Cardboard Bedding? Any thoughts or Tips Please?

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We're just looking at cardboard bedding (have got the chance to testdrive some!) but know very little about it so wondering if anyone has any tips on looking after it, getting rid of it, cost, etc. Would you prefer it to shavings or not and why? We have rubber matting if that helps.
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The horse I ride had it for a while. He was also on rubber matting. Unfortunately he is absolutely filthy, and he traipses his poo all over the bed. So it was a nightmare to muck out. I did quite like it as the wet was very easy to take out. I think it rots quickly. Sorry, probably no help!!
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I used to do some horses bedded on this, heavier than paper so not quite as messy, doesn't rot down any faster though. Hopefully things have progressed a bit and manufacture of it has got better but we gave up using it in the end because we were always finding staples in the beds!
 
I've used cardboard betting on top of rubber mats when the horses were in last winter. I think its great and will use again,it also composts well and is dust free.
 
I used to think that Ecobed was the best thing since sliced bread. I've used it for four years on my disgustingly dirty gelding with great success. Very easy to muck out, the wet is held in patches, completely dust free, cheaper than shavings, rots down quickly. The only down side is that you could not deep litter it but then I mucked out everyday anyway. I would leave the bed undisturbed and just take out the wet patch(s), then at the weekend turn the whole bed over.

BUT recently they have changed the type of cardboard they use. The squares are cut smaller and the cardboard is flat rather than having the corigated bit in the middle. This means that the bed has become flat, meaning that I now have to use 4 bales a week rather than three (Bare in mind that my horse is in on complete box rest). Before the bed had a spring to it but unless I put more bedding in now it is flat.

Have been toying with mixing with shavings but my gelding eats them. Can't use flax bedding because he eats that too and of course straw is a BIG nono!
 
I used Ecobed until they doubled the price overnight so we moved to Newslitter cardboard shred but we now use rape straw bed (similar to NedzBedz) that is, IMO, a trillion times easier to use, warmer, cleaner and cheaper.

Its £4.75 a bag (same size as shavings) and I do a full bed. I use a bag a week to top up, skip out daily and take the wet patch out at the weekend.
 
I use cardboard bedding with rubber mats. Find it a lot better than shavings and rots down faster. A local farmer takes away our muck heap and he is quite happy to take the carboard. We tend to muck out with shavings fork and then hand pick with rubber gloves. It is very economical. We use a local supplier and the carboard comes in inch squares so isnt really heavy to muck out. Maybe not as absorbent if you have a horse who is very wet in the stable. Wasn't sure if I should mention the make, but as Ecobed has been mentioned, it is the AndyB bedding I use.
 
My mother used cardboard bedding, I absolutely hated it! We have rubber matting, it's not absorbent, so the wee just runs straight through and it spreads around too easily and just does not make a nice bed at all. I use a combination of shavings and............cat litter!!! It's really really absorbent and brilliant for really dirty horses/ponies. Once the bed is established, I use 1 bag of litter and 1/2 a bag of shavings a week. Litter costs us £4 a bag. But we are very lucky that we have a supplier right on the doorstep.
 
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