Shredded Egg Box Bedding

[AdorableAlice]

I have searched back and found a few comments about this type of bedding but they are dated 2009 to 2012 and seem positive but there is nothing recent.

I have to micro manage Miss Sicknote's stable management and dust is not an option. She has been upgraded to the premier apartment on the yard which is a huge stable with high ceiling. The box is earth/hardcore floor with rubber matting on top and 3/4's of the floor space is just rubber. She has her hay on the rubber away from her bed so she is not moving around on the bed all day.

Currently her bed is a inch deep layer of wood pellets with good quality chopped straw on top and the dust level is low. Wet is removed daily and only smell is when the wet patch is moved.

The supplier of the chopped straw suggested egg box bedding to me as being even lower in dust than the straw.

Any thoughts or guidance please ? Many thanks.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

I learnt from Clarkson's Farm that there are 4 (I think) factories that make eggboxes in Europe, and three of them have been shut due to Covid.. it may be totally unrelated, but it may also be due to this that you will struggle to get bedding made from it?

You could try paper bedding, or card? I think that's readily available. I hated mucking it out but it's zero dust as far as it can be

 

[smolmaus]

From being in the small animal community this worked really well for loads of people (lots of rodents are very dust sensitive) then the supply seemed to dry up overnight almost. Haven't seen anyone using it for probably 2-3 years now. There was a proper shortage recently, like shops didn't have actual eggboxes anymore and had to use plastic so yeah, I just don't think there is any availability these days.

 

[ycbm]

A friend has paper and the guy makes it in batches for her, let me know if you need the contact AA. Her horse was on beclamethasone inhalers, steamed hay and paper bed.

 

[AdorableAlice]

A friend has paper and the guy makes it in batches for her, let me know if you need the contact AA. Her horse was on beclamethasone inhalers, steamed hay and paper bed.

Yes please.

 

[rabatsa]

I use shredded cardboard and there is zero dust.

 

[AdorableAlice]

I use shredded cardboard and there is zero dust.

Thank you, we use shredded cardboard on the lorry.

 

[MereChristmas]

Screenshot as couldn’t share. I think this may be near Bridgnorth.

 

[catembi]

Have you tried this: Smart Bedding - completely natural equine bedding from ethos (goethos.co.uk)

I use the lavender one on thick rubber mats. My stables are always open, so everyone can wander in & out, & I use it 'in reverse' by putting some down to soak up wee if someone has decided to go inside. It smells really lovely.

 

[AdorableAlice]

Have you tried this: Smart Bedding - completely natural equine bedding from ethos (goethos.co.uk)

I use the lavender one on thick rubber mats. My stables are always open, so everyone can wander in & out, & I use it 'in reverse' by putting some down to soak up wee if someone has decided to go inside. It smells really lovely.

Miss Sicknote would like lavender, I will have a look thank you.

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Miss Sicknote would like lavender, I will have a look thank you.

It's very eco and smells lovely (friend had it) but it can be dusty after it's been put down. She couldn't use it with her her copd horse.

 

[ycbm]

Yes please.

I've asked her for the details, will pm you as soon as I have them.
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[GoldenWillow]

I'm on my second equine asthma horse and through trial and error have found Bedmax to be the most dust free one that works for me. My mare was noticeably better on them rather than paper. I've never found a reliable source of cardboard to properly trial that though.

 

[Hallo2012]

Screenshot as couldn’t share. I think thisView attachment 74534 may be near Bridgnorth.

i get cardboard from here and it is dust free, economical and consistent quality.

 

[bluehorse]

Ecobale is brilliant, it’s small cardboard squares rather than shredded. I used it when my horse cut his pastern as I wanted a bedding that wouldn’t get into the wound. It’s the most dust free bedding I’ve ever used, plus being very clean and absorbent. I can’t get it where I live now unfortunately, but if I could find a local supplier it would be my first choice for bedding.

 

[rabatsa]

I get mine from this company. https://walmsleypremierbed.co.uk/premierbed-card.html

I notice that they do the egg box bedding as well.

 

[spacefaer]

Screenshot as couldn’t share. I think thisView attachment 74534 may be near Bridgnorth.

This is the chap who supplies my chopped rape straw.
Very reliable and always the cheapest around. He supplies a lot of the local game farms with the chopped egg tray bedding (pheasant rearers etc) so has always got a load of it in stock.

 

[AdorableAlice]

This is the chap who supplies my chopped rape straw.
Very reliable and always the cheapest around. He supplies a lot of the local game farms with the chopped egg tray bedding (pheasant rearers etc) so has always got a load of it in stock.

Thank you, he has supplied chopped straw for me and he recommended the chopped cardboard/egg box to me. The had a virus back in 2017 and I have to micro manage her, she is fine but walks a fine line as far as dust is concerned.

 

[Cragrat]

I have tried most types of bedding over the years - Philip Walmsley Cardboard is without doubt the only one I would class as properly dust free, from when you open the bale to months later when it's been in use (when all other bedding gets dusty even if it started ok). Walmsley carboard is chopped differently to other cardboard too - much easier to muck out than long thin shreds.

 

[AdorableAlice]

The egg box cardboard is in. Not a hint of dust, 18kg bales. We shook it up well and absolutely no dust. We have put a cm of weed pellets underneath and 7 bales of eggbox, bed area is 13 x 17 and we have a nice deep bed down.

The small issue of Alice refusing to go on it is another story. She is standing on the rubber area adjoining her nice new bed and staring suspiciously at the lovely soft bed waiting for her, quite what she thinks is buried in it is beyond me.

 

[rabatsa]

Tell her that there are carrots in the bed, she would soon be digging it up.

 

[Jeni the dragon]

Aww poor Alice! She obviously doesn't think it's the right standard of egg box!

 

[Roasted Chestnuts]

Can I ask am I missing something with this as the prices for bales made my eyes water ?