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Discussion on Stall flooring with ag lime
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leslie1
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Posted on Thursday, Mar 19, 2009 - 11:30 am:
So I am planning on stripping my stalls down to dirt. Applying ag lime and then covering with mats. I am sick of the horses peeing in there. So, there will be no bedding. They prefer to lay outside anyways.
I called the local quarry and he said the ag lime is too fine of particle?? and recommended a ag lime/sand mix?
Wont that make the mats shift?
When I read the threads it seemed like you were using the plain ol'ag lime---not a mix?
Thanks for any clarification
Leslie
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erika
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Posted on Thursday, Mar 19, 2009 - 4:29 pm:
Good luck, Leslie. I have bare mats most of the time and the mares still pee in there. In the summer I have to give up and either close them out or put in shavings or it's a magnet for flies.
I guess I'm not the only one confused about lime! Around here, we call the sandy stuff "crushed limestone", but there is also something that the locals call "lime" that they put under bedding in stalls to keep the smell down. (I always referred to that type as "anhyDrOus lime". The latter type is somewhat caustic and is a very fine, dusty powder.) I don't use that kind because I would hate to see a horse get it in their eyes!
Then there is a third(?!) type that farmers spread on pastures that is very dusty, but not the anhyDrOus, burning kind!
Somebody set me straight here. Is "ag lime" the same as crushed limestone or stone dust? Or is it the finer stuff that they spread on fields to adjust ph?
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scooter
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Posted on Thursday, Mar 19, 2009 - 5:06 pm:
Erika, It sure seems different parts of the country have their own slang for limestone...rock dust...ect.
We spread ag lime on our pastures so I was confused as to why something like that would work and get hard. The details were just too overwhelming for me BUT there are also different grades of limestone, the limestone I got from the quarry by the house is NOT the same limestone we spread on our field...I read the whole ag pamphlet on it and am still confused.
Leslie IF your ag lime or maybe it's crushed limestone I don't know anymore!!! is the same as what I used in my arena/ paddock it will work great. The event barn I worked at put limestone down first and compacted it, put mats over it and it was VERY hard. The other lime like Erika is talking about doesn't pack and is very dusty....don't use that!
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scooter
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Posted on Thursday, Mar 19, 2009 - 5:16 pm:
Here ya go see if you can make heads or tails of it....seems the stuff I use is the large particle size...I think and the stuff we use on the fields is mostly very very fine. My stuff isn't screened I don't think
https://hubcap.clemson.edu/~blpprt/pasture/lime.html
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mrose
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Posted on Thursday, Mar 19, 2009 - 7:18 pm:
Geesh, who know you need to be a scientist to have horses?? Or agronomist and a soils expert?
Thanks for the site, Diane. I've always wondered why you were spreading limestone on your fields, but thought you folks in the north just do things kind of different maybe!
Leslie, I echo the "good luck" We have concrete with mats over it, and whether I use shavings or not I still have some horses that pee inside, even when they have a great, sandy run. A couple of them will be standing in the sun outside, rush inside, pee, and go back out! Several times a year I have to pull up the mats and flush out underneath them.
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leslie1
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Posted on Thursday, Mar 19, 2009 - 11:01 pm:
Thanks guys
I am going down to my local quarry and check it out.
I think these mares pee in there to get even with us for making them haul us around!!!
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mrose
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Posted on Friday, Mar 20, 2009 - 12:42 am:
I long ago decided horses think we are bored to death and need to feel useful, so they do all they can to make work for us!
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