New bedding. Full swap or add new?

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Currently got two ridden horses in. Mine and daughters. Both on wood pellets and have a decent sized bed.
My horse is quite dirty as in messy and daughters is very tidy but wee's a lot!
Daughters suffers with a dust allergy and I noticed pellets are too dusty over spring and summer for him. As I've run out it's time to swap!
I will just start buying shavings and normally would chuck a bale on top of current pellet beds so the change would happen gradually and economically as I don't have to put whole beds down.
I'm just wondering if I will regret it with daughters. It's getting a bit dusty already and I don't want to get a few weeks in and have a mixed up pellet/shaving/dust bed!
Would you empty the whole lot out and start afresh or just try and add shavings on top?!
I did think the pellets would save me money in wet shavings!
 
I suppose it depends how many bales you need but Ive got a decent sized bed down for my boy and I think I started with 4 bales of bedmax. Ive got mats underneath but still a decent thick layer with banks on 3 edges, I would start from scratch as I hate mixed up looking beds!
 
Not sure on how you keep your beds (deep litter or full daily muck out) but I would fully muck out and keep the clean pellets in the middle as a base to catch the pee. Then I'd bank with the shavings and over the top, then youre not wasting bedding and there should be minimal dust.
 
I fully muck out currently but without disturbing too much if that makes sense? Ie. All the wet is removed daily because I know where it is. I don't turn it all over.
I love mixed up beds 😂 As in I find you can get the best of all worlds mixing carefully! Small flake shavings, big flake and wood chip alternately makes a fab bed!
 
Use the pellet bedding from your daughters horse in your stable, and start the new shavings bed from scratch. ..

Must admit I like a mix of pellets and shavings though, but I can see why you wouldn't want to do that with an allergic horse.

Fiona
 
Fiona said:
Use the pellet bedding from your daughters horse in your stable, and start the new shavings bed from scratch. ..

Must admit I like a mix of pellets and shavings though, but I can see why you wouldn't want to do that with an allergic horse.

Fiona
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This was the other option! Hers stays pristine white looking unlike mine so happy to go with that idea and it saves throwing it all away.
 
Fiona said:
Waste not, want not ;)

Fiona
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😫 Every penny counts right now! My "one more horse will be fine" kinda backfired when I found out how high maintinence this new one was! Literally eats, walks on or poo's on my wages every week!
He's worth it but my god he's expensive!
 
Like Fiona I would shift all of the pellets into yours and start afresh - as much as I like the idea of having it as a base, not worth the risk for a pony with a dust allergy.
 
As said shift th daughters into your stable and start fresh :)

Love a new bed. I'm excited for next week when I totally clean and disinfect the foaling stable and put my foaling bed down. Eeeeeee!
 
equi said:
As said shift th daughters into your stable and start fresh :)

Love a new bed. I'm excited for next week when I totally clean and disinfect the foaling stable and put my foaling bed down. Eeeeeee!
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Yes, I would do that too. And I'd take the opportunity while the stable is emtpy to dust down the cobwebs and scrub the walls and floor with Virkon.
 
That's the plan then! New bed for one, second hand bedding for the other.
I will def give it all a good scrub and clean out at the same time yep.
Next to decide on a bed! So many "dust extracted" beddings are dusty 😫
 
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