Colac VIC · Family-owned since 1994
Kiln-dried pine woodshavings that have been triple screened to remove dust, then baled in Colac and stocked by produce stores and pet retailers across Australia.
The shavings
All of our shavings pass through a purpose-built three-part screen. The first 'star screen' removes any oversize pieces, with the remaining shavings entering a rotary trommel screen that extracts the sawdust and fines. The final phase of the screening process removes the smaller airborne dust particles.
Our shavings come from timber kiln-dried to a moisture content of 8–13%. That's what makes them absorbent — the bedding works harder, stays drier, and lasts longer between changes.
Raw shavings travel in our own dedicated trailers, used for nothing else. Where biosecurity matters, that chain of custody is the point.
Radiata pine and nothing else — no chemical additives. Suited to horses, poultry, cattle, and the smallest hutch dwellers.
See it
The bale
Compressed to 14kg, expands to approx. 0.18 m³ uncompressed. Dense to freight, easy to stack, open it when you need it — the same bale at every stockist.
In the shed
Dust-extracted bedding for stables and floats — screened to remove the fine dust that aggravates equine airways.
Nesting boxes, coops and sheds — absorbent litter that keeps poultry dry, from the backyard flock to commercial growers.
Calf pens, rabbit hutches, guinea pig runs and rodent cages — the same screened, additive-free shavings.
Our story
Breeder's Choice has been packaging woodshavings in Colac since 1994 — a family business on the edge of the Otways, one of Victoria's historic pine-growing regions. It's still run by the same family today.
The shavings start as a by-product of timber milling — kiln-dried radiata pine, nothing else. Everything after that is the business: triple screening, pressing into 14kg bales, robotic palletising and shrink-wrapping. One product, done carefully, for over three decades.
In 2016 the family took on Superior Shavings — now baling from Tumut, in the heart of NSW softwood country, to the same standard for customers north of the border.
Trade & wholesale
We supply produce stores, saddleries and pet retailers Australia-wide. Pallets come robotically stacked, shrink-wrapped and topped. Ring us about pallet quantities and becoming a stockist.
