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hey nancy howell...........horse question

glennster

glennster

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my office mgr here at the shop wants to put a floor in her stable fer her horses. years ago our neighbor used slaked limestone (it kinda looked like flaked limestone er crushed oyster shells) anywho, she call a local trucking company and they are talking ag lime. i think it would be a little to powdered for a floor. dont really want a crushed stone, cause the cleanout goes the field. you think ag lime would be ok? prolly put down 8 or 10 inches, compacted. dirt floor now.
 
In my area many use what is called dirty base in there horse barns. My self I just left it dirt but have a few places where there is cement pads top help keep there hoof a bit better. I have had horse around now for 20 or so years
 
I'm not Nancy, but am always ready with my 2 bits worth.

We had dirt floor stalls, decided to upgrade about 10 years ago. All we did was put down about 4 inches of crushed rock, rented a hand-operated compactor, and then put rubber stall mats over. You have to have a barrier all the way around so the gravel doesn't migrate, and cut the mats to size so they butt together and don't overlap, but it has worked fine. No gravel gets to the field.

I agree that ag lime would be too soft. And I think anything not covered with stall mats would soften up in places and you'd be fighting it all the time.

Many put down concrete, then stall mats over the top- but then the liquid doesn't drain, and it gets to be a mess. Ours have no residual odor.
 
Mill run lime stone compacted is almost like cement. If you bed with sawdust of wood shaving a road apple fork will work well. Even with straw you would have a problem digging into the lime stone with a fork or loader bucket. The mill run has a lot of fines that holds it solid. My factory drive and area for trucks to back up to the docks had a good six inches of mill run vibrated down with a road roller about 25 years ago over a course stone base. It does not get soft in wet weather. I have a treated plywood floor in my little horse barn that I soak with used motor oil every coulpa years. I drilled a few holes to let moisture out.
 
(quoted from post at 21:48:05 09/02/14) stall matts are out, her horses tear em up.
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We have the same set up as Mike (WA). Works well. Those mats are really tough, I can't imagine how a horse would tear them up.
 
Use the 3/4 stall mats from Tractor Supply. Then add a topping of saw dust from your local lumber mill. We use about 1" of Oak that we buy by the t-tag dump load. We have the same setup as Mike with 2-3 inches of 2RC stones and the mats on top. Ours have been in place for 4 years with no problems. 4 horses and I have never had to pick up a mat. I cant see how a horse could tear up one of those heavy mats. I got the idea to do this from a barn that houses 30 plus horses. The light amount of sawdust makes cleanup easy.
 
The local limestone quarry here sells what they call Number 10 stone its about the next thing to ground ag lime but without the dust the largest pieces are 1/4 inch I woud think it'd be good in a stall.I use the stuff to mulch around fruit trees and grape vines.
 
I use chips, I think they are 1/2 inch. Think they are called CA 11. After I clean out barn in the summer put a loader bucket in each stall. Don't spread it let the horses do it. Also I don't lock the horses in the stalls except to catch them. They track the chips out to the water tank and about 20 ft. I put all the manure on the garden the chips don't seem to hurt anything. Turn into lime eventually. I have done this for 25 yrs. AG lime will work good as well. Had a neighbor did this in his cattle barn. He put down at least 8 inches every year. Tried to pick the lime up with the manure and spread it on his corn ground.
 
We got a horse that pick-pocketed my cellphone once, returned the phone next day but kept the case for a toy. Have watched same horse unbuckle a halter and remove from another horse cuz he wanted a play toy and have sat and watched him untie himself and another (so he had a playmate) from a tie line. Another time we gave him a stuffed toy to see what he would do with it. He grabbed it with his lips and stepped on it tearing it limb from limb, one limb at a time.

As for the flooring question ours are free ranged so no good answer to help.
 
I think that is what I have that the contractor called mill run. I mixed a truck load in a cement mixer to pour walks without adding sand or stone.
 
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