Does anyone have pea gravel in their stalls?
I asked this once, because my horses have run-in privileges and don’t use their stalls except for their feed tubs and for the bathroom (I feed hay in the barn aisle, and have an area at the end of the aisle that I keep bedded in shavings for sleeping). People responded that, unless the drainage in your stalls is excellent, it can get pretty stinky, and also it is difficult to pick manure out of–you end up w/ gravel in your manure pile, which may or may not be an issue, depending on how you dispose of it (I know my garderners wouldn’t be thrilled). Now that both of my guys are barefoot, I’m thinking of making a gravel area around my water troughs, so that they have to walk on it but it won’t be high-maintenance in terms of cleanup.
