How to use your Elite Equine Bedding
Setting up your Stable
For the initial set-up of your stable with Elite Equine Bedding, we recommend using 8-10 bags to comfortably fill your stable, depending on its size.
Start by laying all of the bags out on the stable floor, and cut them open.
Activating your Pellets
To activate (when the pellets swell and fluff up) your bedding, simply add water. Each bag will take approximately 8 litres of water to activate it.
It takes about 10 minutes for the pellets to activate, but if you are in a hurry, use warm water to speed up this time. Please note that it is normal for not all of the pellets to fully break down at this stage.
Fluffing up the Bedding
Once the pellets have activated, tip them out of the bag and fluff them up with a stable fork or rake. Lightly water down the bedding with a hose or bucket to ensure any pellets that have not yet fully activated can absorb more water, and then fluff up with your fork again to create a soft and fluffy bedding.
Stable Maintenance
Elite Equine Bedding is super absorbent which means that it is easy to clean out your stable daily by removing the completely solid or saturated bits of bedding. Lightly damp patches can be fluffed with a fork. Depending on how messy your horse is, we recommend adding 1-2 new bags of Elite Equine Bedding to your stable per week.