Sonny my old senior QH is in an over sized stall, 12 X 20 because he needs it. He is out all day but inside at night. He is the messiest horse in a stall you've ever seen. It takes me a good 30 to 45 minutes a day just to clean his stall. If he is in during the day for bad weather, then I am really screwed. I try to pick up his piles as he goes. He pees a lot and poops everywhere, not in just one spot, his piles are scattered all over the place. At night he loves to lay down, roll around, stretch out, and banks his bedding up against the walls, again scattering any nightly poops all over the place. I have to strip his stall constantly. On just a daily routine cleaning, I am hauling out tons of wet soiled bedding.
He is killing me on shavings too because I bed him deep in winter.
He goes through several bags a week. I put in 5 bags on Saturday, and it already has to be all replaced this morning.
My question is, would stall mats help a big pig of a horse like that? if I put stall mats in there, when he lays down and wants to get up, would he be able to shove those mats up out of place??? Would I also be stuck wrestling with them too? And how thick do they need to be for a big guy like this?
He is killing me on shavings too because I bed him deep in winter.
He goes through several bags a week. I put in 5 bags on Saturday, and it already has to be all replaced this morning.
My question is, would stall mats help a big pig of a horse like that? if I put stall mats in there, when he lays down and wants to get up, would he be able to shove those mats up out of place??? Would I also be stuck wrestling with them too? And how thick do they need to be for a big guy like this?