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Hemp bedding has earned a reputation as the cleaner, low-dust option — but nothing in a stable is fireproof. As the clocks go back and the yard fills with heaters, clippers and stacked bales, here's what yard owners should be checking, storing and asking their insurer before December.
Most of us judge bedding by eye and by nose, which is roughly as scientific as judging a haylage by its smell alone. Here's a yard-friendly way to actually measure what's happening to your horse's air before and after a hemp switch — and to work out when bedding isn't the problem at all.
Most hemp bedding switches that go wrong were never really about the bedding. They were about storage nobody allocated, a muck heap nobody discussed and a delivery nobody was in to sign for. Here is what should be in writing before the first pallet lands.
Hemp bedding is only half the story while it is still in the stable. Once it hits the muck heap, the questions change: how fast it rots, what it does to the trailer, and whether it can leave the yard without causing a headache.
A practical, numbers-led look at what hemp, straw, shavings and pellets actually cost per stable per week on a UK yard in winter. It weighs purchase price against mucking-out time, dust, waste volume and the muck heap rules that catch people out.