Most absorbent bedding please?

[custard]

.......for use with rubber mats. It looks as if with the weather turning wet am going to have to keep one or both neds on the yard with access to their stables a lot of the time. No doubt they will make a hell of a mess that needs to be easy to just sweep up the lot each morning wholesale. I'm currently using Megazorb but is there anything better?

 

[chunkytfg]

We use Bedmax and it is pretty substatial shaving peices so sweeps up really easily

 

[ponyclubnicole]

I'm using Nedz advanced after reading a few reviews, really love it and very very absorbant.

 

[Nailed]

Aubiose by far (or hemcore same thing)

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

Echo the Aubiose, its amazing!!

 

[meandmyself]

My vote goes for Equisorb. Fabby stuff!

 

[Ludi-doodi]

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I'm currently using Megazorb but is there anything better?

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oh heck, I'm just trying out megazorb for my very wet boy - was hoping that it'd be the miracle I've been waiting years for! Will watch this thread with interest now.

 

[Thistle]

aquamax / woody pet is the best I've tried out of normal shavings, hemcore and easibed.

 

[the watcher]

I use chopped rape straw, it works well as a thin layer over rubber mats, or as a deep bed - and it is cheaper than shavings.

 

[clairencappelli]

I have tired a few of the above and megazorb i found was the most absorbant but cant see how it would go far over rubber matting.

Bedmax i dont like but that might be better for floor coverage if your only using a small amount?

 

[custard]

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I'm currently using Megazorb but is there anything better?

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oh heck, I'm just trying out megazorb for my very wet boy - was hoping that it'd be the miracle I've been waiting years for! Will watch this thread with interest now.

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I should add this is to do a thin layer on mats and Megazorb is pretty good. I always though flax bedding was a bit sharp unless you're using a full bed?

 

[appylass]

I have tried all sorts, I find flax quite good but never found anything to be as absorbent as Megazorb.

 

[terrierliz]

I have just changed from biobed (flax straw) to Megazorb - horse in at night, has only been on it since Saturday but seems to be an improvement already

 

[JM07]

i'm using Stallvital......it is brilliant

 

[Madasmaz]

Stallvital...is that the peat, flax or wood pellet version?

 

[JM07]

i use the peat...it's very absorbant...and the "wet" bits can be removed, dried out on tarpaulin and put back in the stable!!

 

[Booboos]

Another vote for Aquamax. I use it on rubber mattings and literally have a small amount they pee over, it works very well and takes no time to muck out.

 

[Madasmaz]

Oh, was hoping you wouldn't say that. Don't think peat is very environmentally friendly even if you can reuse it, gardeners are trying to find alternatives due to the depletion and the fact it stores alot of carbon from the atmosphere...soaks it up. Yard stable neighbour is trying her box walker on megazorb, we have both had enough of easibed which only seems to work well if you have a stable on a soil floor. To say we are both experimenting is an understatement.

 

[JM07]

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Oh, was hoping you wouldn't say that. Don't think peat is very environmentally friendly even if you can reuse it, gardeners are trying to find alternatives due to the depletion and the fact it stores alot of carbon from the atmosphere...soaks it up. Yard stable neighbour is trying her box walker on megazorb, we have both had enough of easibed which only seems to work well if you have a stable on a soil floor. To say we are both experimenting is an understatement.

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it comes from Sweden and is actually "farmed" over there, so nothing ilke the peat that is produced here..it is peat spore moss...which is easily repaced on a regular basis..up to 3 months.

nothing like traditional peat, which takes hundreds/thousands of years to replace.

 

[liveryblues]

I use a combination of megazorb & easibed. Like easibed very much but its not the most absorbant! Megazorb is by far the most absorbant bedding i have used but wouldnt want to use it by itself. I find that a good layer of megazorb under a semi deep bed of easibed works very well! i skip out all week & dig out at the weekend, both are bio degradable aswell. My stables are all rubber matted aswell.