How do you manage your wood pellets?

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Mahoganybay

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We are 6 weeks in and i have been trying various ways to manage my Liverpool Wood Pellets!

No matter how i do them, they soon look like the color of dirt, they are not wet, but just look it.

So, is there a way in which they look 'white' for longer or shall i just resign myself to the 'dirt' color??
 
Are you using the cheap or the premium ones?

I pre-soak mine and add a bit every week or so, helps them to look better, but I use premium, the cheap ones never look good for long!
 
I use Verdo wood pellets. I remove the poo. Remove the wettest of the wet patches and sweep the wet which is stuck to the matting in to a heap and remove. I add a bag a week. Tip it in to a wheel barrow and add a bucket of water an mix with a fork. Leave for 40 mins or while il riding and tip into the bed. Mine doesn't get to dirty and it's a light beige colour :)
 
sychnant said:
Are you using the cheap or the premium ones?

I pre-soak mine and add a bit every week or so, helps them to look better, but I use premium, the cheap ones never look good for long!
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I am using the premium ones. I have tried initially putting 15 bags down and taking out the wet twice a week & adding 2 more bags, after a week, looked like dirt.

Then tried putting bankings up, then 6 bags down hoping to clear most of it out after 2 weeks and then another 6 bags down, one week in, looks like dirt.

Hmm, i must be doing something wrong.
 
agree with above, I take out pretty much all the wet/dirty bed daily, basically just treat it like a shavings bed, he has been in for 2 days with poison foot and I was ill so my sis just skipped out and left most of the wet, and the bed is now filthy!! started restoring it this morning!!
 
I got premium pellets from LWP last year, they looked dirty quite quick but not dusty & easy to manage, got the same this year, they are staying 'white' for long time but dust, crikey, You'd think they were made from compacted dust not wood :mad: Seriously dislike! Sorry doesnt help original question ;)
 
I have to use 3 bags a week to keep the beds looking nice. I have rubber matting and start a bed with only four bags. I take out all the wet and poo every day. I put 2 or 3 bags in a large wheelbarrow and use the spray hose attachment to wet it for 30 seconds or so. They then fluff up and I top up the beds daily with around a third to a half bag each. So I use a lot of bags. My bill is around £10 a week per horse.
 
I have thick rubber matting so mine get a sprinkling of shavings and then a scattering of the pellets unsoaked. Its great because its so quick to muck out and there beds are always dry. Could never go back to conventional bedding!
 
I have 18mm rubber matting, so by the sounds of it, less is more and take the wet out every day.

Will try that and see how i get on.

Thanks everyone ;-)
 
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