Mixing other bedding types with shavings?

[ChestnutConvert]

Can you mix other types of bedding into shavings to give a bit more absorbancy?
Things like megazorb etc, or is it best just to stick to one type? My girl with prob be ok on just shavings but we are having a 'peeing in the corer' issue!

 

[spotty_pony]

Wood pellets are good (soak them first in water for best results) We use 'Verdo' wood pellets with shavings and it is a really good mix.

 

[Rosie'smum]

i Have rapasorb on the bottom of my bed with straw on top and works well. My mare is a vey wet mare so dont see why you cant mix shavings with something else.

 

[whizzer]

I used to have a deep litter bed & mixed in whatever I could get from nearest shop! It had wood pellets,hemcore,easibed,littlemax bedmax & other shavings! It was an amazing warm & absorbent bed.

 

[foraday]

We mix barley straw with bedmax type of shavings

Very absorbent

got the idea from rossdales foal unit

 

[[59851]]

My lad's bed is a mix and match! I work at a feed merchant so have first dibs on cheapie damaged bales - he gets whatever is going!!

 

[ChestnutConvert]

Very interesting thanks!
I can't say i have to stick to 'the rules' whatever works for her is best, will be trying a concoction tomorrow then!

 

[RobinHood]

We've tried shredded paper, cardboard and wood pellets in addition to bedmax shavings, all with rubber mats.

My favourite combo was bedmax mixed with shredded newspaper, with a small amount of wood pellets just where they wee. Sadly our paper bedding supplier retired and we couldn't find any paper we liked as much.

The cardboard (we used ecobed) was cheap and completely dust free but it's not very absorbent. In fact it's less absorbent than shavings so it defeated the object of using it, and the brown colour made it look like dirty shavings when people walked past.

At the moment the beds are a wood pellet base with shavings banks which works fine and is much cheaper and quicker to muck out than a plain shavings bed.

 

[lhotse]

I use Megazorb under Bedmax. Improves absorption greatly and means you always have a dry top to the bed with the Bedmax.

 

[Laura2013]

I realise this is an old thread BUT for anyone who mixes two types of bedding, do you layer it? I.e put the most absorbant on the bottom? Or do you just sort of mix it all together?

 

[9tails]

I've added a bag of woodpellets to the floor when doing the big weekly muck out for the horse I look after. While all the Bedmax was kicked up the sides of the stable, the woodpellets were put down and another bag of Bedmax added once the bed was put down. This saved one bag of Bedmax a week, as the owner likes a big absorbent bed and I was saving tons of clean dry bedding rather than removing the usual swamp.

 

[PolarSkye]

We mix barley straw with bedmax type of shavings

Very absorbent

got the idea from rossdales foal unit

Another one who has mixed straw and bedmax . . . worked a treat.

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