Wood pellets (again!!!)

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I'm still experimenting with bedding having put down rubber mats for the first time (see my earlier post). I found that my existing Equisorb isn't absorbent enough, so bought a couple of bags of Aquamax pellets (13.5kg bags for about £6 each). I've put them down as a base where he stales, watered as instructed and then put Equisorb over the top. So far I'm pleased with the results, so I'm thinking that once I've run out of Equisorb I might go on to wood pellets. I've read good reports on here about Liverpool Wood Pellets, but from the website it looks like they're about £10 for 10kg. I also spotted an advert in H&H for White Horse Bedding pellets which are between £3.25 and £4.50 for 10k depending on how many you order. Does anyone know if there is any difference between these three brands as there seems to be quite a difference in price. Does anyone have any negative experience of using wood pellets with rubber matting?
 
I use wood pellets with rubber matting (and shavings over top).

Surprised the LWP are that expensive - thought they were more like £3.50ish per 10kg? price increase?!
 
Liverpool Wood Pellets are the cheapest around, if you look at their website in more detail, they are £10 a bag if you want to buy one bag, but if you go up to just 250 kg (25 bags) they work out at around £5 a bag and if you buy 500 kg it's only £3 - all delivered to you.
If you buy a tonne or more, the savings are really worth it.
 
If you want to keep him on pellets, I would suggest you stick with the so called "premium" horsey products like Aquamax (make sure its the one with blue printing on the bag rather than the grey lettering which is as bad as cheap pellets) or natures best/nature bed. I've fiddled about and tried to make economies using cheap pellets in the past, and all they do is mess up the bed and I end up having to buy loads of the premium product to get my bed back on track. I also think Aquamax is much less dusty. I don't care what others say, bitter experience has shown me that not all wood pellets are the same...
 
Am surprised that people find them dusty?! But then I've not used any of the other brands, having used Stovies, which is in Scotland -- no dust at all that I've ever seen.
 
I agree with Penny- if you buy cheaper dusty bedding its going to cost you a lot more than buying a better quality product in the first place!
 
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