Best bedding for dirty horse (doesnt need to be cheap!)

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Hi folks, horse is currently on a virtually full Aubiose bed on rubber matting which is very good, but horse is a dirty so and so. I am having to chuck loads away and he kicks it all to the front of the stable. His door is in the middle of his stable so he stands there and trashes the middle around. Any suggestions to an alternative? thanks
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I have a muck pot too and he is on shavings. Not a lot you can do really. I hate horses on crappy beds so he gets a bale of shavings pretty much every other day!!
 
I dont like small beds either, but I know some who it works well for. Problem is, aubiose is really a deep litter bed and that has worked well, but when he trolleys it, I end up taking most of it out over a few days because he's disturbing the base too much!
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We find it really helps to skip out round ten at night, certainly makes life easier the next morning. If you're at livery though I guess thats not always possible.

Messy horses are a pain, there's nothing worse than a mingin pooey bed.
 
I have two dirty boys - one with a space hopper sized bladder
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. I find a thin but absorbant bedding works best. If the bed is too thick they trample all the wet together. I use wood pellets on rubber matting. VERY absorbant, cheap and easy to muck out. I got the whole of winter's bedding for my two (a tonne) for £181 - that equates to less than £2.50 per bag.

I still have chopped straw in one stable that is left over from prior to the pellet delivery. I was shocked by how much harder and slower it was to muck out in comparison to the pellets.
 
Definitely paper (but it does have to be properly shredded newsprint - the hard white paper shreds some suppliers use are no use!). One bale makes a decent bed on mats. The paper tends to 'clump' around the droppings stopping them travelling around the box - and the very wet areas turn to a nice 'sludge' that's easy to lift. With a filthy horse, we just take out the worst of the middle, pull the rest into the middle and put fresh around the outside. Takes 5 minutes! Currently paying £4 a bale - which is a lot better that anything else I've tried!!
 
Megazorb is great - coped with filthy Farra clydesdale. I use matting with about 4" deep bed on back half.

However, not that cheap and this year I am trying wood pellets which may be the answer to my prayers in absorbant, easy to muck out and not hard on the pocket. Hope it does as I have 1000 ks of the stuff just delivered.
 
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