What bedding do you use with rubber matting?

[sachak]

As in the title really - Im just weighing up my options really as the summer time isnt so bad but obviously winter will be upon me before i know it!

sacha

 

[sammiea]

having tried various options i woudl say stick to shavings/wood pellets/those sorts of beddings if using a full rubber bed.
If using straw i found the best thing was just to have rubber where you dont have straw ie the front of the stable

 

[teddyt]

paper

 

[Birker2020]

I use free shavings from the timber yard (thanks to a brilliant Dad who gets them for me). I put just as much shavings on the rubber as I used to. A good tip is that if your stable is rectangular shaped put the bedding in the 'short side' of the stable. This way you will use less shavings but be able to have a slightly deeper bed. I pulled up my rubber matting last three years ago and I nver pull it up now unles shavings have got down the side.

 

[little_flea]

Mare is on paper, gelding is on straw as he eats the paper and is too messy on shavings.

 

[spaniel]

I use wood pellets. Half a bed, nice and deep over rubber matting.

 

[galaxy]

Megazorb. everyone on my yard with mats is now on it. Just put a layer where your horse wees.

Found straw disgusting, not absorbant at all so my horse ended up covered and the stabled stank with wee coming out the front, not nice. Have tried shavings, didn't find them absorbant enough. Easibed worked well, but found it worked out more expensive than Megazorb.

 

[Theresa_F]

I too prefer megazorb - soaks up pee better than anything. It is the only bedding that copes with our very piddly clydie mare.

I use a bed of about 3" deep over the back half of the stable which means they are kept dry and don't have wet rugs. I leave it to set and skip out poo and take the wet area out once a week or so.

No smell etc by doing this.

I have used shavings mixed with megazorb as well but found just megazorb the easiest to skip out.

 

[Nosey]

Aubiose...used to use shavings but they got so expensive this was almost same price so gave it a try. Its better and more cost effective. I only use a half bed but a deepish half bed.

 

[Worried1]

Shredded cardboard - it's great and half the price of shavings.

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

I have always used shavings with my mats as most places i have been insist on using them, i like them as does seren when she is in

 

[TinselRider]

Shavings on mats

 

[kerilli]

Ecobed cardboard, fab stuff, no dust, no smell, i've tried everything else and it's the best.

 

[tabithakat64]

Megazorb for me too

 

[Natallia]

Wood pellets - same absorbency - if not better - than Megazorb - but way, way cheaper. Also smells great and rots down fast, and doesn't get kicked around as much as Megazorb.

These are the cheapest I have found to date - only £1.60 for a 10 Kg bag. Unbeatable I think!

http://www.hotstovies.com/index.html

 

[ru-fi-do]

I generally use shavings but sometimes also put shredded paper down

 

[Coffee_Bean]

Our whole yard is on a full flax bed. I think its megazorb? They used to be on shredded cardboard which was nice too but the deep littered flax works out cheaper in the long run

 

[haras]

Our whole yard is on megazorb and mats. brilliant stuff!

 

[cellie]

Hemcore .Its absorbant like megazorb but lays like shavings.

 

[esteban19120]

we use and supply confortlin flax bedding in spain it goes very well with matting

 

[MrsMozartletoe]

Shavings. Just a sprinkling. Soaks up wee well

. My mare is a messy bobo and when she was on a deep bed it was a nightmare

 

[tikino]

second that mrs m all mine are on mats and sprinkling of shavings

 

[BobbyMondeo]

Straw with mats just at the front and a nice deep bed at the back
Though one of my boys is now going on shavings because he got colic last night we think from eating too much of his bed

 

[RomanyMayday]

shavings on mats.