?
And if you usually use sawdust (finer / easier to inhale) do you do an intermediate period on shavings after the straw and before the complete switch to just sawdust?
Thanks!
So my question is, at what age to you move your mares and new foals off the straw topper and onto just sawdust or shavings?
And if you usually use sawdust (finer / easier to inhale) do you do an intermediate period on shavings after the straw and before the complete switch to just sawdust?
Thanks!
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