Soft Wood pellets have been used for bedding in the last 5 years. The pellets offer the longest lasting bedding of any type for your horse stall. As moisture develops in the stall the pellets expend and soak it up, you then take out the wet matter and leave the intact pellets in there for future use. Wood pellet bedding also creates less waste and is the best choice for customers who are in an area where disposal is tough. Compare and price what we have today.

Guardian Horse bedding pellet is manufactured to higher standards than most on the market. These high quality wood pellets are made with premium softwood pine and bagged in 40lb bags. SHAVINGS-DIRECTâ„¢ is proud to bring this product to you from the many Guardian locations. Contact us for a delivered price today.

About Guardian Premium Pellet Bedding

Consistent Texture - Guardian manufacturing specifications provide a softened fiber that will be larger, more consistent and longer lasting than other brands. You can count on the same high quality pellet every time.

High Heat Treated to Remove Allergens - In the pelletizing stage, the wood is high heat treated removing tars, oils, hydrocarbons and other potential allergens.

The Power of the Pellet - The Guardian pellet is compressed under high pressure. This pellet will expand up to 5 times its size when exposed to moisture. Pound for pound, the Guardian Pine Pellet will be the most absorbent bedding you can find.

Highly Absorbent - The wet spot will actually clump for fast and easy removal. We recommend 4—5 inches of depth in the stall. This will provide the bedding needed to trap the urine quickly, avoid spreading of the wet spot, which will reduce ammonia levels and waste less bedding.

Reduce Consumption and Disposal - Guardian Pine Pellet bedding will greatly reduce your bedding consumption and disposal over traditional flake shavings and straw. Some farms have recorded 70% consumption and disposal reductions with our bedding. While the pellets may be slightly more expensive per bag, then traditional shavings (not in all areas), you should cut your consumption by 30—50%. If you do the math, ( or we’ll do it for you) we expect that you should save no less than 25% up to 50% on your bedding costs. If you pay to have your manure hauled away, or pay someone to spread it, you will save by reducing your disposal by 30, 40 up to 50% as well!

Save Time Cleaning Stalls - Guardian Horse Bedding Pine Pellet Shavings as well as Swift Pick Shavings will pick so fast and easy you will clean stalls in a fraction of the time.

SHAVINGS-DIRECTâ„¢ has premium soft wood bedding pellets available in bulk. Soft wood pellet bedding is a great way to bed your animals down and save money. Our bulk option is to have the pellet bedding delivered in 2000 super sacks, this can be a further huge savings to you over bags as you have no empty bags to throughout and there is a cost savings of about $40 per ton. How do you handle super sacks? Same way you handle a pallet of feed. You will need a pallet jack to puller to get the pallets to the back of the trailer to unload. You will then need forks to either pick up the pallet or grab the super sack from the hooks. You then simply take the pellets out with a pail scoop or elevate the super sack with your forks and take the pellets out with the bottom hatch directly in to your wheel barrow. Done properly this is a huge labor and money saver.

The advantages of using pellet bedding are

• Long life of your bedding material if used properly
• A tremendous reduction in waste disposal volume due to the sifting and cleaning qualities of pellet bedding.
• A clean soft and very low dust material.
• Fresh smelling stall.

Pellet bedding works very well for customers located in congested areas where transportation and disposal of more bulky bedding types are costly.

NATURES BEST White softwood shavings and sawdust are reduced to a small granular size in the mill and then subjected to intense heat to remove the majority of the moisture and impurities. It then passes through a pelletizing machine under extreme pressure and heat, further reducing the moisture content and emerges in the pellet state as we know it. The pellet is bonded by the natural lignum found in the wood fiber and there are no other additives in this process. The newly formed pellet then passes through several dust extractors and onto the packaging line where it is bagged into our 30 lb/ 13.6kg bag.

How to use,

The initial application of pellet bedding will require the stripping of the cage or stall of the old bedding. Introduce pellet bedding relevant to the animal’s size, removing excretions once per day. It will be necessary to add pellet bedding once per week to supplement removed products.

large animals, for example in a 12′ X 12′ stall, initially should be first cleaned to the existing floor. Apply 7 bags of pellet bedding into this area, which should provide an overall depth of 2″ plus. Sprinkle with a hose using a wide broadcasting spray, approximately four gallons of water. Within the hour one will notice a substantial, white fluffy bedding appearing as the pellets absorb the moisture and their volume increase three times. Daily stall maintenance will be substantially reduced as there is only to remove the manure with a fine fork and rotate the wet areas, incorporating them into the dry base. Areas of saturation of urine should be removed at the same time as the manure to insure the animals comfort. A bag added per week in this stall is the norm, however this will depend on the amount of excretion activity of the animal.

Benefits

Wood pellet bedding is a healthy and long-lasting alternative to shavings and straw. Pellet bedding usage provides an overall yearly cost reduction based on a 65 bag usage per horse. The labor fact is reduced by 50% due to the efficiency of the pellet bedding in mucking the stalls. There is a 40% reduction in stall waste for disposal and in composting, the breakdown of product is faster and the product is more valuable as a gardening supplement. The ammonia smells from the animals urine is quickly absorbed, insuring a fresher smell in the barn area.

Storage

The pellet bedding is palletized on a 48″ X 40″ pallet, then covered with a white plastic bag and finally shrink wrapped to make it as weather proof as possible for outdoor storage. Comparing pellet bedding to bagged wood shavings; pellet bedding requires significantly less space to store the equivalent volume of bagged shavings. There is also the weight factor of the pellet bedding and it’s ease of handling vs the bagged shavings which are awkward and heavier to manage

1. Bale price vs. ton price

When purchasing a load of hay or straw whatever the type or quality the amount of actual product that you get and pay for should be measured in pounds not bales. For example a 33 lb string bale common in many areas and what is available at most of your local farms sold to you at $3.50 per bale is equal to $212.12 dollars per ton.

A load of Finger lakes grown hay in 65 lb bales delivered to you at $212.12 dollars per ton will cost you $6.89 per bale. This may sound expensive by the bale if you don’t do the math but it is actually cheaper by the pound when you consider the 2 to 1 ratio, and you are getting a better quality hay for your money. These are only numbers that we are using as examples and may not be the current price, the fact is whether the price is 200 or 300 it should be taken in to consideration.

2. Quality vs. price
When purchasing hay quality should be your main concern and for most people it is. However the difference between a nice green sweet smelling grass mix at $4.50 per bale and a quality timothy / alfalfa mix at $9.50 per bale are miles apart. The first hay you may feed 4 or 5 flakes per day with grain and see a lot in the manure pile the second higher quality hay may only require you to feed 2 or 3 flakes per day and much less grain you also may notice less or no hay being wasted. It all comes down to saving money and feeding your animals the best quality

3. Load size vs. delivered price
When arranging delivery of your hay the most costly part of the process is ransportation typically you will be given a delivered price so the cost of transportation will be included in the price per bale or ton. However the cost of trucking from the hay farm to your farm the same whether you order 200 bales or 700 bales 13 ton or 26 ton the difference is that if the cost of trucking is $1000.00 and you order 10 tons $100.00 per ton of your delivered price will be trucking. If you order 20 tons only $50.00 dollars per ton will be trucking cost, the bottom line is that although you will invest considerably more money on the 20 ton load you will get more hay delivered for the same transportation cost. We are not suggesting that you get involved in the delivery process of your order, but only pointing out that if you only look at the gross cost of the load and do not take in to consideration all the costs or facts that make up your delivered price you may not get as good a deal.