Review this real-life example:
BARN A
TRADITIONAL PINE BEDDING
(approx $7.50 per bale)
- Set up stripped stall – 8 bags = $60 per stall
- Strip stalls x1 per week $60 = $3120 annually
- Add 5 additional bags per week = $1950 annually
Annual Total per stall $5070
Annual x8 stalls = $40,560
BARN B
AUBIOSE HEMP BEDDING
($30-35.00 per bale for larger bales)
- Set up stall x12 bags = $396 per stall
- Strip stall x4 per year = $1426 annually
- Add 1 bag of Aubiose weekly = $1716
Annual Total per stall = $3142
Annual x8 stalls = $25,136
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How to Use Hemp Horse Bedding – It’s Different!
Follow these guidelines to get the most of the bedding. In most cases it should not cost more than $200/horse/month to use Aubiose hemp bedding. With proper practice, you should be able to get your cost below $100/horse/month.
“When you do shavings, you have shavings in- shavings out. Dumpster in, dumpster out, and whatever staff time and wheelbarrows back and forth. With hemp it is the manure, and then, on occasion, the urine.” – Dr. Mette Larsen, USDF Silver Medalist and FEI Champion, Aubiose Hemp Bedding Customer
Here is the technique for getting the most out of the bedding:
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1. Start with a clean stall.
2. For a 12 x 12′ stall, add 7-8 bales of Aubiose (each bag weighs 20kg / 44lb). For larger or smaller stalls, increase or decrease proportionally, you want a 6-8″ depth. *Starting the beds this deep will ensure you don’t use too much bedding in the long run.
Optional: You can wet the bedding to hold it in place, but use no more than 1 gallon per bale. The horse will likely activate and hold it in place themselves by urinating on it, but if they are a box walker it helps to wet the stall.
3. Poo pick the bed daily. Aim to remove the smallest amount of bedding possible; the pitchfork should be 99-100% manure with little to no bedding. Do not dig into the bed after droppings are removed.
4. The top of the bedding will remain dry and soft for the horse. Once a week, rake the dry bedding to the side, and inspect the wet, capped layer at the base. If the bedding is brown “stamp it back down”. Do not remove brown bedding. Only remove bedding that has turned red.
5. Replace whatever wet bedding you have removed with a corresponding amount of fresh Aubiose. Average usage is 1/2-1 bale per horse per week.
6. Avoid stripping the Stalls if you don’t have to. Many users will go longer than a year without stripping their stalls.
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