dirty bedding

[AlterEgo]

My 16.1 warmblood gelding is so dirty in his stable. he manages to bury it and spread it round every where. one day he is clean the next its totally trashed. I have tried every kind of bedding, shavings, straw, megazorb, bedmax and easy bed he has even been on rubber matting with a small amount of bed but still minging. I find the less bed he has the worse he is. Ive tried deep littering as well as lifting the bed every day. I dont know what to try next. has anybody got any sugestions??

[Skyhuntress]

Is he very restless in the stall?
Alot of times, particularily if their clean one day and a total mess the other day, it's because they are bored. They pace the stall, spreading all the stuff around to make it even more messier.

Just a suggestion. We had 2 mares who were disgusting. Peeing all the time and spreading it around everywhere. Gave them a couple of toys and they are much cleaner and go in the same spot now

[AlterEgo]

he does tend to box walk. what sort of toys did you give them. he has a ball and likits dont last 5 mins and he has mastered the art of biting them in half.
will try the toy thing. thanks a lot.

[augermoon]

Have you tried Aquamax? My horse has been on it for a couple of months and its fantastic.

[AlterEgo]

augermoon, not tried that bedding. what is it like? is there a web site I can look at?

[CanadianRider]

Another thought on the restless idea.

Where is his stall located in the barn? I friend of mine has about 5 horses/ponies that she keeps at home. Their barn has 5 stalls on one side and 2 . . . To make a long story short one of the horses on the end stall used to be very messy, they moved him one night because of a broken board, across from another horse. He is now really, really clean. He was getting lonely.

[augermoon]

http://www.aquamax.co.uk/

Here you go. This stuff and rubber matting is truly amazing.