I finally got that roundpen!! HOOOOORAY!
I'm lucky enough to live on very flat land, so it's working for now, but I need something to put on the ground anyway. For one, I don't really want a mud track when it gets damp, and another, it's very unsafe to work if it starts to drizzle or rained the night before! I have this one mare that ... well, if you were to turn her out on a 2000 acre lot and there was just a one square foot mud patch in the whole place, she would manage to slip and fall on it within 10 minutes. She's TALENTED!!!!! (Naturally, being a clumsy pig in horse's clothing, once on the ground, she would proceed to roll and wallow!)

I don't like blue stone. It's too hard on their feet, and too hard on the poor victim that loses their balance and falls on it!
Sawdust is a MESS!

Someone suggested using rock dust (which is like mini mini gravel) but I fear that would be hard on their feet, get stuck in shoes if anyone was shod (which they may have to be in the case of rock dust), and hurt like !@#$%^&*&@! to fall on.
I kinda like sand, but I don't know any of the pros and cons. I'm pretty sure one of the cons is price...
What I REALLLLY like is this... stuff my horse instructor has in his riding arena. I don't know if it's good for rain as well as shine, but it's like... well I call it rock fluff! There may be a little rock gravel sized pebble once every few inches, but hardly at all noticeable, and the rest is just rock colored dark gray soft silty stuff. It almost reminds me of lesser messy ashes. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about???

Also, if we were to get sand or rock fluff, how do you keep it in the roundpen? 2x4's cut to fit around all the edges? Eh?

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