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Matt and Jack

Matt and Jack

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I currently have my horse on straw as tend to like this the best, but he has recently started coughing so I want to change to a different bedding. What one have you found is best in the terms of dust and also needs to be fairly economic, thankyou!!!
 
Had a horse with severe COPD on our yard few years back and she was on paper. Quite cheap and big bales. Super aborbant too. Can mix it with cardboard aswell which is even cheaper.
 
I would not advise using any sort of chopped rapeseed such as Raviera bedding for any horses especially horses suffering from COPD or any sort of dust allergy. Rapeseed is a common allergy in both horses and humans. My Welsh D has a severe allergy along with a couple of other horses in the barn. The symptoms being heavy uncontrolled breathing, Coughing and looking lethargic. I have never bedded down on this before and it still has an effect on him even at the other end of the barn. This bedding also has an effect on me resulting in massive headaches when I have been close to it. Fortunately because people in my barn have also had problems with the bedding no one uses it, however in another barn at the opposite side of the yard people use the bedding and a woman has had to remove her horse from the yard because of the allergy resulting in hi trying to climb the walls to stick his nose out of the vents in the barn and striking out at his face. Horrible stuff and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Some horses may not show any symptoms of being allergic to it but who is to say they don't have a banging headache like I do when in contact with it.
 
I have same problem with my horses. I swapped them from straw onto wood pellets and the difference has been fantastic! no more coughing and it's so easy to muck out, wish I'd done it sooner. I get it from Liverpool Wood Pellets and the more you buy the cheaper it gets.
Hope you find a suitable soloution
 
Hi, I would recommend using "Bliss Eucalyptus". It is a bedding made from chopped rape straw with a eucalyptus coating. It is fully dust extracted and the eucalyptus coating helps with the horses breathing
in the stable and as a bonus helps keep the stable smelling a bit fresher. It's very absorbent, and when it gets wet instead of the wetness spreading out it forms into "clumps". which means it is easier to muck out, you remove less meaning you replace less. For a 20kg bale it is normally around £7-00 to £7-50. It breaks down on your muck heap in about 6-9 months as apposed to something like shavings which can take up to 2.5 years!


Hope this is helpful.
 
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