[HairOfTheDog]

If that pony is unlucky she'll flip the hay out and on to the other side of the wall where she can't even get it :~)

I liked that there was no hay wasted this morning, it was all cleaned up. I think even a bungie cord over the top of the rack would hold in the hay. Gonna try that.

And no one messed inside last night, but I think the lean-to is going to remain the toilet, so I'm going to look at it and think today. If I dig out the wet spots, on nice dry days like this it'll dry out pretty good through the day. But come November nothing dries just getting air, it just stays wet if you don't add dry bedding on top. Hence the buildup before.

[FrogInABlender]

Yeah, mats would definately be your best bet in the lean-to for the wintertime, but maybe if you can just keep the poo and most of the wet stuff forked out that'll be good enough. That way it won't build up quite as quickly or as high.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I was thinking of suggesting bungie cords across the top.

I saw one of those DIY shows where they built a ball holder in a garage. They made a 3 sided wooden box, open on top but with a flat board with holes drilled in in it, and a flat board across the bottom, and bungie cords up and down all across the front. You could put the balls in the top, and reach in thru the bungie cords to get one out. It was pretty cool

I’m think you could put bungie cords across the top, and still be able to get the hay in.

Becky

[AnAmericanMother]

I wonder if you could slope the floor and dig in a herringbone drain, viz.: subsurface drainage

That is for large areas of farmland, but the general principles still apply. A mole drain wouldn't be much use because there's no room to pull it, but if you put 3" perforated corrugated pipe in a silt sleeve at the bottom of the drain ditch (holes DOWN) and cover it with gravel, it should drain that right out. We did this in our back yard and it really, really helped. A formerly boggy spot behind the deck is now clean and dry (the water is now draining to the opposite side of the lawn and THAT is now soggy, but that's a different problem!)