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The best stall I ever used was a key hole clay footing with gravel drain
underneath. The keyhole, about three feet wide and a foot deep was covered
with fine fir sawdust and covered oer with fir shavings. With picking this
would last three weeks for free use and lock up only at meal time. Now I
have rubber mats as we ran out of good sawdust and shavings are so
expensive. The land of great timber and retrained woodsmen/computer and
appliance repairmen now. My trakehner will not lie down in the stall anymore
and lies in the mud and on the cold ground. the Holstien mare is content
with the stall. But she is dirtier as urine and feces gather during the
night. So I leave the door open to my indoor arena and turn them out in
that field where the footing is great, a product of crushed rock called
"screenings" They get a color change from rolling in it, but it offers
great secure footing for them. I also use sandblast twice a year to be sure
they are not getting a build up of sand. But how we miss those soft clean
keyhole stalls. Jean Gayle
Jean Gayle --- A Subscriber at Techline
