Horse Stall Information

New User Instructions:

1. Strip stall completely leaving no trace of old bedding. Do not use lime before installing Woody Pet. Lime works against the odor removal ability of this product.

2. 10 x 12 stall: Start with 3-4 bags on rubber mats, 5-6 bags without rubber mats.
12 x 12 stall: Start with 4-5 bags on rubber mats, 6-7 bags without rubber mats.

3. Sprinkling water over the bedding in the beginning will make it fluff up immediately and will eliminate dust, but is not necessary as this will happen as it absorbs urine.

4. Do not remove the wet spots until the granulated new product expands into fluffy sawdust throughout the entire stall. Clean the stalls by removing the manure and mix the wet areas with the dry, making sure that you scrape to the floor in wet areas and bring in the drier bedding from the outer edges of the stall mixing it well with the wetter bedding. The object is to have the drier bedding draw the excess moisture from the wetter bedding until the entire stall reaches the desired moisture content. On average this should take from one to two weeks. The desired moisture content is when the bedding feels quite damp to the touch but does not transfer into the knee of your jeans when kneeling in it.

5. At this time start removing the wet spots and replace with about 1/3 as much new bedding, or, remove the wet spots daily and add a bag of fresh bedding each week, or, open up the wet spots and add fresh bedding. Whichever way you do this you must mix the entire stall completely to allow the new bedding to draw the excess moisture from the wetter bedding.

6. Please note: If the odors do not disappear at this point, check the stall for dark or red spots. These spots are areas that have been over-saturated with urine for too long a time and must be removed immediately. These spots are usually the results from improper mixing and, or not having enough bedding in the stall.

7. In summer heat, or in hot dry climates, because of excessive evaporation, or if the animal is not putting enough urine into the bedding to keep it damp, sprinkle water on the bedding as needed mixing thoroughly to keep it damp. This will eliminate dust and odors.

Horses Eating Woody Pet Bedding?
Woody Pet Bedding consists of 100% natural softwood fibre (Lodge pole Pine & Spruce) with absolutely no additives, and is sterile. Tthe necessary stepsare taken to ensure that Woody Pet Bedding is effective & safe for all animals and does not contain any harmful chemicals, toxins or additives. All wood species involved are non-toxic and safe for all animals.

Horses will not eat bedding material for the sake of eating it. In reality, horses, when at first placed in a stall with new bedding material, are at first curious. Horses also relate to their innate investigating curiosity in nosing the ground of their stall area where normally they eat their hay and grain. Very typically, if horses eat out of a grain bucket, or where their hay and grain are dropped onto the floor, the horses will nose the ground area after their hay and grain has been consumed. It is after the fact that horses will continue to nose the ground area, and what appears to the human, is that, while the horse is nosing / sifting out the bedding material - for the remains of any hay seed, or leftover grain, they are not actually eating bedding material. Woody Pet Bedding has a flat tasteless appeal, and the horse very quickly realises that the Bedding Material is not food, and whereas, has no
desire to eat such a tasteless material, and very typically, are very adapt at spitting out any unwanted material.

When Woody Pet Bedding is moistened, it does have the ability to swell to at least 4 times volume, it is also fair to say that the amount of Woody Pet Bedding that a horse could eat, is so very small, as to not cause any discomfort. It is also true that in 12 years of supplying Woody Pet Bedding into The Pet Animal Market place, as well as in The Equine Market, Woody Pet Bedding has had no negative impact or reports that small animals or horses have become ill when consuming any amount of Woody Pet Bedding.