Changing over from straw bedding - advice please?

[kit279]

I'm changing over from straw bedding to Megazorb (the jury is out on this as never used it before, I will see how it goes and switch to flax or hemp if I can't get on with it). The point of changing over to a non-straw bed is really so I can compost the waste properly and use it on my garden - straw takes up a lot of room as a muck heap and doesn't rot down fast enough.

Today I have begun the unenviable job of completely clearing two stables of deep littered straw and although I have dug out most of it, I have a few bales of straw left and also a lot of clean straw from the banks which is completely unused. The stables have earth floors and I was wondering whether I should use the straw to make banks and use the Megazorb as the bed.

Or would this completely defeat the point of switching over from straw?!

 

[ECRider]

Depends on whether your horse mashes its bed up / pulls the banks down or not. I know Bertie would! Then you would have the same problem of having straw mixed in with the megazorb. I use a mixture of straw and megazorb for Bertie to make the straw bed more absorbent, it works well.