This message is from: Lori Albrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Denise Delgado wrote:
> thanks becky for your comments. your barn sounds great. i think i'll try a > dirt floor, topped with gravel then with rubber mats over. any water can go > through the cracks or out the edge. I have the Groundmaster mats, laid over stone dust in the stalls. The mats are made of a sort of lightly pebbled plasticy stuff with holes in, like an egg carton, the edges of the holes extend down a bit into the stone dust. The wet drains away very well. I like them a lot. The mats come in one piece which is sized to your stall so no seams, they are held down by pins you drive through a few of the holes all around the edges. The only downside is if you bed with straw, as in a foaling stall, the little foal feet can go down through the straw and make contact with the mat which is a bit slippery when they are cantering around the stall. So, in the foaling stalls I used rubber mats, which I also laid over packed stone dust. I got the Groundmaster mats from a company in Michigan, they advertise in the back of horse magazines. Lori A.
