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Please can someone tell me where I'm going wrong with wood pellets.

One of my mares is very wet, I have rubber matting and used six bags(only making a bed for half the box) to make the initial bed and was just taking out the poo and then mixing the damp bedding back in with the dry and using one/two bags a week to top up.

After 3 weeks the bed was disgusting and I had to gut the box yesterday and start again, the bed was literally squelching under my feet.

My other mare is very tidy and always pee's in exactly the same place and even with here I'm using at lest one bag a week.

At this rate it's going to cost me a fortune.

I got these pellets.

http://www.phillipsanimalbedding.com/

Can anyone tell me where I'm going wrong?

Thanks
 
Gosh not sure what to suggest.
I've been using pellet bedding for a week now and love it, i'm not even taking out a full barrow a day. Whilst she was on shavings i was taking out a full barrow of wet and a full barrow of solids a day and was using two bales of shavings a week.
I set my bed up with 8 bags and i have added one today but didn't really need to.
I do a full muck out every day as not keen on leaving wet it.

How much water did you add per bag of pellets and how long did you leave them to fluff up. Also what are there pellets made from?
 
Are you putting the new pellets in wet or dry?

I found my bed was getting wet so started adding the new pellets dry and they gradually fluff up over the week.

Hope that helps...
 
Some have less absorbancythan others and become waterlogged very quickly, I tried the philips ones and hated them, I have tried the LWP economy ones and they are fine and currently have Verdo pellets and they are working out fine. I never wet mine when I put them in, just a bag of dry pellets and mix in. I take out all poo and the main wet patch, and one bag a week does 3 of my 4 geldings, my other one is a dirty devil, and very wet. I put him in 2 bags a week, and that seems to work really well. Also the bags I use are 15kg. Some are only 10 kg so that will make quite a difference
 
My Tank has a bladder the size of a space hopper and I converted to pellets, two years ago.
(I am trialling straw pellets atm, but I have used LWP previously)

His start up bed would be made up of 13 bags initially. Nice and deep! I don't routinely wet the pellets, but might pour a bucket or two of water over the start up bed.

To muck out - pick up poops and take out the wet patch.

THEN SWIRL THE WHOLE BED UP. The dry sides need to be mixed with the trashed middle to keep the moisture even.

I will add as many bags each week as I need. One week it might be one, the other it might be three/four!

I keep the bed nice and deep, otherwise it just becomes sodden and ruined. It may mean I run out of pellets faster, but the bed doesn't make me cry every morning;)

On average I will burn through a tonne of pellets in three months (with two, wet geldings).
 
I'm generally watering the pellets before I use them but I also tried putting a bag in dry and it didn't make much difference :mad:.

I think next time I'll try the Liverpool.
 
Teeni said:
Gosh not sure what to suggest.
I've been using pellet bedding for a week now and love it, i'm not even taking out a full barrow a day. Whilst she was on shavings i was taking out a full barrow of wet and a full barrow of solids a day and was using two bales of shavings a week.
I set my bed up with 8 bags and i have added one today but didn't really need to.
I do a full muck out every day as not keen on leaving wet it.

How much water did you add per bag of pellets and how long did you leave them to fluff up. Also what are there pellets made from?
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I added a bucket of water per bag, there were still a few solid bits of pellet in, I suppose I left them about 20 min? I've no idea what they are made from,I've had a look on the web site and it doesn't say.

I have tried pellets before Aquamax and MJf (local company) and I didn't like eithert.
 
don;t add water to them, and leave pellets whole, they will break down with the pee. In fact by adding water you are infact reducing the amount of pee they will absorb so making the bed wetter. Philips are wood pellets, just not as absorbant as some of the other makes.
 
Bosworth said:
don;t add water to them, and leave pellets whole, they will break down with the pee. In fact by adding water you are infact reducing the amount of pee they will absorb so making the bed wetter. Philips are wood pellets, just not as absorbant as some of the other makes.
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I'll try that and next time buy a more absobent make :)
 
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