Best bedding brand

[LoveBug]

i know that it should be pine or aspen. i'm gonna go with aspen since it absorbs more and it's what we get for our rats. is there any kinds that we shouldn't get? also what brand in your opinion is the best to get?

we get aspen bedding from Walmart at $2.95 a bag. and i wanna know if i could continue getting that or should i switch to a new brand.

 

[chin_gal]

I don't know brand wise (I'm not so sure that matters much with bedding?), but I get my bedding from my local feed store. I get a very large bag of KD pine bedding for $6. You'd get a much better deal on bedding if you find a feed store around you. ) They should have aspen, as well.

 

[LoveBug]

the feed stores around here (only two), don't have any that i've seen.
and i didnt know if certain brands of bedding weren't good for a chin or not.

 

[Godofgods]

im not sure about brand wise, but deffenitly type wise. Like dont use ceder. The paper beddings like carefresh can lead to problems if they eat it. And they probably will.

While iv never heard it mentioned, someone brought home some bird bedding made from corn product. Since corn aint exactly the best for chins, one can assume that neither is that bedding.

 

[Carleigh]

While iv never heard it mentioned, someone brought home some bird bedding made from corn product. Since corn aint exactly the best for chins, one can assume that neither is that bedding.

I think you mean corn cob bedding. I use that for my bird cage, but probably wouldn't suggest it for chinchillas. I don't really see it as being absorbent or anything.
I used carefresh for years and liked it, but when I switched to fleece I decided to switch to pine shavings for the litter pans as it was MUCH cheaper... I'd rather spend the extra money instead of deal with the smell. I change the litter every day but it still smells worse than when I used carefresh and changed it weekly.

 

[LoveBug]

i plan on using a small pyrex pan to put the aspen bedding in. i know not to use the carefresh, we don't even have it in our house lol.

 

[ChinnyMom]

i'd say just use the exact same aspen that you use for your rats. no sense in going somewhere else and paying more money for two different bedding types. with a litter pan you won't be using a whole lot anyway. before Guss came home, i was going through one medium petsmart bag of shavings each month or longer with just Rhino/his litter pan. i'd get a bigger bag but they are a pain in the tookus to haul home on the bus, lol, and a medium one lasts for a while around here, since both chins have small litter pans.

 

[LoveBug]

okay good cause we stock up on the bedding just cause we use a bag and a half on the rats everytime we clean the cages. and for $2.95 for a bag i really can't complain about the price lol.

 

[ChinnyMom]

why not see about litter training your rats as well, and getting them on fleece with a litter pan? from what i've read (i'm facinated by pet rats, but alas, it is illegal to have them here ), you can litter train rats without too much difficulty.

 

[LoveBug]

yup we're gonna do that once we get the girls and boys new cages. we put flannel blankets in the cages now and they love them. flannel and fleece are the two fabrics usable with rats.

 

[liewwan]

Petco sells the super large bags of aspen for $17.

 

[LoveBug]

i love going to petco only problem its an hour away, so we just go to walmart which is like a mile away lol. we go to petco about once a month.