Review: Megazorb

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Ryli said:
I got a sack of Megazorb yesterday and will try it out today, will let you all know how I get on but it was only £8.50 for a huge sack ..... watch this space!
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Ive recently changed to Megazorb and really like it, although it does tend to be flicked into the food bowl easily when piggies are popcorning about.

An 85 litre sack only costs me £6.20!
 
I don't think I could go back to woodshavings after using Megazorb! :)
 
I've just had my first delivery of Megazorb, and changed the guineas. Its great! I've been using carefresh, but Megazorb is much much better value, no smell, and I think the guineas will prefer it (in the run at the mo). Its in smaller pieces than Carefresh, I think their feet will like it more! :) Also had my first delivery of cavy cuisine, so will see how they get on with that... tesco's purple stuff is unpopular! :)
 
UPDATE!

Merry and Pippin think Megazorb is popcorntastic, runaroundtastic, and liedownandyawntastic.... :)
 
anyone know of mailorder stockist for megazorb haven't enough left for another change and am panicking as may have swine flu (will be ringing docs tomorrow) but if I do then I can't go out and buy some! :(
 
LennyPig said:
How many bags do you buy and how much is postage?
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I ordered 2 bags at £5.98 each postage was £9.99 but delivery was very fast! If you order just one bag postage is about £5.

You get 85 litres in each bag! :) much better deal for me than care fresh even with the postage especially as its quite a drive for my nearest care fresh retailer :)
 
i got mine from thehayexperts sounds about the same as farmway. One bag will last for donkeys i think! :) unless you have lots of pigs.
 
Well Ive used Megazorb for 2 cage changes now and am not liking it at all. It is SOOO messy, smells quicker that Carefresh and is harder to clean that Carefresh. The pigs chuck it all over my living room when they popcorn and their dry food get full of it. It is really hard to clean of fleece bedding and big cabbage/lettuce/spinach leaves get burried in it too easily.

The ONLY benefit with it in my personal opinion is the price.

Despite it being alot cheaper, in fact it works out to nearly half the price of Carefresh, I am going back to Carefresh as soon as these 2 bags are used up.
 
I am going to give megazorb a try out under a layer of fleece as do not really want a carpetfull of the stuff. Hope i get a non smelly bag!
 
My piggies and I love Megazorb, it's much more economical than Carefresh. I clean out the damp areas twice a day and only need to clean out the entire cage every 2 or 3 weeks, the newspaper underneath usually remains completely dry.
I have merino piggies so the Megazorb tends to stick in their long curly hair, to avoid this I cover it with a layer of Pure Pastures meadow hay, which I change daily. The piggies seem to prefer this to having their hay in racks. It also stops the zorb from being kicked out the cage and sticking to the veggies.
I get all my piggy stuff from the Hay Experts, only £4.49 postage for everything I need to last for 3/4 weeks. Great!
By the way, I have been it for over a year and never noticed any smell.
*****
 
Wow - started by using wood shvings when i first got my piggys but then on joining this forum, I was advised that it was not good for them. Read through the threads re alternatives and chose to try Megazorb and its FANTASTIC !

No smells, no soggy corners and its lovely and soft on their little feet. Their home feels much more cozy now with this over the floor and they seem to love it.

Since using it, they have taken to messing in one corner (well, nearly) so am well chuffed as it makes cleaning out a lot easier.

Thanks so much to this forum for such recommendations

I give it 5 stars without a doubt especially as its on £6 for an 85 litre bag !
 
Ive just started using megazorb as carefresh was working out very expensive since the price went up at p@h. I love it and my piggys love it too. No smell and the cage looks fresh and clean all the time, I clean out the poop daily and clean the cage out once a week. I'm very impressed with the stuff and I got mine from GTW Titmuss for £19.40 for two 85lt sacks with postage. Cant find a local farm that stocks it. Its my 2nd week using the stuff and I only seem to use small amounts at a time I have a 4ft by 2ft cage. So I'm sure the two sacks will last me ages.
Anyone know off any stockist in south wales? I did find one in ammanford but they dont stock it anymore.

I give 5 stars.
 
I have not been able to find Megazorb anywhere in Ireland. So Ive emailed a UK supplier to see if they will post it out to us. They said they post to some European destinations so fingers crossed! Its only £6.20 for an 85ltr bag :D
 
I have ordered a bag well 85L sack of Megazorb - mine have been on paper/hay but Melvin and Parsnip seem to get so soggy I'm trying Megazorb as reckon that will solve the problem - they seem fine with it so far but only started using it last night.
 
I have switched to megazorb a few weeks ago. I love it, a lot less smelly than fleece and vetbed, and it has the advantage that I am not allergic to it, as I am with hay and woodshavings.

I am impressed and I think this could be the bedding for us, after 3 years of experimenting!
 
megazorb - norwich

i can thoroughy recommend megazorb. i buy it from the giant pet store, it is kept in the horse bedding section.

i used to use sawdust as a bottom layer under hay, i switched to megazorb and hay a few months ago and will continue to use it. it absorbs the wee, and more importantly the wee smell! i found it easier to clean the cage too as megazorb doesnt clump up/go all slushy like sawdust can - its much better for the piggies too.
 
5/5 for Megazorb!

I got my first bag of Megazorb 2 days ago and I love it. I ordered a 85l bag from www.farmway.co.uk and it came to £11.18 with shipping (via Fed-ex ). This bag is going to last us a looooong time! Value for money therefore is amazing.
My 2 boys seem more content than they have in a while. All poops and pees can be covered up really quickly with a handful of this stuff (very handy if you've got visitors coming over and you haven't got time to clean them out!)
My Megazorb smells a tiny bit but the cage doesn't smell at all once it's down. One very happy customer ^)
(I started using fleece before this after seeing it recommended on the forum. Within a week one of my boys got a UTI. I won't be using it again.)
 
***** Five stars so far! (First time user, switched from shavings to megazorb)

Love the stuff, alot softer than it looks, although not quuiitee as soft as carefresh, but a hell of a lot cheaper. Ordered from FCS Equestrain.com and arrived at 6.45 this morning! Cleaned the piggies out straight away (highly excited piggiemumma!) and have been sat watching them on it since! The piggies are very excited by the stuff, popcorning all over the place! They think its way better to flop on to, although heidipig did get a bit confused and try and eat it (Cant taste very good, as it promptly got spat out!). Overall approval from piggies!

Hoping I wasn't just lucky with my bag but it didn't smell, and wasn't overly dusty! Fingers crossed its easily managable with spot cleaning & Changes. (I spot clean everyday and do a full clean on thursdays and sundays. from what Ive read here this should be okay to manage the megazorb)
Shall update this is I have any problems with it
 
Would you mind telling me how much you paid for how many litres?

Our local pet shop sells a 2 litre bag for £2 or an 85 litre bag for £10. Trying to work out if it's cheaper to buy online?

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piggiemumma said:
***** Five stars so far! (First time user, switched from shavings to megazorb)

Love the stuff, alot softer than it looks, although not quuiitee as soft as carefresh, but a hell of a lot cheaper. Ordered from FCS Equestrain.com and arrived at 6.45 this morning! Cleaned the piggies out straight away (highly excited piggiemumma!) and have been sat watching them on it since! The piggies are very excited by the stuff, popcorning all over the place! They think its way better to flop on to, although heidipig did get a bit confused and try and eat it (Cant taste very good, as it promptly got spat out!). Overall approval from piggies!

Hoping I wasn't just lucky with my bag but it didn't smell, and wasn't overly dusty! Fingers crossed its easily managable with spot cleaning & Changes. (I spot clean everyday and do a full clean on thursdays and sundays. from what Ive read here this should be okay to manage the megazorb)
Shall update this is I have any problems with it
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piggiemumma said:
Hi Dazie, where in Bristol?
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I buy mine from Stowey near Chew Magna ... I will let you have contact details tomorrow. Approximately £7.00 per big bag and always in stock. However, I am not sure that they deliver so it depends whereabouts in Bristol you live.
 
I will love to try this stuff.. well at the moment i still have a huge bale of shavings so until this has gone iam going to purchase megazorb.. unfortunately the isle of wight doesnt stock this, i have tried everywhere... so the hay experts is the only place i can get hold of it.. and inc P+P its gonna cost me around £12 which i wouldnt mind paying if it means i could use it in my ferrets litter tray aswell and that would save me £8 on their litter i use on them aswell.. xx>>>

So and the moment i want to hurry and use up my bale so then i'll have room to store the megazorb rolleyes
 
Gruffalo,
Heres the prices from megazorb website & link
http://www.megazorb.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=185
1 bag = £6.37 plus £8.60 carriage
2 bags = £12.74 plus £8.60 carriage
4 bags = £25.48 plus £15.50 carriage
Delivery took over a week, I complained to the seller who were very helpful, and sent me out a replacement straightaway with next day delivery, free. They chased DHL for me and it turns out they had lost my order! But I've used DHL for other things and its been fine.
Goldie, Thank you. I drive and am willing to travel for it so will have a google of the place you mentioned to see if I could go there for it.
Thanks again
 
I bought a large bale of megazorb as it was only £6 from my local pet store and that included delivery!

However I HATE the stuff, it is the nastiest, messiest stuff I have ever used and I thought it was awful :(

I have a large two storey outside hutch for my two boys and I found that I had to use an awful lot just to try to cover the floor area, it blew about everywhere, is dustier than I thought it would be and didn't really cover the floor space very well. Their hutch just ended up with mainly bare newspaper and some megazorb piled in the corner, not what I was hoping for and personally I don't think it is absorbant as other stuff I have used.

Cleaning out the hutch after using it was also a nightmare it just blew everywhere and covered the garden! Maybe those piggy owners who like it have indoor piggies and don't have that problem.

I have gone back to using finacard or ecopetbed - so much easier, covers the floor well and doesn't go everywhere :)
 
I only got my pigs 10 days ago and bought a huge sack of Megazorb. I've cleaned out the cage (Ferplast 120) twice in that time and seem to be going through an awful lot of the stuff! The pigs seem to like it though and it is nice and soft but two things are bothering me: they seem to like eating it and I didn't expect any dust. It's a bit of a hassle to clean out and the dust seems to cling to the plastic cage.

Anyway, I've got enough to last another few weeks (I hope) so I'll see how it goes. Incidentally, I bought it from Farmway (£11.99 for 85l bag, including delivery).

And now I'm going to have a nosey at the Finacard thread. It sounds much cleaner!
 
I think this bedding is superb it was recommended by my local vet [ and an angel in disguise to all of are animals]. After trying fleece, Sawdust, carefresh, towels, straw, newspaper [You name it I've tried it] I found this stuff the best! It's absorbent does not smell, dust free, and 85 Litres for 10 pounds!?! Buy the stuff in bulk [Buy five bags and it will last you most of the year!] , and I think you can get colours!
Defiantly 5 stars!
 
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