I use pellets because they are much easier to pick up in than shavings BUT I soak them! It takes 5-6 bags of pellets to make a deep soft bedding of sawdust. I lay a bag down in every corner and the center of the stall. Then I cut an X from corner to corner of each bag. Pour in one to 1.5 gals of warm water and in about 30 minutes you have sawdust errupting out of the bags! The amount of water you use is small. It will dry very fast if you dump the bags and stir up the stall. Do it first thing in the morning. Another advantage is pine pellet is low esc so if your mare was to chow down on them she would soon spit them out because they taste nasty and yet they'd still be *safe* as far as sugar/starch. Pellets not wet down are not comfortable and they are noisy.
If Crisco is still starving, soak a flake of grass hay for her, put it in two haynets or a SmithBros small mesh hay net and make a tight ball out of by wrapping/weaving the net with the cord and doublesnap hook it to itself. That should keep her busy eating something nutritious rather than being bored through the night. I also use the Nose-it ball and fill it with ODTB cubes. Like you I"m happy when Nillabean is outside but there are some nights that wont work!
HTH
Mandy in VA
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From: icicle89
To: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 2:03 PM
Subject: [haflingerfriends] Bedding
Ok my Haffie friends. I have a dilema. I have always used wood chips and pelleted bedding for my Halfinger Crisco. I can not use straw because she eats it. Well now she is eating the wood chips. Thank goodness not the pellets as they would expand her her gut and probably would kill her. Anyhow, I was wondering if there was something else I could use to mix with the pellets as it really doesn't give a good bedding, but does obsorb the urine well. Using any of the quit chewing stuff for wood will not work. If I had my way her door would be open so she could come and go as she please. Unfortunately, my fathers horse in "thin skinned" and we have to keep the barn closed to keep the warmth for her.(we put a blanket on his horse as well, she just doesn't get a very thick winter coat) Anyhow suggestions or help you could give me would be great!!! Thanks again
Shannon Gilbert
Fryburg, PA
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