Bedding.. - Page 2

Cascara · #11 (**permalink**) 12-11-2009, 10:12 PM

Also being a gelding? be aware that he will pee from the middle so will need a wide bed of paper, we put ours down one side and the uses that, wherear mares pee out the back so a bank round the edge is better.

Little Missy · #12 (**permalink**) 13-11-2009, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Cascara

Whoaaaa, you need rubber matting underneath just as the vet said. building a whoile bed from newspaper would be very difficult to get the padding of depth needed for them to lie down. The paper is only to give them somewhere they feel safe to go in with no splashes. Do you have rubber matting already? Your previous post seemed to suggest you did? If not look at cow cubicle matting its very heavy duty and half the price of horse mats usually 6x4 each so you may get away with just 2 or 3.

Yeah, got rubber matting already. Just needed all the newspaper as we have two that need to go on it otherwise the stable with the straw in would start Spaghetti's C.O.P.D off. And they're in a stable block of two stables. Both have rubber mats and both will be bedded on Newspaper.

Little Missy · #13 (**permalink**) 13-11-2009, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Cascara

Also being a gelding? be aware that he will pee from the middle so will need a wide bed of paper, we put ours down one side and the uses that, wherear mares pee out the back so a bank round the edge is better.

Thankyou, I really didn't know that!

Rep coming your way.

Cascara · #14 (**permalink**) 13-11-2009, 11:41 AM

Its a logical simple fact and makes for tidier beds. lol. Also with copd have you hoovered the roof and cracks and so on? or sprayed with a hose to damp down then use a broom? The best place for a copd horse though is to be out 24 hours.

Little Missy · #15 (**permalink**) 13-11-2009, 03:41 PM

Yeah, although in our situation it's not practical for him to be out 24/7. But, yeah, we're hosing down all the stables.

Little Missy · #16 (**permalink**) 14-11-2009, 05:58 PM

Okay, just thought I'd let you all know:
We brushed down the whole of the inside of the stables - all the cracks, the ceiling, ect. - and bedded them both on Newspaper.

Billy didn't want to go in.. Bless him, he was shaking with his butt just sticking out of the door frame, and we couldn't get the door shut.

Spaghetti doesn't mind the Newspaper.
I suppose Billy will have to just get used to it!

We also started Spaghetti's course of antibiotics today. He's on Norodine to help the allergy, and if that doesn't work, he'll go onto the Ventipulmon.

Regards,
Little Missy.

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