DO YOU AND YOUR HORSES NEED A STALL FLOOR?
YES-ABSOLUTELY! THE BENEFITS ARE PROVEN!
FOR THE HORSE:
A stall floor system maintains a level surface by eliminating holes from digging out "urine pits" and pawing. This eliminates potential back, leg, and muscle problems for the horse, thereby helping them to stay sound and reducing vet and chiropractic bills.
Also, with permeable flooring, urine (ammonia vapors) are wicked away from your horses breathing air and bedding immediately. This system also provides for quick and easy disinfecting ( less disease and illness ), and your horse does not have to lay in its own urine.
ECONOMICS:
With a stall floor system the bedding is not ground into the dirt (wasted) and cleaning of the stalls is much less time consuming. Your stall cleaning time will be cut by at least ½!
Holes in the stall floors do not have to constantly be refilled to keep them level. With a one-piece, drainable system you can disinfect right from the top, without removing the flooring system.
This equals savings in time, materials and labor. A stall floor system is not a "frill", it is a very beneficial product that will pay you back and over!
NOW THAT WE KNOW A STALL FLOOR SYSTEM IS BENEFICIAL AND ECONOMICAL- WHICH ONE IS THE BEST FOR YOU AND YOUR HORSES?
A. Let us consider the solid, heavy rubber mat or a poured floor. First of all, with no drainage the urine will pool on the surface, therefore soaking up in your bedding. Besides the excessive ammonia vapors remain in the stall which causes among other things respiratory problems for people and horses. Eventually the edges of the rubber mats can curl allowing the bedding to accumulate under the edges making the floor unleveled, requiring the mats needing to be constantly re-laid to keep level.
The solid flooring also does not allow for the floor to breathe, so the urine that runs down between the cracks stays wet and breeds odor and bacteria. The rubber mats are very heavy and must be taken out frequently to be cleaned properly.
The Groundmaster floor system was designed by professional horsemen and horsewomen to overcome all of the draw backs of other floorings on the market today. It is a one-piece polyethylene flooring that comes to you rolled up like a carpet. Although it is extremely strong it is comparatively light in weight. After unrolling it you tamp it into a prepared base. You then have a permanent, maintenance free stall floor system that drains and breaths. Your bedding will last 7 to 10 days longer than on a solid floor because most of the urine is wicked away immediately. This also provides a much healthier environment for your horse.
C. For you and your horse-order Groundmaster now by calling 800-411-2530.
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