can you use blankets in place of straw for reusable horse bedding?
do you think it would be sanitary to keep old blankets to use in place of straws for horses stalls and wash and dry them and reuse them as bedding? maybe 10 or more old blankets on a rubber matt per stall, and then change them for 10 more blankets after the rubber mat underneath has been sanitized or what ever they do with the mats?
Horses are not like dogs or cats, and blankets would definitely be unsuitable and inadequate for their comfort and sanitation.
Blankets would compact too easily under a horse’s body weight, either when standing or lying down, so they would provide no comfort after the first few minutes.
There is always the risk that the horse will try to eat the blankets, and will either shred them to pieces or ingest a piece and choke on them. This isn’t a concern with organic bedding materials such as shavings or straw.
Also, the blankets could easily get tangled around the horses legs or head, and since horses are flight animals, the horse would panic and thrash to try and free itself from the “predator” which is holding it down! This could cause serious injury to your horse and it’s surroundings.
Finally, as the above person said, do you really want your horse lying in its own excrement, getting filthy and risking all sorts of skin and feet infections?
If blankets were a good idea, I’m sure someone would have started using them 500 years ago rather than straw or shavings, but they didn’t. If you don’t want to have to muck out a stable every day, keep your horse in a paddock. If keeping him in a stable is essential, but it is the cost of the straw that worries you, then use wood shavings. Shavings last a lot longer as they are more absorbent and there is less wastage as long as you clean out the wet/dirty patches every day.
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