Paper bedding?!

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Is there such a thing as a company that sells paper bedding for horses? I’m just finding the ones for hamsters etc when searching and would need a lot of those little bales! I’m struggling to find anywhere locally so looking to see if I can find anywhere online.

Had a specialist out to see the friesian as he had scabby legs (not mites) but she wants the stable jet washing out and him going onto paper bedding for now…
 
Equi said:
Would cardboard work?

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Re the scabs, what is he fed?
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happy hoof molasses free and equi-glo sugarbeet (but only recently added the sugarbeet and this has been a long term thing that has got worse over the years) he’s also been on other feeds in the past so I’m not suspecting it’s a feeding issue. Vet also said she would be very surprised if is. He’s got to have antibiotics as the skin scrape showed a bacterial infection.

I was thinking I might have to go down the cardboard route but think I’ve sourced some newspaper bales!
 
webble said:
There are places that do cardboard bedding. A friend had her horse on it for a while. It wasn't bad but the bed never looked clean and it got at bit mushy at times
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I’m hoping it doesn’t have to be a long term thing tbh! But it’s a process of elimination.
 
We used to get big bales of paper bedding around twenty years ago. They used to come from our local recycling centre. Unfortunately they stopped making them in bales though, I think the company that done it folded or the council cut their contract. It was okay for mucking out, best to deep litter the wet though.
 
I think I’ve found somewhere I can get some from temporarily so next question - virkon. Do I buy the satchets or the tablets? And how do I put it in a karcher pressure washer? Or do I do it by hand and then wash it off?
 
I can't help with the bedding, sorry but my cob sounds to have a similar problem. I think it is caused by sugars in the diet. It started when I fed her linseed and seems to have been exacerbated by passers-by feeding the horses.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
I can't help with the bedding, sorry but my cob sounds to have a similar problem. I think it is caused by sugars in the diet. It started when I fed her linseed and seems to have been exacerbated by passers-by feeding the horses.
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My normal vet was adamant it was mites even though we had the mite injections done last year and there wasn’t much of a difference. Hence us getting a specialist. Been advised to soak the scabs off with boiled water and disinfectant stable. He’s got to have a course of antibiotics and then we will see what we have from there. A biopsy has been discussed but hopefully we will find a solution before that point!
 
I have a 5lt sprayer I usually empty the stable and wash it out, spray it liberally and leave it for 30min, then wash down again. I just use black fluid though not vikron.
 
spotty_pony2 said:
I think I’ve found somewhere I can get some from temporarily so next question - virkon. Do I buy the satchets or the tablets? And how do I put it in a karcher pressure washer? Or do I do it by hand and then wash it off?
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Not quite the same thing, but when one of my small pets was contagious, I bought the Virkon tablets (1 tablet per 500ml water) and then sprayed down everything in the room she was in contact with and then left it to dry. The vet told me not to wash it off.

The sachets are 50g each ands it’s 10g per 1 litre of water for dilution. So much more then I would have needed!

Maybe work out how much the pressure washer holds and then calculate whether it’s better to get the sachet or tablets?
 
I can recommend a place in the Cotswolds if you’re near there?

I love paper bedding. It’s an absolute joy to work with.
 
Starzaan said:
I can recommend a place in the Cotswolds if you’re near there?

I love paper bedding. It’s an absolute joy to work with.
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Unfortunately I’m in Lincolnshire but thank you anyway. I’ve never mucked out paper before - have cardboard but never paper. Vet said it was very messy..!
 
spotty_pony2 said:
Unfortunately I’m in Lincolnshire but thank you anyway. I’ve never mucked out paper before - have cardboard but never paper. Vet said it was very messy..!
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Ahhh you need the tricks! It’s not messy in terms of the bed - the pee just forms a clump which is glorious. The messy bit is getting it from the bed to the muck heap. The trick is to chuck a bucket of water over your barrow before you try and move it, that way it doesn’t blow around.
 
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