Mucking out Wood Pellets - How do you do yours?

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Ive just put my youngster onto wood pellets, as she is quite a messy and wet madam.

I have so far had her in overnight on 3 separate occasions, and after the third stay, did the unforgiveable and dug out the wet patch :o

I bought her in last night, and turned her out this morning, the bed seems quite dark at the front where she wee's (daft mare will not go to the back of her stable), i resisted the temptation to dig for the wet cake at the bottom and sifted for gold and took out the solids, but left the darker coloured bed at the front, and just brushed it back.

So how do you do yours :) do you leave the wet and take out once a week, or do you take out more often? and how dark does your bedding go before you take it out?
 
I dig the wet bits out once a week and add fresh. It's hard to resist the temptation to dig out the wet more often but I find that if I do, I use a lot of fresh bedding and it gets v expensive.
 
I have 2 really clean horses and one dirty mare who wees for England. Her whole bed looks dark to me. I go through the whole thing once a week, but I do spray with green gloop at least 2 or 3 times a week as I worry that the stable has a whiff of amonia. I love wood pellet bedding - it looks so comfortable and it's so quick to muck out. I wouldn't say it was the cheapest bedding but certainly for speed and comfort it comes tops for me.
I have a friend who uses the pellet - 1 bag a week as a base layer and then puts shavings on top. She scrapes back the shavings weekly - removed the wet wood pellet and replaces with another bag and starts again.
 
This is my second winter with wood pellets and I would never go back to shavings.

My messy mare is so much cleaner on them its unbelievable! I take out the poo, mix some of the clean banks in the with wet, quick and easy :) I clear everything out every 4-6months and start again.
 
We take out the poo and wet clumps every day, the loose wet gets mixed back in and the beds topped up once or twice a week depending on the horse.
 
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