Woodypet bedding. Anyone use for horses?

[horsegirl]

Any good, what about with rubber mats? Also how much is it?

 

[Booboos]

I use it with rubber matting and love it. You need to be a bit patient with it, as it will take you a couple of weeks to figure out how it works. What it does is this: it comes in pellets and you have to wet it with water to get it going for the very first time, then as the horse urinates the pellets turn into sand as they absorb the urine, too much urine and the sand turns into lumpy bits. To make it work you need to take out the lumpy bits of sand, but leave the moist sand in so that in interacts with the new pellets to make more bedding. If your bedding keeps getting lower even though you are putting new in, then you are taking too much wet out (the new pellets can't work on their own without moisture), if you leave enough wet in the bedding will be huge in no time but without smelling as the new pellets absorb the wet. I use one bag per week per stable, I add half a bag every 3/4 days. I also use a 'litter' method, where rubber mats are down but there is a relatively small amount of bedding where the horse urinates (all of mine have no problem finding the bedding to urinate on, including the Fallabela who has a whole 'grown up' stable but still goes over his bedding to pee). You don't have to do this and if you like huge beds with banks it won't appeal to you, but it does take 5 minutes to do each stable (I have 4 to do and work full time) and there is no smell at all.
I currently use Aquamax which is the same thing as Woodypet, as Woodypet have horrible supply problems and left me five weeks with no bedding and no compensation! Aquamax costs about £5.20 (I think, but I always get a couple of pallets instead of individual bags) which is what I would expect to pay for a bag of shavings.

 

[ColouredFan]

I use woody pet for one of our horses, i like it for her but its not for every horse, she is fairly clean and doesnt pee too much, but as she has respiritory problems it works perfectly. Very quick and easy to muck out and very little to throw away so keeps muck heap down, I use one bag a week and about 10 to start the bed. You have to buy it a pallet at a time (40 bags) they even put my bed down and watered it for me whrn they delivered to show me how it works! this will be the second winter PK has been on it. It doesn look pretty as you have to mix the wet into the bed, but i put up with this as it has other benifits.

 

[Thistle]

its great,

 

[jen1]

I used to use Aquamax and while my horse was fairly clean it was great, really quick to muck out but last summer he just became a complete messy and wet Bu**er, so much so that I was using 2 bags a week and more.
I changed onto shavings to save on costs and although it takes longer to muck out he seems cleaner on them. Also with the Aquamax you don't have a very big bed and he always had a constant yellow stain on his white back legs where he laid down at night.