How much Equine Fresh to use (pics)

[frankykeno]

Jo,

There are a handful of companies that make a compressed pine product. Equine Fresh, Woody Pet, etc. Just check with the farm/feed stores for compressed pine horse bedding.

Jamie

Thanks Jamie. I know I can't find Woody Pet anywhere in Toledo after a fruitless search for it but I'll try to see if anyone sells this Equine Fresh or a product like it.

Joanna, for any mothers just about to give birth and up to two weeks old, I do just a little bit of Equine Fresh and then cover it all up with wood shavings. When I didn't do that, I lost two litters from the dust of the equine fresh. Deb had warned me she had the same problem, but I have to see it for myself to believe it.

After seeing that the babies were breathing in the dust and clogging up their noses, I switched to this method and haven't lost any babies since.

Yup... all of them use it. They don't keep it near as pretty , always moving it around to where ever they want the aspen, but generally they always use it. Plus, it doesn't get the dust into the babies nostrils like the pellets are prone to doing.

It's not as much as it looks, it's two handfuls of aspen from my tiny hands. They get one deli cup full of equine fresh, then the aspen. At the second changing they go to all pine pellets. Otherwise it's stinky.

Of course, there is always the exception to the rule!

Thanks for the advice ladies. I'll have to give this bedding method a try soon.