Broken Water Buckets.... need more ideas.

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Ok so stupid Houdini pony, has now taken to smashing buckets, and chucking the water over his bed every night.

Firstly he had one those big rubber tug tubs, but he tipped this out 3 might in a row, the 3rd he must've jumped all over it cause it split.

So he had a normal bucket, that got thrown about.

So a normal bucket inside broken Tug Tub.

He's been given broken buckets as toys also, but tipping water out is much more fun.

i was going to get the hanging buckets for the walls today, until someone pointed out that a pony with sweet itch 9which he has!) will just love rubbing on that!!

OH said dont give him any water, but thats not fair!

So any ideas
 
Hi - what about a big trug and put some clean bricks in the bottom of it before you put the water in? It may be that he gets bored in the night so thread a few swedes onto bailing twine and hang them up - see if distraction will keep him away from the water buckets, good luck!
 
homebase - 40p a brick!
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Or a cage ? not for the horse for the bucket like a wooden box thats fastened to the wall and tie the handles of the trug to it with twine

.... I'm thinking outside of the box here (boom boom)
 
Is your OH or someone you know fairly handy? What we did for ours was got big rubber builders buckets (like trugs) and put them right in the corner of the stable. Then we drilled a hole in each wall, at the level of the bucket handles and put an eyelet hook (like loop on a screw thread) into the wall. Then you tie each of the handles of the bucket to one of the loops in the wall. We actually have snap clips on the handles now as it is easier to take them out and clean them everyday, but we just tied them on with binder twine to begin with.
 
We put tub trugs in 2 tyres piled on top of each other and the trug fits snugly in and then the tyers dont move either! I have 4 youngsters andthis works a treat with them!
 
Hanging buckets on the stable doors - those ones with a flat back and two hooks. Hang them so the bucket is outside - so they can't get their nose under them to flick them off.
 
We had one of my youngsters doing the same thing and we have solved the problem making a haybar with sheet of ply battened to the wall and then bucket goes behind with two bars that swing over to stop the so and so lifting the bucket out.
 
I use two or three tyres stacked up for my shetland who loves to play football with his buckets. Outside he has them tied up with twine to avoid them ending up all over.

He also has the annoying habit of standing several feet away from his water, then stretching his neck and tipping the bucket towards him to drink, so solve that problem too!
 
right all awesome suggestions, i had run out, so will ask the OH what he'd like to make for me on his day off on tuesday.

the only one that wont work is hooking the bucket on the outside, as he can only just get his nose up to the top!! lol! Athough it will mean he wont spill it lol
 
I second the old tyres idea. I too have a mare with sweet itch. I use a 2 bucket size tubtrug, placed in a standardish car tyre on the bottom level with a Landrover tyre on the top level. Works a treat, she's never tipped it over in almost 2 years since we rigged up that contraption. The top of the Landrover tyre is level with the top of the tubtrug, she'd have to be a very clever pony to try and lift it up/out by a handle.
 
I use a manger! If pony will rub set it low enough so it is too difficult. My mare loved upturning huge trugs full of water but now no problem.
 
I have just put up a corner manger for my youngster and filled that with water. She puts her foot in her water bucket and drags it round the stable. I had even put bricks in it.
 
old boy was a bugger for that & pooing in his hay/feed in the end we built a trough the full length of the back of stable & had a grille up in front with two gaps big enough for him to put head through (bit like a cattle crush) worked wonders for him but they were our own stables, huge 16x16 size & we could do what we wanted with them.
 
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