Rubber Livestock Mat Benefits

Why Your Livestock Will Love Rubber Mats

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Posted: November 18, 2009

When you raise livestock, you’re always concerned first about their well-being, but secondly about cost and profit. When you think of ways to keep your animals healthy, save money and increase profits, you probably don’t automatically think of rubber flooring. But when you put down rubber cattle mats or horse stall mats, your farm or ranch animals will flourish. And if you’re raising dairy cattle, you’ll actually see milk production go up as vet costs go down.

As you know, livestock are very vulnerable to infection. Rubber matting reduces the risk of infection by keeping your livestock’s barns and stalls cleaner. Farm mats make mucking out stalls or cleaning barns much easier. Because rubber matting does not soak up urine or food residue, there is nowhere for bacteria to hide. When the rubber flooring is hosed down, disease-causing microbes wash right out the door. This is very important in caring for large numbers of animals, where a single infection could spread throughout your flock or herd and devastate your business.

Reducing infection among your livestock not only reduces vet bills, but also keeps your animals healthy and happy, and happy animals will produce more of whatever you’re growing, whether that is milk, meat or wool. Installing farm mats and keeping your animals healthy actually increases your profits while reducing your veterinary costs.

And it’s not just a matter of reducing infection. Livestock mats also help your animals feel better in general. Livestock have heavy bodies, and standing all the time on concrete or even bare dirt causes fatigue. Their feet hurt, their legs hurt, their backs hurt, and they have no way of telling anyone that they’re in pain or doing anything about that pain. But this fatigue gradually wears on the animal, causing poor health and even endangering the animal’s life.

Rubber cattle mats and horse stall mats also make it much easier for your animals to keep their footing. While they do have four legs, livestock sometimes stumble and fall. Rubber matting can decrease the chances of a fall and keep your animals more comfortable.

Animals put a lot of stress on flooring, as well as on their feet and legs. It takes a tough surface to stand up to all that weight and all those hooves. Rubber flooring is that surface. It’s wear-resistant and long-lasting. No other flooring surface will stand up to the damage your livestock can inflict the way farm mats will.

When you choose to install rubber cattle mats or cow mattresses, you’re making a choice to improve the quality of life for your livestock, safeguard their health and happiness, and reduce your costs while increasing your profits.

Take a look at our cow stall mats, cow mattresses, aisleway / alley mats, and dairy parlor mats.