Wood pellet bedding

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Anyone use wood pellet bedding?

Do you honestly find you use less in the week?

Some of the sites are recommending around 6-8 bags to set up the bed, then ONE bag a week, is this a genuine assessment for a mucky horse in full time for the winter (hour turn out in the day)?

Am assuming deep litter style

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I converted to wood pellets earlier this year, and so far I will not be changing back :) My boy is quite tidy in the stable but he is a compulsive water bucket tipper!! He is generally in during the day (although this will change in winter) I put in a bag every 10-14 days roughly...this is on top of rubber mats :)
 
You don't generally deep litter it -

Good points are cheap, clean, super fast to muck out, dry and not smelly.

Bad point - and I can only find one is that it is dusty in the summer months so you have to keep watering.
 
Marvellous bedding - wouldn't change back to shavings. Ours are on rubber mats. 1 bag every 10 -14 days (but out in day). Much quicker, easier to muck out, lots cheaper, less smell. As others have said in summer does need watering. Don't deep litter, you mix wet with dry, it compacts down underneath and when bed builds up too much we take a layer out from wet patch. Hard to describe and it does tae a bit of getting used to, but a much better bedding.
 
Thanks everyone think i'll give it a go, am on mats so that sounds a plus point.

Also a rather strange reason to swap - am currently on straw, have been on shavings previous years, and I've got rats eeuuccckkkk. (terriers are in heaven lol)

Never had a problem when i was storing shavings - but they are so expensive now!
 
I used it for a good while but it is really dusty and my girls were coughing, in spite of me soaking it a LOT, so i couldn't have that. when i had horses in say 19 hours a day last winter (turned out for about 5 hours on all-weather) we were definitely getting through at least 2-3 bags a week per stable. I can't stand stinky beds though, I take all the wet out asap. I've gone back to cardboard bedding (Ecobed) and love it, it is SO clean by comparison.
 
Just wonder if some brands are better than others? I've posted on this before - but a well known competition venue (also a college) was using wood pellets last year and when our horse stayed there for a show the beds were horrendously dusty. That venue is back on shavings now.
Yet the yard that my horse is moving to shortly uses a brand in small white bags, just with the words wood pellets on the side, and they seem really good. They just get them from their local hay merchant.
Have also seen them being bagged at a forestry merchant down in Dorset and they looked great, but he only sells locally.
Can anyone recommend a particular brand that they have found successful?
 
I use the Corley ones and can collect as it is just up the road from me. I get through 2 or 3 bags per stable a week on rubber. When we stable at shows I have found them really easy to take with me and make a bed with 8 bags and it lasts for up to a week without a problem
 
I use Liverpool wood pellets - I pay a bit more for their premium ones (I think they call them brites). I wouldn't change back to shavings. Have saved me a fortune & I don't find them dusty (tho horses are out during the summer). They're convenient to store, very absorbant & rot down well on the muckpile.
 
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