Stable Management
Setting up and maintaining an easibed and easibed plus stable could not be easier. Just follow these simple step-by-step guides:
How much bedding do we need to use?
Exactly how many bales of easibed or easibed plus you will need will depend on a number of factors including whether you bank your stable, whether you have rubber matting and how often you muck out. The figures below are an approximate guide.
Concrete stable floor - approx. size = 12 x 12 = 8 - 12 dependent on how it is used.
Used with rubber mats - approx. size = 12 x 12 = 6 - 8 bales dependent on how it is used.
Weekly maintenance - 1 - 2 bales with either system.
Setting up an easibed and easibed plus stable
Step 1: Remove all old bedding and give the stable a good clean.
(If you are planning to keep rubber matting beneath the easibed or easibed plus, this must be kept clean and periodically removed in order to ensure the driest bed possible.)
Step 2: Add easibed or easibed plus to a depth of at least six inches. Set the bed with a good quality shavings fork, so that it is level and firm.
Step 3: Move your horse in!
(NB: It is possible to mix easibed and easibed plus with some other bedding products (not straw) during the changeover, but the full benefits of easibed and easibed plus will not be experienced until all the old bedding has gone. If you want to mix easibed or easibed plus with your existing bedding, add it to the outside of the bed, moving the existing bedding into the centre as more easibed or easibed plus is added. Keep adding easibed or easibed plus to the outside of the bed until all existing bedding has been removed as part of the normal mucking out process.)
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Maintenance
Step 1: Sufficient depth to the bed and adequate drainage from the stable should mean the surface of an easibed or easibed plus remains firm and dry. Use a shavings fork or gloves to pick up droppings from the surface.
Step 2: If droppings have mixed with the top layer, use the shavings fork to toss the soiled bedding into the banks (see handy hints) around the edges of the stable. The easibed or easibed plus will remain on the bank, and the droppings will separate and roll down to the base where they can be easily removed with a fork or gloves.
Step 3: Remove wet patches by moving the drier top layer to one side, and – using a small shovel – remove the wet patch from the base of the bed. Replace the dry layer. Wet patches can be removed daily or weekly, depending upon the use of the stable and the horse’s habits! New bedding should be added periodically to ensure the depth of the easibed or easibed plus is maintained.
The easibed or easibed plus Muck Heap
- Compact and simple
- Doesn’t blow around
- Rots to similar timescales as other wood-based bedding
- Popular with farmers for spreading, as it doesn’t clump
- Does not attract vermin
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Handy hints!
- easibed or easibed plus will work best if the stable has a slight slope and drainage channel to the outside, but this is not essential for it to work
- Creating small “banks” of easibed or easibed plus around the stable walls will aid efficient mucking out and minimise wastage
- If drainage is poor, use a deeper bed. This will allow the wet to drain down to the bottom layers and soak in, leaving the surface dry.
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Disposal of easibed
easibed and easibed plus are environmentally-friendly products which will rot in a similar timescale to other wood-based bedding.
easibed / easibed plus:
- Is certified by the Organic Farmers & Growers Association, so can be used for spreading on organic farmland
- If used correctly and on its own, an easibed muck heap should not attract rodents
- When spread on farmland, there have been no reports of problems with slugs as can occur when spreading shavings
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Feedback
Shelly Jagger
I brought a young horse in May this year. We originally used shavings but once we put the bed down and put her in the stable she tried eating them by the mouthful!! So we had to take it all out. We put her on straw as that was the only alternative available at the time. I am alergic to straw so this proved hard. My mare ate it and my stable was always smelly, so we tried easibed and have never looked back. She is one of the most messy horses I know but by skipping out twice a day my bed always seems nice and smell free, so I'm happy and so is my horse!!
Toni Eyles
We have two ponies aged 33 and 36 who prefer to use one stable (they have two but want to share) as a shelter and urinal.
Straw and shavings just couldn't cope with the dirty old men but easibed seems to come up trumps allowing them to stand in from the flies and rain on a dry surface despite their best efforts! We have less of a muck heap to contend with too.
Victoria Willis
I own a VERY DIRTY 16'1 TB Gelding. I have previously had him on straw and shavings. Straw: whole lot used every day. Shavings: every morning a large trampled mess at the front of the box and an area in the middle full of wee, all had to come out and I used three bales per week.
A friend told me about easibed, and I thought why not! It took me 10 bales to set up and after that I now go through 1-2 bales per week, max. I am an official easibed convert and have recommended it to several people. I would never use anything else again.
Rowena Padel
I use easibed for my rabbits. Because it's dust free it makes the hutch a much more comfortable environment for them. They do love to dig in it and quite often they pull it out through their cat door into their run so that they can have an easibed outside too!
Susan Durman
I use easibed on the American Mighty Life stable mats click system. Great for a mare that digs up banks and eats straw. Every day I completely clear the floor of the stable into two piles, allow the mats to dry for 15 minutess & put the bed back down. It's like having a fresh bed every night.
This is the 1st time I have used mats. It has worked fantastically with easibed. No dust & no sneezing for me or my horse. I use one bale a week, my barrow is less than 1/2 full and the muck heap a 1/3 of that with straw. You make a great team that has kept a normally mucky grey mare on a sparklingly clean and dry bed all winter long.
Laura
I bought 12 bales of easibed (two years ago) to get me started and I've never looked back since. I've converted five others on the yard. It takes no more than five minutes in the morning before work to tip out the muck and twice a week I take all the wet out too. The bed looks fit for a king and it smells great. I'd recommend it to anyone who is thinking of making the change to shavings. easibed is a far superior product, doesn't cling to the horse or to your clothes and drains far better.
Elizabeth Jones
I use easibed for the bottom of my parrot cages and with much success. Our 2 Senegal parrot pairs have three eggs each pair. Thankyou easibed.
Claire Goodwin
I have used easibed for the last 3 years. It’s so easy to muck out and keep your stable looking clean and fresh. I use small banks around the edge which encourage my pony to lay down. It has also helped with cushioning on her legs as she has experienced tendon problems. Being an asthma sufferer it’s also great for me because I don’t have to ask anyone to shake out big bales of dusty straw etc. I’m very pleased with my easibed bedding - everyone comments on the bed and a few of them even comment that they would like to sleep in it!! What more can I say? BRILLIANT! :o)
Donna Brooks
I have been using easibed for over two years now. I think it is a wonderful material and Tess, the horse, helps by opening the bags with her teeth. Once I've tipped the bedding onto the rubber mats she has great fun spreading it around the stable. I do a full muck out twice a week. The waste taken out of the stable is used to improve the soil in the garden. easibed, as well as the horse manure, is a brilliant product to condition clay soils, as I have found out from my partner, a landscape gardener. Although it's taking a long time and a lot of manure to treat a 2 acre garden.
Michelle
I am using easibed in my hamster cages. I have found it easier to maintain than wood shavings as my hammys have to be changed every other day because of illnesses. Now I can leave longer between cleaning out. They love curling up in it too. They also like a nibble on the fresh pile I put in. It has been used in pet stores across the south and it lasts me months. Brilliant value even for horses too.
Jenna Price
I love easibed. I muck out two horses in five minutes! I converted to it after having a free sample. I use it on rubber mats with shallow banked sides and about four inches deep. I remove manure and wet patches on daily basis and sprinkle fresh on top. It’s great for keeping the stable fresh.
Leanne Morris
My muck heap gets scattered across our field. It’s lovely shavings and isn't too dusty for my old throughbread mare and my 2 year old throughbred cross.
Ann Naylor
Using easibed on deep litter for four horses means we have a fair bit to take out when we remove the wet once a week.
We put the wet easibed around the gateway to the field and it helps control the mud, making the gateway a lot better and recycling the used easibed!
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