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Does anyone have experience of using this. I am on Aubiose but needed more and couldn't get it quickly so Feed merchant suggested
Easibed. I've put some down tonight and can't believe how heavy it is! Anyone have any experience good or bad of using it?
 
I really like this bedding. About a year ago I had a full Easibed bed. I did find it very heavy and it would make my back ache as i do a full muck out everyday, but really good as it tends not to move around if nice and deep. I also found it very absorbent as my mare quite wet.

To make not so heavy i would mix 50/50 with Easibed/dust extracted shavings.
 
So does it work well if you muck it out every day? I'm used to being a lazy bag with my Aubiose and just doing it once a week. It has been getting pretty minging though, so I don't mind going back to daily muck outs.
 
Not sure wot would be like if not done everyday but i found it great when doing full muck out each day. The pee would stay put and not spread around if the bed nice and deep and if you mix with another normal dust extracted shavings, still really absorbent, but a lot lighter!

I only dont use now coz on a tiny yard and haven't got the storage
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I love easibed. It works best with horses that don't trash their beds, then you can use it on a semi deep litter system and just poo pick each day with a more thorough excavation and top up once a week. It does work best laid deep.

If you have a bed-wrecker it can work out quite expensive as you end out chucking a lot away when everything gets churned up.
 
Well that all sounds good. Star is really clean, 5 piles always in the same place and not mixed in. We're quite lucky here, haven't got much storage but a local feed merchant will deliver anything free on a thurs/fri, so with a bit of planning there is no need to stock up on anything much. Might see how I go doing it every day, might mix it with some shavings though or I'll end up looking like popeye!
 
So what would everyone reccommend for a horse that trashes his bed! My pony is on 6 weeks box rest,
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and when he gets back from hospital on Friday I'll have to think about bedding. At the mo they only have thick equimats.
Help!
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So what would everyone reccommend for a horse that trashes his bed!

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Straw, as you can chuck it out each day, or cheap shavings, again, so you don't feel so bad about chucking it out. Or just rubber matting. Horses aren't nesting animals and don't mind, it's just us that like to make a cosy bed (your washing machine may work overtime cleaning the rugs though!)
 
Can't do straw as he eats it and is on a diet! Is there such a thing as cheap shavings?! He wouldn't normally be on anything but the mats, but he's just had op on his right hind so needs to keep it clean/dry. He gets filthy, he's not clipped as the mo as not being ridden so no stable rugs.
Is it worth getting him clipped, won't be able to ride him for about 4 months?
I have used bedmax before and thought it was great, but locally its nearly £7 a bale!
 
when one of our horses came back from having an operation we had rubber mats and used bedmax but we put down layer of bedding (wasnt even half a bag) so she had something and we did full muck out daily adding clean small amount a day this ment the bed didnt get dirty and open wound seemed to keep clean and dry as not loads of bedding to get into it.
anyway good luck with your horse and hope all goes well.
 
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My mare is gross in her stable - at one point I seriously thought of investing in a pressure washer!! She is now on rubber matting throughout and flax bedding. I use about 1 - 2 bales per month max as she has a thin layer of the flax shavings which I just sweep out.
 
I use easibed with mats - my boy is a bed wrecker, so I muck out daily... I used minimal bedding for a while, but he STANK! So I now have bedding in one corner (where he tramples least) a patch about 4ft by 8ft (just enough for him to stretch his legs out to pee!) but about 6ins deep... it seems to work much better like that... less smell and less mixing so, less wasted bedding... not too much hard work to much out eiher as its only a small patch...

He still occasionally seems to use a pile of poo for a pillow though, but theres not much I can do about that!!!
 
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