Best bedding for a very messy mare!

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Could anyone recommend a good bedding? My mare seems to destroy her stable overnight and lately has started to soil it! I am currently using sundown green which I do like but she still manages to destroy it! She has even started to poo on the mat instead of on the bedding, please help! I can't use straw as she eats it! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
 
Shavings I tried wood pellets and went back to shavings.

The wood pellets start well and are easy but at 3 bags a week aren't any more economical than shavings.

The wood pellets go quite dark which I hated.

My mare takes 2 bags of shavings a week i find it better if you take droppings off the scrape the top off and take the wet out that's come to the top not disturbing the rest of the bed.

I used to lift the whole bed up every day but would wast shavings this way.

My mare is the wettest, pooest box walking mare I have ever come across !!!
 
I changed to shredded paper for my manky bed eating mare, she would eat shavings and straw the latter until all that was left was her wet and the poos :cool: the shavings she gave me a heart attack by eating them as I thought she would colic :(

So on the paper she went and it was nice to have a nice thick bed hat wasn't black in the mornings, my older gelding is now on this and his morning cough is better and he's not as manky either :)
 
I wish my boys would poo on the mats instead of their beds - it'd be far far easier!! I use miscanthus (hate it btw!!) but bought 2 pallets so kinda stuck with it at the mo. mine poo in their beds and then do a river dance style party in the night and smash their poo into millions of tiny pieces. And I have slight OCD and can't leave any bits of poo in my beds. The boxes are 15x15 so plenty big enough, half is bedding over rubber mats. It takes me an hour per stable.

I was on s traw pellets before and could muck out 2 in half an hour!! But the beds go dark no matter how fussy you are so I switched!! Big mistake!!
 
For my two yearlings they actually have a side of the box with no bed at all as they poo there so makes it a lot easier to sweep out rather than it be trashed into their bed; the rest of the box is semi deep littered with Probed and they spend most of their time asleep on it. The two year old is very tidy and only poos in a line at the back of the box while the two broodies are the muckiest by far; one tramples her bed to pieces which makes it seem wetter than it actually is, the other likes to drop her piles in various places but all in the middle; her worst fault is dragging her haylage over to the water bowl and dunking it then dropping it over the floor so she has a puddle in the corner each morning. The last three are on wood pellets, couldn't cope with shavings now but my bed of choice if I had the space for storage and big muck heap would be barley straw for all of them; it's so easy to muck out but murders my back!
 
Elsiecat said:
Safemix shavings.
Not too expensive and they keep even my filthy horses clean!
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I hated Safemix for my messy pony - I found it really did live up to it's name in that everything got mixed into it. I find Eco Comfybed the best for mine. It really is trial and error to see what works best though. After all a messy horse is always going to be messy no matter what bedding you use.
 
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