Has anyone used Megasorb bedding?

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I've been given a few bags to try and it's such odd stuff!
Anyone used it? How did you get on/find it?
Web site says leave as undisturbed as possible and that only half-1 bag is needed.
The bags are light and easy to handle but small and at about £8.50 a bag expensive set up costs but apparently totally dust free which is my main demand with bedding.
 
I do, but use it as a minimal bed on top of soft, springy rubber mats - it works well this way but have never used it as a full bed.
 
I use it on rubber mats in a corner of a stable with a very,very wet mare.
It's incredibly absorbent and easy to muck out.
But, yes it's expensive.
It works very well for this mare. My others are all on shavings!
 
I used it for a while with a full bed for a very messy horse. I got on with it ok but it took about 12 bags to start the bed but it was only about £5 a bag then. It gets very dusty in the summer though. I gave up eventually and went back to shavings which was more cost effective. I would use it under straw if you wanted something to soak up wee a bit - good for that!
 
I found it better than shavings but not as good as wood pellets on my very wet dirty horse. It was in the winter so can't comment on whether it would have been dusty in the summer.

That was until he decided he was allergic to anything wood based so these days I have to use straw or he comes out in lumps.
 
I once considered Megasorb, purely because of the lady on this video clip making it look so incredibly easy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0kH208rxh0

But I know my gelding would be too wet on it and it would have work out too expensive.

I've gone back to good old Hunters shavings (after trying a few outhers - verdo, bedmax, comfybed plus, Bliss, and the list continues.)

I would suggest, if it's possible in your case, whittle down your current bedding until you're left with only a thin layer, which you wouldn't mine throught out, and then start from scratch as per manufacturer's instructions on any other bedding you've never used before. Repeat the swapping process until you have found what's suitable for your horse and yourself.
 
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I first used it as a full bed - it was ok but looked a bit 'minimal'! Then I started using it underneath a shavings bed - just in the area my mare pee'd - this was loads better. It looked like a deep comfy shaving bed on top! The megazorb is very absorbent, soaks all the wet and holds it. It doesn't move around and forms a firm base. No smell either until you disturb it. I put a full bag down in the area she pee'd in then didn't touch it (unless
The wet came to the top) for a month. After a month, i dug the worst out then added another half a bag. Found it quite economical.
 
Used it and liked it - really absorbent and only used smallish beds on rubber mats. Nearly £9 per bag though was proving too expensive when horses have had to be in more due to such wet weather. Have swapped to Liverpool wood pellets which I really like. I order a pallet and works out fiver a bag and just as easy to muck out as the megazorb
 
It's very good on rubber mats with a minimal bed (3 sacks to set it up). I used it all the time for my own horses and the liveries until there was a shortage one year and the price went up, then I converted to wood pellets. However, one of my liveries wanted to stay on megazorb and so she buys it herself for her two horses. Personally, I like it a lot more than shavings, but not as much as wood pellets.
 
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