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As my young tb feels I keep him in a state of starvation he tends to attack his feed buckets. Plastic ones get broken, the rubber bowls get tipped and then he digs at the feed until the majority is in the mud or his bed. We then switched to a wall bucket which I don't like as he has choked before. He also tries to knock it off by kneeing the bottom of his bucket plus lots of wall kicking. All of which is a little excessive for a horse currently living in on ad lib fibre (he is a nightmare eating out, I may as well just bin it for all that he gets). Any ideas? Before I hobble him to eat it!
 
Concrete feed bin on the ground. You can actually make this yourself. Fill a tyre with concrete and use a bowl (greased) to make the trough shape. We used to do this and it worked well, the tyre protected legs from kicks and was virtually indestructible.
 
I've bought long ground troughs for my idiot Tinies who stamp their teensy feet and paw at any container known to man, pinging feed into orbit over their shoulders. They do a 3ft one although I've got 2 x 6ft for my 6 little monsters. Only about £20. Low, very very stable, un-tip-up-able, rigid black plastic. Can send link if you're interested x
 
Thanks BoxOfFrogs, a link would be good. WelshD, he is banned from tyres after removing the bucket (full of food) from it then putting both legs through the tyre then trying to walk off. I think he has visions of agility or similar! He really is a plank :-(
 
Similar to Enfys idea a water butt/ plastic drum cut in half and filled with concrete to about 6" from the top- maybe a little more. Too heavy and sturdy to be chucked round too much.
 
Rebels said:
As my young tb feels I keep him in a state of starvation he tends to attack his feed buckets. Plastic ones get broken, the rubber bowls get tipped and then he digs at the feed until the majority is in the mud or his bed. We then switched to a wall bucket which I don't like as he has choked before. He also tries to knock it off by kneeing the bottom of his bucket plus lots of wall kicking. All of which is a little excessive for a horse currently living in on ad lib fibre (he is a nightmare eating out, I may as well just bin it for all that he gets). Any ideas? Before I hobble him to eat it!
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can you not put a triangle manger frame built into the fence and have a manger in there which you can tie into the frame with cable ties.


an old sink very heavy have used these in the past very good : below link

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LARGE-OLD...ants_Pots_Window_Boxes_CV&hash=item4ac02b079d


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Butler-si...rden_Kitchen_SinksTaps_GL&hash=item19d7fbec1d






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Rebels said:
I think he has visions of agility or similar! He really is a plank :-(
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LOL this made me laugh out loud.

My horse is very destructive too! And he has to 'paw' everything, which leads to no end of trouble, legs have been stuck in things before now.

On the very first day I saw my horse when we went to view him he managed to break a plastic bucket by putting his back foot in it and leaving it in there!
 
Thanks for all the suggestions. First I will try the concrete lined bucket I think. Applecart, I had a new new warmblood arrive whilst still at livery who walked into a new paddock, straight up to the water trough and casually broke off the mains water inflow. Cue massive panic, unstoppable flood and only person who knew where the stop cock was happened to be abroad... We tripled the yards water bill that month :-o!
 
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