Aquamax bedding

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Anyone any thoughts or comments on this. Also how much is it per bag/bale and how much do you need a week. And one last question. Where in Lancashire do they sell it to or if they deliver what is the minimum pallet size. i have emailed them but would imagine it would get Monday before I get a response from them with it being the weekend. So if anyone uses it or has used it. Please let me know.
 
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Have used it for last 4 years and love it. I use about 1 bag per horse per week to maintain the bed. I have half a thin bed on mats.

I have changed over to woody pet, same stuff but cheaper.
 
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Didn't like the fact that you had to water it. Bought our rubber mats from Aquamats, so thought I would try their bedding. We have large heavy horses, and it just became a sandy mess. Now use Excel, which is a mix of dust extracted straw and shavings - love it.
 
Suggest you ask them for a sample - they sent me one which I had to soak, weird stuff - but it could have been operator error of course
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love it - have used both Aquamax and Woody pet, I now use just Woody pet. With rubber matting in every stable - about a 4inch deep. Have used it for about 9 years now. Great for dust allergy horses, creates a good dry base. keeps the pee away from the rugs. And the muck heap was down to less than a third of the previous bedding type size.
 
I used it for about a year the owner of the yard I am at is a distributer. It was Ok but for some reason my horse just seemed to get really wet and I ended up chucking most of it away each day. Also it's hard to get used to having a little bed and no banks. I was paying £5 a bag, but when I started having to use 2 and sometimes 3 bags a week I decided to change to shavings on a cost basis.

You are supposed to water it down but you can actually keep a bit of the damp bedding and just mix in a new bag, the pellets then expand with any moisture in the original bed and it actually smells quite nice! If my horse wasn't so wet and filthy I would have stayed with it. I think it works if your horse is fairly clean and you have to have rubber matting. It's quick to muck out too. For some reason he just seems cleaner and dryer on shavings.
Hope this helps!!
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I used it for about a year the owner of the yard I am at is a distributer. It was Ok but for some reason my horse just seemed to get really wet and I ended up chucking most of it away each day. Also it's hard to get used to having a little bed and no banks. I was paying £5 a bag, but when I started having to use 2 and sometimes 3 bags a week I decided to change to shavings on a cost basis.

You are supposed to water it down but you can actually keep a bit of the damp bedding and just mix in a new bag, the pellets then expand with any moisture in the original bed and it actually smells quite nice! If my horse wasn't so wet and filthy I would have stayed with it. I think it works if your horse is fairly clean and you have to have rubber matting. It's quick to muck out too. For some reason he just seems cleaner and dryer on shavings.
Hope this helps!!
 
I have used it for a year and love it, I wouldnt use anything else.
I have half a bed on thick rubber mats.

Give it a try, its like marmite...you either love it or hate it
 
I looooove it! So quick to muck out, reasonably priced (£5.85 where I am) and lovely and dry for a very messy horse. It literally takes 10-15 mins to muck out, change waters, put in hay, and sweep up - per horse. The same horse used to take 40mins for the same activities on flax (equisorb) and about 45mins just to muck out on shavings. Instead of 3 bags of shavings or two of equisorb a week, at about £7 each, it takes 2 bags of aquamax at £5.85 each - bearing in mind that this horse is in 24/7 after laminitis so anyone else would only need one bag a week.

It never smells, horse lies down in it happily, and it is soooo easy for me to muck out. I'd never change back to anything else! It says on the bag about 10 bags to start a 12x12 stable (the stuff expands to 4x size), I used about 6 because I have 2/3 of the floor space covered and the front area just concrete.

Just to add - I use a full bed with no mats underneath. From what I have seen, a tiny bed on mats ends up pretty yuck unless you have a clean horse. A full bed is lovely
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