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easibed offers many benefits
easibed is now established as a leading brand of horse bedding and when used correctly, offers several major benefits both to users and to their horses.
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easibed is dust free! A healthy respiratory system is important for all horses and ponies, but especially for those actively competing or recovering after illness or injury. After all, what's the point of taking care about the quality of hay and feed if the bedding your horse is stabled on is in any way dusty - with associated moulds and fungal spores? Dust free for grooms is a pretty good idea for human health too!
Using easibed will help to significantly reduce overall dust levels in the stable environment and consequently, play major role in helping to improve equine performance. The stables will be cleaner too!
easibed makes a warm, comfortable bed that is much less likely to 'move' when horses and ponies lie down and get up. It's free-draining structure means that the surface of the bed stays drier - urine will drain through and away (assuming a well-designed, sloping stable floor) and droppings are easily lifted off the top.
Less easibed will be wasted as it does not cling to droppings, so the muck heap will be smaller. easibed won't blow about either, so not only will you spend less time mucking out, the yard will be tidier too!
easibed also offers the advantage in that very much less of it clings to manes, tails and rugs, so saving yet more time as both horses and their rugs will be cleaner. If time is money, then the benefits here are obvious!
easibed is a premium product manufactured to very high quality standards from recycled, whitewood and is rigorously tested for cleanliness and consistency. It is not a by-product of any other manufacturing process, so is reliably available when ordered.
Short of Space? - Packaging has been designed to allow easibed to be safely stored outside without spoiling and there is now a wide network of UK stockists from whom supplies can be obtained all year round.
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Managing easibed Stables...
easibed offers several major advantages over other bedding systems and is reliably available in cost effective 25kg bales from a network of stockists across the UK.
*Proven extremely beneficial for COPD sufferers - not to mention their grooms!
*Provides support for the feet of laminitis sufferers · Easy to handle and can be stored outside
*Very quick and easy to muck out
*Free draining, yet absorbent, so the surface of the bed stays drier
*Less is wasted, so a smaller muck-heap - and cleaner yard - results ·
*Does not blow about and much less clings to manes, tails and rugs
*It really is dust free!
To maximise the potential easibed benefits……….
1. Ideally remove all old bedding, all dust, cobwebs and, depending on your preference, any rubber matting from the stable(s).
Mixing easibed with certain other bedding products (although not straw) is possible whilst changing over, but the full benefits of easibed cannot be expected until all the old bedding has been used up and removed from the easibed. If you do decide to add easibed to an existing bed, start by adding it to the outside - against the walls - moving existing bedding towards the centre as more easibed is added. Keep adding easibed to the outside of the bed until all existing bedding has been removed from the centre during normal mucking out.
Leaving in rubber mats is personal choice and should not cause any problems. However, the best drainage through an easibed and hence the driest bed, will only be achieved if the rubber mats are kept clean, probably necessitating their periodic removal.
2. Assuming a clean stable - ideally with a slight slope and drainage channel to the outside, although this is not essential - add easibed to a depth of at least 6 inches. Small 'banks' around the stable walls will aid efficient mucking out. For a 12ft x 12ft stable, plan on initially using between 6 and 10 bales, depending on the depth you want the easibed to be and whether you want to have banks. Set the bed fair with a good quality shavings fork, so that it is level and firm.
If you want to use easibed on a deep litter regime, a deeper bed will work better, as the wet will drain down to the bottom layers where, if drainage is less than ideal, it will soak in ,but still leaving the top drier. Good drainage out of the stable will allow much of the wet to soak away altogether. Insufficient depth and less than ideal drainage could result in wet patches becoming stirred up into the top layer of the easibed as the horse moves around.
3. Your horse can now 'move in'.
Daily Care of an easibed...
Caring for an easibed is very simple. Assuming sufficient depth and adequate drainage from the stable, the surface of an easibed remains firm and dry, so droppings can be easily lifted off, either with gloves or a good quality shavings fork. If any droppings do become broken up or mixed into the top layer of the bed, simply use the shavings fork to toss the soiled bedding up the 'banks' around the edges of the stable. The easibed will stay up the 'bank' and the droppings will separate and roll down to the base of the 'bank', from where they can be removed. This method of management really does minimise wastage of easibed and once the 'groom' is proficient, is very quick and effective!
Removing wet patches can be done either daily or weekly. When a new easibed is put down, wet patches can be hard to find for a while! To remove a wet patch, move the drier top layers of the easibed aside and using a small shovel, remove the really wet bedding from the base of the bed. New bedding should be added periodically to ensure that the depth of the easibed is maintained. Users typically report around one bale a week for top up, but this obviously varies with how long the horse is stabled each day - and on individual 'habits' in the stable!
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The easibed Muck Heap...
Is simpler than any other - mainly because it will be much smaller and doesn't blow around! easibed will rot down in a similar time scale to other wood-based bedding products such as shavings. Users report that it is not attractive to vermin and that farmers are more willing to spread easibed muck heaps than shavings as easibed does not clump together and hence does not encourage slugs.
For more information and stockists, please contact Karen McAndrew or Cherie Hadfield.
Telephone 0161 370 2360
www.easibed4animals.com
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