Best bedding for a wet horse

My mare is very wet, what works best for us is to have a megazorb base (ridiculously absorbent!) with a deep bed of straw on top (cheap to replace). Wood pellets work well but we found them too dusty.
 
Wood pellets, we3;ve recently changed over to Corley Bio pellets & found them to be easy & quick to muck out, very absorbant & significant;ly cheaper than shavings. :)
 
Gloi said:
If he's weeing/drinking excessively get him tested for Cushings.
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Vets in our area are offering the cushings tests for free, all you have to pay for is the vet call out. There is a new(ish) drug on the market, which I think is called pergolide, which cures/prevents (can't remember which) cushings. Ask your vet for more info.

WRT bedding, wood pellets, unsoaked could be an option? Although not very comfy, so perhaps a pellet/shavings mix?
 
Hi Thanks guys I take a look at those different beddings he does not have cushing is just wet and messy.
Thanks again
 
Does anyone know if wood pellets rot down quickly? I have a very messy mare and all horses at our yard are on miscanthus bedding which is lovely, but I too am adding 3 - 4 bales of bedding a week. The bedding has to rot down quickly for the YO. to consider it. Thank you!
 
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