Wood pellet bedding anyone?

[horselyx_fan]

Megazorb, a form of wood pellet bedding, appears quite cheap. I currently use shavings. Would it be possible to mix this type of bed in with current bed without chucking out all current bed?

Thanks!

 

[daydreambeliever]

You could use the shavings as extra depth in the banks.

 

[Sparkles]

I much prefer shaings myself. I'd say you use just as much,if not more, of the wood pellets than you would do shavings. I found for a flat[no banks] day bed about 2" thickness...we had to use about 8 bags to get this to start.
For a full bed of pellets, I'd guess it would be about 12 bags at least to start off.

You can mix it, but makes it look rather unnattractive to the eye and more awkawrd to muck out.

 

[Gucci_b]

Megazorb is fab bedding keeps the smell down and very very absorbent, easy to muck out with less wastage. I used about 9 bags for a 12x12 stable

 

[curio]

i use meagazorb on the base and only lift the wet out when needed rest untouched and then put shavings on top as i like my beds deep works great

 

[horselyx_fan]

Thank you for all your replies. Do you think the best idea would be to use current bed on banks and then put down wood pellets on floor until all shaving is gone? When I said mix with current bed I just meant instead of starting afresh - I would not continue to mix them - I would just use the last of the shaving up.

 

[mja]

I would use the shavings as banks and the wood pellets as base and shavings ontop as someone else has already said they do. I do this for my gelding ontop of temporary large rubber mats and it works great. It absorbs super and only needs lifted out end of the week and just muck out the shavings layer daily.

I also use wood pellets ontop of permanent Comfort rubber matting on its own with no shavings for a mare who pees alot and it is the best thing I have found for abosrbency with her bed - she still has quite a deep bed as I prefer this but it doesnt need lifted out much and very little wastage compared to shavings on matting xx

 

[cindars]

I personally don't use them but a friend has a mega wet mare and changed to wood pellets and is thrilled with them, she used 8 bags to start on top of rubber matting and has to add water to them before spreading out, very easy to muck out as well as I've looked after mare on occasions.

 

[Bowen4Horses]

i LOVE wood pellets. would choose them over any other type of bedding anyday.

i use liverpool wood pellets, and can't fault them. my gelding is very wet, so i alternate being adding them dry and 'puffed up'.

i heart wood pellets!

 

[mytwofriends]

I love wood pellets, although my horses are on shavings at their new yard. I find shavings more time consuming to muck out and more wasteful than the wood pellets (our old yard used Aquamax) and as they are used with rubber matting my horses had no hesitation in lying down and were very comfy.

Mucking used to be a breeze. Pick out the poos and sweep back daily, skip out in between if the horses were in during the day, then only remove the wet once a week unless a REALLY wet patch showed up, when the pellets would turn dark red. This meant it had absorbed all it could and needed to be removed. Otherwise you'd simply drag some dry pellets over the wet and the bed was as good as new with virtually no smell. We had large 14x14 stables and they used to take 8 bags to start them off, then between 0 and 2 more bags per week depending on season and weather, and how neat your horse was!

But now I'm back to shavings at my new yard, which are also great, but I think if I could afford rubber matting for my two stables, I would happily switch back to Aquamax.

 

[Brownmare]

We have just had a central heating boiler installed that runs on wood pellets and I would advise anyone to contact local "eco fuel" suppliers instead of paying the premium for horse specific products. The wood pellets we get are very clean and safe - they have to be because chemical deposits would clog up the boiler - and they are half the price of equestrian ones, and cheaper again if you get bulk deliveries. Our supplier sell to quite alot of yards in the midlands

 

[Oberon]

There is a VAT fraud issue if using fuel intended wood pellets for equine bedding.

I use LWP and I love them for my wet boys. After over 20 years with horses, wood pellets are the best bedding I have come across.

Cheap, absorbant and easy and pleasant to muck out.

What more could one ask?

 

[Brownmare]

There is a VAT fraud issue if using fuel intended wood pellets for equine bedding.

Presumably because fuel is 5% and bedding 17.5%? Must remember to ask our supplier about that. We actually use our own straw for bedding instead