Do yours waste hay/feed?

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My old girl pulls more out of her net than she eats! She spreads it all over! She has always been a messy eater, when she has a feed she tips it over so i tried a bucket in a tyre so she nuzzles to the bottom of the bucket and flicks the food out!!!
She has had her teeth done recently.
It drives me mad! Think her bed is more hay than straw lol
 
No chance
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- mine are both far to greedy to waste any food!
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Mine do with hay, but I have put them on haylage, so they dont get as much and they love it, so they eat every scrap!!
 
Vinnie has a munch station and it has ended any wastage
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previusly he would throw his bucket around etc but now every scrap is gone and also he eats every last bit of his hay now there is just a bit usually left on the floor just wee bits though, when he was on haylage he seemed to waste that more i found.
 
All 5 of ours do. Spoilt bunch! They end up standing on more than they eat in the field, even if we hang from the fence in nets. In the stables there's always a pile on the floor under their nets untouched apart from one mare.

Feeds are another case entirely though. The two brood mares who don't get very much will lick the bowl clean, as will the gelding. The yearling will usually eat it all but takes ages and will give up if it's going out time. And the old girl will often give up and move on to her haylage instead, or leave it if she's giddy about being turned out in a morning.

If i was a horse i'd spend my whole life stuffing my face, not a single mouthful would be wasted!
 
no can't afford to what is left on floorn goes to cattle and bedding gets spread in field and sheep/ birds pick through it then absorbed to make grass grow.
 
No because he does not have his ad lib so eats it all up! When I was feeding ad lib the waste was terrible so I have cut it down so that he has enough for 'most' of the day, which ensures he eats it all up.
 
If any haylage falls out of Axels haynet then it's deemed not good enough for him to eat and then he spreads it all over his bed.
Drives me mad. I can't bear hay in my shavings bed so I end up chucking loads out.
Luckily my friends horse is a hoover and will eat anything so I give it all to them!
 
Yes, one of mine re-carpets her stable with haylage every night and when she is fed up with sleeping on it she mixes it all into her bedding then poohs on it. I throw so much away it's unbeleivable. She also doesn't have her feed in a bowl anymore as that used to get thrown all around the stable, so now I tip it on the floor and what she doesn't manage to flick around she just stands on.
 
mine don't, i moniter their feed and weight so they get enough, but i'd rather they were wasting it than starving personally! as long as they're not getting fat and costing too much i think it's ok.
 
We started feeding Danny from the floor and amazingly, he DOESN'T waste any!!
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(but happily tips his water bucket up instead
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My old girl is very very very fussy and wont eat hay that is left from the night before when she comes back in. I just move it into the youngsters stable and he eats the lot. The schoolmaster - now he is a funny old so and so - some days he spreads his hay all over his rubber matting at the front of his stable, and some days he doesnt!
 
Occasionally my mare will leave a pile of haylage in her bed if I give her too much but generally both my horses eat up everything as they have good quality hay/haylage and simple high fibre short feeds with plenty of carrots!
 
Only if I give him too much. He is now on a strict diet so as well as extra work, he's had his feed reduced to almost nothing (just enough to carry joint supplement) and haylage cut as well. He is quite greedy and I do have to give him a hell of a lot of haylage/hay for him to leave some, so he mostly eats it all up anyway. Any left on the floor is put in to his fieldmate's stable by YO in the morning - mine won't eat it with shavings in but his friend will pick through it happily and spit the shavings out.

The only time he ever left food was when it had bute in, when he'd come back lame from hunting. He smelt it, put his foot in it and kicked it across the stable in disgust!
 
No way. In the morning his stable looks like a plague of locusts has been through it and stripped the lot. Not a strand of hay in sight!! Waste-not-want-not is his motto.
 
My boy used to but I think that's because I maybe gave him too much, so experiemented a bit so that he had enough but didn't waste any. This has been further reduced by my lovely OH building me a hay box for valentines hehe! It's amazing how much hay my boy actually eats when you shake it out, never seemed that much when I left it in slices lol. Was worried he'd throw it around, but looks like he hoovers those bits up so all good
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