Helpful Hint 1
Cleaning & Maintaining Your CedaRest. We recommend using the plastic tined manure forks. Urine areas can be either turned over to dry or completely left alone. The urine will leach into the ground. Try to keep the cedar fiber uncontaminated by your horse's hay. This makes cleaning easier. We recommend using The Grazer or leave an area or corner unbedded. Add more CedaRest as per your horses needs. Some horses are messier than others, so use your best judgement. Smaller pens seem to require more per month than larger pens. Ideally, all pens should be cleaned twice daily.

Helpful Hint 2
Year Round Bedding. CedaRest is a great year round bedding. It insulates horses from cold hard ground in the winter and hot ground in the summer. CedaRest is a natural fly repellent. The cedar aroma masks the smell of your horse moving flies away to neighboring areas.

Helpful Hint 3
In and Outs. Bed outside areas first, to encourage horses to urinate outside. Later bed the inside stall. This works most times and will save on bedding expense and labor. If the horse urinates in the stall area, do not throw out cedar, move to outside area as CedaRest will dry out and does not decompose. Add new cedar to the stall as needed.

Helpful Hint 4
Box Stalls: CedaRest is not recommended for indoor box stalls because the cedar needs the wind and sun to dry out. CedaRest does not decompose or need to be removed regularly from outdoor areas like pine shavings.

Helpful Hint 5
Large Outdoor Areas: For enclosures larger than 24' x 24' it is not necessary to bed the entire enclosure. We still recommend a minimum of 50 or 60 bags, installed in an area approximately 20' x 20'. Be sure to install in an area with good drainage or dig troughs around the pen to keep run-off away from bedded area. In winter months Cedarest helps keep stalls dry and insulates horses from the cold hard ground. In the summer CedaRest insulates horses from the hot ground and acts as a natural fly repellent. The CedaRest aroma masks the smell of horses, moving flies away to neighboring areas. CedaRest also reduces hock sores, thrush, sand colic and hoof problems. CedaRest has many other uses. It has been used as arena footing, race track footing, mulch for plants and trees, bedding for dog kennels and other small animals, cat litter and bedding for show cattle.