You Can Have A Beautifully Behaved Horse
In A Fraction Of The Time!
Slash The Time It Takes To Train Your Horse
And
Eliminate All Bad Habits!
materials, you may use sand, crusher fines, decomposed granite or other fine grain material. You need to make sure that the material does not have any large rock or stone. Washed concrete sand tends to have too much large rock; therefore you should specify screened sand. This may be a little more expensive up front, but it is easier to work with and the larger rock tends to work out from under the mats which can cause stone bruises in the horse hoof.
Use a long 2x4 to smooth the sand. Use a four foot carpenter’s level to ensure the material is level. It is important to keep the sand smooth and level, you do not want the stall floor to be higher on one side compared to the other.
After the granular material is leveled up it is time to install the horse matting. If you are lucky, the walls of your horse stall are square, but most people will find that the stall is anything but square. Don’t worry, just install the mats to the best of your ability and it will work out.
The mats are heavy, and can be hard to position. Try to keep the edges of the mats in the center of the stall butted up together. If you have gaps, try to keep them closer to the wall, most horses will not get that close to the edge of the stall, but will stand in the middle.
After the horse matting is installed, place the bedding, then stand back and let your horse enjoy a nice comfortable bed. When it comes time to muck, you’ll find it is a lot easier to keep the stalls clean than it was before. Then you’ll wonder how you managed to survive without horse matting before.
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