Best bedding for wet dirt horses.

[JCbruce]

Hello,

Looking for recommendations for best bedding for a big wet dirty horse who loves to lay down. ( Not straw ).

He is currently on burley bed pellets I put in 10/12 bags originally and then take out the wet every three days and add a new bag but it just doesn't seem like a really deep bed. I put him in the barn for the night the other day and he decided to sleep outside on the concreate and now has scabby hocks and I feel like the bedding in his bedroom is not deep enough to help this heal as he is forever flat out snoring. I added another 4 soaked bags over the weekend. It is on rubber matts but still doesnt look massive.

Just wondering what other options I might have and what is also cost effective. ( again not straw not allowed it wish I could)

thanks

 

[GypsGal1718]

I have heard good things about shredded egg boxes if you can get them around you.

 

[holeymoley]

Wood Pellets are good at absorbing. You could do a fairly decent base of wood pellets for soaking up and then shavings on top just to make it bigger?

 

[MNMyShiningStars]

We have tried anything and everything with our wet and dirty gelding. We have settled on aubiose, with the wet taken out once a week. You have to put a fair sized bed down to start it. Once the bed settled and formed abit of a base we can now put 1 bale a week in. It is dry and not smelly which works for us.

Deep straw mucked out daily was also OK, but it took a lot more effort, space on the muck heap, and everything smelt so bad we just couldn't cope with that.

 

[Fransurrey]

My favourite is Snowflake Softchip. Similar consistency to Aubiose, but seems not to move so much and I think it's cheaper!

 

[meleeka]

I using Aubiose and Aubichick at the moment. I find Aubiose makes a bigger bed, but Aubichick seems more absorbent and doesn’t move. I can’t decide which of the two I like, so am currently putting a bale of each down around once a week.

 

[Sprogladite01]

I use megazorb as a base with aubiose on top. Works really well for both my horses and my little gelding is the wettest horse I've ever met (so much so I had a vet out to check him as I was concerned - turns out he's just disgusting lol).