Hemp Bedding for Horses

Why Top Equestrians Choose Aubiose Hemp Horse Bedding

The Hemp Horse Bedding Advantage

How to Use Hemp Horse Bedding

Follow these guidelines to get the most of the product. In most cases it should not cost more than $200/horse/month to use 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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

OUR HEMP BEDDING IS SHOW SAFE

0% CBD or THC – SAFE FOR COMPETING HORSES  WILL NOT DRUG TEST.

We want you to rest as easily as your horse does on our bedding knowing that we are certified and tested to have no CBD or THC in our bedding. None.

The results are in, and we are pleased to share that Aubiose Hemp Bedding is show safe. In 2022, we conducted a full panel testing with Ionization Labs in Austin, Texas and are certified lab analysis for CBD and THC free. In 2024, one of our customer’s horses was drug tested at a USEF rated show at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, Florida and the results aligned with all Clean Sport requirements. This year, 2025, we partnered with respected Wellington large animal veterinarian, Leah Pattna DVM of Paddock Equine Veterinary Services in Wellington, Florida. Leah is also a frequent competitor at WEF. Two of Dr. Pattna’s own horses were bedded with Aubiose Hemp Bedding for a month and then Leah conducted a full drug test panel in keeping with USEF testing standards at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in New York. Again, the toxicology results came back clean. So when you think Clean Stalls, think Aubiose from HempBedding Org and when you think Clean Sport – think Aubiose from HempBedding Org.

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Hemp Horse Bedding Reviews

“Aubiose is pretty economical. The biggest expense is stall set-up, but after that, stalls need on average about a half bag of bedding per week. Despite the up front cost, it doesn’t really cost more than shavings over a year, and it works much, much better. It also sifts so much more easily that you’ll save money because you’ll have so much less waste of good bedding.

I have found there are a few tricks to getting the most out of the bedding and making it the best thing you’ve ever used:

–Don’t take urine out daily. The bedding soaks up the urine best if you allow it to create a urine pack. You’ll also remove less bedding overall if you remove the urine less frequently because hemp initially becomes more absorbent when it gets wet, so less bedding does more work. We remove urine only once a week, and some horses could go longer. And it really doesn’t smell. When I tell people I take urine out once a week, they can’t believe it.

–Don’t strip your stalls. The bedding gets more absorbent as it gets trompled on, and it packs better, creating a more dense urine pack that’s less likely to get dragged around and mixed in the dry bedding. Plus, the expense of re-bedding a stripped stall will make it prohibitive. If a horse really destroys a stall, I just keep taking wet bedding out over the course of several weeks until I have enough left for just the urine pack, and then I add new bags on top of that.

–Bed stalls deep enough that that horses’ feet don’t get down to the urine. I’ve found that horses who trash their stalls need more bedding, or need it piled more deeply over their urine spot. It saves money in the long run to add more bedding if a horse is digging into his urine pack.

–Invest in a stall sifter. The sifter made it feasible for me to bed my stalls 6-8 inches deep. The time saved in cleaning and the additional bedding saved will pay for your sifter in a short time. I have six stalls, and I cut my stall cleaning time in half with at least 3 times as much bedding and paid for the sifter in 3 or 4 months. Imagine if you have 30 horses what that would do.

I recently had to clean shavings after not having done so for many years, and it brought home to me just how superior Aubiose hemp is to shavings, sawdust, or any other wood bedding product. I think you’ll feel the same if you give it a shot and follow the guidelines for getting the most out of the bedding. I’m also pretty sure if you give it a shot, you’ll be wishing you’d found it sooner.”

-Sue Krenselewski, 5 year Aubiose USA client