Fluffy bed for a shelter?

[Palindrome]

I would like to make a nice fluffy bed in my shelter so the horses can lay down in a comfy and dry area in winter. I can't use straw as they will just eat everything (despite having adlib hay they love to eat straw).
What would you go for? Wood shavings? Soaked wood pellet? Miscanthus? EVA mats?
I have seen some miscanthus made locally but it didn't look very soft.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I think there is nothing like a lovely white shavings bed not the cheapest but it is the best in my opinion.

 

[cauda equina]

Anything in a field shelter is liable to get kicked around and some will end up outside which can look a bit scruffy
I really don't think horses mind about fluffy beds as long as there's somewhere dry and reasonably soft to lie
I've got eva mats, and then chopped rape straw in one shelter and haylage leftovers in the other

 

[2 Dragons]

When I used wood pellets on rubber mats on (good draining) ground they sucked up ground water through the cracks and quickly turned to mush.

 

[Fransurrey]

I used to make a bed in my shelters with Snowflake Softchip. Makes a lovely absorbent and soft bed. Seems to be the least dusty option aside from straw (I also tried shavings, pellets and miscanthus/aubiose). The base was grass mats with stable mats on top.

 

[Palindrome]

thanks all, looks like shavings/woodchips win, perhaps with some mats to complement.

 

[Boulty]

Hemp bedding if you either semi deep litter & take wet out & top bedding up weekly or if too large a shelter for that could fully deep litter & just take the old out with a tractor periodically? Once the base packs down it makes a thick, supportive bed & if kept topped up the top of the bed should stay dry with the wet being drawn into the base.