Horse bedding

[Anonymous]

I prefer leaves of trees. It is best way for bedding according to me.

[Ethan Tapper]

One way to get chips and not have to worry about paying for a chipper or using excess energy would be to find a road crew or someone else that is using a chipper and ask them what they’re doing with their chips. If you talk to these people they are often looking for a place to dump their chips. I worked for a guy who did large-scale composting with woodchips, and that’s what he would do, and get truckloads and truckloads for free.

Another thing that could be part of the mix is shredded paper. I have seen people using this more and more for bedding, and if you can find a source it could add up to some percentage of what you need.

[mitchmaine]

we use straw, like big john, and like it alot. soaks up good and rots down good and makes good compost. and can be used to mulch the crops.
i was thinking that because i like it so, and if we didn’t take grain off, i’d still sow an acre, and take it off before the grain hardened so it wouldn’t sprout. oats really like to grow up here, and can be a pain in the garden if you don’t want them.

[karl t pfister]

Hay ,The only thing I’ve seen thats innovative is shredding newspapers . The shredders aren’t cheap but the paper is . A dairy farmer here used to use it and i would trade hay for manure, it felt a little like littering at first ( the un -digested headlines ) but I got used to it and kind of thought it was an appropriate use for the newspaper mans thoughts .

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