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SoftStallTM is the most popular and effective therapeutic stall flooring system on the market today!
Do Horses sleep? Have you ever noticed that there are days when your horse appears more rested than others? We all know how a good bed affects our sleep, and recent research indicates that the bedding material we provide our horses may influence their sleep as well.
As written by Dr. Michael Lowder DVM, MS
Thousands of horses worldwide are now enjoying the benefits SoftStallTM has to offer!
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SoftStallTM is not a rubber mat or foam product. It is stall flooring that acts as a therapeutic bedding system for your horse. Just like us, horses need a good rest and require rem sleep which they can only achieve lying down. This rest is essential for horses to rejuvenate their muscles, tendons, joints and the rest of their body and mind. SoftStallTM invites horses to lay down because it imitates ideal pasture, where they instinctively are meant to live. There is no friction or discomfort when they get up and down... that is why you will never see a hock sore with this system. SoftStallTM is being coined the "beauty rest" of the horse world.
You no longer require shavings to bed as this system does that for your horse. You do require shavings to absorb the urine, this will allow you to remove all the urine from the stall each day while maximizing the life of the top cover. Once again you want to be sure that the shavings you use are absorbant. The amount of shavings required in each stall will be determined by three factors... your horses turn out program, its behavior in its stall and the absorbency of the shavings.
What makes this product so unique is its two layers. The first and bottom layer of the SoftStallTM system is a soft yet firm mattress. The outer shell of the mattress is a "geo-textile" fabric, which is sewn into a multitude of cells then filled with recycled rubber pieces which we inject with a binder to form a solid rubber tube in each cell. The size of the matress is 4'x6' and weights approx, 140lbs. The height of the matress is approx 2.5" in height. A stall utilizes enough of these mattresses to cover the entire floor of the stall.
The second layer of the SoftStallTM system is the top cover. This top cover is a special rubberized surface reinforced with a "geo-textile" material woven into the rubber from the underside. The top cover is approximately 1/4" in thinkness and provides a seamless, durable, non-slip, non-permeable seal, wall to wall in your horses stall. This top cover is secured to the walls of your stall and will not shift once in place.
The top cover will not tear under the normal activity that a horse displays in its stall, Horses can wear shoes with road studs attached. The SoftStallTM top cover comes with a 2 year limited manufacturing warranty against rips and tears. SoftStallTM can be laid on any type of existing stall floor that is level and compacted.
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