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Old 12-11-2009, 05:45 PM
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Bedding..

Okay, my pony has been diagnosed with C.O.P.D. and the vet has told us not to put him on straw, or wood shavings, and just have him bedded on the rubber mats. But the problem is he won't wee if he has no bedding and surley it can't be nice needing a wee all night! So I was wondering wether we could bed him on shredded newspaper? Who does this? It's not dusty is it? Also, the ink on it isn't a problem, is it?
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Old 12-11-2009, 06:10 PM
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Re: Bedding..

Get some newspapers and rip them in long shreds downwards like thick spaghetti then use that Ask friends to keep their newspapers too and rip those lol.

I bought a shredder from Argo (£120.00) it shreds all mail and newspapers and cardboard packaging so that with ripped newspapers and also torn up amazon corrugated cardboard beds my horse with copd, no dust! The vaccuum packed newspaper bedding is actually so chopped up the tiny bits of paper affected her. so we make our own bedding s
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Thanks, Cassie. So you don't have a problem with the ink?
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Thanks, Cassie. So you don't have a problem with the ink?
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Old 12-11-2009, 06:34 PM
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Also, you don't think he may attempt to eat it, do you?
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Thanks, Chris.

Also, you don't think he may attempt to eat it, do you?
No i don't think they do. you can buy cardboard shredded not shaw how much it cost's though. Or what it's called
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Re: Bedding..

Think the cardboard stuff is Ecobed - yup -
EcoBed Animal Bedding - the only bedding your horse, game birds or pets will ever need.

ETA: There is also Finacard
http://www.finacard-uk.com/home.htm
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Think the cardboard stuff is Ecobed - yup -
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Thanks.
Just spent the last 2 hours shredding newspapers - by hand.
I've got 6 Black Bin Liners full of shredder newspaper. Ready for the weekend when we clean the stables of dust, rid it of dirt and go from using straw to newspaper.
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Re: Bedding..

Whoaaaa, you need rubber matting underneath just as the vet said. building a whoile bed from newspaper would be very difficult to get the padding of depth needed for them to lie down. The paper is only to give them somewhere they feel safe to go in with no splashes. Do you have rubber matting already? Your previous post seemed to suggest you did? If not look at cow cubicle matting its very heavy duty and half the price of horse mats usually 6x4 each so you may get away with just 2 or 3.

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