The best bedding for sensitive horses

[_jetset_]

My chestnut mare seems to have started coming up in lumps and the only thing I can think of being the cause are the shavings in her bed. The lumps are predominantly on her belly (to the sides) and on her neck. She has been having a fly sheet on as at first I was thinking it was flies, but now I am not so sure.

She has gone on new shavings recently... she is a very messy and wet horse. She was on Megazorb but I was using so much of it and it left her bed very wet

So, any suggestions???

 

[madhector]

Ecobale/ecobed

Cant see how it could cause a reaction, and very easy to muck out

 

[kerilli]

well, i know i always say it, but Ecobed cardboard really is amazingly clean, no dust, no nasty print to come off it (unlike paper), warm, easy to muck out, mulches down quickly.

 

[hellybelly6]

Ecobed/bedexcel

My horse is sensitive too and this is the only one he can tolerate!

 

[imafluffybunny]

Try bedding him on something totally different and see if it improves?

 

[MagicMo]

Ecobed - I've found it the best for my sensitive horse.

 

[MillionDollar]

Ecobed is fab, but if she really is very wet then Jopack or Equisorb Flax. My sister's 13.2 NF is very wet and Ecobed just couldn't cope with it, but the flax can!

 

[Heidi1]

My TB mare is sensitive to shavings, so we changed her to Bliss Bedding, rape chopped straw, and she has been ok, also very wet and it's coped with her..

 

[happihorse]

Is there any chance it could be anything else? We used to have a sensitive mare who came up in lumps if she had too much protein. Have you uped her feed and / or grass intake recently?

 

[_jetset_]

Nope... she has been on the feed she is on now for quite some time (well, she has now been on it since May and previous to that she was on it May to November 2007) and she is not getting much turnout due to the weather

 

[happihorse]

Oh - must be the bedding then. It just seems odd that is has only just started when she has been on shavings for so long. Have you tried putting a rug on with a belly cover in to see it that stops it?

I have just started using Ecobed and I'm very impressed.

 

[_jetset_]

She hasn't been on them that long... she was on Megazorb all through the summer (I now class us as in winter

) but when they started coming in more due to the condition of the turnout I was going through 4 bags just to have her stable looking dry

It is £4.90 a bag, and with matting I should not be paying that much!!!

So, as I had some shavings for my yearling, I put her back on them about 2 weeks ago.

 

[JM07]

try this......


http://www.dustfreehorsebedding.com/page10.html

 

[Daisychain]

Try Flax bedding, I have used every type of bedding over the years and this is the best for absorbancy and it is very cost effective, and a doddle to muck out. If you tried it i bet you wouldnt use anything else!