Bedding: Woody Pet

[kwene_2009]

I saw on the bedding page that there was not information on the Woody Pet brand of bedding. It said to share on the forum, which I am doing. Hope this helps...

Our horse stalls have a clay bottem and the urine makes for a nice mess when the shavings get wet. So, we started using this brand of bedding (because it is sold at Tractor Supply) to help absorb the urine. It works great for that purpose, but is still messy. The pellets turn into a "mushy" type of urine soaked wood. We found that the urine is absorbed better, but we still have to keep shavings on top of the Woody Pet. Plus, this might have to be done for guinea pigs anyways, as the Woody Pet is sort of hard and looks just like guinea pig pelleted feed.

Well, I hope this helps someone. I have gotten a lot of help on this forum and thought that I should try to help someone, as well!

[aqh88]

Woody pet is one of the more expensive brands of pelleted bedding. We quit using it for our horses and went to a spruce pellet I think by pestol. Comes in a clear bag with green print. You might want to see what your feed store can come up with cause this stuff costs at least 1/2 what woody pet does and it's identical in function. All the wood pellets are pretty much the same irregardless of brand. It's when you get into things like wheat pellets that there is some variation.

As guinea pig bedding wood pellets work fine as an underlayer or in a litterbox. They absorb great but they aren't so comfortable to walk and lay on. The pigs get tired of it after awhile. Plus as it breaks down wood pellets make the finest sawdust I've ever seen which is a respiratory risk(not a problem with wheat pellets). When placed under a layer of shavings the cage is still soft enough to run around and lay in and the sawdust sifts to the bottom so they aren't likely to get into it. I had no issue with it but found it unnecessary to use as a bottom layer now that I have fewer pigs. You really shouldn't use it as an excuse to clean the cage less despite the fact the cage will remain completely dry for 3weeks. The droppings still add up. That made it useful when there were 6 pigs in a cage that might all pee in one spot while the rest of the cage stayed pretty clean but now that I have only 3 it's needless extra work. Pellets are heavy.