There are many options when it comes to animal bedding, but none offer the superior combination of benefits provided by Espoma Sani-Care. Once you experience Sani-Care, you’ll wonder how you ever got along without it.
Sani-Care is not:
- Soft woods; pine or cedar
- Cobb bedding
- Reclaimed wood
- Shredded newsprint
- Wood Shavings
- Rice Hulls
- Recycled animal bedding
- Pelletized bedding
- Recycled paper/cardboard
- Straw
- Lightweight volcanic aggregate
- Sawdust
Sani-Care is an all-natural product, manufactured using a blend of NIH approved premium hardwoods that includes beech, birch and maple. Sani-Care contains no perfumes or paper sludge.
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The Sani-Care Difference
Sani-Care’s advanced absorbency is the result of heat treatment and a proprietary manufacturing process we call MicroCube Technology™. Essentially, this process improves absorbency by making more surface area available on the Sani-Care media particles to absorb moisture, but without creating dust.
Unlike some horse bedding materials, that allow a large amount of urine to pass through, absorbed moisture forms clumps in Sani-Care that can be easily and quickly sifted away from dry material, greatly reducing (if not altogether eliminating) the need to strip the stall and replace all the bedding material. By sifting out only the waste, there is much less material to be disposed of. The result is a cleaner, drier, healthier stall that requires less time and effort to maintain.
The Benefits
Safety
- Facilitates cleaner, drier stalls for improved animal health
- Meets NIH health standards*
- Contains no chemical additives or paper sludge
- Sani-Care is not a food source for animals
- No dust to irritate or cause respiratory issues
- Does not get caught in hooves to promote disease
Comfort
Sani-Care can be applied at your desired depth. It cushions hooves with a fine, non-irritating granular texture and no sharp edges to get caught and cause discomfort.
Affordability
Sani-Care comes in 1.7 cubic foot bags and lasts four to eight times longer than other bedding materials. Factor in health benefits, reduced time and labor and Sani-Care represents an excellent overall value. 
Easy to use
Sani-Care is ready to use right out of the convenient and weather resistant plastic bags. Just pour out the coverage desired. For clean up, rake or sift out the clumps, which are easily disposed of or composted. Unlike pine shavings, Sani-Care brushes off of animals and blankets easily.
Absorbency
Sani-Care is extremely absorbent, thanks to the premium hardwood species blend, heat treatment and proprietary MicroCube Technology™ manufacturing process—absorbing over 300% moisture per unit weight.
Odor Control
Sani-Care contains no perfumes. It helps control odor by absorbing the offending liquid for removal. 
Appearance
Fine, soft granules present a neat appearance.
Quality
Only premium NIH approved hardwoods are used. Sani-Care is clean and dry, right out of the bag. Like all Espoma natural products, it’s backed by an 85-year reputation of excellence.
Disposable and Compostable
As a natural product that does not contain harmful additives, Sani-Care is safe and biodegradable. Decomposition rate is relatively rapid, due to the large available surface area of our MicroCubes. Generally speaking, since almost all of the bedding material is left behind after removing manure and urine, little waste is generated for disposal, composting or applying to the pasture fields.
*Sani-Care meets all standards set by NIH except for sizing. It is purposefully manufactured with smaller cubes to provide greater surface area for rapid urine absorption necessary with large animals.
How to Use
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Typically, after removing clumped material and waste, you can leave the remaining Sani-Care in the stall for as long as you like, adding more as needed. You may also mix fresh product in with damp product, or mix in with existing dry material to redistribute moisture and extend product use. We recommend heavily urine saturated Sani-Care be completely removed to maintain sanitary conditions for your animals.
- When first applying Sani-Care, start with a fresh stall.
- Determine your coverage needs (number of bags).
- Pour Sani-Care directly out of the bag onto the stall floor in an equi-distant fashion.
- Spread out evenly.
Clean up
- Sift out clumps and manure with a fine-tined manure fork and collect into a muck bucket, wheel barrow or manure spreader.
- Rake remaining material to maintain even distribution.
- Add more Sani-Care as needed or if desired.