Best dust free bedding

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Doing a bit of research! :)

When I move I will have to track down my own bedding (used to ordering it or having it straight from the yard for years now!) so rather than just bog standard shavings which are often still dusty, I wondered what fancy stuff is out there now?

Pony for the last few weeks has been very sensitive to dust, he has his hay soaked but if I can help by reducing the dust in his bedding then I will.

So is there any bedding that you would recommend, and do you know how much it usually sells for also?

Many thanks
 
Aubiose is about the best and most absorbant. It is expensive, but it does a very good job and you genuinely do use less of it.
 
I have recently started using a chopped dust extracted straw called Handy Bed, it is from somewhere in Knutsford but I buy mine from a local mill. I can look on the bag when I get home for the details. I use this because the straw is rubbish (and my fat horse eats her bed) and my thoroughbred box walks so it makes him really easy to muck out, I pay £6.20 per bale but because I have rubber mats and mine are out all day I can get away with one bale per week between the 2 of them!
It smells very fresh, it's really absorbent and I would say it's probably the best bedding I have ever used.
 
I've been using cushionbed for my 2 that are in.. Works for us at the minute.. £3.80 per bale direct from the manufacturer and £5 something each for a pallet of 30 delivered depending where you are.. I haven't needed to top up yet in just over a week..

Countrywide are the only supplier and mark it up to almost £8 per bale.. Robbery..
 
I find bed max was not very absorbant and the wee runs through the fork as I like to much out everyday and the bed max wouldn't absorb very quickly.
Iv got a very bad mare who can't even cope with wet hay ( soaked over night) and the only bedding she can cope with is paper. Really messy taking it to the muck heap but that's the only dust free bedding that she can cope with and iv tried everything.
 
We used to use cushionbed, it was cheap but it was horrible to use. It's so heavy when you muck out. If you have a dicky back or shoulders it doesn't do you any good. I don't think it was very absorbant & it's not that dust free either.

We use 'Natural Flake' shavings, they are fairly large shavings, nothing like some which are more like sawdust. They are as dust free as shavings will ever be. These provide a nice fluffy bed & it can cope with messy horses. I buy them by the pallet full (42 on a pallet) as I save a little & having 2 horses it saves me continually ordering.

A couple on our yard use the wood pellets. It's quite cheap to use, quick to muck out but I don't think it's very good if you have a particularly mucky horse. You know the type, poo & wee wherever they happen to be standing & don't go to the back of the stable to do it. Use piles of poo as a pillow! You'll end up with messy smelly rugs if your horse is like that. (We have one like that & of course he's grey!) :)
 
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