wood pellets for bedding..any good?

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manda666

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I need to find some cheaper bedding to use and wondered what people thought of these wood pellets? I have some on rubber matting but not all. Most have straw but that has caused a big problem with the size of the muck heap.
Is it cheaper than wood chips? Any tips welcome ;-)
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Yes it's fab. Search on here and you will find the hundreds of posts there have been on the subject. Most people who try them, love them. In my experience they are more economic than shavings, especially for deep littering. I only stopped with them because I get free sawdust and shavings now.
 
We've just started on them, pleased so far with a very 'mashy' horse. Wprked out £2 a bag because i ordered 100 of them. cos the bags are small they take up very little storage room as well!
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i've just started 1 on them, trying Nature's Best, been on them since Saturday. so far so good, not dusty (they are wood granules rather than sawdust, i think), far less to remove (1/2 a barrowload rather than 2 barrowloads in the morning). only thing is that it takes me far longer to muck out (10-20 mins rather than 4 mins!) but it's worth it to save £23 a week imho!) no smell at all, very absorbent.
so, at this rate i will change the other 2 onto them when i run out of my other bedding. going to try the Liverpool pellets and see if they're as good, have heard they can be dusty though and i don't want that.
 
I've just started using them and my boys bed is the neatest its ever been, he tends to tread everything in over night, but it seems to be a heavier bedding so doesn't move around so much. If you like a big fluffy bed it not for you, but if you like easy to muck out and cheap then go for it!!!
 
I've got 3 on LWP.

Big, cleaner bed is a bit dusty but it's 'heavy' dust if that makes sense, and not 'up in the air' dust. Horse is not covered in dust like he was when I had the freee shavings from the wood yard so better than that.
Middle bed is good, easy to clean and quick.
3rd bed is a masher! Pee pooh and stomp, all at the front. Her bed went from being best (least dusty) to now being a little smelly, but bed is not bad enough to warrant throwing out... It does dry out a bit in the day when she's out.

To be honest she's a smelly cow and I'm not sure nayhting other than copius shavings (Which I can't afford ) would suit her.
Thrown an easibed on top tonight (At great expense) to see if that helps.

All in all I like the WP. Cheap and relatively easy. I may just top the beds occasionally with a 'real bedding'...
 
Had 6 horses on wood pellets last winter but stopped using them in the september as it just got to dusty dispite watering the bed and it never looked clean. I also used quite a lot because I thought it was cheap compared to shavings and would chuck extra bags in as a result but it soon added up. The final straw was when the price increased from £4 to £6! and when you have to order a minimum of 50 bags it doesn't help the cash flow.

I am now using Megazorb which is very good and not at all dusty and cost affective even at £6.20 a bag.
 
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