Horse eating ALL bedding! Help!!!

I would treat the straw as food and cut down the hay. Mine are fed barley straw in the field, they will often eat it when there is grass and haylage. I would try and find tough stemed rough hay which will cause more chewing time and put it in a very small wholed net.
Also try deep littering on straw so she can only eat the top layer and the bottem is firm and a bit smelly when uncovered.
 
My pony eats anything and everything and because he is a native he has to be on a diet. He is on rubber mas with a tiny sprinkling of shavings ( 2 roundscoop fulls ) to soak up some urine and a tiny bit of shredded paper but he usually eats that and that is his lot im afraid. What is left is swept ot every morning and he happily lies down tho does live in a newzealand.
 
My boy used to be the same when I first got him. He is very, very messy too. I put him on shavings but recently went back to straw with mats underneath and the straw covering the back half of the stable. I upped his haylage and put it around his stable at different "feeding stations" I gave him lots to do in there, he has his ball, licks placed around the stable and I chop carrots and apples up and throw them in his bed which he loves to spend the night hunting for! he also has his night time feed sprinkled on the floor, he's a much happier boy now and although he's still messy he doesn't eat his bed. Perhaps your horse might be doing this to satisfy his need for grazing? Try giving him more to occupy himself with and see if that helps. :)
 
oldhat said:
Disaster! Put megazorb down with rapport on top, she walked in blew the rapport off the top then munched on the ****** megazorb! Tried to remove what I'd put down and just leave rapport which smells v strongly of citronella so hopefully it'll still be there by morning!! Bloody horse! Love her!!!
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What a monkey!! Have to say, I don't really rate the megazorb anyway... Hope the rapport is still there this morning?
 
RESULT!! This morning Jasmine's stable was dry and smelt lemony (no wee smells at all!). The rapport was still there! No megazorb of course (eaten!) but I won't be using that again in her stable. What a difference and I hardly used any on top of her mats! Took hardly any time to muck out and I didn't need to squeegy wee-hurrah! I (so far!!!) thoroughly recommend it to those with a wood loving horse! Let's hope tomorrow is the same!!
 
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