Apart from straw...cheapest bedding??

[NewHeights_SJ]

I use easibed for the two horses i have now and am currently paying £6.50 (or there abouts) per bale. As everything is so expensive i just wondered if i had any cheaper options? Obviously straw is the cheapest, but this isn't really viable as my mare eats it!!

So, what does everyone else use? Whats cheaper on the market?

Any ideas?

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[aimeeq94]

im not sure if its cheap or not but you can get straw sprayed with eucalyptus, and it stops them eating it!!
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[saddlesore]

We're having something of a shavings crisis in scotland so i have just switched onto natures best. £5.50 a bag but you really dont waste any so much cheaper to use, roughly a bag - a bag and a half a week depending on how wet they are. They have a website and found them very helpful.

 

[Shipley]

Flax is what I use but the guy only charges £5 a bale. Can give you the details but not sure if they would deliver to you unless its a lorry load.

 

[LankyDoodle]

I spend about 3 a week on straw. I spend 4.85 a week on aquamax. I buy 80 bags on a pallet, direct from aquamax and it is super absorbant so cost-effective.

 

[LankyDoodle]

Spray the straw with Jeyes fluid or dettol.

 

[141070]

Ship, Can you PM me the suppliers details please?

 

[oofadoofa]

At the moment I'm trying a mixture of treated straw and shavings (not sure what the brand name is) at £5.50 a bale. It makes a nice bed and is pretty much like shavings really!

 

[bexsodb]

we used to go to the local saw mill
costed £1 for big bag

 

[Coffee_Bean]

I think cushionbed is about £5 per bale, like a less good easibed. Well that's what my yard sells it for anyway.

 

[Flint12]

We get ours from saw mill and works out at about 40p a bale. . . i love it

 

[LankyDoodle]

If I wanted to use sawdust I'd get it free as my husband is a carpenter

 

[imafluffybunny]

I get cross shredded paper from my husbands work for free, its like working with shavings and is actually more absorbant. I use thick rubber matting though so I dont have really thick beds.

 

[aimeeq94]

how do you cross shred paper?

i have a shredder but it just ends up in long strips?
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[imafluffybunny]

Its a industrial shredding machine that cross shreds, chops the paper into tiny bits

 

[aimeeq94]

so can you do it with a normal home shredder?
i saw another post with something to do with this aswell!
xxx

 

[imafluffybunny]

No idea im afraid, you would need to be shredding a lot of paper to make enough!

 

[aimeeq94]

just thinking of using what we already shred to mix with shavings, save a bit extra!
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