Which Bedding???

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evenag114

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Sorry if you get sick of the same old posts folks but I dont venture in here very often!

What bedding do you guys use and recomend? I'm thinking of switching my lot from Paper as I'm sick of it flying around the yard, and it always seems so damp. I have tried Easybed and Bliss in the past but tend to find them a bit dusty for my liking, also a couple of mine are very wet so I want something that soaks it all up without costing me the earth.... I think I might be asking too much!

Anyone know anything about Aquamax, Aubiose or Nedz Bed??? Just been googling! Any one have any idea of price of these as my liveries won't want to pay the earth.

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Evenag114
 
I like Aubiose for my mare as I deep litter her and it seems to make a good base, v absorbant and easy to use. It's also as dust-free as anything else I've tried. I get shavings included in my livery though so I tend to mix the 2. If Aubiose wasn't so expensive I'd use it on its own - I pay £10 a bale from my local supplier but you could probably get it cheaper if you bought in bulk.

I meant to add that I don't seem to need as much Aubiose as I do shavings, probably 1/2 bale a week would do for my horse - if my shavings weren't included it would probably work out the same cost-wise.
 
I, along with quite a few people I know, have gone back to straw. Its warm, easy to muck out and £2 a bale!!
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We have tried straw, shavings, easibed, hemcore over the last 15 years here but always go back to Aubiose. I get it for under £9 a bale and use half to one bale a week for each stable - a dry 14hh Welsh D mare who poos all over the bed, a wet but tidy 15hh mare and a dry, tidy 14.2 gelding who always poo along one wall. I put shavings round the sides and mix them with aubiose on the dry areas but use aubiose alone where it gets wet. We take out droppings and rake the top daily and take the wet out weekly, usually one wheelbarrow load of wet bed per 12 x 14 box (the cob mare only has 3/4 of the floor bedded). Even with hemcore I'd use one bale one week and two the next, though it does smell nicely of citronella it just doesn't stay dry enough. Also we muck out into bags as it's often too muddy to get a wheelbarrow over to the muck heap. Can't have rubber as stables are in a barn with a level floor, thresholds and no drainage or slope, though I've worked with rubber mats in various yards and hate them - the day always comes when they have to be lifted, and they all seem to let wet shavings and bits of poo through the joins.

The worst beds I've ever mucked out - not ours - have been paper, and the chopped straw mixes (Dixons Dustless?) - a friend recommends Aquamax but I'm dubious, it's expensive and really needs to be used on rubber floors. No idea about Megazorb, nor cardboard.
 
personally i dont think you can beat a good old traditional straw bed ( barley), lovely and cosy and you can afford to make up a huge bed, i cant stand seeing a crappy bit of bedding down, rubber matting or not.
 
I have just put Farra onto megazorb - lovely lovely lovely stuff. Even on mats we used two bales of bedding a week and had to take out the entire bed each day. Now 5 minutes to skip off poos, rake flat, sweep front out and done. Bed is starting to settle - I used 4 bags to start off the bed - just the back half of the stable but fairly thick as she is a big horse, and should get away with a bag a week to top up and keep nice. If you have messy wet horses, this is a really good bed to use. I bought 30 bags for 6.80 delivered but I know you can get it cheaper if you are able to collect from the company.

I used this on Chancer when he was a minger, though now he poos along the back of the stable and pees in one spot so is on just shavings.
 
I'm about to start using nedz advance for my boy and have used the Pro. Really like it and it is so quick rotting, the advance is supposed to be mega absorbent so I am trying it with my very wet pony on rubber matting (but with fluffy banks still up the sides!)
 
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