Most absorbant bed for loooooooong peeeeee er.... ?

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If long pees were an Olympic event my girl would be in the medals every time.

The drainage in her box is poor (I can think of nothing to improve it, the whole block is slightly below ground level).

She has lovely new rubber matting, but every morning her box is sodden.

So I'm looking for a more absorbant bedding than the shavings she currently has, or maybe to mix in with them?

Pellets - am worried that she will try eating them, she is a greedy feeder that doesn't chew. She recently had Choke. I darn't risk trying them.

Just for info, Straw - she will eat it. Hemp - she will eat it.

Any ideas about anything I might have overlooked re drainage, or bedding suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks.
 
If you know (roughly) when she pees and you're at the yard you can anticipate it and teach her to wee in a bucket.

Worked for my incredibly wet mare - she'd have a pee when I turned up in the morning and again when she came in from the field, plus one at some point overnight. The bucket trick meant that there was only one lot of pee going into the bed instead of several!
I also changed bedding to ProBed which was a million times better than shavings.
 
Pellets all the way, I recently swapped as I was going though 3 -4 mega spread/ hunters a week and my boy is so wet. I swapped to Verdo pellets (these are meant to be the worst) I had it down for 5 days and went to do my usual throw all the wet away and the underneath was still dry! so I took the top off and fluffed up the base again.

Amazing stuff! my boy is also a greedy feeder who has had choke but he is getting on well with it. I feed in a hay net and hay bar as I to was worried he would choke on a pellet but all good :)
 
DirectorFury said:
If you know (roughly) when she pees and you're at the yard you can anticipate it and teach her to wee in a bucket.
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I don't always see her pee but I bet video footage of me trying to catch a long pee in a bucket would go viral! :o

Will def check out your bedding suggestion. Thanks.
 
Another pellet user, and I have one, well two (ok the carriage horses are possibly the greediest horses ever!) that try to eat them. I fill the wee patches with un-soaked pellets and cover with fluffed up ones and they don't eat them once covered up.
 
Another champion peeing pony here :)

I’m very impressed with my wood pellets. They are super absorbant and don’t move around so the base stays where it’s put. My greedy ponies are obviously too well fed as they haven’t tried eating them.
 
I've looked up the Probed, it says it is shredded rape haulm, but with a bitter taste. I'll have a look for it, but in the meantime, has anyone else tried it, was it a good soaker upper, or did your horse try to eat it?

Pellets, I could maybe try some soaked and fluffed up (only Verdo stocked by my supplier) under the shavings.

Thanks all for the replies and thanks again for any info.
 
Wood pellets are the most absorbent bedding I've ever used. I doubt she would eat them after having a try. Could you wet them with water with a bit of dettol or something in to put her off eating them. You can do a base of pellets with shavings on top.
I wouldn't use verso they are rubbish. White horse are the best I've used.
 
My gelding is horrifically wet and it doesn't help he dribbles water all over his stable.

He has a thinish bed of Aquamax, enough to soak the week and keep him dry when he lies down. I clear the wet patch and poo then bank the bed up so the mats can dry during the day.

I usually end up popping a fresh bag in every five days depending on how wet he is.
 
I use Verdo under BedSoft Pink and/or Laysoft bedding, I don't wet them prior to use, just chuck them under where they usually wee and put their usual thick bed over the top, they do work really well on my very wet mare. I do want to try other brands though hearing so many say that Verdo isn't very good, I've not a problem with it and have been using it a couple of yrs now.
 
Definitely recommend pee in a bucket. To start with I noted she often did a pee after coming in. So I hung about with the bucket, of course it put her off but sooner or later I got her to wee on command with a whistle into the bucket. She now shuffles a bit and waits a few minutes till you offer the bucket. If the bucket isn't forthcoming she does pee anyway though! Means I muck out as little as half a barrow of straw/poo as opposed to double that
 
Shredded cardboard. I had a champion pee-er ( sadly passed away now) and this was the only bedding that worked.
I tried woodpellets for him but they turned that dark red colour after a single night ( like when you deep litter shavings) and it stank. No number of bags worked.
 
Equisorb flax bedding on Eva mats works for my wet gelding. He does try to eat it though - so I always mix fresh bedding with the old and spray liberally with disinfectant!
 
Another fan of wood pellets although I've changed to straw pellets as they are more garden friendly but not quite as absorbent. Little fatty was on very restricted grazing over the summer and weighed soaked hay overnight so I was careful to bury the new pellets under an existing bed and he didn't eat them. I think the trick with pellets is to let the wet develop into a crust so the bed becomes stable, don't keep taking the wet out every day.
 
DappleDown said:
If long pees were an Olympic event my girl would be in the medals every time.

The drainage in her box is poor (I can think of nothing to improve it, the whole block is slightly below ground level).

She has lovely new rubber matting, but every morning her box is sodden.

So I'm looking for a more absorbant bedding than the shavings she currently has, or maybe to mix in with them?

Pellets - am worried that she will try eating them, she is a greedy feeder that doesn't chew. She recently had Choke. I darn't risk trying them.

Just for info, Straw - she will eat it. Hemp - she will eat it.

Any ideas about anything I might have overlooked re drainage, or bedding suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks.
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I have yet to find a most absorbent bedding for my mare who holds it in till she comes in then when I come out in the morning she makes sure she does one immediately before she goes out. I go through 1 hunter and one euro bedding a week
 
If you are worried about her eating the pellets why don't you try a bag or 2 of wood pellets as a base to soak up the pee and put shavings on top?
 
I use wood pellets, you can put some down unsoaked, so they will absorb the pee better than they would if you'd pre-soaked them!! I'd cover them with some soaked ones as my horse has tired to eat the dry ones before!!!
 
As long as she doesn't disturb the bed and throw it around, wood pellets are definitely the best.

My boy wees for Britain but has a huge stable so doesn't kick his bed about. I set him up with a deepish pellet bed (soaked, initially) and then only remove the wet when it reaches the surface - about twice a week. I replace what I've taken out with unsoaked pellets and pull some soaked bed over the top of them.

If she kicks it about though, pellets are not good. They can deal with volume or disturbance but not both.

I haven't known any horse eat the pellets - I think we think they might as they look like pony nuts but they obviously don't smell or taste like them so the horses aren't fooled!
 
I had this issue with my disgustingly wet gelding. He is now on cardboard. Wee’s that spread over the whole stable are now contained in one easy to lift out forkful. I’m on rubber mats (sealed-though this is only recently) and my drainage used to be bad, all the wee collected inone corner. Problem now solved :)
 
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