Paper bedding!?

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What is everyone's views on using shredded paper for your horses bed!? My friend has recently started using it and last night her horse consumed quite a large amount of it and have had to have the vet out today due to not passing anythign through
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my friend once did dressage with a print of tony blair (with the devil horns, remember) on her grey horses neck..
Very funny as strong hunting fraternaty where we were.
if horse is muching it i'd try shavings
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mmmm..mixed views on this,

the yard i had hector at used paper on rubber mats, we used to get loads from local offices for free, and we also had a shredder and shredded our own, so was very good cost wise, hector was a nightmare on it, and what ever i put in i would have to take out the next day
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it did make a good muck heap but it used to blow everywhere, and YO was very tidy person so was forever sweeping
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one of the horses on the yard used to eat it, and personally i would of swapped him onto something else but owner chose not too, just made sure he always had haylege.

i now have mine at home and can chose my own bedding, and have decided against paper, would rather pay a bit more for shavings, or infact now have them on chopped straw which i love

sorry that was very rambly and proberly not much help
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I think it depends on the type.

A livery yard I was at years ago switched to paper bedding and I hated it. For one thing it was in big long strips which got wound round the horses legs, secondly I found it stunk to high heaven (I was working with horses at this point so had first hand experience of the mucking out) and thirdly was the eating issue...

We had a couple that were paper munchers - mine personally didnt bother. The YO didnt care much as the bedding was economical. However, there was uproar amongst the liveries when we had a couple of cases of colic and it turned out the paper had traces of glue coating it (which the YO already knew)

Im sure there is some good quality paper bedding.... *Personally* if a horse eats it, I'd switch bedding straight away. But I much prefer shavings tbh!
 
Yeh i think she is going to swap back to shavings, the only reason she swapped was because her horse was too messy on shavings and was costing too much or something like that.
 
used it once and that was enough, I found it very sloppy if that makes sense .... It was fine when it was dry but as soon as horsey peed on it I think it didnt soak too well . Very hard to brush up after if it gets wet at all .
 
The small shreds are very good bedding, no dust and easy to muck out. The large shreds (which tend to be newspaper) are awful - like mucking out concrete.
A very good bedding, but some horses will eat it. Not worth the risk if they do. When my dad takes horses racing he always asks for paper boxes (always have a choice between paper and shavings), and puts a muzzle on them just in case.
I have all mine on small paper/cardboard shreds and pop in a bale of Bedmax each week - very cost efficient and easy to manage, have yet to open a bale of dusty Bedmax.
 
I really dont like it! Never used it personally, but a horse in the stable next to mine had it and although it was cheap (main purpose) it was a nightmare to muck out and got everywhere all over the yard. Not my first choice!
 
My old yard used to keep the racehorses on it..I can see the advantages of it being dust free, but it was big pieces of paper and horrid to muck out, didn't seem to make a very substantial bed either. I would never use by choice unless there is a supplier who shreds the paper really small
 
I help a friend who uses it, and must admit I really cannot stand it, I would never use it.
 
I have not used it with any of my horses but it was used at the yard I went for work experience at highschool, which was also the yard where I bought my lad.
The owner of the yard used to go to the paper skip in the town and empty it out every week (well as much as she could without falling into it) and put up posters asking for their old newspapers. Took them home and shreded them there.

Great for price, very cheap bedding.
VERY heavy when wet. Did a fair bit of mucking out with my hands as a fork didn't do the job.
The horses didn't eat it there so that wasn't a problem.
Doesn't do greys well unless you want a horse with last sundays cross word on his quarters or a page 3 girl
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When I first got bert he was on paper bedding as he has COPD and I found it to be the work of Satan!

IMO it is a complete bugger to muckout, the droppings sink into it and it is like digging for treasure. When the wind gets it it blows everywhere which probably made me the most unpopular livery with YO as it was strewn all over the place no matter how careful I was.

Bert is now on Bedmax and i feel blessed
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ETS: used large newspaper variety.
 
I used to use it when it was 'cool' in the 90's. Then I think we only had the option of newspaper which was in ling strips and was a nightmare. It also stunk to high heaven. I recently went to a yard which used newspaper and just one whiff of it made me remember why I'd never use it again.
I use straw becuase it's cheap and if he eats it it won't cause him such a prooblem (he eats everything).
 
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