Wet, messy mare! Bedding help needed

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My mare is a nightmare in her stable. I'm going through 3-4 bales of shavings a week. Tried deep litter, rubber matting with a small bed, sawdust as a base with shavings on top, aquamax years ago but don't like it and I've nowhere to store straw.
Thinking of trying her on easibed as I've heard the wee soaks down. Any users out there who swear by it and roughly what do you pay per bale? Thanks
 
Is it wood pellets like aquamax? I tried them years ago but found them way too expensive in the long run even £4 a bag that I was paying
 
I hate easibed, it hardly seems to absorb anything. I find megazorb or wood pellets the best. There is another bedding that is sort of half way between sawdust and shavings. It's called safemix. It is easier to use than shavings but nothing beats the absorbency of megazorb or wood pellets.
 
My gelding is quite wet and messy, and I have started deep littering him on a mix of wood pellets and shavings. He has a GIGANTIC bed and I top it up with one bale of shavings a week. I've found the bigger the bed you start off with the easier it is, and I give it a proper muck out once a week.
 
I feel your pain as have a very wet mare too and bedding is a bit of an obsession with me! I find a generous amount of wood pellets or currently using megazorb once a week under shavings or chopped straw the best and resist to temptation to dig around too much, which I do find hard as I like to see a clean dry bed. I also quite like soft chip as that's fairly absorbent and contains the wet better than shavings but doesn't give such a big bed. I'll be interested to see others suggestion though.
 
Wood pellets! The gelding I used to have was extremely wet and messy and wood pellets was the only thing that worked for me I would definitely give them a try.
 
I've tried wood pellets and I didn't like them. They were costing me more than shavings and at this time of year I only go to my horses once a day and don't have time to be adding more pellets and waiting for them to expand
 
My wet mare is best on a semi-deep litter system.

Wood pellet base layer with a full shavings bed over the top. Big chunk of wet taken out a couple of times a week.
 
I had the filthiest mare I have ever had the displeasure of mucking out. In the end, she was on mats with a small bed of medium sized flake shavings to soak up the wee. I was adding half a bale at a time, and using a snow shovel rather than a fork. She was vile and this was the easiest/cheapest way to do it. She never, ever laid down so this worked for us. If she hadn't eaten anything that wasn't fixed down, I'd have probably tried deep littering on straw.
I couldn't believe it, I went from a lovely clean pony on a massive straw bed to this disgusting monster! Bleugh!
 
Second wood pellets under shavings!

I've had my mare 3 years and have tried megazorb, flax and shavings going through several bales a week as she pees for England. Shavings was by far the worst and this winter I moved into a yard where 1 bale a week was included in the price :( so after a lot of research I decided to put wood pellets underneath and I just can't believe it! I take the wet out once a week and just skip out every day and she is sooooooo clean! No stable stains and her bed is snowy white!!! Her feet have been thrushy I'm past years too and this year this are fine.
 
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