Oh my god price of shavings!!!!!

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Sorry if this has been done to death but I got some shavings at the weekend and they were £7.40 a bag!!!! Not even Hunters but some ACME brand I have never heard of! Had to get them, ran out of bedding and last 2 in the shop! Will it never end? Thinking big cork up horses bum next!!!
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Oh my goodness'. Am thinking my rubber matting investment is beginning to pay off. Luckily new horse will be good on straw and George is on awuamax, which is just over a fiver a bag, but I pay less as I buy in bulk.

I heard somewhere that a bag of shavings could rise to a tenner in the next year; but if I heard it where I think I heard it, it probably isn't true!
 
My horse used to be on Aquamax but he became so wet in the spring that I was using over 2 bags a week which worked out more expensive than shavings but what with the cost of shavings I may go back on it, also he had a broken leg earlier in the year so has had to have a good deep bed which Aquamax doesn't really do, although he is on rubber, not allowed straw at the yard, Oh I dream of 24 hour turnout!!
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I use Hemcore, I think it is better than shavings. It used to be expensive against shavings, but now it seems to be comparable.

I don't want a big muckheap, with horses at home, so it suits me very well.

I have to say that this summer, my horse has been sleeping out when the weather is good, to save money.
 
I'm trying Fennigton Fibres elephant grass mixed in with the last of easibed (useless non-absorbent stuff). £5.30 a bale, so may see how it goes and then see if I can get bulk order discount.
 
With the elephant grass bedding, just watch out that your horse doesn't eat it!! it says on the bag that horses wont eat it, but some do, and if they do they can get colic!
 
Ours are over £8 a bag at the mo! The large flake shavings seem to be selling for cheaper as im told they are not from the building trade and thats why we are suffering for it. Ther are a couple of companies i have found that are just starting up doing large flake and offering a very good price for bulk delivery
 
Marvelous!!!! I have a gutsy foody. Going to try megazorb. My stable neighbour has put down a bed of it today, and it feels lovely, and is dust free...time will tell, I'll let her test it over the next week as her horse box walks.
 
I'm seriously thinking of installing a flushing loo and training ned to use it. In Hong Kong a few years ago, all the public loos were holes in the ground with plastic "footprints" to show you where to stand and hover (very high yuck factor by the way). This should be easy to adapt for a horse. I feel a Dragons Den visit coming on...........................
 
I was speaking to my local feed merchant yesterday as trying to decide which bedding to change my mare on to as she is extremely wet and her shavings at the mo are £7.59 a bale.
She has also been warned apparently by her supplier that they are in short supply and likely to run out.
A few places I know of have already run out of shavings a few times this year.
Defintaely not shavings for me then!
Gonna try aquamax I think???
 
Shavings are in very short supply (and therefore very expensive) this year mainly due to the slow down in the building trade.
We are limiting our regular customers to one pallet per purchase and refusing new customers wishing to buy pallet loads! We are doing our best to encourage customers to consider other types of bedding. Easi-bed will be doing a buy a pallet get a shavings fork free deal shortly so we are pointing this out as an option.
 
We've been told that shavings are going up by £1.10 per bale to £8 p/bale, with Sundown Red + Yellow going up by 50p p/bale to £6.50; so long as new YM doesn't ban certain types of bedding, we'll be putting them on Dixons Dustless (£3.60 p/bale) and shavings mixed together.
 
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