Shavings.

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Cath&Vinnie

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Does anybody still use shavings?

I notice alot of people like wood/straw pellets or just straw?

I love shavings and my boy is messy! I just bank the wet and pull down the dry - after couple of days its dried enough to be pulled and mixed into the rest of bed.
 
I do!

After spending lots of money on beddings like Equisorb, Bedmax and Megazorb (Megazorb was brilliant and very very absorbent but you got bugger all in a bag and it was very expensive) I decided the horses were actually best and cheapest on bog standard shavings.
 
ive always used shavings and have unfortunately had a variety of foreign objects in it recently- one bale had two pairs of disposable gloves broken up in it, another had a huge piece of plastic with open staples sticking out of it! on phoning the manufacturer i was informed "you have to expect crap in them because its just sweepings off the floor" nice attitude! and at £8 a bale expensive crap off the floor! :mad:
 
archiepoo said:
ive always used shavings and have unfortunately had a variety of foreign objects in it recently- one bale had two pairs of disposable gloves broken up in it, another had a huge piece of plastic with open staples sticking out of it! on phoning the manufacturer i was informed "you have to expect crap in them because its just sweepings off the floor" nice attitude! and at £8 a bale expensive crap off the floor! :mad:
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oh my! I hope you have better luck than I did when I complained to easy bed about sharp pieces of aluminium and plastic in the bedding. They never answered me

I now use hunter shavings and although expensive at £8.50 they are worth the difference
 
I actually i got my supplier to back me up and got 5 bales free! result!! i was going to start using flax because of finding the bits in it- but thats just gone up from £7 to £10 a bale:eek::eek::eek:
 
I have animals and chickens and use Plospan shavings, they are wonderful soft shavings and my old horse would have loved a bed made of those

I've not found anything nasty in them and they are cheaper than Snowflake
 
I dislike the wood pellets too! :mad:

Easybed just isnt worth the money tbh - If they were a normal shaving bag size i would buy them.

I buy the cheaper out of the two regular shavings - The dearer one is more or less big chuncks of chippings which i dont like. :)

My bags of snowflake shavings i buy for £7.something, are massive. Well worth the money they cost.
 
If you liked easibed but found them too expensive then I use comfybed. You get 25kg as opposed to 20kg and its cheaper as well. I pay 5.99 a bale :D

And for some of mine I mix it in with shavngs so i get the nice fluffy bed but use less than half the amount of shavings i did previously.


I'm a convert for sure :cool:
 
I use Shavings, bit expensive at £8.00 a bag. I am thinking whether to change to wood pellets (aquamax), it would work out loads cheaper.
 
I really like the wood pellets because if you deep litter you only have to take the wet out once a week and it doesnt smell :) Minimum wastage too because the poo sits on top :D I tried bedmax for my new mare who is a messy cow and ths flakes are to big and everything gets kicked around everywhere!!
 
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