Posted: 2nd February 2022 | Back to news feed
Strawmax straw pellets are a great new economical, eco-friendly, healthy, dust extracted, and easy to use stable bedding created by Bedmax, the UK’s leading manufacturer of equine beddings.
Strawmax is aninnovative, cost-effective, new horse bedding option for owners at a time of steeply rising costs. Especially for owners who prefer straw, Strawmax really is just that – the natural qualities of a traditional bedding ‘re-engineered’ to maximise its benefits and eliminate its downsides. Strawmax is made from high quality wheat straw and is available in 15kg bags through your local equine retailer.
These straw pellets have been developed by the UK’s leading manufacturer of equine bedding to sit alongside their range of Bedmax and Littlemax pine shavings for horses. Available throughout the UK, they’re attracting very favourable reviews from the growing number of owners who are trying them.
“I would definitely encourage any horse owner who is conscious of time, cost and waste to give it a try. My horse and I give it a big thumbs up!” - Farmweek
Although shavings are very popular today, there are a lot of owners who still use traditional straw and a growing number who use wood pellets. So Strawmax has been developed to combine and maximise the benefits of both straw and pellets, and to help owners overcome the kind of variability in the quality, availability, and cost of straw.
High on Absorbency. Low on Cost.
Fully traceable, Strawmax is made from high-quality wheat straw. It’s chopped, dried at sterilising temperatures, dust extracted, and pelletised to create a completely consistent, bedding, available in convenient 15kg bags.
Key benefits for Horses
Strawmax straw pellets are designed first and foremost to help owners save on costs and to enable them to create an exceptionally healthy and hygienic stable environment for their horses:
• Soft and break down easily
• Fluff up to a deep supportive volume
• Virtually no airborne dust in the stable
• Exceptional moisture absorbency
• Highly effective odour suppression
Although they can be laid dry in the stable, pre-watering is very much recommended to ‘activate’ the pellets’ extraordinary capacity to absorb moisture and fluff up to at least three times the dry volume.
To make a full Strawmax bed, 20-24cms deep, in a standard 12 x 12 stable, 6-8 bags of Strawmax are required. A bucket of water per bag will swell them to 3 x volume but still leave them super absorbent to soak up urine. Maintaining an optimum bed should only require about 1 bag per week.
The bed can then easily and immediately absorb urine in very restricted patches that makes mucking out extremely easy, quick, and cost effective, reducing the amount of bedding consigned to the muck heap to a minimum.
Key benefits for Owners
Strawmax pellets are especially helpful for time-pressed, value-conscious owners. They’re very long-lasting, they isolate urine in small patches which minimises waste, and that makes them exceptionally affordable.
And that’s where Strawmax becomes particularly helpful for time-pressed, value-conscious owners – particularly those dealing with several horses:
• Very big on economy
• Labour-saving & easy to use
• Very small on the muckheap
• Unbeatable absorbency minimises waste
• Creates nitrogen-rich compost fast
All Bedmax beddings, including Strawmax, now come with the new BETA NOPS Bedding logo. You can read more about what this means for you and your horses at: https://bedmaxshavings.com/nops/
Strawmax pellets are available at retail outlets throughout the UK.
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