Snowflake Softchip Equine Shavings 20kg bales

£5.75 ex VAT (£6.90 inc VAT)

Snowflake Softchip equine shavings are a popular alternative to traditional wood shavings. Manufactured from premium softwood to the same exacting standards as other products in the Snowflake range.

Available in single 20kg bales or as a 40 bale pallet.

Currently Out of Stock. Available To Backorder.

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Product Description

Snowflake Softchip equine shavings are the perfect horse bedding choice that enables you to spend less time mucking out or grooming and allow for more quality time with your horse, whether riding for pleasure or competing at the highest level.

Softchip has several advantages:

  • Dust extracted for a healthy respiratory system. Minimising dust levels within the stable environment is essential to help your horse maintain peak health and fitness.
  • Free draining and highly absorbent. Allows wet to drain away freely to the bottom layer, ensuring that the surface of the bed remains dry.
  • Quick and easy to maintain. Droppings are easily removed little waste whilst the underlying wet patches are quickly removed by fork.
  • A naturally warm, soft and comfortable product with a pine fresh odour. The bedding improves stability under foot and offers very little movement.
  • Doesn’t cling to manes, tails or rugs.   The bedding stays in the stable and not on your horse! Reduces grooming time and saves on waste.
  • Environmentally friendly natural wood fibre. Sourced from sustainable resources in the UK, the bedding makes excellent compost after use.

 

Made from 100% Soft Wood Fibre. Available in 20 kg bales or as a 40 bale pallet.

Specification

Brand

Application

Size

20KG

Delivery & Returns

Delivery

We will endeavour to deliver your items as soon as possible. Items on backorder are not held in stock and can sometimes mean a delay to your delivery. Our normal delivery service is currently 5-7 working days. We will contact you when your order is ready to confirm delivery.

All deliveries are kerbside unless otherwise agreed with the driver on the day. Drivers discretion takes precedent. If you require HIAB delivery please mention who placing your order. Please add details in the notes section.

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a nationwide delivery service on our bulky items, however if you would like to place a sizeable order please call our sales office on 01538 753184 as alternative delivery options may be available.

We endeavour to post out your goods the same day they are ordered; however in busy periods this can take a little longer.

UK Orders

  • Standard UK delivery for small items is £9.99 inc VAT
  • Smaller items are posted Tracked 48 with Royal Mail and usually take 1-4 days from point of order to arrive

Bulky or Large Item Delivery 

  • Bulky or multiple items delivery is from £12 inc VAT to certain postcodes only. Please use the calculator at Checkout.
  • Bulky item Delivery is currently available to any in the following postcodes : –
      • ST10 from £12
      • Staffordshire ST* from £18
      • Leicestershire LE* from £18
      • Lincolshire LN* from £90
      • Derby DE* from £18
      • Birmingham B from £36
      • Crewe CW* from £18
      • Nottingham NG* from £18
      • Walsall WS* from £18
      • Telford TF* from £27
      • Wolverhampton WV* from £18
      • Stockport SK* from £27
      • Chester CH* from £72
      • Warrington WA* from £36
      • Wakefield WF* from £108

International Orders

  • We do not at this time deliver outside the UK but please contact us for special orders.

Please see our Terms and Conditions for our full delivery policy.

Returns Policy

The following is a quick guide to our returns policy:

If you are not delighted with your purchase you have the right to cancel within 14 days of your purchase, or 14 days from the receipt of the goods (whichever is longer). 

In all cases of returns, please email us first to tell us about the issue. If you receive goods which are faulty we will give you the option of a refund or replacement, and we will pay for the return costs of the faulty goods. However please be advised that timber is a natural product and knots, small cracks and twists can be expected and are NOT classed as faulty in the terms of this policy. It is your responsibility to understand this prior to purchase. You may send us photographs of any item that you are unhappy with and we will determine of that is classed as faulty for these purposes.

If you simply change your mind, then we will still refund the purchase price provided you return the goods in an ‘as new’ condition, with all packaging and instructions. You will be responsible for the cost of returning unwanted items, and you should use a tracked or signed for service to do this.

 In very rare circumstances our suppliers may charge us a restocking fee for goods we don’t normally hold. If you have simply changed your mind and return an item, we may pass on this cost in rare circumstances.

  • You have 14 days to return a non-sale item to us; items must be in their original packaging, unworn and not damaged. A full refund or exchange will be given.
  • You have 14 days to return a sale item to us for a full refund; items must be in their original packaging, unworn and not damaged. A full refund or exchange will be given. 
  • We offer an extended period of returns at Christmas for goods purchased as Christmas presents. Last return date for Christmas presents is January 14th.
  • You must make your own arrangements to return goods to us and all postage costs are to be covered by you unless the goods are deemed faulty

Additional Information

How to use Snowflake Softchip

Softchip offers several major advantages over other bedding systems and is readily available in 25kg bales from a network of stockists across the UK.

Used correctly, Softchip is very quick and easy to work with being suitable for daily full muck out or a deep litter system. Very little waste is taken out from the stable each day which means a smaller muck heap too. Softchip doesn’t tend to blow about whilst mucking out which makes for a tidier yard too.

Start with a clean empty stable

Initially six to eight bales are required for a 12ft x 12ft stable depending on the depth of bed required on rubber matting. Additional bales will be needed if rubber stable mats are not used.

Open a bale at a time and with a shavings fork, spread the Softchip evenly on the stable floor to the required depth.

Use additional bales to build banks against the stable walls if required. These not only help prevent horses from becoming cast when rolling but also guard against draughts.

Removing the droppings with a shavings fork or by hand with rubber gloves.

Scrape the clean top layer of Softchip to the sides to reveal any wet patches. Rmove these with a fork or a shovel and sweep the floor clean.

Remake th bed by scraping the bedding back from the sides. Level and tidy the banks. If time allows, leave the bedding up to allow the floor to dry and then re-lay the bed.

If you prefer, you can use Softchip as a deep litter bedding, we recommend a bed thickness of approx 6 inches to allow any wet to drain to the bottom, ensuring that the top remains dry.

One to two bales per week on average will be needed to maintain your horses’ bed depending on which system you choose

 

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