Wood pellets & dust?

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Hi all,

I had the vet visit this week and had to push the wood pellet bed back to work in a clear area. I was really shocked at how much dust was created and I have large airy stables. Has anyone else found this? Does it mean that I have not wet the bed enough initially? Otherwise really happy with the product as mucking out etc is so much easier.

Thanks in advance for replies :)
 
this is why i've given up with wood pellet bedding and gone back to cardboard (Ecobed) which is beautifully clean and dust-free. My horses used to cough a few times on starting trotting, every time, when I was using wood pellet bedding, and now they don't. I hate working in a dusty environment too, an old horsey friend has very debilitating Farmer's Lung (no idea of the real name for it) from years of mucking out dusty bedding. No thanks.
 
I have also just given up on wood pellet bedding - i loved them as they were so easy to do, made mucking out a doddle. However my horse started coughing, really snotty nose and my bed was so dusty. And my stable is really open and airy as it is a converted barn and all the front is open. However, I still have 38 bales of wood pellets but this week I decised to change back to shavings, but because I have so many bags of pellets left and I will chuck tI made a normal bed up tonight with shaving and put the wood pellets underneath in the area he wees only to soak it up.
 
The truth is that wood pellets are really a boiler fuel. They are made from fine chippings and dust which is pelletised so that a screw feed boiler can use them.The manufacturers have cottend on to the horse bedding market and say just add water. The joke is that the shavings manufacturers boast that their product is dried to make it more absorbant and dust extracted.The truth is that they have to dry it or it will mould when baled. They use the dust to help fuel the driers.Drying woodshavings is the major cost in production ,but it is done for the benefit of the producer not the consumer.Your horse would sleep just as well on freshly planed shavings produced by a shavings machine at a fraction of the price.
 
kerilli said:
this is why i've given up with wood pellet bedding and gone back to cardboard (Ecobed) which is beautifully clean and dust-free. My horses used to cough a few times on starting trotting, every time, when I was using wood pellet bedding, and now they don't. I hate working in a dusty environment too, an old horsey friend has very debilitating Farmer's Lung (no idea of the real name for it) from years of mucking out dusty bedding. No thanks.
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Aspergilosis,named from the Aspergillus fungi.Very nasty .(mike hangs up his annorak and waders off)
 
I have been using LWP for a year. I've never had a problem with dust. I am allergic to dust and asthma but I've never had a problem, and i never bother to wet the beds either.
Perhaps it's the damp sea air here in Blackpool?
 
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