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Which bedding do you use? Multiple answers allowed

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Which bedding do you use? If more than one, tick all that apply.

I currently use wood pellets and am pretty happy with them because they are cost effective, highly absorbent and easy to muck out. However, my favourite bedding is megazorb. You really can't beat it on ease of use and absorbency. The only reason I stopped using it was due to the price. The cheapest I have found it is £6.60 per bag. Wood pellets are around £3.30 per 15 kg bag, but I probably get through 50% more of them than megazorb.
 
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Straw with one, and I think its called Easybed (?) for the other, which is a chopped straw and shavings mix. Smells like lemons :p
 
I love chopped rape straw (voted other as it is a completely different bedding to ordinary chopped straw), cost effective and easy to manage.

Currently using Bedsoft Bio
 
Shavings, as they are provided by the yard at £7 a bale, however I really like the idea of the wood pellets they have them at a friends yard, may try pursuading my YO to give them a go!
 
Sawdust! Cheap as chips!! Either buy it by the bag (50p which is about half a wheelbarrow) or buy in bulk which probably works out about 60p per wheelbarrow load if that!!
 
straw, it's easier as i can get the farmer to drop it at my gate:D plus i do like a nice straw bed. i did use Aubiose with the old tb but she was such a messy mare it wasn't cost or time effective at all, for tidy horses its probably a great system:)
 
Straw, but with a poo scooper scoop of shavings underneath in the worst patch due to drainage :) £15 for a round bale of straw from YO every six-eight weeks and then about £8 for a big bale of shavings (or £6 for the smaller Safemix) every three weeks.
 
Is Megazorb different to wood pellets?

It looks like the same stuff in pics, but I've never seen it up close....
 
Oberon said:
Is Megazorb different to wood pellets?

It looks like the same stuff in pics, but I've never seen it up close....
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Yes, it's lots different. Megazorb is 'virgin wood pulp' and doesn't need wetting to make the bed. It is the softest bedding I have ever tried and four times as absorbent as shavings. Also it is very light to handle and space saving for storage. :)
 
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