Best water buckets....

A proper tub trug not the cheap ones, a car tyre to sit it in (you can get a bald one free from any garage as they have to pay to disposee of them) a 45ltr tub trug fits perfectly in one. get 2 tie up rings with clips on them instead of metal rings fit these to the walls in the corner wear your tub trug and tyre will live so that they are positioned so you can clip onto the handles of the tub trug, thus stopping all funny mares from grabing the bucket and pulling it outof the tyres and stomping on it even if they decided to wash a leg or 2 in the bucket they will not tipp it over. sadly can't prevent the little beggars from dunking thier hay in it or pooping in it though! My last filyl was a dirty little sod pot. I found putting it in the back corner of her stable opposite corner to her hay net helped if it was at the front if she was having a stressy moment at her stable door she always jumped up and down and ended up in her bucket. It also seemed to stop her dunking her hay in it as much as took more effort to drag to the opposite corner, only issue i had was she'd occasionally succedd in pooing in the bucket. my filly had an evil sense of humour her stable took alot of modifications to prevent all of her cheeky habits.
 
My girl has a penchant for playing with her water - whether its using it to scratch her legs, washing her face and sloshing it everywhere or just plain old tip it up and everywhere...she does the lot...

Finally solved the problem (deperately hoping I am not jinxing myself here). The biggest tubtrug - affixed to the wall by 2 Premier equine fillet straps (with clips) that are attached to 2 tie up rings fixed to the wall at handle height.. So far, so good :D
 
Littlelegs said:
I do like the stubbs buckets, except my mare drinks so much she'd need at least 3 to last over night. I've been using the cheapo trugs from Asda for the last 4/5 yrs & they are still going strong. If she knocks them, then as said just use tyres.
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This. Love my stubbs but Kal is a very thirsty horse. I did used to put his buckets in a tyre, but the little blighter regularly hoiked the bucket out of the tyre and then chucked the tyre into the middle of the bed (don't ask me how). Now, I just use a cheapo trug (a huuuuuge one) and bank the straw up around it so it sits "in" the bed (if that makes sense). Haven't found that in the middle of the bed once so far.

Oh, but if anyone can help me figure out how to stop him using his water bucket as a dunking toy for his treat ball (thus turning his water into treat soup), I'd be grateful.

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Delicious_D said:
I love how it's always the girls with the sense of humour :rolleyes: :D
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I must introduce you to Kal . . . he has bags of - ahem - personality. When he's finished his breakfast or dinner he picks his feed skip up and twirls it around his head/chucks it out of the stable. If I'm late up to the yard he grabs the rugs on his door and shakes them with his teeth until they fall off - one by one. He likes to play submarine with his treat ball in his water bucket - turning the water a fetching shade of baby poo. If I leave his stable door open (stall chain up) and don't supervise him, everything within reach will be flipped, tossed, shaken down, chewed. At one yard, yard staff kept opened bales of shavings on top of the lockers in the stables . . . they had to stop doing that in Kal's stable because he would pull the bale down, pull out all the shavings and toss the plastic into the aisle. At same yard, he used to flip (his) rugs hung on (his) wall into the neighbouring horse's stable. At current yard he routinely steals stable rugs hung on his neighbours door, drags them into his stable and invariably wees on them.

I could go on . . . he's a bit speshul. Oh and his new fieldmate has a tin bath the field for him to play/stand in, otherwise he tries to stand in the water trough (and he's 18hh).

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