Does anyone use 'comfybed' bedding?

[QueenDee_]

Been doing a bit of pre-winter searching about for a decent vut affordable alternative to shavings, not wanting to use straw as its a pain, but shavings are something like 7.50 a bale now

Got a quote from comfy bed of 5.99 a bale and they deliver them in pallets of 30, so that's about 175 roughly..and you need about 8 to start a bed with banks and all, then i'm guessing if i'm careful i'd use a bag every 10days? So it should go quite a long way?

Any experiences or comments welcome
-Elena.

 

[LauraWheeler]

Hiya we use comfybed in some of the stables at one of the yards I work at. We don't use it as deep litter and most of the horses on it are in 24/7 so they get two bags a week.
It is a nice bedding to muckout as the wet sort of sticks together in one lump so it's easy to get out, also in the wet horses boxes there isn't that nasty wee smell you can get with other types of bedding and in the cleaner horses boxes the bed stays looking quite nice even though they are in all the time

Hope this is some sort of help. Good luck with whatever you deside to go for. Luckly I have two british native ponies who live out 24/7/365 so I don't have any bedding worries

 

[corriehorse]

I have been using Comfybed. I used it as a semi deep litter bed for my reasonably clean mare. I like the fact that it creates a stable bed and for being deep littered, it never really had an amonia smell until you dug the bed out.
I did, however, find it isn't the most absorbant bedding, and as a result had a lot off pee running out from under the mats at the front of the stable regularly and had to take the wet out weekly when horse was in all the time.
I've now been keeping my horse on a mix of (the last of the) comfybed, and shavings, and this has been working very well. The shavings are more absorbant so I am not having to dig the bed out as often, and i'm not getting the wetness from under the mats, and the comfybed helps keep everything held together better making for a much more stable bed that doesn't scatter as easily as the shavings on there own.
When I was using just comfybed, I was putting in a bale every 5-7 days depending on amount of turnout time, now on shavings/comfybed mix I put in a bale of shavings every 7-10 days and every 3rd time, put in a bed of comfybed instead.