However if it is a missing nutrient, if you can replace/supply it, you might also find that the thin skinned horse grows a better coat (might be a little late now to grow a good winter coat, but it cannot hurt).
Otherwise i know there is a shredded cardboard bedding, but that is expensive. Used in some breeding barns and hospitals for horses that might be alergic to straw.
Also, as long as the straw is not moldy, it is ok for a horse to eat some of it. You can also pour some water on the pellets to make them expand into sawdust. It will fluff up and give a nice bed, plus absorb urine.
Otherwise perhsp try sawdust. You may also find sawdust much easier to pick clean.
http://www.guardianhorsebedding.com/pinepellets.htm
Alana
Baltimore, MD
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From: icicle89 icicle89@yahoo.com
Sent 12/20/2009 2:03:54 PM
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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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