What bedding do you use and how much a bale?

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This isnt market research I promise, its research for myself!

Due to a change in supplier our bales of shavings have skyrocketed to 7.20 a bag and have shrunk to about a third of their size (these are for bog standard unbranded shavings) so Im having a little nosey about to look into alternatives. Ive one horse who is fairly clean and another who is a bit wetter so needs to be something absorbent and hopefully easy to muck out!

Thanks!!! :D
 
Easibed for £6.50 a bale. I hate it. Hoped to deep litter but the wet's just coming to the top every day and looks a mess. I'm getting a bag of wood pellets delivered today which I'm going to stick in the spot where he pees to try and rescue it! Previously was on shavings, £9 for a huge unbranded bale or £7.15 for Bedmax. Was just about to post a similar thread so shall watch this one with interest!
 
Cardboard. Works out about £5.75 per bale but I buy in bulk. (2 pallets) Very absorbent and easy to muck out. Doesn't stick in tails like shavings either. I use about one per week when horses out in day and in at night.
 
Equibright - dust free wood and straw mix. Absolutely love it, and its only 6.50ish a bag (5 bags made a decent bed on top of EVA mats, and the briquettes keep on regenerating fresh bedding. Put too much in and your horse disappears! I take out two or three tubtrugs per day (and he is dirty on straw/shavings), and add one or two bags per week.

Used to use pellets, but never really learned to love them.
 
For a very wet horse I use a bit of a mixture! Put wood pellets down on the wet patches, a layer of wood shavings to soak up the pee, and this organic horse bedding called All-Bed.

Pellets: 5.20 for 25KG
All-Bed: 5.50 Bale
Shavings: 6.60 Bale

All this is placed on a rubber mat.
 
Snowflake Softchip bedding - £5.50 a bale and I go through 1 a week. Get 25kg in a bale too so it's heavier than most shavings bales.
 
I use wood pellets - currently 10kg for £3.42 a bag. Am due to start a new supply this weekend from LWP at £3.58 per 15kg bag. Am pleased with wood pellets and they make for a nice bed which is easier to maintain on rubber mats.

In our area Hunter wood shavings are now £9.10/£9.30 per bag and are not half as good as they used to be ..... remember the old Hunter shavings - am sure the bags were larger - and the contents were packed solid.
 
Wood pellets, we ordered a pallet of 67 15kg bags that work out at around £4 a bag, use 2 of these a week compared to the previous 2 bales of shavings a week at nearly £8 a bale!
 
Egg box and I love it, although have just bought a new fork to make it easier to muck out. I started the box with five bales (no rubber mats and wanted a deep base) and now use one bale a week. Fab stuff, light as a feather to muck out and £5.80 a bale. PM me if you want to know the supplier.
ETA - horse in at night and out during the day unless it's very wet and I just take the muck out in the week and then the wet out at the weekend.
 
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Eco Comfybed. It took a bit of getting used to as I'd always used shavings before but now I've got the hang of it I love it - much easier to muck out and gives a lovely dry, secure bed. £6.35 a bale, including delivery.
 
Good quality Barley straw @£1.40 a bale bought off the field at harvest.I use somewhere in the region of 1 to 2 bales per week per horse
 
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Megazorb on messy mare and something called sundown red on the others. That's a mix of straw and shavings,with eucalyptus so smells great too! Megazorb is £8 a bag,use two bags max per week and sundown is £6.90 and again use two bales a week per horse.I have rubber matting so my beds are not very deep.
 
Shavings are £8.95 here and i get through 2/3 a week. Yo won't allow straw for some reason. Can't wait until he's living out!!
 
In the summer, Aubiose at 12.50 ish and wood pellets at 6-7 ish, not using much, on rubber mats.

In the winter the above just acts as a base and I use straw on top ( I buy oat straw and the less good bits go for bedding) - £2 a small bale, some eaten, some bed!
 
Was using snowflake supreme @ £9.39 a bale x 9 a week for 4 horses!!

Then switched to wood pellets but hate them, so now have ordered 4 pallets of elephant grass bedding & works out @ £6 a bale
 
Wheat straw which is free in return for some carting done by my OH and we bale it ourselves - lovely stuff which they eat! hence I use about half a bale a day! but I am also very particular about taking out all of the wet every day.
 
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