Sundown Purple

Sundown Purple can be used as the only bedding for your horse, or used in conjunction with other bedding products such as Sundown Green or Sun-e-bed straw pellets. You can create banks, or leave the bed flat, it’s entirely up to you!

Sundown Purple is highly absorbent so you won’t need to remove much bedding each day. To keep the bed clean, regularly remove droppings and wet patches.

The bedding is easy to compost and will rot down in your muck-heap.

We add eucalyptus fragrance to our chopped straw horse bedding during the baling process. Our customers often remark on how it makes the stable smell fresh.

You will need between four and five bales of Sundown Purple to make up a new bed in a 12ft x 12 ft stable.

Top up with one or two bales per week, depending on how much bedding has been removed and how deep you like the bed.

Sundown Purple is the least palatable of our chopped straw bedding, so your horse is less likely to eat it, compared to Sundown Green.

If you are switching from wood shavings, paper, or a pellet bedding (wood pellets or straw pellets) you may want to introduce Sundown Purple gradually, changing more of the bedding over at each muck-out. This will make it even less likely that your horse will be interested in eating its bedding.

Sundown Purple is de-dusted twice, using our unique vacuum system, making it a very low dust bedding, suitable for horses who have dust allergies or respiratory problems like COPD.

It’s also great for humans who suffer with dust allergies when mucking-out!

Unlike wood shavings and pellets, no trees are involved in the production of Sundown Purple chopped straw bedding.

Pine trees can take between 25 – 30 years to reach harvestable size, whereas miscanthus is a tall perennial grass plant that re-grows each year.

The structure of miscanthus means that it is highly bio-degradable. It rots down to form a nutritious compost that releases nitrogen and other nutrients back into the soil when it’s spread as manure onto fields, or in your garden as fertiliser.

We source all our miscanthus from British growers. This means we have full traceability on every bale that enters our production facility, and buying within the UK helps to keep our carbon footprint as low as possible.

Sundown Purple bedding is available to buy  from our network of stockists.

Use our store finder to search for your nearest stockist.

For bulk orders of bales, please call us on 01480 860745 and ask for ‘horse bedding sales’.

The wrapping for our horse bedding bales is made from LDPE (low density polyethylene) plastic and contains 30% recycled plastic.

You can recycle the bags and bale wrapping where soft plastics are accepted. This includes many supermarkets and some local authority recycling centres.

Please do not recycle at home.