Wood pellet premium bedding -recommend me a brand?

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Currently on straw but we have gone from lovely fluffly golden barley straw to a much shortser softer barley straw. I have gone from using 2 bales a week to 4 and to make matters worse my horse is very dirty on it. It gettings all mulched up into a pooey stogyg mulsh.....

On that note I want to trial her on wood pellets. She was vile on flax but I have heard great things about these pellets.

Im after the "white" pellets as opposed to the dark ones like verdo. This is due to the poor lighting at the yard which is yellowish and you cant tell what is wet in the dark.

I like the look of the white horse pellets and the liverpool pellets look good, both of which I would order enough of just to start a bed and try for a week or two. I have rubber matting at the front and in the middle of my stable just not at the back or sides.

How many do you think I would need to start the bed?

What are the white horse and liverpool ones like? Can anyone reccommend me some?
 
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I use PLQ Pellets and have found them very good. Depending on the size of your stable, I would say you'll need between 6-10 bags to start the bed. You'll need to wet the bed when you first lay it but once you've got the bed going just mix any new bags you put in with the existing bed. They recommend that you don't take any wet out, just mix it in until it's obviously not going to absorb any more wee! It goes against the grain but it really does work.

Don't forget to order them as fuel as you only pay 5% VAT as opose to 20% for bedding ;)
 
I use the premium ones from LWP. Think they're called Balcas Brites. They're good quality, and white to start, although Sony stay as white as a shavings bed does
 
Google Plumb Centre: they are an easy source of Brites wood pellets so you can trial. I'm on my first load of pellets, started last Wednesday with Dodson and Horrel bags, expensive but probably a great start.

This is day three, I think:
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Best thing is how little I'm taking out:
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I'd say try any pellets you can find just as a start then order in bulk from LWP or similar once you're happy with them. They are very heavy to muck out once they've been down a while!
 
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I have used LWPs for three years and love them, but I tried the verdo ones last time and they are much darker, so I'm not so keen. I have however changed to straw pellets for the coldest part of the winter as you don't need to wet them and therefore you don't get the problem of them freezing. They are darker than I expected. Anyone know where you can get paler coloured ones? I like them for their absorbancy and I am using less of them so far than I did of the wood pellets.
 
Hi! I've been using wood pellets since this time last year for my very wet and dirty boxwalker! Works really well although if the bed is trashed every day, like mine is, you cannot be too fussy about very small pieces of poo. Having been paying around £6 for 15kg bags, I've just taken delivery of LWP premium ones and foolishly I didn't say they were for burning!! Learn next time!! However, it still only worked out at £2.80 per 10kg bag delivered! (I had a pallet of 1000kgs to see me through the winter!!). Wouldn't go back to shavings for this horse - ever!!
 
I'm sure that I saw on the Verdo facebook page that they offer free trials of their bedding? Might be worth a try.

I've used Brites, Land Energy and Verdo. Brites were very white and fluffed up really quickly, I liked them but they went quite sandy then I tried Verdo and although they are darker, which some people don't like. I thought that Land Energy smelt quite chemically and didn't really try them for too long.
 
My white bed has gone brown! It's still absorbing the wet so I've mixed in the white remnants. I found that my old shredded shavings banks mixed in were amazing and have made the bed look clean again. Not that I'm OCD (much!)

I'm just wondering when to add in a new bag?
 
We use straw pellets from Pellet Beds, I believe most straw pellets are darker than wood pellets but we also find them very absorbent. I think they also do a elephant grass pellet which is ment to be lighter in colour
 
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