Sandstone1
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Does anyone find that the platinum plus pellets quickly smell of wee?
I'm taking out the poo and wet patch daily and they have a reasonable depth bed but there is a noticeable smell of wee. Am I doing something wrong?
Does anyone find that the platinum plus pellets quickly smell of wee?
I'm taking out the poo and wet patch daily and they have a reasonable depth bed but there is a noticeable smell of wee. Am I doing something wrong?
I think it depends on how you keep your horse, how much turnout and size of stable etc.
I use a mix of snowflake premium and snow flake soft chip, I find this makes a good, clean and deep bed that is easy to keep. I know of a few on pellets but they find it hard going with mucking out as the bed gets compressed under the weight ( their horses are in 24/7 though) thus really put me off, plus the bed always looks very flat!
I have just completed my first week on Premium Plus wood pellets from White Horse. The bags were not split as they have sorted the problem out. Delivery was fairly diabolical but we got there in the end. Box rubber matted with the thicker very heavy mats as I didn't want them moving around. Started the bed off with 10 bags and it has been skipped out daily but no wet removed at all. This afternoon I mucked out the wet and after a full 7 days I had just over half a wheel barrow, took all of 5 minutes and I haven't added any new pellets.
His feet are lovely and dry and any wet mud on his legs dries quickly. The only negative I have found is that he is very dusty now but I would rather that than him smelling of wet pee from a straw bed.
I wasn't sure about changing him over but am a total convert and wouldn't go back to straw now even if it was completely free.
Selinas Spirit there is absolutely no smell of urine at all. It smells of pine and wood just as it did when I opened the bags last week. The bed is about 6 inches deep though and the wet hasn't risen to the surface unless he has dragged a foot through it.
One that hasn't been mentioned is shredded cardboard. I have all my horses on this, with rubber underneath. Its warm, super easy to much out, doesn't smell and is really absorbent.
Had a leak in one stable in the recent gales/ rain, and a thick band at the back sucked up all the drips and his bed was still dry.