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Forum DIET & CARE Equine Pine

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    • kamdynandsunshinesmom
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        I saw questions about equine pine horse bedding and I have some few questions of my own. People say this bedding is safe for rabbit because it is kiln dried. I have read that you shouldn’t use pine and cedar shavings because of there smell. This equine pine has a smell so is it still safe to use for rabbits?


      • jerseygirl
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          I think the processing reduces the aromatic oils but not completely. I’m not entirely sure on the processing though. Whether it’s kiln dry, steam compressing or both.

          I’ve used a pine based pellet before an noticed it had a smell. I think it might have irritated one of my rabbits a little but not positive on that.
          With shavings, the surface area would release these oils much more easily. Often they’re marketed as bedding too, so owners may fill an entire cage with it. There’s really nowhere the rabbit can go to avoid the shavings.

          With pellets that still have some residual smell it’s likely not as irritating. Often they’re just in the the litterbox and so the rabbit is not constantly exposed either.


        • kamdynandsunshinesmom
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            Thanks I bought some apsen shavings to use a little bit in my other buns box. I was wondering to if those are safe on rabbits? I switched to equine pine because someone recommended using them because they said they were safe on rabbits and they are cheap.


          • jerseygirl
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              A lot of the members here use wood pellets (not sure how many are pine based) but I know some use equine pine and love it. Aspen is safe. There is actually a aspen pellet that’s been mentioned also. Aspen Supreme?


            • skibunny8503
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                I use Equine Pine. I just remember that another member mentioned it and since wood stove pellets are hard to find in the summer I just switched to using that all the time. It smells just like the wood stove pellets I had gotten before. I love it though, it’s cheap ($5-6 for 40lbs) and works really well. I actually bought the wire thing on the BB store that you put on top of the bedding and I try to dump out the poop once or every other day and then you can scoop out the saw dusting where they peed at to make the litter last longer.


              • kamdynandsunshinesmom
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                  I just put the pine pellets in my buns litterbox. I do like them. When she came to me the rescue group used wood stove pellets. I used carefresh so that i switched her to carefresh. Well with 2 buns carefresh does become expensive. so that is why i switched I just don’t want ti causing her any harm.


                • peppypoo
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                    I think pine pellets are generally accepted as safe since the kilning process removes most of the phenols. I use a pine-based horse stall bedding too, and it’s probably the favorite out of all the litters I’ve tried (Carefresh, Yesterday’s News, and this).


                  • kamdynandsunshinesmom
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                      you have such cute buns


                    • Elrohwen
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                        It’s definitely safe, as the others said because the kiln drying gets rid of the phenols that are harmful. I use wood stove pellets (mine are actually hardwoods, not pine, but that’s only because that’s what my store sells).

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