Cardboard bedding users - advice please.

[lizziebell]

I’ve just received my first pallet of cardboard bedding.

Those who use it and like it, what is the best method of mucking out/ management. Do you treat it more like straw than you would shavings?
Thank you.

 

[L&M]

I used cardboard for a copd horse and it mucked out like shavings, not straw imo. Easy to muck out as the wet clumps together, and can be quite heavy, but in general a decent enough bedding.

I am pretty sure i used a shavings fork too.....

 

[Britestar]

Full muck out every day, as I would with any other bedding.
I use a poop scoop and a rake, just find it easier.
In the past used a shavings fork, but find the rake is more efficient, and waste less bedding.

 

[rabatsa]

I use like shavings. I remove the wet a couple of times a week if stabled or once a week if only used part time. Like shavings the depth of the bed affects this. I have found a deeper bed to be more economical than a skimpy one.

The absorbtion of wee is not instantanious but gets soaked up steadily.

 

[lizziebell]

Thanks everyone. 10 days in and I’m quite liking it. Horses also seem to like it. Hopefully it’ll work long term as it’s very reasonable and the supplier is less than 3 miles away, so fast easy free delivery.