Hemcore bedding
julie wilson
dependingon how clean your horse is depends on the bedding they get. Out of
a total of 30 horses only 5 have remained on it, this includes Winston. The
rest are a combination of straw or shavings.
THe Hemcore smells like lemon and thre is no urine odours at all. The
droppings a re skipped out which takes approximately 3 to 4 minutes easy.
The urine sinks to the bottom and the hemcore does go a dark colour but
keeps dry (strange)!.
When you walk onit and it starts to not dry out and sort of squalches you
remove that patch and repalce with clean Hemcore. Ideally the horse wees
and poos in the same place (which these four do) so you just take out the
patches of damp. Then every 2 to 3 weeks the whole lot comes up and fresh
is laid.
The only snag is finding a clean horse! Luckily I have one :-D
Esther Young
julie wilson <jay...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> We have just been trying out alternative bedding for the yard and
> dependingon how clean your horse is depends on the bedding they get. Out
of
> a total of 30 horses only 5 have remained on it, this includes Winston.
The
> rest are a combination of straw or shavings.
Kerry has been using this with her ned for the last few months - and she has
been very impressed. When she moved him (she did get him moved in the end),
we were able to salvage 90% of the bed, which had been down for about 3
months on deep litter. The damp patch was tiny. And her ned is normally
extremely gross - if you had him on straw deep litter for 3 months, the
whole floor would be wet.
On the other hand, Lou tried it once for Connor and he ate it, so she
figured it wasn't a very good idea ;-)
Esther
Petra
>On the other hand, Lou tried it once for Connor and he ate it, so she
>figured it wasn't a very good idea ;-)
>
That's exactly the reason why I absolutely won't use any hemp product. Very few
horses eat it but if they do it could be extremely dangerous as the hemp has
these little hooks and will quickly get stuck in the intestine, building up to
a full blockage over time and leading to surgical colic eventually.
There was a report in a German magazine a couple of years ago showing bits of
gut of horses that died from it and it really wasn't pretty .
Of course throsands of horses are absolutely great on hemp or aubiose etc etc -
but I won't personally take the risk.
I'd say if you have a horse that does NOT eat it's bed it's great stuff - any
nibblers are better off on something else.
Petra
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nightmare to keep him dry. He also had a tendancy to eat everything
in sight so I mixed Hemcore with shavings which worked a treat. He
wasn't tempted to eat the bed which wasn't nearly as disgusting as it
had been with shavings alone.
Chris
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 05:38:33 -0000, "Esther Young"
<es...@mrstiggywinkle.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>julie wilson <jay...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
>news:98lu9r$706$1...@neptunium.btinternet.com...
>> We have just been trying out alternative bedding for the yard and
>> dependingon how clean your horse is depends on the bedding they get.