Bedding - sorry meant Bed Max or Easi Bed or similar !

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Hi - anyone out there use Bed Max, Easi bed or other types of bedding? Am thinking of moving from straw as horse is going to be on box rest and is a minger (!) Does anyone use any bedding other than shavings or hemcore as have used them as interested in comparisons esp. for messy horses! Also, if you have tried others but preferred shavings, please let me know. Many thanks
 
I usa Bedmax instead of standard shavings - lovely big flakes, doesn't get dusty. No rubber matting and I use 1 bale every 10 days on my super clean gelding and OH uses 1 bale every 5 days on his filthy mare

Used Easibed in the past and absolutely hated it even with my very clean gelding - didn't absorb hardly anything and hated it to muck out
 
I love easybed, and used it with rubber matting where it did the job perfectly. Also lovely for a regular bed. Now mine lives out I sort of miss putting down lovely clean beds.. Im a bit weird me...
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Easibed is good if your horse doesn't churn his bed up. I had two horses on it over the winter. It was better for one than the other. My youngster was very active in her stable so the semi-deep-litter system didn't work as she would churn it all up and it was wasteful. For my other horse though who is a more laid back character it worked really well. I just had to poo-pick the surface, and move the top layer aside to take out the sodden bottom layer a couple of times a week.

It is purposely not super-absorbent. It does absorb, but slowly. The reason being that the wet is able to pass through the material to the floor and get taken up by the bottom layer of easibed. That's why it only works on a deep litter or semi-deep-litter system. Also the deeper you lay it, the more economical, as it works the way it should, so you are only taking out seriously sodden bedding, and the top is always dry.
 
love bedmax but it is quite free draining so i tend to put a layer of ordinary shavings (ones we get are very fine almost like sawdust) in the bottom of my bed to soak up the pee. Than put the bedmax on top.
 
ha ha - you're right, there is an antique smell in there! Thank you all so much, looks like Bed Max with a mixture of shavings for the next couple of months, it has got to be easier than straw on box rest and worried about his cough so Bed Max sounds ideal. Thanks again!
 
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