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claireross

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Does anyone use it??? If so do you use it as a bed on its own or with rubber mats. Is it easy to muck out and is it suitable for a dirty horse. I've looked at alot of sites and they all rave about it, but obviously that's because they are trying to sell it. I'd love to have some honest opinions of it.
 
It can really depend on what sort of paper you have, I understand you can get it in flakes/pieces, or in shreds. I have to say from experience the shreds justs seem to ball up round their feet. The flakes/pieces can make a nice bed, but you have to put quite a lot in as it goes flat very easily. I would say from experience not good bedding for wet and dirty horses, but if your horse is fairly clean then it would probably be OK. I would say that it is probably best used on rubber mats as I say, it can get quite a flat bed. Hope this helps!! PS I am on shavings now, so obviously I was not that impressed with paper !!!!!
 
I use shredded paper on rubber mats and can honestly say I would never go back to shavings/flax/chopped straw/normal straw(all of which I have used for a number of years in the past). I find it far more cost effective with my horse - whose stable used to resemble a pigsty!! and it is so much easier to muck out. Paper is highly absorbant and ideal for use with mats - go on -try it!
 
I was on a yard that used it and personally couldn't stand the stuff.May have ben the type but it was awful!Wet bits used to clog up in clumps and you were forever finding bits of paper round the yard no matter how much it was swept!Ooh and see when you were mucking out on a windy day well you can imagine!!not a good mix wind and paper!
You can tell I really don't like it can't you!!!
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I love it. My horse lives like a pig in a straw box, but I have her on rubber mats and half a stable of paper (more than a sprinkle, but not very thick) and she usually isn't too bad on it. She pees a LOT and it used to be a pit, but now her bed has 'made' over the last six months she has got better and better. It's easy to muck out (well the way I do it it is!) - I pick out poos with rubber gloves and a bucket, then fork out the wet and fork down some clean bed from the banks to fill the gap. We find it's great on a chalk floor without mats for a mucky horse, my pony was much cleaner and my friend's mare who pees for England when in season is much cleaner and cheaper like this.
We have had lots of different styles of shreds, we're now on long thick (lots of pages) ones which I like best. We had short thin shreds a while ago which was good for my pony when she had a cast on as she didn't get tangled in long shreds. We also have single sheet big square shreds (about an inch square) which is nice and fluffy for banks and the people who like thick beds.
I personally dislike shavings and other types of bed (we use straw, shavings and Aquamax at work and I don't get on with the shavings or Aquamax), I'd have her on straw if she wasn't such a pig on it, so I'm perfectly happy with paper! Plus, I've always been on paper for years and years so now I'm used to it!
 
When I mucked horses out on the newspaper bedding I loved it. They didn't have rubber mattings, but had LOADS of the paper bedding. I found it pretty easy to muck-out, but I can't remember what the brand was, sorry.

Good luck though, I always remembered it as really easy to deal with.
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Hi,
The livery yard where I keep my horse had her on paper for a little while. It was grand but the only thing I saw wrong with it was now and again there would be bits of broken CD/DVDs mixed in with it!!
 
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