Swift energy pellets - any good?

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Fed up with white horse, the pellets are great but the bags awful. So, has anyone here used swift energy pellets? Are they any good or will they mess up my beds? For very wet horses/poorly drained stables.
 
For comparison my last order of White Horse Platinum Plus worked out at £3.95/15kg bag so price-wise Swift would be 13p more per bag. Not being down South I've not heard of Swift but if you're deeply unhappy with WH then for the additional £9.10 (on 65 bags, although I see Swift's are 70 to a pallet) it's not that big a risk, so I'd chance it.
Having said that, WH bags did have a poor reputation for splitting although more recently appear to have upgraded. I shifted 65 x 15kg bags from a pallet delivered to the end of my driveway by transfering each to a quad-towed trailer, then man-handled into my bedding shed with only one bag being damaged. This was in September so if your experience with WH was pre-Sept maybe you were unlucky and got the old type, weaker packaging?
Hopefully someone has experience of Swift that could vouch for quality.
 
A friend has recently switched from the platinum plus to swift. She prefers the swift. I was thinking of trying, the only thing I'm not sure about is the colour. They're not as white as the wh but having said that, mine go brown very quickly? Have you found that?
 
Anna* said:
I use swift and like them. I haven't used white horse pellets but they are much, much better than verdo!
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This. My horse is actually bearable on them, on Verdo she looked like she was living on a muck heap no matter how many I used or what I did. She is still pretty manky but her bed doesn't make me want to cry when I go to much out!
The packing is great and delivery was quick and easy. I only ordered half a pallet to start but will be getting a full one when it runs out.
 
autumn7 said:
For comparison my last order of White Horse Platinum Plus worked out at £3.95/15kg bag so price-wise Swift would be 13p more per bag. Not being down South I've not heard of Swift but if you're deeply unhappy with WH then for the additional £9.10 (on 65 bags, although I see Swift's are 70 to a pallet) it's not that big a risk, so I'd chance it.
Having said that, WH bags did have a poor reputation for splitting although more recently appear to have upgraded. I shifted 65 x 15kg bags from a pallet delivered to the end of my driveway by transfering each to a quad-towed trailer, then man-handled into my bedding shed with only one bag being damaged. This was in September so if your experience with WH was pre-Sept maybe you were unlucky and got the old type, weaker packaging?
Hopefully someone has experience of Swift that could vouch for quality.
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I bought my pellets around September too from WH and over half the bags were not sealed properly along the top so they had come open, so annoying as they're really nice pellets but I won't be ordering from them again. I complained and got 4 bags refunded as that's all I'd taken pics of! Guess it depends which batch you get from them as to what the packaging is like.

I have used a few bags of Swift pellets and although not quite as white, the quality is good and they didn't mess up my bed
 
Thank you for the replies everyone :)
My white horse delivery was from the end of December. Previous batches last autumn and last spring have not been too bad, but the bags on the current batch are so bad that over 10% of the bags have split already and we've only had them two weeks. People keep knocking against them in the barn and they split. Sometimes I think people just have to look at them for them to split. As a result of split bags I think we've lost about 3 or 4 bags worth of pellets already. I expect by the time we finish the pallet we'll have lost about 15% so it may actually work out cheaper to use a more expensive but better packaged pellet.
 
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