What can I mix with wood pellets?

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I have used wood pellets for 2 years and always got on really well with them. Depending on the horse I have either had a deep bed with the horses that don't trash their bedding or a shallower bed for those that do.

My young horse that I have had for six months is the wettest horse I have ever had. I have tried both deep and shallow beds and the wood pellets really are not working with him. I have half a pallet of the pellets left and I am considering just fluffing I bag of pellets up with water and mixing it with small flake shavings to see what happens.

Has anybody tried this? What were the results?
 
You can mix wood pellets with everything, but with a wet horse, adding shavings will just make your mucking out take longer. The best bedding by far I have found for a really wet horse is megazorb. Just half to one bag on thick rubber mats works best.
 
I've found a bale of sawdust works well with wood or straw pellets. It makes the bed lighter and stops it compacting so much as well as being absorbent. I thought it would be dusty but hasnt been at all and has much the same texture/appearance of broken down pellets. It's also pretty cheap and goes a long way.
 
I have used them with most things. Find the wet patch and put the undampened pellets there then put the rest of the bed round and a thin layer on top. Semi deep litter , have even used a pony to pack the bed down hard. I have used pellets with ordinary straw the wet is absorbed in the bottem layer.
 
Wagtail said:
You can mix wood pellets with everything, but with a wet horse, adding shavings will just make your mucking out take longer. The best bedding by far I have found for a really wet horse is megazorb. Just half to one bag on thick rubber mats works best.
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I liked megazorb as a bedding, but I found it stuck onto my clothes and got into every part of my life, car, house, everywhere!!

Having a really wet trashy type horse myself, the only thing I have found works is 24/7 turnout!! I am having to bring her in at night now due to the ground and am finding it really hard work (if I bring one in I have to bring all three, so quite a shock!), so I am following this thread with interest!!
 
Have used them with shavings, take wet out every 2 weeks but mine is quite clean. Never damp them down though, just put the pellets dry on the bottom and they soak up more wet
 
My horse is quite messy and pellets on their own are not absorbent or clean enough. I mix them with shavings and they are a lot better and the bedding lasts a lot longer!
 
I've just started using wood pellets, at the moment I'm using the 'thirsty bed' ones as they are what my local tack shop stock so got a few bags to try out.
I just put dry pellets on the floor and then add shavings on top, I don't mix them in, and just use shavings for the banks. I could probably make it last 2 weeks without taking out the wet but I prefer to take the wet out once a week. Usually I add a small amount of shavings halfway through the week to loosen up the bed & make it more fluffy and look nicer :)
 
I have a filthy wet bed trasher who was a nightmare on wood pellets alone so now I put down a two-bag base of wood pellets, watered and 'fluffed up', whack it down as much as I can to form a solid base with a metal shavings fork then put a small flake shavings bed on top- every day I take out any obvious lumps then 'skim' the shavings off the top and flick them up into banks to let all the little 'nuggets' he's mangled in fall out- take the obviously wet patch of shavings out and then re-lay the shavings on top of the pellets, top dressing with fresh shavings when needed.

Once a week I take out the wet patch of pellets and re-distribute the dry pellets, about once a fortnight I top up the pellets, usually with only one bag.

*touch wood* this seems to be working really well and has cut my average mucking out time down from 45mins- 1hr on just shavings or 30-45mins on just pellets to about 15mins.

It's also cut by bedding bill down- weekly was using 4 bags of aquamax when just on pellets and 3-4 bales when just on shavings- now using 4-5bales of shavings and 2-3 bags of pellets a month!
 
I have a wood pellets underneath easibed. Works a treat, I take less bedding out so therefore put less bedding in so save money too! Result! :)
 
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