Wood/Straw Pellets?

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Hi all, I’ve only recently discovered this site and have already found a lot that will be handy. I do have one question though, I have seen bits and pieces mentioned about wood and straw pellets but not actual suppliers and individual comments about the products themselves.

The stables we keep our horse at aren’t perfect, they’re pretty much a few old barns and weren’t being used and were converted to stables about 20 years ago and the renter does any and all work/repairs to stable, But I can’t complain as its extremely cheap and she gets about 25 acres to roam in, also its a 30 sec drive from where we live. She’s been on straw since we bought her and we are currently looking at getting her stable mats but I’m unsure as to what to use with the mats. I have no experience with shavings or anything else but I was recently informed about wood pellets and was curious to know any experience anyone else has had with these? I’m not sure on the cost of shavings but from a quick Google I can get 100 x 10Kg bags of wood/straw pellets delivered at £255/£275 so £2.55/£2.75 a bag so it would work out a lot cheaper than the straw we're currently using, the supplier is http://www.liverpoolwoodpellets.co.uk/ , I was curious to see if anyone has used this company and is the product any good? If not could anyone recommend a different supplier in south wales or that can deliver?

thanks for reading
dave
 
daveem said:
Hi all, I’ve only recently discovered this site and have already found a lot that will be handy. I do have one question though, I have seen bits and pieces mentioned about wood and straw pellets but not actual suppliers and individual comments about the products themselves.

The stables we keep our horse at aren’t perfect, they’re pretty much a few old barns and weren’t being used and were converted to stables about 20 years ago and the renter does any and all work/repairs to stable, But I can’t complain as its extremely cheap and she gets about 25 acres to roam in, also its a 30 sec drive from where we live. She’s been on straw since we bought her and we are currently looking at getting her stable mats but I’m unsure as to what to use with the mats. I have no experience with shavings or anything else but I was recently informed about wood pellets and was curious to know any experience anyone else has had with these? I’m not sure on the cost of shavings but from a quick Google I can get 100 x 10Kg bags of wood/straw pellets delivered at £255/£275 so £2.55/£2.75 a bag so it would work out a lot cheaper than the straw we're currently using, the supplier is http://www.liverpoolwoodpellets.co.uk/ , I was curious to see if anyone has used this company and is the product any good? If not could anyone recommend a different supplier in south wales or that can deliver?

thanks for reading
dave
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Hi fave
You will find that most folks on here tend to use LWB, and rate them highly, I myself ordered a ton again for my boy this winter. I can really reccommend them, beware though they are generally supplied in 15kg bags not 10kg bags, so price per bag is slightly higher than you have worked out but obviously with 50% more in it. I've also found the company exceptionally helpful, give them a call and tell them it's your first purchase and they generally make it even sweeter for you by knocking off a couple of quid, there is a £5 (I think) surcharge on delivery to the south, not sure about Wales. Delivery wise they are fab, always on time in my experience. Bedding wise, I only use wood pellets, so can't comment on straw, I start with about 8 bags on mats and generally add between 1 and 2 bags a week, if its really damp weather, I put them in dry when I top up but if its fairly dry, I find popping them in a barrow with about 2/3 of a bucket of water is best, otherwise they don't seem to break down. If you do a search on here, you will find loads of threads on them, including ones with photos, of how the beds look, and progress. I find them cost effective, quick to muck out, easy to store, and a good comfy bed for my boy to lie on.

Hope that helps.
 
I've been using LWP for four years now.

Very happy with them :).

I have two wet horses and I couldn't cope on straw and can't afford other beddings.

I trialled straw pellets last winter but they didn't work for me, so I continue to have wood pellets.

Just had a tonne delivered, which will keep my two in plush beds for the rest of the winter :)
 
I have used both wood pellets and straw pellets and on the whole I prefer straw pellets as you don't have to wet them before use. I get mine from www.strawpelletsltd.co.uk at £215 per tonne. I understand Liverpool Wood Pellets also do straw pellets at £275 for 1005kg.

I wouldn't go back to anything else now, they are economical, extremely absorbant and very easy to muck out.
 
I use straw pellets but under shavings. I found that on their own they are very dusty and coat everything in a yellow dust, I couldn't stand it. But they are amazing under shavings, and I love that they do not need to be dampened like wood pellets. I use half a bag of pellets and half a bag of shavings per week per horse and they're currently in for 20 hours per day!
 
I have used both straw pellets and wood pellets and am now using just wood pellets on rubber mats. I did a straw pellet trial with my two wettest horses and the worked well enough that I swapped all the horses on to them only to discover that the two horses I originally trialled them with were the only two that didn't spend the night eating them. As you put them into the stable dry I was worried about colic. Even when I sprayed them with stabe disinfectant they still treated it as an all you can eat buffet.
 
thanks all, they sound really good so i think ill definately be ordering some, hopefully it will work out better for her aswel as she is a very messy horse
 
I use wood pellets, I get them locally so not sure where he gets them, he buys the big builders bag then bags them himself and sells them on. £3.50 if you buy ton, £4.00 for half ton, in 15kg bags
 
Really don't like wood pellets used them for a old loan pony i had. Reminded me so much of sand if you soaked them to sand they seemed to do nothing to the bed yet leaving pellets in meant shaking them out of a shavings fork to get the poo impossible had to pick out the pellets by hand. Not a a pretty colour to start off so started to look pretty dark after afew days and becomes damp. Needs alot of bedding to keep looking decent bag every other day for dirty and clean horses even at £3 a bag it still added up to start of you need alot also 15bags to 20bags in some cases . If your used to big fluffy beds like shavings or straw wood pellet beds are definitely going to be a shock . aquamax was the worse and worked out more costly white horse bedding was more affordable but i wouldn't touch it a bargepole :)
 
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