Bedmax Bedding?

Fair enough, if the OP has been told the horse can't go out now....However, it was only a week or so ago she was moaning about how wet her mare was, and the fact she can only go out for a couple of hours a day. I admit I skipped the posts about ringworm, and my only contact of ringworm has been with cattle, (who only seem to contract ringworm when inside over winter....).

OP if your horse is on effective boxrest for 2 weeks, I would expect her to get through 3 bales a week of any bedding....I dont think that is excessive usage of any kind of bedding tbh....
 
Hi, I found that when my horse was on Bedmax i was using 2 bags a week in winter for a decent depth and he was going out for 4 hours a day so 3 bags for 24/7 sounds about right.
I came off Bedmax and i didn't find it very absorbent and the flakes seemed sharp to me...just my opinion.
I started to use Nedz Bed Pro which is a bit like easibed but cheaper and found it much more asorbant and softer.
When my local merchant stopped selling it i went on to Easibed but it was just too expensive although it's the bedding of my choice and if money was no object i would go back on it in a flash.
I'm currently on straw which is cheaper and i make a really big bed which i only muck out once a week. I just take the poops out daily and put some fresh on the top to maintain the depth.
I find that at the weekend (muck out) i have to dig quite deep to get to the wet but i must admit it is heavy to remove. It doesn't smell until the dig out but a bad pong up your nose once a week is better than everyday!!!
I'm afraid that a horse that is in 24/7 is going to go though the bedding, which ever one you use.

I understand your horse is in due to ringworm as i read about it on your last post and your doing the right thing buy keeping her in until it passes and your vet gives you the all clear. Don't get too hung up on the fact it can live on wood just mack sure you disinfect your stable, put your grooming kit in a pillowcase and pop it in the washing machine and make sure you wash your hands and clothes after seeing your horse.
Try and take your horse in hand for walks/grazing and let the air/sun get to her.

Try making the stable interesting for her like putting a few carrots in her hay net to find, perhaps a treat ball on the floor with some fibre nuts in it or a fruit and veg kebab hung up for her to play with. Leave a radio on for her and try and visit her as much as possible.
 
Going back to bedmax - yard switched to it and it works well for my large messy horse who will only wee in his stable. However, he is on matting with a half bed on top (no lectures please! I never liked the idea of leaving him on mats with a little bit to mop up wee!) mine goes out for the morning and gets through 2 bales a week. Found he was a lot cleaner on it than ordinary shavings.
 
Just a thought..... do you know anyone that has a 'set' of electric fencing you could possible borrow and use to make her a mini paddock within a post and railed paddock? The tape and posts would be pretty easy to clean afterwards by putting in a large tub of water plus disinfectant. I haven't had experience of ringworm, so don't know if this would be feesible, but just thought it may get over the boredom/bedding issues.
 
3 bedmax's a week thats loads!!! i use 1 a week with rubber mats take out the poo and wee and then just fluff up the rest
 
We use bedmax bedding at work, all the horses on shavings are deep littered.

We average one new bale of bedmax a week for each deep litter bed. Only poo is removed each day for most, and the worst of the wet for the really messy ones! I always hear of people giving up with deep littering really quickly either because the horse churns it up or they take too much out. We have recently put a new horse onto a deep litter bed, he originally churned the whole bed up but now he is just disturbing the top layers. Persistance is the key!
 
I think that Bedmax is a bit like Marmite - you either love it or hate it!

We had some delivered to our yard when they'ld run out of our usual shavings and we all hated it - just wasn't very absorbant and the flakes seemed very sharp. Also seem to remember that it wasn't very easy to muck out as the flakes were to big to go through the shavings fork so it was back to a skip and rubber gloves.
 
I HATE Bedmax! The only way to do it easily seems to be to deep litter and take the poo out with rubber gloves into a skip bucket then into wheelbarrow. If you try to use a fork you just waste loads as it won't fall through. With the bedding you have in now, just don't take any wet out, and just fork through the top bit for poo. Soon the base will form.
 
BSJAShowjumper123 said:
Im not sure rach i was just going to wait to see what the vet says
and all the horses have been washed in a scrub just incase
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It would be lovely if something like that would happen once you both get the ok from the vet and OH plus other liveries.

Hope you get something sorted.

Here's a tip that I used to do when I work at a resuce center. In the morning when mucking out (full muck out) we obs chucked up the main onto the banks but only pulled 1/2 a bed down. So the day bed was only 1/2 the size of a full bed and at night did a mini muck out just taking the really wet out then pulling down the whole bed.

How about having her some toys so she doesnt get to bored and turn her bed up aswell?
 
Tried Bedmax for a few months and didn't really like it. OK for horses that were not too wet but not very absorbant so not good for the wetter horses.

Had a very wet horse on box rest for two separate lots of six months and did well with both Hemcore and Miscanthus.
 
I never got on with Bedmax so I switched to easibed and I love this stuff! Its brilliant and it says you only need to take teh wet up once every 3 months but we tend to take the wet out once a fortnight.

I also have my boy on rubber matting (which we got second hand £10 a mat) with very few shavings at the back. Some people say this is cruel but he lays down all the time like this and its quick and cheap to use.
 
mystiandsunny said:
I HATE Bedmax! The only way to do it easily seems to be to deep litter and take the poo out with rubber gloves into a skip bucket then into wheelbarrow. If you try to use a fork you just waste loads as it won't fall through. With the bedding you have in now, just don't take any wet out, and just fork through the top bit for poo. Soon the base will form.
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the opposite hear hate deep litter! tried using rubber gloves but now use poopa scoop and rubber matting shavings fork. it falls through if you shake it and anyway you dont want it to fall through as you will loose all the dirty shavings! maybe your picking up to much.
 
Bedmax is awful! The flakes are so large that no matter how clever you are with a shavings fork you still end up taking out lots of clean bedding. They don't absorb and just end up with alot of waste. Our yard uses a mix of aquamax wood pellets and bedmax to form a bed for part/full liveries and that seems to work but I personally will only use aquamax.

At work we have shredded newspaper beds, they are fantastic but you do have to source your paper carefully.
 
I have no idea about bedmax...However if the only issue with straw is that she eats it, then swap and use some of the huge savings that you will make to buy a spray bottle, stick some diluted fairy liquid in it and spray the bed. Simples!

And as much as I hate straw, it really is good for deep litter as you just take the poo out, leave the wet (maybe take the worst out if it's fairly obvious, but don't go digging for it) and then bang a couple of slaps in when the bed gets low.

I have a rather mucky boy, who digs up his bed and only use about a bale a week for him.
 
http://www.sundownproducts.co.uk/equine_sdRed.html
Think ive posted you this link before but i can really recommend it for wet horses, i use it at work on some real dirty ones who are stabled the majority of the time. Dont think its partically expensive espeacially if you buy in bulk, maybe get some fellow liveries to trial it with you they deliver in pallets 2 pallets would easily fit into a garage. It smell lovely as its got a eyculitus fragrance and its complety dust free. Makes a lovely fluffy bed too.:)
 
OP in one of your 53 posts in June you celebrated purchasing a Henri de Rivel saddle, more recently you have been looking to purchase a new Bridle and some Boots, and now a £6.00 lunge line is beyond your means?
 
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