how much does everyone spend on bedding per week?

None at the moment, but from Dec-march about £6 between 2 of them on straw. One very wet 14.2 & a messy, but quite dry 11.1. Both have full muckouts daily & huge beds. And that price includes building them up prior to coming in, & leaves me extra for the odd time they are in for a few hours the rest of the year.
 
Welly said:
2 horses on straw, 1 big bale costs £12 last 3 weeks so £2 a week. Why do people use wood chips, if you look at big racing yards they are on straw.
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See, I can`t understand why anyone would use straw now i`ve discovered pellets. I do not miss the smell, mess, massive muck heap & time wasted mucking out one bit! And with the price of straw(and what there is this year is mostly rubbish quality) there is not much of a financial saving to be had either.

Same goes for shaving, although slightly less smelly they cost the earth, stick to everything and take an age to muck out compared to pellets :eek:

I think you`ll find there are a few racing yards about that have discovered the joy of pellets, but most are very stuck in their ways. The owners also like to see big fluffy beds (but they don`t have to muck them out!
 
In regards to the muck pit, our straw has cut the muck pit in half due to the rapid decomp. I do love big fluffy beds and I muck out. Even if I switched to pellets I would still have to have a big fluffy bed and I'm not so sure it would be cost effective or work for me personally. But I hear great things so you never know! Still a tenner per horse per month is heaven.

Terri
 
Sportyspots said:
£25 for a bale of straw!!!!!!!!
Round here farmers chop it so if you ask you only pay for baling. Costs me £2.50 per big round bale, 20 bales for 2 horses (out summer) so £50 per YEAR
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50 a year, that would be nice:) I have 25 horses here.

2.50 a round bale :eek: Fodder (including straw) is at a premium, we had a bad Spring, and then a drought, and then Army worms wiped out first crop of hay, this is cattle country, farmers are not selling hay and are grabbing every bale of anything they can. Hay is being shipped in from the US and out West.

Hay is, well, I was paying 19 pounds for a 4 x 5 hay last year, this year it is 55 pounds. Straw is too valuable to let them mess all over it :(
 
As my horses live out then I would love to say nothing, however the little companion pony is a little minx for weeing on the hay piles and my mother's new mare (the baggage) poos on hers, so I seem to be paying a fair bit in "hay bedding" :rolleyes:

I do feel quite shocked when I see the prices of shavings at the feed store - I'm glad I no longer have to pay up for that.
 
Ours (shavings) is included in the winter livery price.

It's only £15 a week more than summer price and also includes absolutely ad lib haylage or hay (your choice) so is an absolute bargain IMO :) I tend to only use a bale a week.
 
3 15 kg bags of wood pellet per horse per week. So around £10 - 12 per horse per week. I am going to try straw pellets when my wood pellets run out as they don't need wetting and so hopefully won't freeze.
 
I use 2 bales of Bliss about every 10 days. I always put in 2 bales to top up. Boy is on box rest and I deep litter. I don't want his hooves to get wet and so risk thrush. Costs about £9 per bale. Well worth it as no smell, breaks down easily, goes on the garden, and when I do big clear out no eye watering stink. Very absorbant and easy to muck out, not heavy.

I would love to use straw, love to see them in a nice deep bed, but my boy would pig out on it and start coughing.
 
2 bags of pellets a week for wet cob about a fiver and big lad hasn't needed a top up in three weeks, so free! Sorry!!
 
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Spyda said:
Sorry....... :D

I have a really big messy horse, but since switching to wood pellets over matting am only spending about £5.00 per week. Probably a smidge less tbh. I LOVE my new choice of bedding :)
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Same here one bag every 6/7 days. They're on straw pellets over matting rather than wood pellets but it's pretty much the same thing :D. Swapped over a year and a half ago now and so pleased I did. Have had messy horses on box rest and still cheap and quick and easy to muck out!
 
Wagtail said:
3 15 kg bags of wood pellet per horse per week. So around £10 - 12 per horse per week. I am going to try straw pellets when my wood pellets run out as they don't need wetting and so hopefully won't freeze.
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I'm on straw pellets and had them last winter with no problems at all :) so would say it's worth trying
 
The joys of livery owners/yms dictating what I can and cant do! Last one was a control freak, and only allowed shavings, for health (hers), environmental and tidyness reasons. So I had two - three bales of Hunter a week for very messy gelding, whose stable had v thick rubber floor throughout. He had arthritis, so was spoilt with a deep dry and clean bed, every night. Current horse is at new yard (well, been here for two years). This one is a different type of c/f and is determined to have the entire yard on deep shavings beds, which are kept immaculate, and are deep, big banks, clean and dry, and very thoroughly mucked out, banks turned and rotated daily. I have a bill for abt 10 bales at c. £70 a month.
 
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