Poll: What Kind of Bedding Do You Use?
Tuesday March 20, 2007
Cleaning stalls has become slightly more difficult since changing from shavings to chopped straw. Although I like the look of a staw bedded stall, I find shavings easier to clean. The chopped straw is easier than regular straw though.
There are quite a few different choices for horse's bedding. Which one are you using? If you are using something not on the list, I'd like to learn about it. Click on the comments link below to tell me about it.
Poll:What Type of Bedding Do You Use?
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we use bagged shavings,but it becoming cost prohibitive, we got a bargain in the fall and paid $4.00 a bale,it’s really becoming a major expense,any suggestions?
I have recently started using ground-up corn cobs and like this bedding very well. I pay $3 per bale so it isn’t necessarily cheap but they clean up very nice and seem to be “spongier” and therefore better for the horse’s hooves.
We started our horse farm 6 years ago with shavings because that’s what I was used to. After seeing the ads in the horse magazines, we decided to try Woody Pet wood pellets. We did a comparasion with 1 stall each and LOVED the wood pellets. It’s much easier to clean, way less smell and lasts a LOT longer than traditional shavings. We haven’t gone back since.
We’ve recently started using the shredded corn cob. It’s not much cheaper than the shavings but it is easier to clean. I don’t through hardly any out with the manure. The one draw back is, we have one that eats it. It states on the bag that it is not good for them to eat a lot of it. So I still use shavings with that one horse. But overall I use less of the corn cobs than the shavings.
We Have more than 40 horses, using wood shaving is very costy for us , then we shefted to SAND which is very difficult to clean.
I have large stalls to accomodate my draft and draft crosses. I found that a mixture of sawdust and peat moss works best. The peat moss eliminates odors and absorbs urine, it clumps when wet which makes it easy to clean out wet spots, the sawdust keeps the dust way down and keeps the bedding fluffy.
I use straw for my draft cross and woodshavings for my gaited walker.