What bedding do you use and how much is it per bale?

[Damnation]

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I use straw on rubber mats at the moment - small bales at £2 a bale. Was shocked when I went in the feed merchants today to see that shavings were £9.95 a bale!

Is that a national record - can anyone top that!?

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I can indeed top you.
£13.72 or something like that over here in the Isle of Man

I am on Nedz Bedz. £8.50 odd a bale, I go through 2 a week but it makes for a really nice bed. I would usually go through just 1 bale a week but my mare is only allowed out 4 times a week.
Izzi

 

[pollypt]

I use wood pellets from LWP, £2.45 a bag!!!!

 

[Janette]

£1 a bale of farm produced Straw.

 

[welsh_monster]

Usually use shavings which are free (have 2 joiners on our yard, which is mainly converted into industrial workshops) except what with xmas holidays and them being lazy, we've only had 2 bags in 3 weeks.

So atm we have 3 on straw at £1.10 a bale, and one on the few shavings we have (with rubber mats.)

We are in Glos

 

[vigoureux]

I'm using wood pellets. Get mine for 2.39 a bag. Same as lwp pellets. Got mine from corleybiowood.co.uk

 

[LadyRascasse]

i used equisorb at £7 a bale, was using hemcore at £8.60 a bale, with 2 horses i usesall use 1 every 2weeks

 

[H's mum]

That's exactly my point TGM the prices vary throughout the country for exactly the same brand of product

It's all got abit silly really

Kate x

 

[devonruby]

i use shavings £5.50 a bale i am in dorset.no shortage at the moment

 

[Len]

Hi Kate,
We have CWG Softbed at £4.50 after equiclub discount or when out of stock (as often is) we have Auboise at about £7.10 (Notts area).
Jen x

 

[dixie]

To be different, I use Miscanthus at £5.70 a bale or if I buy 10 i can get them for £5.30 a bale. I use about 3 a week between 2 horses.

 

[tikino]

i have just went on to a newspapper bedding and it is easy to work with and cheaper than shaving dust free and very good at saving on much heap. it is £5.13 that includes vat and delivery
animal-bedding.co.uk
or email roddiegreig@btinternet.com for more information be has been very helpful with

 

[sueeltringham]

I'm currently using Easibed at about £6.50 a bale. I don't think I'll be able to get any more, but enquired about Bedmax here and it was only £6-60 a bale. I'm currently wondering whether to try one of the pelleted beddings such as LWP, but I'm not sure of the availability around here.

Sue

 

[lizzie_liz]

Our yard has bedmax which costs £6.70 a bale however I dont like it

Instead I am going to the Sawmill and getting shavings, costing £3.50 a bale or £1.50 if you fill your own bag. before I get shot down for using sawmill shavings, they do not contain any foreign debris and are as dust free as bedmax.

 

[piebaldsparkle]

Blimey Bedmax are over £8 round here.

 

[abbie29]

I use shavings from Dodson and Horrell's shop - about £7 a bale. I have mats down in the stable and only need a bale every 3 weeks.

 

[only_me]

we use shavings, at £5.50 a bale. we buy in bulk so it works out cheaper

 

[tendon_boot]

I'm using Nedz Bed Pro at the moment, i did order a massive arctic lorry full and paid less than £5 a bale, that was in june though. I went to get some feed from the wholesaler who also sells to the public and it was just over £7 a bale, i was shocked so i shall be using less than a bale a week at that price. As my OH says your just throwing money on the muck heap. All of ours are on rubber matting. A few of the liveries are on straw and are paying £2.50 a bale, this is in Leicestershire x

 

[terrierliz]

FAO H's Mum - sorry for the delay in replying. I get Megazorb directly from the manufacturers - Northern Crop Driers Ltd, they are in the same village as me and I just go and collect from them

 

[chunkytfg]

megazorb for £5.10 a bag and bedmax for £6.30 from FCS in harlesden norfolk

 

[Heidi1]

Bliss Bedding £6.50 bale, Nottinghamshire.

 

[TPO]

Just changed onto wood pellets at the weekend (from straw £12 for a big bale). The wood pellets are "brites" and £2.30 per bag

I'm in Scotland.

 

[olive3743]

i use straw and am very lucky its free as i am married to a farmer !!!!

 

[a1b2c3]

Am currently paying £9.80 per small bale of shavings

Cannot find another supplier around here, but am going to get LWP later this week to give them a try, as they work out at £2.85 per 15kg bag -much cheaper!

Did used to get straw from farmer at the yard i just left for £3.50 a bale, and in the Decathalon close to old farm, Bedmax shavings were £7.25 per bale.

 

[Laafet]

Now that is not fair, CWG Softbed is over £6 in Suffolk.

 

[Nuttymanxmare]

I use the big ton bales and that costs me £14 and lasts well over a month

 

[Lady_Bug]

Been using unlabelled shavings from YO which have recently gone up to £6.90 a bale. Going to be using a mixture of Bed Down Traditional (£6.60) and Excel (£7.90), one bale a week hopefully, on mats. Much better bed and goes a lot further.

 

[maxusa]

Hi,

We use shavings 25Kg bags and cost is £6.70 per bag. We are in Renfrewshire.

 

[Bella1297]

We use straw at the moment which is £2.50p a large bale. We used to use shavings but they we're only small bales and only lasted a couple of days. and cost £5.50, now we're thinking about rubber matting, and something like easibed, or bedmax or aquamax!
Which are about 6.00 to 8.00 but are bif bales.

Yorkshire
x

 

[nuffield]

shavings about £7 a bale

 

[Inchy]

I use saw mill shavings - £3 per 25kg bag, my boys have 1 bale each a week.

I was worried they might be dusty but have found they are much less dusty than the 'dust extracted' shavings everyone else uses on our yard!