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I've been trailering my horses with shavings in trailers for 22 years and I've never had shavings get blown in their eyes and cause problems.  I do use the large flake shavings.  If this is a main concern, you could always put fly masks on your horses.

 

Rae

Tall C Arabians - Central

Mel Cochran <brio_gal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This probably sounds silly, but I do not use shavings in my trailer because
I am afraid that particles from them could fly up in my horse's eyes with
all of the air circulating through the trailer. I also worry that they
could be slippery?

Am I being overly paranoid? Would my horses benefit from having some
shavings over the mats in my trailer? I have porous mats so liquids go
through to the floor and drain out rather than sitting on top of the mats
and making them slippery. It does make for a lot of work when I get home,
take the mats out, rinse them and the trailer floor and then put everything
back in.

Mel


>From: Barb Peck
>Reply-To: Barb Peck
>To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [RC] Trailer bedding (shavings)-was Standing wraps
>Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:19:17 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
>
>While we're on the subject of trailering...
>
>My neighbors are stressing to me that when I trailer (2 horse straight
>load) I should be using
>waaay more shavings than I do (which is none to almost none).
>
>I conceed that if I was using a stock trailer as a box, and hauling
>extremely long distances,
>then maybe I would- but for short trips of a few hrs- I don't see the
>point.
>
>They tried to use the 'less concussion' on the legs theory- and I just
>don't see how that could possibly help unless the bedding extremely deep.
>
>What do most of you do?
>
>Barb
>
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