DryNest Horse Bedding

DryNest Horse Bedding

About DryNest Bedding

Value: With a strong belief in quality, it is the highest quality bedding material available today. While many shavings companies choose their raw material based on volumes available, geographic locations, and price. DryNest focuses on shavings that perform best and are most cost effective for the equine market. When

convenience and labor efficiency numbers are included, DryNest is the

best value, hands down!

Breakdown: DryNest's shavings are resilient and remarkably resistant to breakdown. Bedding that breaks down quickly will become dusty and lose all loft and volume. DryNest shavings make a healthful and comfortable bed, as well as provide an ideal medium for extracting manure and urine soaked spots. Due to their resiliency, they typically last twice as long in a stall as most other bedding products and provide a longer lasting cushion for the animal. The shavings are sized so that they sift easily through a manure rake allowing only manure to be removed and not clean shavings. Wet spots can easily be removed (the wet shavings clump like kitty litter), and are so absorbent that there will never be any puddling under the bedding. DryNest shavings absorb more liquid as they are less than 8% moisture and can hold more than four times their weight

in liquid. What is the moisture of your current bedding??

Compression: A typical DryNest customer uses 1 1/2 to 2 bales per stall- most other bales are used at 4 to 6 bales per stall. The higher volume DryNest bale is priced more competitively when compared to smaller bales (less $ per cubic foot). One customer remarked that "DryNest bales are like popcorn"- coming back to the stall after bedding it the night before, the shavings had relaxed and expanded even more overnight. DryNest's shavings expand as they relax after being compressed in the bale. Coarser material which typically carries more moisture and fines does not have this expansive quality so more bales are needed per stall. Coarser flake shavings are also ineffective for absorbing urine.

Compare: When comparing bedding products, weight and volume are inversely proportional. There are 3.5 cubic foot compressed bales which weigh 55 pounds and expand to only 7 cubic feet in fluffed volume, and there are 3.5 cubic foot bales weighing 30 pounds which expand to 10 or more cubic feet in volume. Expanded volume is the crucial variable because it determines how many bales are needed to bed a stall. The volume-weight disparity is a function of the percentage of fines, the loft and refinement of the flake, and the moisture content. We feel that the ideal bedding has great loft, enough fines for optimum absorption without dust, and less than 8% moisture.

Testimonies

I purchased 10 bags of DryNest bedding from Homestead Sport Horses last week.

Since I still had a few bags left of my Southern States bedding, I conducted my own "in

house" clinical study. I left one stall with the old bedding, and two stalls with the

DryNest bedding... The stalls with the DryNest bedding were "cleaner looking" the next

morning, because the DryNest bedding is much more absorbent, and the urine didn't spread

1/2 as much as it did in the stall with the old bedding. Also, I found that the manure

was MUCH easier to pick up, leaving the DryNest bedding behind still looking like I just

put it down. Overall, the stall looked much fresher after cleaning than the old bedding stall

did. It didn't have as much odor either, as the DryNest bedding is so much more

absorbent, rather than the old bedding which mostly just covers the urine which sits on the

rubber mat in almost a puddle in comparison. I'm sold!!!!

I am a new and HAPPY customer!!!! :) BTW, I was NOT asked to write about the

product; just wanted to share my positive experience with it, as it was a worthwhile

change, for me

and my horses.

Sarah V.

www.vogeleylusitanos.com

I did my stalls today and you are right, that stuff does POOF!! I think we are going to be extremely happy with it. Buying four bags instead of eight saves a lot of money too!

Amanda

A & L Equine Transportation Services